Breathless
November 23, 2010Breathless
Call Number: DVD00692
by Jean Luc Godard; Georges de Beauregard; François Truffaut; Jean Seberg; Jean-Paul Belmondo; Daniel Boulanger; Henri-Jacques Huet; Roger Hanin; Van Doude; Liliane David; Michel Fabre; Jean-Pierre Melville; Claude Mansard; Richard Balducci; Philippe de Broca; Jean Domarchi; Jean Douchet; Jean Herman; André S Labarthe; Raoul Coutard; Pierre Rissient; Cécile Decugis; Martial Solal; D A Pennebaker; Mark Rappaport; Jonathan Rosenbaum; Dudley Andrew; Pretty Pictures (Firm); Criterion Collection (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: French
Publisher: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, ©2007.
Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1960 (90 mins). Special features: Disc 1. Excerpts from interviews with director Jean-Luc Godard, actors Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, and filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville recorded for French television between 1960-1964; trailer. Disc 2. “Coutard and Rissient” video interview with Coutard & assistant director Pierre Rissient; “Pennebaker on ‘Breathless” video interview with filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker; “Jean Seberg” video essay by Mark Rappaport; “Breathless as criticism” video essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum; “Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède” making-of documentary with members of the cast & crew (1993, 78 min.); “Charlotte et son Jules” short film by Godard starring Belmondo (1959, 13 min.). Booklet. “Breathless then and now” by scholar Dudley Andrew; “Godard in his own words” selections from statements & interviews by Godard from 1959-1962; “Breathless in progress”; “Truffaut treatment” original film treatment translated by Ellen Sowchek; “Godard scenario” translated by Dory O’Brien for Dudley Andrew’s book Breathless.
Summary: A young car thief kills a policeman and tries to persuade a girl to hide in Italy with him.
OCLC #: 181222846
Added: November 23, 2010
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
