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Lea Massari, the Italian actress and European cinema icon famous for her roles in Michelangelo Antonioni‘s L’Avventura (1960), Dino Risi’s A Difficult Life (1961) and Louis Malle’s Murmur of the Heart (1971), has died. She was 91.

Massari died at her home in Rome on Monday, Italian media reported.

In a decades-long career that spanned films, television and theater, Massari played alongside the likes of Alain Delon, Jean Paul Belmondo, Michel Piccoli and Omar Sharif. She was a critical and audience favorite but shunned the spotlight. After retiring from acting more than 30 years ago, she rarely appeared in public.

Born Anna Maria Massatani on June 30, 1933 — she took the stage name Lea in honor of her fiancé, Leo, who died in an accident shortly before they were to be married — her childhood was spent across Europe as her family followed her father, an engineer, to positions in Spain, France and Switzerland.

The action cinema of John Wick, Havoc and John Woo’s The Killer has constantly evolved as it’s travelled between filmmakers and eras.

Now on Netflix, writer-director Gareth Evans’ Havoc is an ultra-violent stew of influences. It’s set in a benighted US city, but was shot in Wales; its bullet-strewn action is directly inspired by Hong Kong filmmaker John Woo.

Then again, action cinema has always been a particularly international genre, taking in disparate bits of American westerns, low-key French thrillers and more besides. When John Woo directed A Better Tomorrow, released in 1986, its contemporary gangland setting and ferocious shoot-outs changed the look and feel of action cinema forever. Widely credited with inventing what was later dubbed the ‘heroic bloodshed’ genre, it made a star out of its lead, Chow Yun-fat.

Woo continued to hone his signature style – slow-motion photography, close-quarters action, and his characters’ habit of holding...

Italian composer Paolo Buonvino delved deep into the musical heritage of his native Sicily to create the score for Netflix’s sumptuous “The Leopard” series, which has been steadily gaining global fans since dropping in March.

The high-end period piece, which marks the streamer’s biggest splash in Italy so far, is a modern take on the classic Sicily-set novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Set against the backdrop of social revolution in 1860s Sicily, it was famously adapted into a film by Luchino Visconti starring Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon and Burt Lancaster. The film, now an Italian cinema classic, won the 1963 Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival.

The series is lead-directed by Britain’s Tom Shankland and stars top model Deva Cassel — who is Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel’s daughter — as Angelica Sedara, the stunning middle-class woman who becomes a catalyst of social disruption and was played by Cardinale in the original.

Netflix’s “The Leopard” is gaining global traction with viewers just as the streaming giant is taking the sumptuous Sicilian series on a tour involving gala presentations in Italian embassies and other institutions in Washington D.C., London, Berlin, Brussels and other world capitals.

The high-end show, based on the classic Sicily-set novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, dropped on Netflix March 5. In its first five days, “The Leopard” scored more than 3 million views worldwide and landed in the streamer’s Top 10 in over 30 countries including Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Germany, Mexico and Spain — in addition to Italy, where “The Leopard” rapidly shot to No. 1, Netflix said on Wednesday.

Following a glitzy March 3 Rome launch with a black-tie gala held in the Eternal City’s Opera Theatre, the lavish historical tapestry — with elements comparable to “Downton Abbey” or “The Crown” – has been unveiled, in part, at a slew of hosted events...

“Everything must change for everything to remain the same,” Tancredi, Prince Fabrizio Salina’s beloved nephew, says in a now-famous line from Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s novel “The Leopard.” The same philosophy applies to the look and feel of the Sicily-set classic’s Netflix miniseries adaptation, which released globally Wednesday and marks the streamer’s most ambitious Italian original to date.

“The Leopard” chronicles the changes in Sicilian life and society during the 19th-century unification of Italy, known as the Risorgimento. When tasked with telling the story in 2025, the lavish show’s production and costume teams faced a monumental challenge in envisioning a modern take on the sensual Sicilian saga. There would also be inevitable comparisons to “The Leopard’s” first adaptation — Luchino Visconti’s 1963 cinema classic starring Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon and Burt Lancaster, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival.

