The complete Jean Vigo
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
DVD special ed.
Languages
In French with English subtitles (Taris, Zèro de conduite, L'Atalante); silent (À propos de Nice).
Performers
L'Atalante: Jean Dasté, Dita Parlo, Michel Simon, Louis Lefebvre.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, c2011.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (163 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (43 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Audience
Not rated.
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 Buųel, Vigo's films refused to play by the rules. This set includes all of Vigo's titles.
Notes
Title from disc surface.
Special features: audio commentaries featuring Michael Temple, author of Jean Vigo ; score for À propos de Nice by Marc Perrone, from 2001 ; alternate edits from À propos de Nice, featuring footage cut by Vigo ; 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'Atlante," film restorer and historian Bernard Eisenschitz's 2001 documentary tracing the history of film ; video interview from 2001 with director Otar Iosseliani on Vigo.
Contents
- À propose de Nice / (1930, 23 min.)
- Taris / (1931, 9 min.)
- Zèro de conduite / (1933, 44 min.)
- L'Atalante / (1934, 87 min.).