The complete Jean Vigo
Title:
The complete Jean Vigo
ISBN:
9781604654585
Edition:
Special ed.
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (163 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (43 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm.)
Series:
General Note:
À propos de Nice was originally produced in 1930; La Natation par Jean Taris champion de France was originally produced in 1931; Zéro de conduite was originally produced in 1933; L'Atalante was originally produced in 1934.
Disc [1], special features: audio commentary by Michael Temple, author of "Jean Vigo"; alternate edit for À propos de Nice; Disc [2], special features: animated tribute to Vigo by Michel Gondry; 98 minute episode of French television program "Cinéastes de notre temps" directed by Jacques Rozier; "Postface a l'atalante," François Truffaut being interviewed by Eric Rohmer (1968); "Les voyages de l'Atalante," documentary by Bernard Eisenschitz; "Otar Iosseliani on Vigo," a 2001 interview. Booklet features essays by critics Michael Almereyda, Robert Polito, B. Kite, and Luc Sante.
Contents:
Table of contents from booklet: Casts and credits -- Jean Vigo / Michael Almereyda -- À propos de Jean and Boris / Robert Polito -- Rude freedom / B. Kite -- Canal music / Luc Sante -- About the transfers.
A propos de Nice / La natation par Jean Taris champion de France / Zéro de conduite : jeunes diables au collège / L'Atalante
Jean Vigo / Cinéastes de notre temps : Jean Vigo / Postface à L'Atalante / Les voyages de L'Atalante : versions, rushes et coupes / Otar Iosseliani on Vigo
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Cinéastes de notre temps (Television program)
Atalante (Motion picture)
More Information:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0897118
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: What starts off as a conventional travelogue turnes into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice and its wealthy inhabitants.
La natation par jean Taris champion de France: A short documentary about the swimmer Jean Taris, notable for Vigo's innovative techniques
Zéro de conduite : jeanes diables au collège: In a repressive boarding school with rigid schools of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the administration on a celebration day.
L'Atalante: When Juliette marries Jean, she comes to live on his ship, on board of which are, besides the two of them, only a cabin boy and the strange old second mate Père Jules. Soon bored by life on the river, Juliette slips off to explore the nightlife when they come to Paris. Angered by this, Jean sets off, leaving Juliette behind. Overcome by grief and longing for his wife, Jean falls into a depression and Père Jules goes and tries to find Juliette.
System Details:
DVD; REGION 1, FULL SCREEN PRESENTATIONS (1.33:1) OR (1.19:1) ASPECT RATIOS, DOLBY DIGITAL 1.0 MONO SOUND (FRENCH), DUAL LAYER, NTSC.
Language Note:
À PROPOS DE NICE IS A SILENT FILM, WITH MUSIC. TARIS, ZÈRO DE CONDUITE, AND L'ATALANTE: FRENCH DIALOGUE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES.
