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Title:

Le samouraï [videorecording] = The samurai / distribution, René Chateau ; Prodis ; Raymond Borderie et Eugène Lépicier présentent film de Jean-Pierre Melville.

Format:

[videorecording] =

Publisher:

Criterion Collection,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Assassins--Drama.
Murder--Investigation--Drama.
Motion pictures, French.
Feature films.
Films for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

Melville, Jean-Pierre, 1917-1973.
Delon, Alain, 1935-
Périer, François.
Delon, Nathalie, 1941-
Chateau, René.
Borderie, R. (Raymond), 1897-1982.
Lépicier, Eugène.
Rosier, Cathy.
Boisrond, Michel, 1921-
Decae, Henri.
Roubaix, François de.
Nogueira, Rui.
Vincendeau, Ginette, 1948-
Thomson, David, 1941-
Woo, John, 1948-
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Société nouvelle Prodis.

Notes:

Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, Caty Rosier, Jacques Leroy, Jean-Pierre Posier, Michel Boisrond. Series numbering from container spine. Originally released as a French motion picture in 1967. "Enhanced for 16:9 televisions"--Disc label. Recorded in Dolby digital mono. "1.85:1 aspect ratio"--Container. Special features: new video interviews 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; theatrical trailer; a new essay by film scholar David Thomson and reprinted tribute by filmmaker John Woo.

Summary:

Jef Costello is a fedora and trench-coat wearing contract killer with samurai instincts. When Jef assassinates a nighclub 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.

Series:

The Criterion collection ; 306

ISBN:

9780780030183
0780030184

UPC:

037429208526

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)