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Oftentimes, if a celebrity dies too close to the Academy Awards, they may not make it into that year’s In Memoriam segment. And for a moment, it looked as if Gene Hackman — whose death was announced mere days before Sunday’s ceremony — wouldn’t be making the cut, as Morgan Freeman looked to be paying a special tribute to his friend and co-star. Yet, Hackman and some other notable 2025 deaths (including David Lynch) were included. But as is the case every year, there were many names left out. So who did the Academy snub this year?

Among the most notable names missing from the In Memoriam segment was one who also passed away last month: Michelle Trachtenberg, star of Harriet the Spy and Eurotrip. Along with her, horror icon Tony Todd (Candyman) was also omitted. Also failing to make the cut were Heathers’ Shannen Doherty, Clue’s Martin Mull and Olivia Hussey,...

The 2025 Academy Awards featured its annual In Memoriam segment, honoring industry figures who passed away over the last year. While the tribute recognized film legends such as David Lynch, James Earl Jones, Donald Sutherland, Maggie Smith, Roger Corman, Shelley Duvall, and Bob Newhart, many viewers quickly pointed out names missing from the televised montage.

Morgan Freeman introduced a special remembrance for two-time Oscar winner Gene Hackman, who was found dead alongside his wife, Betsy Arakawa, last Wednesday. Quincy Jones also received his own tribute later in the show. The rest of the segment, set to Mozart’s Requiem in D Minor, displayed a montage of those the Academy selected for recognition.

Social media reaction grew as fans noted the absence of several well-known actors and filmmakers. Tony Todd, known for his lead role in Candyman, was not featured. Todd, who died in November at 69, was a familiar face in horror,...

The In Memoriam portion of the 2025 Oscars telecast on Sunday night paid a moving tribute to several stars and movie industry folk who have died over the last year, but there were some notable omissions that were quickly pointed out on social media.

The In Memoriam segment of the show, that was soundtracked to the “Lacrimosa” portion of Mozart’s “Requiem in D Minor,” featured moving tributes to entertainment industry giants the likes of David Lynch, Maggie Smith, Roger Corman, Shelley Duvall, Bob Newhart, James Earl Jones and Donald Sutherland. Two-time Oscar-winner Gene Hackman, who was found dead inside his Sante Fe home alongside his wife Betsy Arakawa, was given a moving special tribute by his longtime friend Morgan Freeman.

But as ever with the Academy Awards and the In Memoriam segment, much of the discussion online is who was omitted from the televised tribute. One of the more glaring omissions was actor Tony Todd,...

While Gene Hackman and Quincy Jones received stand-alone memorial tributes during Sunday’s Oscars telecast, several other notables did not appear in the show’s annual “in memoriam” segment.

Michelle Trachtenberg, who died suddenly last week at age 39, was one prominent name not included, to the dismay of many social media users. While perhaps best-known for work on TV series like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, she also appeared in a number of films including Harriet the Spy, EuroTrip and Ice Princess.

Others excluded from the montage included British actress Olivia Hussey. She won numerous awards, including a Golden Globe for playing the female lead in Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 film version of Romeo & Juliet and later turned up in Black Christmas and Death on the Nile.

Hussey and her then-young co-star Leonard Whiting sued Paramount Pictures in 2023, alleging they suffered physical and mental pain as well as “extreme and severe...

Netflix pulled out all the stops as it unveiled its hotly anticipated limited series “The Leopard,” based on the classic Sicily-set novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, which marks the streamer’s biggest splash in Italy thus far.

On Tuesday, Netflix held a packed press conference in the frescoed ballroom of Rome’s central Hotel Plaza, which was also used to film one of the show’s key scenes. “The Leopard” will formally premiere in Rome on March 3 with a black-tie gala held in the Eternal City’s Opera Theatre before dropping globally on March 5.

The lavish historical tapestry — with elements comparable to “Downton Abbey” or “The Crown” and potential to make a global mark — is a modern take on the sensual Sicilian saga famously adapted into a film by Luchino Visconti starring Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon and Burt Lancaster. The film, now an Italian cinema classic, won the 1963 Palme...

On Tuesday February 25 2025, MTV broadcasts Help! I’m in a Secret Relationship!!

