Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
film
FilmVideorecording

Title Le samouraï / Janus Films ; distribution, René Chateau ; Prodis, Raymond Borderie et Eugène Lépicier présentent ; film de Jean-Pierre Melville.

Publication Info. [New York, New York] : Criterion Collection, [2017]
©2017

Item Status

Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Video  PN1997 .S16 2017    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
 Moore Video  PN1997 .S16 2017  booklet    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Edition DVD special edition.
Description 1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (25 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
digital
optical
mono
Dolby digital
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1
Motion pictures.
Physical Medium polychrome
Series The Criterion collection ; 306
Criterion collection ; 306.
System Details DVD, NTSC, region 1; 16:9 widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby digital monaural.
Cast Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, Caty Rosier, Jacques Leroy, Jean-Pierre Posier, Michel Boisrond.
Credits Director of photography, Henri Decae ; editor, Monique Bonnot, Yo Maurette ; music, François de Roubaix.
Note Originally produced as a motion picture in 1967.
Wide screen (1.85:1).
Special features: Interviews from 2005 with Jean-Pierre Melville historians Rui Nogueira and Ginette Vincendeau; collection of excerpts from archival interviews with Melville and actors Alain Delon, Cathy Rosier, Nathalie Delon and François Périer; "Melville-Delon: D'honneur et de nuit" short documentary about the friendship of the director and actor ; theatrical trailer ; booklet with essay by film scholar David Thomson, a tribute by filmmaker John Woo, and an excerpt from Rui Nogueira's book Melville on Melville.
Summary Jef Costello is a fedora and trench-coat wearing contract killer with samurai instincts. When Jef assassinates a nightclub owner, he finds himself confronted by a series of witnesses, who drop his perfect world into the hands of a persistent police investigator and Jef's shadowy employer, both of whom are determined to put an end to the career criminal.
Language In French with optional English subtitles.
Subject Assassins -- Drama.
Assassins.
Genre/Form Drama.
Subject Murder -- Investigation -- Drama.
Murder -- Investigation.
Genre/Form Crime films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Drama.
Added Author Melville, Jean-Pierre, 1917-1973, film director, screenwriter.
Borderie, R. (Raymond), 1897-1982, presenter.
Lépicier, Eugène, presenter.
Delon, Alain, 1935- actor.
Périer, François, actor.
Delon, Nathalie, 1941-2021, actor.
Rosier, Cathy, actor.
Boisrond, Michel, 1921-2002, actor.
Decae, Henri, director of photography.
Bonnot, Monique, editor of moving image work.
Roubaix, François de, composer (expression)
Janus Films.
Société nouvelle Prodis, presenter.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
Note Title from English subtitles: Samurai
ISBN 9781681433820
1681433826
Standard No. 715515206716
Music No. CC2833D The Criterion Collection