Le Samouraï
Jean-Pierre Melville
This is a pre-order product - expected to ship late November.
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In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts. After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him. An elegantly stylized masterpiece of cool by maverick director Jean‑Pierre Melville, Le samouraï is a razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture —with a liberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythology.
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
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New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
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One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
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Interviews with Melville and actors Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, and Cathy Rosier
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Interviews with Rui Nogueira, editor of Melville on Melville, and Ginette Vincendeau, author of Jean-Pierre Melville: An American in Paris
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Melville-Delon: D’honneur et de nuit (2011), a short documentary exploring the friendship between the director and the actor and their iconic collaboration on Le samouraï
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Trailer
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PLUS: An essay by film scholar David Thomson, an appreciation by filmmaker John Woo, and excerpts from Melville on Melville
New cover by Polly Dedman
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