| | Samourai DVD
| Category | Foreign Films DVDs, Thriller Movies, Suspense Videos, Recommended, Murder, French, Betrayal, Criterion Collection, Film Noir, Assassination, New Wave | | Starring | Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon, Francois Perier, Michel Boisrond, Jacques Leroy, Caty Rosier | | Director | Jean-Pierre Melville | | Composer | Francois De Roubaix | | Director of Photography | Henri Decae | | Editor | Monique Bonnot | | Story | Joan McLeod |
In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays blue-eyed Jef Costello, a fedora- and trench-coat-wearing contract killer with samurai instincts. When a stoic, icily professional assassin is witnessed leaving the scene of a nightclub "hit" by a barroom pianist who doesn't let on to the cops, he discovers that he's being set up for something worse than jail. New wave noir from Melville, the tough-guy darling of the "Cahiers du Cinema" crowd. Based on the novel "The Ronin" by Joan McLeod. Samourai Reviews: "...An austere poem of crime, a fatalistic exercise in myth-making and transcendent style..."
-- Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times "...The film is masterful in its control of acting and visual style....LE SAMOURAI is as finished and polished as a film can be..."
-- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times 4 stars out of 5 -- "With minimal amounts of violence but maximum style....Simply, the coolest film ever."
-- Peter Relic, Rolling Stone "Melville's 1968 masterpiece....Minimal dialogue, a spare and moody jazz score and images drained of any color warmer than blue steel contribute to an overwhelming sense of repression and control."
-- Dave Kehr, New York Times 4 stars out of 4 -- "[I]t's a nigh perfectly constructed film, and its finale remains one of the most stunning yet enigmatic twists ever committed to celluloid."
-- Glenn Kenny, Premiere
This is the only Michel Boisrond video. Stars also making their debut in this video: Jacques Leroy, Caty Rosier. Samourai | List Price | $29.95 (You save $7.80) | | Studio | Image Entertainment | | Orig Year | 1967 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  8479  | | CD Universe Part number | 6945048 | | Catalog number | 150 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Oct 25, 2005 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Also Known As | Samourai | | Running Time | 95 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen | | Movie Details | Color; Widescreen; Criterion Collection |
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Samourai DVD Region 1
Note: This is a new, restored high-definition digital transfer with new and improved English subtitle translation.
Keep Case
Anamorphic Widescreen -
1.85
Full Frame -
1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital Mono - French
Additional Release Material:
Interviews:
1. Jean-Pierre Melville/Rui Nogueira & Ginette Vincendeau - Film Historians
2. Jean-Pierre Melvilee - Archival Excerpt
3. Alain Delon - Archival Excerpt
4. Cathy Rosier - Archival Excerpt
5. Nathalie Delon - Archival Excerpt
6. Francois Perier - Archival Excerpt
Text/Photo Galleries:
Essay: by film scholar David Thomson
Reprinted tribute by filmmaker John Woo
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