The complete Jean Vigo

DVD - 2011

''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" -- from container.

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Subjects
Genres
Experimental films
Surrealist films
Fiction films
Short films
Feature films
Silent films
Biographical films
Documentary films
Nonfiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection [2011]
Language
French
English
Corporate Authors
Janus Films, Gaumont (Firm), Franfilmdis (Firm), Argui-Film (Firm)
Corporate Authors
Janus Films (production company), Gaumont (Firm), Franfilmdis (Firm), Argui-Film (Firm)
Other Authors
Jean Vigo, 1905-1934 (film director), Boris Kaufman (film producer), Jacques-Louis Nounez (screenwriter), Michel Simon, 1895-1975 (restorationist expression), Dita Parlo (performer), Albert Riéra (actor), Jean Guinée (composer), Henri Arbel (lyricist), Bernard Eisenschitz (interviewee), Jean Taris (-), Louis Lefebvre, 1919-1968 (Interviewer), Gilbert Pruchon, Gerard de Bedarieux, Jean Dasté, 1904-1994, Robert Le Flon, Louis de Gonzague Frick, 1883-1958, Gilles Margaritis, 1919-1965, Maurice (Actor) Gilles, Raphaël Diligent, Marc Perrone, Maurice Jaubert, Charles Goldblatt, Michael Temple, 1963-, Michel Gondry, Jacques Rozier, 1926-, Janine Bazin, André S. Labarthe, François Truffaut, Éric Rohmer, 1920-2010, Otar Iosseliani
Edition
Two-DVD special edition
Item Description
Collection title from container.
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.
Second film menu title: Taris.
Series numbering from container spine.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (163 min.) : silent and with sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in
Format
DVD; NTSC, region 1; (1.33:1) or (1.19:1) aspect ratio, Dolby Digital mono.
Production Credits
À propos de Nice: cinematography, Boris Kaufman ; music composed and interpreted by Marc Perrone ; edited by Boris Kaufman, Jean Vigo.
La natation par Jean Taris champion de France: photography, G. Lafont, Lucas Procédé.
Z̀èro de conduite : jeunes diables au collège: cinematography, Boris Kaufman ; music by Maurice Jaubert ; dialogue by Charles Goldblatt ; edited by Jean Vigo.
L'Atalante: lyrics by Charles Goldblatt ; music by Maruice Jaubert ; cinematography, Boris Kaufman, Louis Berger, and Jean-Paul Alphen ; edited by Louis Chavance.
ISBN
9781604654585
Access
Educational and home use only.
  • Disc one. The films. A propos de Nice / réalisation de Jean Vigo et Boris Kaufman ; scénario, Jean Vigo ; revised in 2001 (1930) (23:44)
  • La natation par Jean Taris champion de France / Franfilmdis présente ; réalisé par Jean Vigo (1931) (10:05)
  • Zéro de conduite : jeunes diables au collège / Franfilmdis présente ; une production Argui-film ; scénario et réalisation de Jean Vigo (1933) (44:25)
  • L'Atalante / Gaumont présente ; une production J.-L. Nounez, Michel Simon, et Dita Parlo ; réalisation de Jean Vigo ; adaptation et dialogues de Vigo et Riera ; d'après un scénario de Jean Guinée ; The 1991 restoration, under the direction of Pierre Philippe and Jean-Louis Bompoint was revised in 2001 by Luce Vigo and Bernard Eisenschitz in collaboration with Gaumont ; sound restoration, Lobster Films (1934) (1:29:10).
  • Disc two. The supplements. Jean Vigo / animé par Michel Gondry (2011?) (0:45)
  • Cinéastes de notre temps : Jean Vigo / réalisation, Jacques Rozier ; [produced by] Janine Bazin, André S. Labarthe, Jacques Rozier (orginally aired October 15, 1964) (98:11)
  • Postface à L'Atalante / c'était un entretien avec François Truffaut par Eric Rohmer (1968) (18:16)
  • Les voyages de L'Atalante : versions, rushes et coupes / Gaumont présente ; un film de Bernard Eisenschitz (2001) (40:01)
  • Otar Iosseliani on Vigo (interviewed October 1 and October 20, 2001) (19:56) / Otar Iosseliani.
Review by Library Journal Review

Short-lived French director Jean Vigo (1905-34) made a mere four films, with his only feature, L'Atalante, easily the finest. Entrancingly told in a lyrically realistic style, its story concerns a besotted couple coping with the vicissitudes in their new marriage. A Propos de Nice offers a sly critique of bourgeois society; Zero de Conduite surrealistically puts down life in a boarding school; and, Taris uses cinematic technique to show the moves of a champion swimmer. A must-have career retrospective for cinephiles. (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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