Tirez sur le pianiste
Janus Films; MK2 diffusion; Pierre Braunberger présente; adaptation de F. Truffaut et Marcel Moussy; dialogue et mise en scène de François Truffaut; Les Films de la Pléiade
- Resource Type:
- DVD Video
- Edition:
- Special ed. ; Widescreen ed.
- Creation:
- Created or produced in 1960
- Publication:
- [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2005]
- Related Series:
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- Summary:
- 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 who gave up playing after his wife's suicide. Charlie now has to deal wih Chico, Ernest, Momo, Fido (his youngest brother who lives with him), and Lena. Charlie ends up stumbling into the criminal underworld and a whirlwind love affair.
- Contributors:
- Delerue, Georges, 1925-1992 , composer
- Language Notes:
- French dialogue, with optional English subtitles.
- Related Works:
- Motion picture adaptation of: Down there [by Goodis, D.]
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- Alternate Titles:
- English title from subtitles: Shoot the piano player
- Subjects:
- System Details:
- DVD, region 1, widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.
- Performers:
- Cast: Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, Michèle Mercier.
- Production Credits:
- Cinematography, Raoul Coutard ; editing, Claudine Bouché, Cécile Decugis ; music, Georges Delerue.
- General Notes:
- Based on the novel "Down there" by David Goodis.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1960.
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; a new essay by film critic Kent Jones.
Gift: University of North Texas. College of Visual Arts and Design, October 2012. - Audience:
- Not rated.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (approximately 82 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + program notes (28 pages).
- Physical Characteristics:
- plastic; metal; 4 3/4 in.; monochrome
- Audio Characteristics:
- digital; optical
- Digital Characteristics:
- video file; DVD video; region 1
- Call Numbers:
- TIR 1960 DVD
- ISBNs:
- 078003063X
9780780030633 - Other Standard Numbers:
- Universal Product Code: 037429212721
Publisher Number, The Criterion Collection: SHO140 - OCLC Numbers:
- 232626133
