Release Date: July 9, 2024
Prices and Links:
Criterion- $39.96 (4K + Blu ray) , $31.96 (Blu ray only)
DiabolikDVD- $34.99 (4K + Blu ray)
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Writers: Jean-Pierre Melville, Joan McLeod, Georges Pellegrin
Starring: Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, Cathy Rosier, Jacques Leroy
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.
Prices and Links:
Criterion- $39.96 (4K + Blu ray) , $31.96 (Blu ray only)
DiabolikDVD- $34.99 (4K + Blu ray)
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Writers: Jean-Pierre Melville, Joan McLeod, Georges Pellegrin
Starring: Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, Cathy Rosier, Jacques Leroy
- France
- 1967
- 105 minutes
- Color
- 1.85:1
- French
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
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Interviews with Melville and actors Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, and Cathy Rosier
- Interviews with Rui Nogueira, editor of Melville on Melville, and Ginette Vincendeau, author of Jean-Pierre Melville: An American in Paris
- 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
- Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar David Thomson, an appreciation by filmmaker John Woo, and excerpts from Melville on Melville
