Charlie Kohler is a piano player in a bar. Lena, a waitress at the bar, is in love with him. One of Charlie's brothers, Chico, a crook, takes refuge in the bar because he is being chased by two gangsters, Momo and Ernest. But Charlie's real name is Edouard Saroyan, who was once a virtuoso...
Bibliographic Details
| Main Authors: |
Truffaut, François
(Adapter, Director),
Moussy, Marcel, 1924-1995
(Adapter),
Delerue, Georges, 1925-1992
(Composer) |
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| Corporate Authors: |
MK2 Productions,
Films de la Pléiade (Firm),
Showtime Entertainment |
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| Other Authors: |
Braunberger, Pierre, 1905-1990
(Producer),
Aznavour, Charles
(Actor),
Dubois, Marie, 1937-2014
(Actor),
Berger, Nicole, 1934-1967
(Actor),
Mercier, Michèle
(Actor),
Coutard, Raoul
(Cinematographer),
Bouché, Claudine
(Film editor),
Decugis, Cécile
(Film editor),
Goodis, David, 1917-1967 |
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| Format: | Video
DVD
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| Language: | French
English |
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| Published: |
Los Angeles, CA :
Showtime Entertainment,
[2005]
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| Edition: | Special ed.; widescreen. |
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| Series: | Criterion collection ;
315.
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| Subjects: | |
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| Item Description: |
- Based on the novel "Down there" by David Goodis.
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1960.
- Program notes (28 pages) with essays "You'll laugh, you'll cry" by Kent Jones, "Interview with François Truffaut: Shoot the piano player" by Hèléne Larouch Davis, and "Truffaut on his actor" inserted in container.
- Special features: New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Raoul Coutard; audio commentary by film scholars Annette Insdorf and Peter Brunette; exclusive new video interviews with actors Charles Aznavour and Marie Dubois; video interview with Coutard, conducted in 2003; rare interview with François Truffaut collaborator Suzanne Schiffman, from 1986; excerpts from a 1965 episode of the French television program "Cinéastes de notre temps" dedicated to Truffaut; an excerpt from the French television program "Étoiles et toiles" in which Truffaut discusses his adaptation of the David Goodis novel; "The music of Georges Delerue": an illustrated essay; Dubois' screen test; theatrical trailer.
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