Delon & Nikki Season 3 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “Help! I’m in a Secret Relationship!” titled “Delon & Nikki” promises to be an intriguing watch. Hosted by Travis Mills and Rahne Jones, the show dives into the complicated world of secret relationships. In this episode, the hosts will help Delon and Nikki uncover the truth behind their hidden romance.

Viewers can expect a mix of emotional moments and insightful discussions as Travis and Rahne guide Delon and Nikki through their situation. The episode will explore why some relationships remain secret and the impact this has on the individuals involved. Delon and Nikki’s story will shed light on the challenges they face and the fears that keep them from being open about their love.

As always, Travis and Rahne will provide support and advice, encouraging Delon and Nikki to...

Young love. Or, in the case of this week’s Help! I’m in a Secret Relationship!, maybe not-so-young love with a whole lot of baggage. Seventeen years after a first encounter, Delon has reconnected with Nikki, the woman he’s been infatuated with all this time. For Delon, it’s a dream come true. He’s ready to put […]

Help! I’m in a Secret Relationship!: Delon & Nikki...

“Help! I’m in a Secret Relationship!” returns for its third season with an exciting new episode titled “Delon & Nikki.” Travis Mills and Rahne Jones are back to guide individuals who find themselves tangled in the complexities of secret relationships. This season promises to dive deeper into the reasons behind these hidden connections, shedding light on the emotions and circumstances that often keep love in the shadows.

In this episode, viewers will meet Delon and Nikki, a couple whose relationship has been kept under wraps. As Travis and Rahne dig into their story, they will explore the fears, insecurities, and societal pressures that led to their secret romance. The show aims to unravel the layers of their relationship, helping them understand why they chose to keep their love a secret and what it means for their future.

Fans can expect heartfelt moments, surprising revelations, and plenty of drama as Delon and...

Alain Delon, the legendary French actor, was a central figure in the French golden age of cinema during the 1960s and 70s. Known for his suave, tough-guy persona and striking good looks, Leon appeared in more than 100 movies in his five-decade career. What made Delon so memorable was the unpredictable nature of his performances. From the ruthless assassin he played in Le Samouraï, to the charismatic criminal in Borsalino, Delon especially shone when he showed his seductive side in L'Eclisse and La Piscine. Hiss filmography even includes iconic literary characters, such as Zorro and Tom Ripley.

Delon passed away on August 18th, 2024, at the age of 88. Since then, film scholars, journalists, and fans have reflected on his remarkable body of work and the legacy his powerful performances have left in cinema history. He is undoubtedly one of the greatest actors of his generation and the rare international star to achieve global acclaim.

Sometimes, the one thing we want out of movies is for them to play on our emotions, senses, and logical reasoning with enough aplomb and effectiveness to make us feel them in our bones — to physically overwhelm us, tense up our nerves, draw sweat from our palms, make our eyes open wide involuntarily.

No kind of movie does that better than a good thriller, whether we're talking tight, single-location potboilers that keep turning up the heat, mind-exploding puzzle films that make you guess and hold your breath for answers, gritty unsentimental crime capers, deep forays into disturbed and traumatized psyches, or carefully-plotted twist-o-ramas. There are countless great thrillers out there, but, if you're looking for a worthwhile one to queue up on Prime Video, you've come to the right place. Here, we've compiled a list of 15 excellent thriller movies available at no additional charge to U.S. Prime Video subscribers.

“What a thrill to be here in the Criterion … cupboard,” said Jude Law as he cheekily hinted at his British sensibilities within what is actually — quite famously — known as the Criterion Closet. Though America has many faults, this is not one of them and we will forgive Law this grievous correction.

Taking a stop in the closet amidst promoting his period cop thriller “The Order” and the upcoming Disney+ series “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew,” Law took home six films that reflect his broad appreciation for cinema and all it can offer. After pulling off Andrei Tarkovsky’s “Stalker” and discussing its “stillness” alongside another one of the filmmaker’s epic works, “Andrei Rubelev,” the actor selected a classic French film with connections to one of his earliest roles.

“So this holds a very special place in my heart. ‘Purple Noon’ or ‘Plein Soleil,’ which was the first realization of ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley...

