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Pickpocket
Uniform Title
Pickpocket (Motion picture)
Title
Pickpocket / Janus Films ; MK2 ; Lux, Compagnie Cinématographique de France présente ; de Robert Bresson ; produit par Agnes Delahaie.
ISBN
9781604658576
1604658576
Edition
Dual-format Blu-ray and DVD special edition.
Published
[New York, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2014]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (76 min. each) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded pamphlet.
Notes
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1959.
Special features: new 2K digital restoration; audio commentary featuring film scholar James Quandt; introduction by writer-director Paul Schrader; The models of "Pickpocket", a 2003 documentary by Babette Mangolte that features interviews with actors from the film; interview with director Robert Bresson, from a 1960 episode of the French television program Cinépanorama; Q & A on Pickpocket from 2000, featuring actor Marika Green and filmmakers Paul Vecchiali and Jean-Pierre Améris; footage of sleight-of-hand artist and Pickpocket consultant Kassagi, from a 1962 episode of the French television show La piste aux étoiles; trailer; plus a new essay by novelist and culture critic Gary Indiana.
Cinematography, Léonce-Henri Burel; film editor, Raymond Lamy; music from the opera Atys, Jean-Baptiste Lully; conductor, Marc Lanjean.
French language soundtrack; optional English subtitles.
Summary
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.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
French
Added to Catalog
October 31, 2017
Series
Criterion collection ; 314
Credits
Cinematography, Léonce-Henri Burel; film editor, Raymond Lamy; music from the opera Atys, Jean-Baptiste Lully; conductor, Marc Lanjean.
Cast
Martin La Salle, Marika Green, Jean Pélégri, Dolly Scal, Pierre Leymarie, Kassagi, Pierre Etaix, César Gattegno.
System details note
DVD: region 1; full screen (1.37:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.
Blu-ray: region A; full screen (1.37:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.
Videorecording number
CC2390BDDVD Criterion Collection
CC2390BDDVD-1 Criterion Collection
CC2390BDDVD-2 Criterion Collection
Subjects
Genre/Form
Foreign films.
Motion pictures, French.
Motion pictures - France.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Also listed under
Janus Films.
MK2 Productions.
Lux Compagnie cinématographique de France.
Criterion Collection (Firm)
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