Pickpocket (1959)
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Starring: Martin Lasalle, Marika Green, Pierre Leymarie, Pierre Etaix, more cast
Directed By: Robert Bresson
Released By: No Studio
Theatrical Release Date: 01/15/2000
DVD Release Date: 11/08/2005
Rating: NA
Synopsis: Director Robert Bresson chose Uruguayan nonactor Martin LaSalle for his leading man in Pickpocket. LaSalle's inexperience works against the film for ...
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Directed By: Robert Bresson
Released By: No Studio
Theatrical Release Date: 01/15/2000
DVD Release Date: 11/08/2005
Rating: NA
Synopsis: Director Robert Bresson chose Uruguayan nonactor Martin LaSalle for his leading man in Pickpocket. LaSalle's inexperience works against the film for ...
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DVD Details
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- Audio 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 and improved English subtitle translation
- Plus: a new essay by novelist and culture critic Gary Indiana