Delon de Metz steals the show as the best-dressed star of the week for his role as Zende Forrester on The Bold and the Beautiful. Delon’s character, Zende sported a relaxed-fit long sleeve shirt in sleek black, adorned with an oversized houndstooth print and designed by Hugo. This high-impact shirt combines a laid-back fit with […]

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A preview for The Bold and the Beautiful B&b (spoilers) week of October 7! Ready for some hot drama next week on The Bold and the Beautiful? The Bold and the Beautiful B&b (Spoilers) Preview Week of October 7: Liam (Scott Clifton) stumbles into Forrester Creations, where he finds Will (Crew Morrow) and Zende (Delon […]

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Demi Moore has a strange request about what she wants to be done with her body after she dies. Demi has been out on tour, promoting her new movie The Substance. This is a body horror movie that has been said to disgust audiences, but it also has a strong story of female empowerment.

While talking about her new movie, Demi was also asked about some other interesting topics, including what she wants done to her body after she dies.

Demi Moore Wants Her Dog’s Ashes Mixed With Her Own

While talking about the movie and her life to Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show, Demi began to talk about her love for her dogs. Apparently, Demi has a whole herd of dogs, and she spoils them all. She said she props up pillows so they can get under the covers with her in bed.

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Above: Italian 4-foglio for Purple Noon. Artist uncredited.In April of this year, on the occasion of a retrospective tribute to French movie star Alain Delon at New York’s Film Forum, Anthony Lane wrote an article in the New Yorker titled “Can a Film Star Be Too Good-Looking?” In the article Lane talks of Delon’s limitations as an actor but says “if we watch him greedily, asking for more, it is for a reason so obvious, and so elemental, that stating it plainly seems almost indecent, but here goes. Alain Delon, in his prime, was the most beautiful man in the history of the movies.”Lane doesn’t really describe Delon’s beauty as much as he examines the concept of beauty with the help of Kant and Stendhal, but the one thing he does focus on is his eyes: those blue eyes that Delon demurred to cover...

Spoilers are ahead for Emily in Paris season 4, parts 1 & 2.Like other installments of the hit Netflix romantic comedy-drama, Emily in Paris season 4's soundtrack helps build the show's singular vibe. While Emily Cooper's (Lily Collins) story is full of antics and mishaps, there are also romantic tunes and dance-worthy beats both in English and French. The fourth outing picks up right after Emily in Paris season 3's cliffhanger ending: Emily and Gabriel (Lucas Bravo) wonder about their romantic future, while Camille (Camille Razat), who revealed she's pregnant with Gabriel's child, is missing. Of course, Emily still has some unresolved feelings for Alfie (Lucien Laviscount).

The rest of Emily in Paris' cast of characters are grappling with personal and professional sagas too. Sylvie (Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu), Emily's no-nonsense boss, outs Louis de Lon as a long-time sexual predator. Julien (Samuel Arnold) jumps ship from Sylvie's agency for a time, while Luc...

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Before his death, French actor Alain Delon had said that he wished for his dog, Loubo, to be put down when he passed. Delon believed the bond between him and his rescued Belgian Malinois was so strong that the dog would miss him dearly when he died and preferred to spare his pet such pain.

How does one explain death to a dog? That question, and several others deeper than we might expect from a “dog movie,” give intellectual heft to “The Friend,” a gentle coping-with-grief drama that provides its audience with a 180-pound emotional support animal in the form of Apollo, a harlequin Great Dane who’s missing his master and headed for the proverbial glue factory unless a bighearted enough human agrees to adopt him. Naomi Watts plays that human in a by-the-numbers crowd-pleaser with a bit more on its mind than your typical canine-centric tearjerker.

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Alain Delon's iconic performance in Le Samourai tops his celebrated career, inspiring filmmakers worldwide. The classic hitman movie influenced a genre, inspiring directors like John Woo and Jim Jarmusch. Delon's cool, stoic portrayal of Jef Costello in Le Samourai became a symbol of French cinema worldwide.

