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Shoot the Piano Player
Blu-ray, #315

$25.99
Estimated Street Date: Tuesday, November 10 2026

Specifications

Format Blu-ray
Condition New
Label Criterion

François Truffaut plays the crime genre like jazz with this freewheeling adaptation of a novel by pulp master David Goodis, a film that infuses noir fatalism with a nervy nouvelle-vague freshness. The tragicomic story follows the adventures of timid dance-hall pianist Charlie (Charles Aznavour), who gets caught up in a whirlwind love affair and is inadvertently drawn into a violent underworld by his gangster brothers. With the film’s dazzling mix of Raoul Coutard’s handheld camera work, a wistful score by Georges Delerue, and playfully jagged editing, Truffaut creates a rueful character study shot through with his signature obsessions: cinema, the elusive nature of creativity, and the sting of romantic regret.

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

  • New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
  • Audio commentary featuring film scholars Peter Brunette and Annette Insdorf
  • Introduction by filmmaker Noah Baumbach
  • Interviews with cinematographer Raoul Coutard, actors Charles Aznavour and Marie Dubois, and François Truffaut collaborator Suzanne Schiffman
  • Archival interviews with Truffaut on the film and the source novel
  • The Music of Georges Delerue, an illustrated audio essay
  • Episode of the Criterion Channel series Observations on Film Art featuring scholar Jeff Smith
  • Dubois’s screen test
  • Trailer
  • Plus: An essay by film critic Kent Jones, an interview with Truffaut, and reflections by the director on Aznavour and Dubois

    Cover by F. Ron Miller

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