Anthologie Melville (Studio Canal 2017)

[Richard--W]

Does anyone have this set?
Can you comment on the transfers, picture quality, English-friendliness, etc?
Are the supplements and commentaries English-friendly?
Any other thoughts?

[thuata]

I only got this set a few days ago when the price dropped to 50€ but I watched two movies, Le Samouraï and Le Doulos. The first isn't english friendly and looked like a very dated, very poor master, the second had english subs and looked much more solid.
So it seems to be a mixed bag, according to the box only eight films have english subs, and picture quality fluctuates wildly depending on the film.
If you can't find reviews of the box online you can look at individual reviews for each movie, but if you need english subs this is obviously already a deal breaker.
The book isn't very good and is only in french, the box is overly big and not very nice to look at.
Other than that I'm happy with it but it's not worth 120€

[Richard--W]

Originally Posted by thuata

I only got this set a few days ago when the price dropped to 50€ but I watched two movies, Le Samouraï and Le Doulos. The first isn't english friendly and looked like a very dated, very poor master, the second had english subs and looked much more solid.
So it seems to be a mixed bag, according to the box only eight films have english subs, and picture quality fluctuates wildly depending on the film.
If you can't find reviews of the box online you can look at individual reviews for each movie, but if you need english subs this is obviously already a deal breaker.
The book isn't very good and is only in french, the box is overly big and not very nice to look at.
Other than that I'm happy with it but it's not worth 120€

Thanks for summing it up. I hoped for a better set.
Under the circumstances I'll pass.