Often hailed as one of France's finest film actors, the entertainment world suffered a significant blow with the passing of Alain Delon on August 18, 2024. Delon enjoyed an illustrious 60-year acting career, appearing in some of the most acclaimed French films on record. Whether playing infamous grifter Tom Ripley in Purple Noon, Corey in the classic crime film The Red Circle, Tancredi Falconeri in The Leopard, etc., Delon matched a smoldering intensity with handsome good looks each time out.

Yet, among his 107 screen credits since 1949, one movie starring Alain Delon tops them all. The classic 1967 neo-noir assassin movie Le Samourai features Delon's quintessential movie performance.

Alain Delon influenced Asian actors and directors, including Hong Kong directors John Woo (The Killer) and Johnnie To. These filmmakers admired Alain Delon when he played gangsters in Melville’s films.

Johnnie To wanted to work with Alain Delon. He offered him the lead role of Vengeance, that of Francis Costello in 1967, as an allusion to Jeff Costello in Le Samouraï, which was played by Alain Delon. After Alain Delon refused, Johnny Hallyday was chosen by Johnnie To. Vengeance made its international premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on 17 May 2009. It is screened at the Festival International des Cinémas d’Asie in Vesoul as part of a retrospective devoted to Asian films.

In the comedy You Shoot, I Shoot by Hong Kong director Pang Ho-Cheung, actor Eric Kot plays a hired gun who identified himself as Jef Costello. He dresses like him and talks to him through a poster of...

French actor Alain Delon recently passed away and his family is clearing up some controversy that brewed after his death.

Alain made headlines in 2018 when he said that he planned on having his dog euthanized when he died so that they could be buried together. His now 10-year-old dog Loubo is still happy and healthy following his death, so people became concerned that his dog would be put to sleep.

“He is my end of life dog. A Belgian shepherd who I love like a child,” Alain previously said (via Afp). “If I die before him I will ask the vet to let us go together. He will inject him so that he dies in my arms. I would rather that than knowing that he would let himself die on my grave with so much suffering.”

The Brigitte Bardot Foundation, which protects animal rights, got in contact with the Delon...

It is with great sadness that we report legendary French actor Alain Delon has died at the age of 88. Widely hailed as the most beautiful movie star of all time thanks to his ocean blue eyes and statuesque, sculpted cheekbones, Delon — star of Le Samourai, Plein Soleil, Rocco And His Brothers and much, much more — brought an insouciant cool to cinema on- and off-screen, and an ineffable capacity to convey the depths of a brooding soul in the level of those self-same eyes. Delon passed away at his home in Douchy, surrounded by his three children and family, on 18 August.

Born on 8 November 1935 to cinema projectionist (and later La Régina cinema director) father François Fabien Delon and pharmacist and cinema usher mother Édith Marie Suzanne Arnold, you could say that the movies ran in Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon's blood. After a turbulent series of school expulsions, spells in prison,...

Here’s a bit of news almost as insane as the one-woman plot to steal Graceland from the Presley family last week. After outrage from animal rights activists and presumably anyone who caught wind of the issue and also possessed a working human brain, the family of the late French...

The legendary, and legendarily handsome, international movie star Alain Delon passed away on Sunday, August 18, 2024. He was 88.

Delon was best known for playing heavies and tough guys, but he had incredible range, portraying all kinds of roles in his 60-plus-year career. Most American film students have experienced the bolt of electricity seeing Delon for the first time in an acclaimed international hit like René Clément's Tom Ripley adaptation "Purple Noon," or Luchino Visconti's "Rocco and his Brothers" (1960) or the same director's massive historical epic "The Leopard" (1963). Delon made several films with Clément, and was often paired with most of the best European directors of his generation, including Michelangelo Antonioni (he was in "L'Eclisse"), Louis Malle ("Spirits of the Dead"), Joseph Losey ("The Assassination of Trotsky"), Agnès Varda ("One Hundred and One Nights"), and even Jean-Luc Godard ("New Wave"). Anyone with a subscription to the Criterion Channel has likely...

At a press conference in Cannes in 1990, director Jean Luc Godard said about his choice of Alain Delon for the role of the hitchhiker in his movie New Wave: 'There was a role for 'him' in which I saw only him.' Godard went on to say: 'It's someone who carries his own tragedy...'. Godard went further by comparing movie stars, and in this context more specifically Delon, with the stars in the sky whose light only reaches us after years have passed. Appropriately, Delon's character Roger Lennox was referred to in the film's title role as "Lazy," his co-star Domiziana Giordano is "Elle." Alain Delon was partly the archetypal film star. An endless line of women including Romy Schneider (1938-1982) as his self-proclaimed great...

