Who else is a fan of Jean-Pierre Melville?

The Buddha once used a piece of red chalk to draw a circle and made this claim: "No matter how much people's lives diverge, when the time eventually comes, they’ll all find themselves meeting inside that red circle." Rama Krishna

Watching *Le Cercle Rouge* is basically like tracing the DNA of modern cinema back to its source. Melville was obsessed with American film noir and those gritty gangster flicks—he actually wanted to helm *Rififi*. What we get instead is a masterpiece featuring trenchcoat-wearing heirs to the Humphrey Bogart legacy and a legendary, almost silent heist sequence that practically birthed every robbery movie ever made. The stoic types played by Alain Delon in *Le Samourai* and *Le Cercle Rouge* are the blueprint for a massive lineup of icons: think De Niro in *Heat*, Chow Yun Fat in *The Killer*, Takeshi Kitano in *Fireworks*, Bruce Willis in *Pulp Fiction*, Forest Whitaker in *Ghost Dog*, and yeah, even Keanu Reeves in *The Matrix*. Melville isn't just a director; he’s a director’s director.

One of these days, you and *Le Cercle Rouge* are destined to collide in a theater filled with red velvet seats. It's inevitable for everyone.

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THE RED CIRCLE... anyone else seen it? Absolute MASTERPIECE.

Is someone actually deleting posts from this thread? 🙂

Mr. Media Blitz, you promised us ages ago that you’d drop your take on *The Bad Seed* right here. Some of us are still waiting with bated breath! ☕