Le Samourai - Daisuke Miyao (BFI Film Classics) Criticism & Essays Features: commentary with Troy Howarth

Features: commentary with Troy Howarth & Nathaniel Thompson | commentary with Bava expert Tim Lucas | commentary with John Phillip Law & Lucas | discussion on origins of Diabolik| new video essay 'Radical Behaviour' | archival featurette | Beastie Boys Body Movin' video with optional MCA commentary|

critic Kent Jones

The film's relation to the source novel and its production history are explored and Denning offers insightful analysis

Only Lynch's perspective is given so the film maintains an absorbing intimacy throughout

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Le Samourai - Daisuke Miyao (BFI Film Classics) Criticism & Essays Features: commentary with Troy Howarth'Le Samoura' by Daisuke Miyao (BFI Film Classics 96 page paperback) Daisuke Miyao explores Jean Pierre Melville's cult 1967 thriller, a film that unfolds in a coolly stylised Paris where the paths of a contract killer and the police commissaire pursuing him fatally intersect.