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Pickpocket DVD

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  • Technical Specs
  • Format: DVD
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Run Time: 75 Minutes
  • Region: 1 Region?
  • Aspect Ratio: Fullscreen
  • Language: French
  • Studio: Criterion Collection
  • DVD Release Date: November 8, 2005
  • Subtitles: English
  • Audio: FRENCH: Dolby Digital Mono
  • Color: Black & White
  • Includes:
    Commentary by film scholar James Quandt
    New Video Introduction by writer-director Paul Schrader
    The Models of "Pickpocket", a 2003 documentary by filmmaker Babette Mangolte, featuring actors from the film
    A 1960 interview with Bresson, from the French tele­vision program Cinépanorama
    Q&A on Pickpocket, with actress Marika Green and filmmakers Paul Vecchiali and Jean-Pierre Améris fielding questions at a 2000 screening of the film
    Footage of sleight-of-hand artist and Pickpocket consultant Kassagi, from a 1962 episode of the French television show La piste aux étoiles
    Original Theatrical Trailer
    New essay by novelist and culture critic Gary Indiana
Loosely inspired by Feodor Dostoyevsky's novel "Crime and Punishment," "Pickpocket" (1959) is a cinema verite classic in the cannon of French film. Director Robert Bresson chose Uruguayan nonactor Martin LaSalle for his leading man in Pickpocket, hiring a genuine pickpocket as "technical adviser" so the star could learn the art of lifting wallets. The film follows the cocky young criminal who becomes so obsessed with picking pockets that he literally can't stop himself. "Pickpocket" was released in the U.S. in 1963, and on DVD in 2005.
 
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