Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Look at this beauty:


Packed with these extras:




  • New high-definition digital transfer of the recent full restoration, supervised by director of photography Pierre Lhomme


  • Optional Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0 soundtrack


  • Audio commentary by Jean-Pierre Melville historian Ginette Vincendeau


  • New interviews with Lhomme and editor Françoise Bonnot


  • Archival excerpts from French television programs, including on-set footage from the film’s production and interviews with Melville; actors Jean-Pierre Cassel, Paul Crauchet, Paul Meurisse, and Simone Signoret; writer Joseph Kessel; and real-life Resistance fighters André Dewavrin (a.k.a. Colonel Passy) and Lucie Aubrac, among others


  • Jean-Pierre Melville et "L'Armée des ombres" (2006), a short documentary including interviews with Bonnot, Lhomme, Cassel, composer Eric Demarsan, writer and filmmaker Philippe Labro, and filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier


  • Le journal de la Résistance (1944), a rare short documentary shot on the front lines of the final days of the French Resistance


  • Film restoration demonstration by Lhomme


  • Theatrical trailers


  • New and improved English subtitle translation


  • PLUS: A booklet featuring critic Amy Taubin, historian Robert Paxton, and excerpts from Rui Nogueira’s Melville on Melville

    All courtesy of the wonder Criterion Collection. Man, I can't wait til May.

    1 comment:

    DanielLee said...

    I'm practically jerking off right now...