The Complete Jean Vigo [Criterion] (DVD)
Jean Vigo
Synopsis
Even among cinemas 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 Bunuel, Vigos films refused to play by the rules. This set includes all of Vigos titles: A PROPOS DE NICE, ZIRO DE CONDUITE, and LATALANTE.
Special Features:
- New high-definition digital restorations of all four of Jean Vigo’s films
- 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’Atalante,” film restorer and historian Bernard Eisenschitz’s 2001 documentary tracking the history of the film
- Video interview from 2001 with director Otar Iosseliani on Vigo
- New essays by critics Michael Almereyda, Robert Polito, B. Kite, and Lucy Sante
Product Details
- Language: French
- Subtitles: English
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rating: Not Rated
- Label: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 08/30/2011
- Run Time: 165 minutes
- Catalogue #: 578
- Region: 1