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Cinema isn’t a beauty contest, but if it were, Alain Delon surely would have won the title of the 1960s’ most handsome actor.

That’s a subjective call, of course, and as such, Delon is the kind of figure about whom writers tend to fall back on the word “arguably” — as in, “arguably the most handsome” — which is kind of a cop-out, as it leaves the argument to somebody else. When it comes to Delon, plenty have made the case. I loved Anthony Lane’s longform analysis of Delon’s allure in The New Yorker earlier this year. And none other than Jane Fonda, who co-starred with Delon in 1964’s “Joy House,” described him as “the most beautiful human being.”

The French star, who died Sunday, made more than 100 movies in a career that spanned 50 years, but for that one transformative decade in film history — beginning with the Patricia Highsmith...

Of course he was gorgeous — it was always the first thing you noticed about Alain Delon whenever he appeared onscreen, that otherworldly handsomeness that took your breath away no matter where you fell on the Kinsey scale. The French movie star knew that he was one of the most beautiful people to ever grace the movies, from any country and in any era, with those near-geometric cheekbones and those icy blue eyes; Delon knew his looks opened professional doors for him and opened the arms of women whose company he was happy to keep.

Alain Delon, the French star who shot to stardom during the 1960s with films like Il Gattopardo (1963) and Le Samoura (1967), has passed away at the age of 88 years old in Douchy, France, in the company of his family. Delon was reported to have spent his last months on his estate, and his family has confirmed he died peacefully in his home, per a Variety report.

Born in Sceaux, France, in 1935, the actor is considered one of the most influential leading men of his generation. His work with directors like Jean-Pierre Melville, Michelangelo Antonioni, Luchino Victoni, and Jean-Luc Godard was internationally acclaimed and always put him in the spotlight as one of the valued European actors everyone sought for their films in the '60s and '70s. However, he wasn't very keen on participating in every movie he was offered. His career was primarily based on French cinema.

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The death of Alain Delon leaves a 70-year body of onscreen work to be admired.

Following the French screen legend’s death at age 88 on Sunday, fans are remembering the memorable performances he served with such directors as Jean-Luc Godard, Luchino Visconti and Jean-Pierre Melville, earning a Palme d’Or and being inducted into France’s Legion of Honour during his storied career.

After a rough upbringing and serving in the First Indochina War, Delon was discovered at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival, despite having no training as an actor.

“I came down with a girl that I liked, who loved me… I took it all in, did the red carpet but even then, I felt at home… not least and I say this without pretension because it was made clear to me that I was not bad looking,” he told a Cannes masterclass in 2019.

Amid his affair with actress Michèle Cordoue,...

Alain Delon, the celebrated actor who starred in a string of classics such as Plein Soleil, Le Samouraï and Rocco and His Brothers, has died aged 88. Identified with French cinema’s resurgence in the 1960s, Delon lent his beautifully chiselled features to parts that included cops, hitmen and romantic leads, working for some of the country’s greatest directors

French screen star Alain Delon dies aged 88

Mesmeric and beautiful, Alain Delon was one of cinema’s most mysterious stars...

Alain Delon, the striking French leading man known for his uncommonly beautiful, coldly calculating villains in Le Samouraï and Purple Noon, has died. As confirmed by his family to France’s Afp news agency, Delon died Sunday after years of health complications stemming from a 2019 stroke. He was 88.An icon of French cinema,...

Alain Delon, an iconic actor of 1960s and 1970s French cinema, has died at age 88. Delon’s children said he died early in the morning of Sunday, August 18, at his château in Loiret, France, surrounded by family and his Belgian Shepherd Loubo, according to Deadline. The actor was known for his roles in films like 1963’s The Leopard and 1967’s Le Samouraï, the former of which earned him attention stateside with his Golden Globes nomination in the Most Promising Newcomer – Male category. In an X post on Sunday, French President Emmanuel Macron said that Delon “played legendary roles and made the world dream” and that the “melancholic, popular, secretive” actor was not just a star but “a French monument.” After a stint fighting in the First Indochina War in the 1950s, Delon broke into show business through his relationships with the actors Brigitte Auber and Michèle Cordoue, who connected him...

