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DVD001808

Army Of Shadows

Melville, Jean-Pierre

The Criterion Collection, 2007

Description:

DVD - Region 1.   viewing copy.   2 videodiscs of 2.
color.   widescreen.   sound - Dolby digital monaural.  

Notes:

Supplemental features: audio commentary from historian Ginette Vincendeau; new interviews with d.p. Pierre Lhomme and editor Francoise Bonnot; archival video excerpts, including on-set footage and interviews with Melville, cast members, writer Joseph Kessel and real-life Resistance fighters; film restoration demonstration by Lhomme; a booklet featuring writings by critic Amy Taubin, historian Robert O. Paxton, and excerpts from Rui Nogueira’s “Melville on Melville.”

Titles

+ Army Of Shadows

Alternate Title:

L’Armée des Ombres

Director:

Melville, Jean-Pierre

Production Co:

Films Corona; Fono Roma

Running Time:

Feature.   145 minutes

Sound:

sound - Dolby digital monaural

Color:

color

Country:

France, Italy

Year:

1969

Language:

French with optional English subtitles

Genre:

Drama

Notes:

Underground fighters work for the resistance in WWII France. Supplemental features: audio commentary from historian Ginette Vincendeau; new interviews with d.p. Pierre Lhomme and editor Francoise Bonnot; archival video excerpts, including on-set footage and interviews with Melville, cast members, writer Joseph Kessel and real-life Resistance fighters; JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE ET ‘L’ARMEE DES OMBRES’ (2005), a short program on the director and the film; LA JOURNAL DE LA RESISTANCE (1944), a rare short documentary shot on the front lines of the final days of German-occupied France; film restoration demonstration by Lhomme; a booklet featuring writings by critic Amy Taubin, historian Robert O. Paxton, and excerpts from Rui Nogueira’s “Melville on Melville.”

Link to:

FII catalog |

+ Jean-Pierre Melville Et ‘L’Armee Des Ombres’

Director:

Quinconneau, Philippe

Production Co:

StudioCanal

Running Time:

Short.   30 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

color and b/w

Country:

France

Year:

2005

Language:

French language with English subtitles

Genre:

Documentary

Notes:

A short program on the director and the film.

+ Journal De La Resistance, La

Director:

Painlevé, Jean; Grémillon, Jean

Production Co:

rance Libre Actualité

Running Time:

Short.   33 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

France

Year:

1944

Language:

French language

Genre:

War, Documentary

Notes:

Genuine documentary footage shot in Paris at the moment of French liberation from Nazi occupation, with narration; the Paris streets become a place of war and then triumphant celebration.