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.
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I'm practically jerking off right now...
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