Alain Delon, one of the biggest international movie stars of all time, has passed away at 88. The actor, who’d been in poor health in recent years, is widely considered one of the most iconic French stars ever. First rising to fame as part of a new crop of actors during the French New Wave, Delon was the first person to play Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley in Purple Noon, while also starring in classics such as The Leopard, Rocco and His Sisters and many more.

Yet, it was his role as the cold, calculating hitman in Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samourai which remains the part he’s arguably best known for. Playing an impeccably dressed killer named Jeff, who is double-crossed by his employers, pretty much every hitman movie in the last fifty years owes a debt of gratitude to his performance. Chow Yun-Fat’s style in A Better Tomorrow...

Alain Delon, the influential French actor who starred in European cinematic classics like Le Samourai and The Leopard, has died at the age of 88.

The actor’s children confirmed his death Sunday in a statement to Afp (via BBC), “Alain Fabien, Anouchka, Anthony, as well as (his dog) Loubo, are deeply saddened to announce the passing of their father. He passed away peacefully in his home in Douchy, surrounded by his three children and his family.”

A box office star and heartthrob actor in his native France and across Europe throughout the Sixties and Seventies,...

Film legend Alain Delon passed away at his home in France on Sunday at the age of 88, surrounded by his three children. Delon was a famous French actor known for his good looks and roles in many important European movies from the 1950s to the 2000s.

Delon got his big break in 1960 when he starred in “Purple Noon,” adapted from the novel “The Talented Mr. Ripley.” He played the character Tom Ripley, who was not a good person. This performance made Delon very famous and he often acted as charming but dangerous characters after that. In the 1960s, Delon worked with famous directors on movies like “Rocco and His Brothers” and “The Leopard.” Another famous role was in the 1967 film “Le Samouraï” where he played a quiet hitman, which many saw as reflecting his own personality.

While popular in Europe, Delon did not have the same fame in America. He...

Alain Delon, the legendary actor and sex symbol who dominated French cinemas in the 1960s in films like “Le Samouraï” and “Purple Noon,” has died at the age of 88. The news was shared via a statement to Afp. Delon passed away in his longtime home in Douchy, France.

“He passed away peacefully in his home in Douchy, surrounded by his three children and his family,” the statement said. Per Deadline, French president Emmanuel Macron said in a translated statement, “Mr. Klein or Rocco, the Leopard or the Samurai, Alain Delon has played legendary roles and made the world dream. Lending his unforgettable face to shake up our lives. Melancholic, popular, secretive, he was more than a star: a French monument.”

Delon first rose to prominence in the 1959 comedy “Women Are Weak,” which was a major hit in France and frequently screened in America. But his status as a serious actor...

France’s president Emanuel Macron has led tributes to titan of French cinema Alain Delon following his death aged 88.

Macron posted on X:

Monsieur Klein ou Rocco, le Guépard ou le Samouraï, Alain Delon a incarné des rôles légendaires, et fait rêver le monde. Prêtant son visage inoubliable pour bouleverser nos vies.

Mélancolique, populaire, secret, il était plus qu’une star : un monument français. pic.twitter.com/1JTqPfVo5n

— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) August 18, 2024

“Mr. Klein or Rocco, the Leopard or the Samurai, Alain Delon has played legendary roles and made the world dream. Lending his unforgettable face to shake up our lives.

Melancholic, popular, secretive, he was more than a star: a French monument.”

The country’s culture minister Rachida Dati wrote:

“We believe he was immortal … his talent, his charisma, his aura made him destined for a Hollywood career at a young age, but he chose France.”

Alain Delon n’est plus.

Alain Delon, the French actor who became a screen icon in Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samourai, has died aged 88.

Delon died “peacefully in his home in Douchy, surrounded by his three children and his family”, according to a statement released to the Afp news agency by his family.

