Le Samourai is the latest film to crack my top four favorite films on Letterboxd as I’ve logged it more than ten times in 2026 and simply cannot stop thinking about it. I’m also a proud and grateful owner of Le Cercle Rouge and Army of Shadows. Be like a Melville character - endlessly cool and unflappable while beset by the world’s never ending bullshit from all sides. 😉

Eddie Muller said that Melville basically made the same film over and over and he’s not too far off. Melville was in the real French resistance and had a lot of contacts in the criminal underworld. His films are basically all about how honorable these thugs were. They’re like everything that’s fun about American crime fiction with an eastern philosophical flavor. So much style and substance to sink your teeth into.