seems "Le Cercle Rouge" will be on Criterion come December...

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...which begs the question, what of "Le Samourai", "Le Doulos", and other fine works by the excellent Jean-Pierre Melville?

Bah!

― ham on rye, Wednesday, 11 June 2003 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Why not just tape 'em off of television? It's not like those films were shot on 70 mm or something.

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

When are they on TV? I also do not have a VCR I fear...

And judging from the DVD versions of Bob Le Flambeur and Un Flic, they'd probably look very nice...

― ham on rye, Wednesday, 11 June 2003 23:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw the restored version of Le Cercle rouge recently at cinema, it looked great, the colours were magnificent. I've also seen an older VHS version of the film, it was awful, the colours had faded really badly.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 12 June 2003 09:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Yesssss!

I got to see Le Samourai on the big screen once and it was an amazing experience. The dark haired dude from Starsky And Hutch was in the audience too. heheh.

― PVC (peeveecee), Friday, 13 June 2003 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

five months pass...

i just got La Samourai on dvd, from ebay. seems there was a french release of this (with english subtitles) a couple years ago, but has since disappeared again

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 13 November 2003 11:29 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

this is on netflix instant fyi

― max, Saturday, 6 March 2010 01:37 (sixteen years ago)

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― max, Saturday, 6 March 2010 01:54 (sixteen years ago)

it's really good, especially character of marksman, but the last twenty minutes are muddled and overly defeatist

― I spent four bloody years there (acoleuthic), Saturday, 6 March 2010 16:00 (sixteen years ago)

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