As well as his famous role as professional hitman Jef Costello in Le Samourai, Delon collaborated with Melville in 1970 heist The Red Circle and 1975 crime thriller Flic Story.

Delon’s career began after he was spotted at Cannes Film Festival in 1957 by US talent agent Henry Willson, recruiting on behalf of David O. Selznick.

Alain Delon in The Samouraï: 'The mysteriously lethal angel in a trench-coat and a fedora' Photo: Criterion Collection On the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019 when he was awarded at honorary Palme d’Or Photo: Richard Mowe One of the eternal and enduringly controversial giants of French and international cinema Alain Delon has died at the age of 88 at his chateau home in the village of Douchy south-east of Paris where recently he had become a virtual recluse amid a fractious family inheritance dispute involving his children Anthony Delon, 59, his younger half-sister Anouchka, 33, and his half-brother Alain-Fabien, 29.

Despite their differences the three children and other family members were at his bedside when, according to a statement relayed by the news agency Agence France Presse he passed away “peacefully.”

The row has echoes of Delon’s own family background. Born on the outskirts of Paris in 1935 he was abandoned and,...

Alain Delon, the French actor most famous for his roles in the films of New Wave director Jean-Pierre Melville, especially “Le Samourai,” has died. He was 88.

“He passed away peacefully in his home in Douchy, surrounded by his three children and his family,” according to a statement released to the Afp news agency by his family.

In addition to “Le Samourai,” Delon also appeared in Melville’s brilliant heist film “Le Cercle rouge” and “Un Flic.”

Some of his other significant films were Rene Clement’s “Purple Noon”; Visconti’s “Rocco and His Brothers” and “The Leopard”; Antonioni’s “L’Eclisse”; Jose Giovanni’s “Two Men in Town”; and Joseph Losey’s “Mr. Klein.”

Although he triggered some controversies during the later part of his life due to his public comments on adoption of children by same-sex parents and affinity with far-right politicians, many prominent figures in France and abroad paid...

French acting star Alain Delon, whose many iconic roles included Le Samouraï, Plein Soleil and The Leopard, has died in France at the age of 88.

The actor’s children said in a statement that their father had passed away in the early hours of Sunday, surrounded by his family and beloved Belgian Shepherd Loubo, in his long-time chateau home in the village of Douchy, in the Le Loiret region some 100 miles south of Paris.

Delon’s death marks the passing of one of the last surviving icons of the French cinema scene of the 1960s and 70s, when the country was on an economic roll as it reconstructed in the wake of World War II.

Related: French Pres. Emmanuel Macron Leads Tributes To Alain Delon: “More Than A Star, A Monument”

The star, who was at the peak of this career from the 1960s to the 1980s, fell into acting by chance.

Whether playing the lover opposite Marianne Faithfull or the assassin in Le Samouraï, the prolific French actor, who has died aged 88, was a symbol of the lost beauty of the 60s

• A life in pictures

There is a famous photograph of Alain Delon in 1967, sitting on a couch next to Marianne Faithfull, with a subdued Mick Jagger on the other side of her, apparently taken around the time Faithfull was about to star in The Girl on a Motorcycle, in which Faithfull modelled a sleek leather body suit that Delon’s character would take great delight in unzipping. Faithfull is leaning over intimately as Delon murmurs to her, laughing, lit up in his presence, her body language entirely enfolded into his. Jagger can only look down uneasily at his cigarette. Later Faithfull would say that she didn’t fancy Delon one bit, but confirmed that Jagger was very jealous.

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Last weekend, I took in “Le Samouraï” for what must have been the sixth or seventh time, relishing the new 4K restoration of Jean-Pierre Melville’s masterpiece (now playing at Laemmle theaters in Los Angeles). As I exited the screening, I discreetly eavesdropped on my fellow audience members. Most seemed impressed. A few were still processing what they’d seen: an existential study of a lone killer, told with radically little dialogue. “That wasn’t at all what I expected,” one woman told her friend. “I thought we were going to see some kind of samurai movie.”

It’s a reasonable assumption, given the film’s title, although the 1967 crime classic takes place half a world away, in Paris, almost exactly a century after Japan’s samurai era came to an end. I first saw “Le Samouraï” in the late ’90s,...