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Pickpocket
2014

DVD

Michel, an insignificant man who drifts into crime, is arrested and imprisoned. Upon release, he abandons an attempt at reform when a master pickpocket teaches him his art.

Item Details

ISBN:

  • 9781604658699
  • 160465869X

Edition: Special edition.

Description:

  • 1 videodisc (76 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
  • DVD video 4 3/4 in.
  • digital optical mono Dolby Digital 1.0
  • laser optical NTSC
  • video file DVD video region 1

Notes:

  • Originally produced as a motion picture in 1959.
  • Special features: New 2K digital restoration; Paul Schrader introduction; Commentary (featuring film scholar James Quandt); The models of "Pickpocket" (a 2003 documentary by Babette Mangolte that features interviews with actors from the film); Cinépanorama (interview with director Robert Bresson, by France Roche and François Chalais, from a 1960 episode of the French television program); Q&A on Pickpocket (from 2000 screening of the film, featuring actor Marika Green and filmmakers Paul Vecchiali and Jean-Pierre Améris); Kassagi (footage of sleight-of-hand artist and Pickpocket consultant Kassagi, from a 1962 episode of the French television show La piste aux étoiles); Trailer. Booklet features an essay by novelist and culture critic Gary Indiana.
  • Music, J.B. Lulli ; musical director, Marc Lanjean ; cinematographer, L.-H. Burel ; production designer, Pierre Charbonnier ; editor, Raymond Lamy.
  • Martin La Salle, Marika Green, Jean Pelegri, Dolly Scal, Pierre Leymarie, Kassagi, Pierre Etaix, César Gattegno.
  • DVD, NTSC, region 1, full screen (1.37:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.
  • In French with English subtitles.

Publisher or Distributor Number: CC2380D

Control Number: 1907423

UPC: 715515120210

Publisher: [Irvington, New York] : Criterion Collection, [2014]
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