Features

New high-definition digital transfer of the 2004 restoration, supervised by director of photography Pierre Lhomme; Optional Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0 soundtrack; Audio commentary by film historian Ginette Vincendeau; New interviews with Lhomme and editor Françoise 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'armée des ombres" (2005), a short program on the director and his film; Le journal de la Résistance (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 critic Amy Taubin, historian Robert O. Paxton, and excerpts from Rui Nogueira's Melville on Melville

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- L'Armée des Ombres - The Film
1. Opening [2:34]
2. Gerbier [4:43]
3. Internment [3:26]
4. Comrade [6:22]
5. Gestapo [4:05]
6. Hôtel Majestic [5:06]
7. Quick Shave [3:06]
8. Job in Marseilles [4:32]
9. Traitor [7:49]
10. Jean-François [3:11]
11. Talent Agency in Lyon [2:13]
12. Special Delivery [4:41]
13. Saint Luc and Little Jean [3:36]
14. Midnight Passage [6:37]
15. London [6:20]
16. News of Félix [3:33]
17. Parachute Drop [7:18]
18. Disguises and Hideouts [6:03]
19. Rescue Preparations [7:34]
20. Denounced [2:30]
21. Transport for Félix [11:36]
22. "You Better Lie Now" [2:09]
23. Certain Death [12:58]
24. Isolation [5:12]
25. News of Mathilde [11:13]
26. "Nothing's Sacred Anymore" [6:32]
1. Melville's Resistance [2:34]
2. Political Mise-en-Scène [4:43]
3. Affair of Real Men [3:26]
4. Kessel's Book [6:22]
5. "A Sublime Thriller" [4:05]
6. L'Heure Allemande [5:06]
7. Serge Regianni [3:06]
8. Anti-Is Paris Burning? [4:32]
9. Ventura and Melville [7:49]
10. Jean-Pierre Cassel [3:11]
11. Entertainers During the Occupation [2:13]
12. Signoret's Second Phase [4:41]
13. Mobility, Food, and Warmth [3:36]
14. "Gaullist Film Art" [6:37]
15. Britain and the Resistance [6:20]
16. Félix's Hat [3:33]
17. The RAF [7:18]
18. Aristocracy [6:03]
19. Practice of Denunciation [7:34]
20. Butcher of Lyon [2:30]
21. Tour de Force Scene [11:36]
22. The Milice [2:09]
23. Gerbier's Internal Debate [12:58]
24. Melville's Existentialism [5:12]
25. Creatures of the Night [11:13]
26. Ambivalence [6:32]
Disc #2 -- L'Armée des Ombres - The Supplements
1. Rediscovering the Film [2:00]
2. Earning Melville's Respect [1:45]
3. A Low-Budget Mentality [5:24]
4. Cool Tones and Darkness [3:02]
5. Respect for the Audience [1:25]
1. Shooting the Film [5:39]
2. "It's My Youth" [4:04]
3. Melville and His Actors [6:43]
4. Joseph Kessel [4:28]
5. Passy and the Resistance [9:20]
1. Sunglasses and a Stetson Hat [5:46]
2. His Tribute to the Resistance [6:13]
3. Ventura and Melville [4:22]
4. Melville and Signoret [3:12]
5. The Cinephile [2:45]
6. Political Preference [5:12]
1. "Liberation Is at Hand" [5:15]
2. Hôtel de Ville, a Stronghold [5:17]
3. "The Barricades, the Barricades" [2:18]
4. "Business of Cleaning Up the City" [5:18]
5. Reinforcements Arrive [3:38]
6. "A Strange Picture Indeed" [4:24]
7. De Gaulle's Return [7:55]
1. Henri Frenay [3:28]
2. Martinet's Print Shop [4:52]
3. "Orders" From London [4:46]
4. De Gaulle's Control [10:12]