JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE’S – LE SAMOURAI – RELEASED ON BLU RAY

LE SAMOURAI (12) 1967 FRANCE MELVILLE, JEAN-PIERRE BLU RAY – £27.99
A hitman murders a nightclub owner but then comes obsession by a beautiful pianist who was a witness to the crime

In French with English subtitles

SPECIAL FEATURES

New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray

Interviews from 2005 with Rui Nogueira, editor of Melville on Melville, and Ginette Vincendeau, author of Jean-Pierre Melville: An American in Paris

Archival interviews with Melville and actors Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, and Cathy Rosier

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 this film

PLUS: An essay by film scholar David Thomson, an appreciation by filmmaker John Woo, and excerpts from Melville on Melville

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Jean-Pierre Melville’s classic gangster movie – LE CERCLE ROUGE – re-issued on dvd and Blu Ray

LE CERCLE ROUGE (PG) 1970 FRANCE MELVILLE, JEAN-PIERRE DVD – £17.99 DVD – £21.99
Following his release from prison, thief Corey teams up with alcoholic ex-cop Jansen and escaped criminal Vogel to plot a daring heist of an upmarket Parisian jewellery store against impossible odds.

In French with English subtitles

DVD & Blu Ray available to buy from-

http://www.worldonlinecinema.com/Home/french-dvds

JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE COLLECTION out on Blu Ray

JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE COLLECTION (12) BLU RAY ONLY £65.99
Collection of six classic Jean-Pierre Melville films –
L’ARMEE DES OMBRES (12) 1969
Based on the Joseph Kessel novel the film is one of the greatest and the most authentic film portrayals of the French Resistance.
BOB LE FLAMBEUR (PG) 1972
Gallic take on the American film noir and cop movies.
LE CERCLE ROUGE (PG) 1970
French take on the American gangster film with Alain Delon playing a master thief and Yves Montand an alcoholic ex-cop.
LE DOULOS (12) 1963
Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as police informer in tribute to the 1940s gangster film.
LEON MORIN, PRETRE (PG) 1961
This most commercially successful film from Jean-Pierre Melville, depicts a love affair between an atheist (Emmanuele Riva) and a priest (Jean-Paul Belmondo) set against the backdrop of the French Occupation
UN FLIC (12) 1972
Deft thriller with Alain Delon and Catherine Deneuve.

In French with English subtitles

Special Features

Interactive Menus

Interviews: Volker Schlondorff (Assistant Director), Bernard Stora (Assistant Director), José Giovanni (Author), Florence Moncorgé-Gabin (Script Supervisor), Jean-François Delon (Assistant Director)

Other Documentary: ‘Master Class With Philippe Labro and Rémy Grumbach’, ‘Code Name Melville’, ‘L’armée des Ombres… le Dessous des Cartes’, ‘In the Mood for Melville’

DVD available to buy at –

http://www.worldonlinecinema.com/Home/french-dvds