Title from container. Michel Simon, Jean Daste, Dita Parlo, Louis Lefebvre, Louis Berger. Booklet features essays by critics Michael Almereyda, Robert Polito, B. Kite, and Luc Sante. Release date: Aug. 30, 2011. Special features, disc one: new high definition digital restoration ; audio commentaries ; score for À propos de Nice by Marc perrone, from 2001 ; alternate edits from À propos de Nice, featuring footage cut by Vigo ; disc two: 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 itnerview from 2001 with director Otar Iosseliani on Vigo.
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.
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