French actor Alain Delon has been a revolutionary presence in the film industry for decades.
From his early work in the ‘60s to more recent films like The Professional, Alain Delon has challenged ideas about acting and storytelling. He has created a unique style of performance that is both powerful and subtle. He is also credited with popularizing the ‘anti-hero’ type of character – a morally ambiguous figure who often exists outside traditional violence or justice systems.
Delon’s influence on filmmaking has been immense, but it’s not just about his individual performances: his work was also driven by philosophy and activism. Throughout his career, he became an outspoken advocate for gay rights and gender equality – two issues that were not widely discussed at the time.
In this article, we’ll explore Delon’s revolutionary impact on cinema and culture, looking at his career highlights, acting styles and philosophies.
Alain...
From his early work in the ‘60s to more recent films like The Professional, Alain Delon has challenged ideas about acting and storytelling. He has created a unique style of performance that is both powerful and subtle. He is also credited with popularizing the ‘anti-hero’ type of character – a morally ambiguous figure who often exists outside traditional violence or justice systems.
Delon’s influence on filmmaking has been immense, but it’s not just about his individual performances: his work was also driven by philosophy and activism. Throughout his career, he became an outspoken advocate for gay rights and gender equality – two issues that were not widely discussed at the time.
In this article, we’ll explore Delon’s revolutionary impact on cinema and culture, looking at his career highlights, acting styles and philosophies.
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- 4/4/2023
- by Movies Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Magazine - Movies
Expatriate blacklistee Joseph Losey is the perfect director for this excellent, strange tale, a big award winner in France. The terrible Occupation-era victimization of the Jewish citizens of Paris is told tangentially from the viewpoint of a jackal-like opportunist who buys art and valuables cheaply from Jews desperate for cash. But Klein has a little ‘doppelgänger’ problem straight out of Franz Kafka . . . and finds himself in an existential nightmare that’s strangely . . . appropriate. This original, superior thriller arrives in a new special edition.
Mr. Klein
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 1123
1976 / Color / 1:66 widescreen / 123 min. / Monsieur Klein / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date May 10, 2022 / 39.95
Starring: Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Francine Bergé, Michael Lonsdale, Juliet Berto, Suzanne Flon, Massimo Girotti, Jean Champion, Francine Racette, Louis Seigner.
Cinematography: Gerry Fisher
Production Designer: Alexandre Trauner
Film Editors: Marie Castro-Vasquez, Henri Lanoë, Michèle Neny
Original Music: Egisto Macchi, Pierre Porte
Written by Franco Solinas, collaborator...
Mr. Klein
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 1123
1976 / Color / 1:66 widescreen / 123 min. / Monsieur Klein / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date May 10, 2022 / 39.95
Starring: Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Francine Bergé, Michael Lonsdale, Juliet Berto, Suzanne Flon, Massimo Girotti, Jean Champion, Francine Racette, Louis Seigner.
Cinematography: Gerry Fisher
Production Designer: Alexandre Trauner
Film Editors: Marie Castro-Vasquez, Henri Lanoë, Michèle Neny
Original Music: Egisto Macchi, Pierre Porte
Written by Franco Solinas, collaborator...
- 5/10/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
By Lee Pfeiffer
The art of still photography has played an important role in the promotion of motion pictures since the inception of the medium. However, most photographers who capture the images on set labor in anonymity. It has only been in the last few decades that studios even identified the photographers of publicity photos by name on the press materials that are so widely distributed. As readers of Cinema Retro know, we have long promoted appreciation of the stills photographers and have showcased their work in our magazine. This is why we are quite excited by a new book, "Through Her Lens" (published by Acc Art Books) by Eva Sereny, who broke through a glass ceiling when she started capturing on set images in the 1960s in what was a male-dominated profession. Sereny had an exotic background: she was born of Hungarian parents in London, moved to Italy and...
The art of still photography has played an important role in the promotion of motion pictures since the inception of the medium. However, most photographers who capture the images on set labor in anonymity. It has only been in the last few decades that studios even identified the photographers of publicity photos by name on the press materials that are so widely distributed. As readers of Cinema Retro know, we have long promoted appreciation of the stills photographers and have showcased their work in our magazine. This is why we are quite excited by a new book, "Through Her Lens" (published by Acc Art Books) by Eva Sereny, who broke through a glass ceiling when she started capturing on set images in the 1960s in what was a male-dominated profession. Sereny had an exotic background: she was born of Hungarian parents in London, moved to Italy and...
- 2/18/2019
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Actor best known for his role as X in Alain Resnais’s Last Year in Marienbad
Of the 40 or so film appearances by Giorgio Albertazzi, the Italian actor-manager, who has died aged 92, the best known was his unsettling role as X in Alain Resnais’s L’Année Dernière à Marienbad (Last Year in Marienbad, 1961). In the surreal film, set in a dreamlike hotel, Albertazzi plays a man who claims to have had a relationship with a woman, A, and who has come to take her away from her husband, M (Sacha Pitoëff), 12 months later, as she asked him to. But A (Delphine Seyrig) appears to have no recollection of this.
The film won the Golden Lion at Venice that year, after which Albertazzi also appeared in two Joseph Losey films: Eva (1962) and The Assassination of Trotsky (1972). His first hit on TV had been in 1959 in The Idiot and he was...
Of the 40 or so film appearances by Giorgio Albertazzi, the Italian actor-manager, who has died aged 92, the best known was his unsettling role as X in Alain Resnais’s L’Année Dernière à Marienbad (Last Year in Marienbad, 1961). In the surreal film, set in a dreamlike hotel, Albertazzi plays a man who claims to have had a relationship with a woman, A, and who has come to take her away from her husband, M (Sacha Pitoëff), 12 months later, as she asked him to. But A (Delphine Seyrig) appears to have no recollection of this.
The film won the Golden Lion at Venice that year, after which Albertazzi also appeared in two Joseph Losey films: Eva (1962) and The Assassination of Trotsky (1972). His first hit on TV had been in 1959 in The Idiot and he was...
- 6/10/2016
- by John Francis Lane
- The Guardian - Film News
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