| Description |
2 videodiscs (approximately 163 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + accompanying booklet |
| Series |
The Criterion collection ; 578 |
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Criterion collection ; 578
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| Summary |
Even among cinema's greatest legends, Jean Vigo stands alone. The son of a notorious anarchist, Vigo had a brief but brilliant career making poetic, lightly surrealist films before his life was cut tragically short by tuberculosis at age twenty-nine. Like the daring early works of his contemporaries Jean Cocteau and Luis Buñuel, Vigo's films refused to play by the rules. This set includes all of Vigo's titles: À propos de Nice, an absurdist, rhythmic slice of life from the bustling coastal city; Taris, an inventive short portrait of a swimming champion; Zéro de conduite, a radical, delightful tale of boarding-school rebellion that has influenced countless filmmakers; and L'Atalante, widely regarded as one of cinema's finest achievements, about newlyweds beginning their life together on a canal barge. These are the witty, visually adventurous works of a pivotal film artist |
| Notes |
Special features, disc one: new high definition digital restoration ; audio commentaries ; score for À propos de Nice by Marc Perrone, from 2001 ; alternate edits from À propos de Nice, featuring footage cut by Vigo |
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Disc two: episode of the French television series Cinéastes de notre temps about Vigo, from 1964 ; conversation from 1968 between filmmakers François Truffaut and Eric Rohmer on L'Atalante ; animated tribute to Vigo by filmmaker Michel Gondry ; Les voyages de "L'Atalante," film restorer and historian Bernard Eisenschitz's 2001 documentary tracing the history of the film ; video interview from 2001 with director Otar Iosseliani on Vigo |
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Booklet features essays by critics Michael Almereyda, Robert Polito, B. Kite, and Luc Sante |
| Credits |
Director: Jean Vigo |
| Notes |
No rating given |
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DVD. Produced for region 1 |
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French audio; English subtitles. À propos de Nice is a silent film |
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Available to Deakin University staff and students only |
| Subject |
Vigo, Jean, 1905-1934.
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Feature films -- France.
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| Genre/Form |
Short films.
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Experimental films.
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Video recordings.
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| ISBN |
9781604654585 |
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1604654589 |
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