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Elevator to the gallows [videorecording] /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC1627D | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: French Summary language: English Series: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 335.Publication details: [United States] : Criterion Collection, c2006.Edition: Special edDescription: 2 videodiscs (92 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (23 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)Content type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 1559409754
Other title:
  • Ascenseur pour l'echafaud
  • Louis Malle's elevator to the gallows
Contained works:
  • Calef, Noël, 1907- Ascenseut pour l'échafaud
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Disc One - new Restored high Definition digital transfer - Theatrical Trailers - New and Improved English subtitle translation
Disc Tow - new interview with actor Jeanne Moreau - Archival interviews with director Louis Malle, actors Maurice Ronet and Jeanne Moreau, and original soundtrack session pianist Rene Urtreger - Footage of Miles Davis and Louis Malle from the soundtrack recording session - New Video program about the score, with Jazz trumpeter Jon Faddis and Critic Gary Giddins - Malle's Student film Crazeologie, featuring the title song by Charlie Parker - PLUS a booklet featuring a new essay by critic Terrence Rafferty, an interview with Louis Malle, and a tribute by film producer Vincent Malle.
Production credits:
  • Photography, Henri Decae; music, Miles Davis; editor, Léonide Azar.
Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Yori Bertin, Jean Wall, Lino Ventura.Summary: Florence Carala and her lover Julien Tavernier, an ex-paratrooper, want to murder her husband by faking a suicide.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD 1587 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050127662

Widescreen; mono.

Based on the novel by Noël Calef.

Originally issued as a motion picture in 1957.

Special features: Disc 1. Theatrical trailers; Disc 2. Interview with Jeanne Moreau, interviews with director and crew, footage of Miles Davis and Louis Malle during the recording session, video program about the score, Malle's student film Crazeologie.

Disc One - new Restored high Definition digital transfer - Theatrical Trailers - New and Improved English subtitle translation

Disc Tow - new interview with actor Jeanne Moreau - Archival interviews with director Louis Malle, actors Maurice Ronet and Jeanne Moreau, and original soundtrack session pianist Rene Urtreger - Footage of Miles Davis and Louis Malle from the soundtrack recording session - New Video program about the score, with Jazz trumpeter Jon Faddis and Critic Gary Giddins - Malle's Student film Crazeologie, featuring the title song by Charlie Parker - PLUS a booklet featuring a new essay by critic Terrence Rafferty, an interview with Louis Malle, and a tribute by film producer Vincent Malle.

Rating: Not rated.

DVD (NTSC, region 1). 16:9 Aspect ratio - Dolby Digital Mono

Public performance rights: Criterion.

French with optional English subtitles.

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