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Shoot the piano player [videorecording (DVD)] : Tirez sur le pianiste

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Criterion Collection, [2005].

Video Difference legacy collection.

Criterion collection 315.

Alternate title:

Tirez sur le pianiste [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)] :

Special ed. double-disc, widescreen.

2 videodiscs (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 12 cm.

Based on the novel "Down there" by David Goodis.

Originally released 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 Fran©ʹois Truffaut collaborator Suzanne Schiffman, from 1986; excerpts from a 1965 episode of the French television program "Cin©♭astes de notre temps" dedicated to Truffaut; an excerpt from the French television program "©toiles 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 "You'll laugh, you'll cry" by film critic Kent Jones.

French dialogue with optional English subtitles.

Disc 1. The film -- Disc 2. The supplements.

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 Plèiade.

Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, Michèle Mercier.

Charlie Kohler is a piano player in a bar. Lena, a waitress at the bar, is in love with him. One of Charlie's brother, 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.

Thriller films.

Romantic comedy films.

Truffaut, François.

Braunberger, Pierre, 1905-1990.

Moussy, Marcel, 1924-1995.

Aznavour, Charles.

Dubois, Marie, 1937-2014

Berger, Nicole, 1934-1967.

Delerue, Georges, 1925-1992.

Coutard, Raoul.

Schiffman, Suzanne.

Jones, Kent. You'll laugh, you'll cry.

Burnett, Peter.

Insdorf, Annette.

Goodis, David, 1917-1967. Down there.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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