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]Series:
Subjects: Pickpockets -- France -- Paris -- Drama.
Genre:
Other Authors:
- Améris, Jean-Pierre, 1961- interviewee (expression)
- Bresson, Robert, screenwriter, film director.
- Burel, Léonce-Henri, 1892-1977, director of photography.
- Chalais, François, 1919-1996, interviewer (expression)
- Charbonnier, Pierre, production designer.
- Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor.
- Delahaie, Agnes, film producer.
- Étaix, Pierre, 1928-2016, actor.
- Gattegno, César, actor.
- Green, Marika, actor.
- Indiana, Gary, writer of supplementary textual content.
- Janus Films, production company.
- Kassagi, 1932-1997, actor.
- La Salle, Martin, actor.
- Lamy, Raymond, film editor.
- Lanjean, Marc, 1903-1964, musical director.
- Leymarie, Pierre, actor.
- Lully, Jean-Baptiste, 1632-1687, composer (expression)
- Lux Compagnie cinématographique de France, presenter, production company.
- MK2 Productions, production company.
- Mangolte, Babette, filmmaker.
- Pélégri, Jean, 1920-2003, actor.
- Quandt, James, 1956- commentator.
- Roche, France, 1921-2013.
- Scal, Dolly, actor.
- Vecchiali, Paul, 1930- interviewee (expression)