The Hillsborough Classic Film Society is a group that shows classic, foreign and independent films once a month, at 2 p.m. Most screenings are at the Passmore Center, 103 Meadowlands Drive, Hillsborough, NC. The Passmore Center is next to the Orange County SportsPlex.
At each event, there is an expert speaker who sets the background for the film. There is also free popcorn!
The events are free to attend. Advance registration is requested, but not required. Registration is at hillsboroughclassicfilms.com or by calling the Passmore Center at 919-245-2015.
Keep up to date on events by joining Hillsborough Classic Film Society. There’s no cost to join.
January 5, 2025 — Le Samourai (1967)
This event is at the Passmore Center, 103 Meadlowlands Drive, Hillsborough, North Carolina, on Sunday, January 5, 2025, at 2 p.m.
Admission free, popcorn free.
THE HILLSBOROUGH CLASSIC FILM SOCIETY presents, for their first film in the new year, Jean-Pierre Melville’s spare, stylish, Le Samourai (1967; French). In his review for the Criterion reissue, David Thomson wrote:
“The movie can be followed, over and over again, like music, because its configurations are so mysterious, so averse to everyday explanation. Everything is in the playing or the enactment. Seen again now, Le samouraï looks like a film from an earlier age, one made at a time when great films were necessary (and regular), because they demonstrated and fulfilled the nature of the medium. … Le samouraï looks as abstract, yet as beautiful and as endlessly worthy of study, as the Giotto frescoes in the basilica in Assisi.”
Released in 1967, it stars Alain Delon as assassin-for-hire Jef Costello, the hunter who becomes the hunted. One of Roger Ebert’s Great Films, it has a 100% rating on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.
The film will be shown at the Passmore Center, 103 Meadowlands Drive, Hillsborough at 2pm on Sunday, January 5. The speaker will be Henry Veggian, a professor of 20th century literature at UNC who also teaches film, including a course this year on noir films. Professor Veggian led the discussion of the film Salvatore Giuliano for us last year.
Hillsborough Classic Film Society
Registration in advance, before Friday, January 3, at 3 p.m., is appreciated.
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Jerry M. Passmore Senior Center, Hillsborough
103 Meadowland Drive
Hillsborough, NC
