The complete Jean 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 contempor...
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| Format: | Video Blu-ray Disc |
| Language: | French |
| Language Notes: | French dialogue; English subtitles. Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing. À propos de Nice is a silent film. |
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[United States] :
The Criterion Collection,
2011.
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| Edition: | Special ed. |
| Series: | Criterion collection (Blu-ray discs) ;
578. |
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| 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. |
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| Item Description: | Booklet features essays by critics Michael Almereyda, Robert Polito, B. Kite, and Luc Sante. Release date: Aug. 30, 2011. Videorecording. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (161 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | Blu-ray. Requires Blu-ray player. |