The Essential Jacques Demy - Demy, Jacques 1931-1990; Michel, Marc 1932-; Deneuve, Catherine 1943-; Moreau, Jeanne 1928-2017; Aimée, Anouk 1932-2024; Piccoli, Michel 1925-2020 (<<The>> Criterion Collection, 2014)
Original: Frankreich 1961, 1963, 1964, 1967, 1970, 1982
Blu-Ray special edition features include: New 2K digital restorations of all six films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks for Lola and Bay of Angels and 5.1 or 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks for The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Young Girls of Rochefort, Donkey Skin, and Une chambre en ville ; Two documentaries by filmmaker Agnès Varda: The World of Jacques Demy (1995) and The Young Girls Turn 25 (1993) ; Four short films by director Jacques Demy: Les horizons morts (1951), Le sabotier du Val de Loire (1956), Ars (1959), and La luxure (1962) ; Jacques Demy, A to Z, a new visual essay by critic James Quandt ; Archival interviews with Demy, composer Michel Legrand, and actors Jeanne Moreau, Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, and Jacques Perrin ; Once Upon a Time . . . "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg," a 2008 documentary ; Episode from Behind the Screen, a 1966 series about the making of Young Girls ; "Donkey Skin" Illustrated, a 2008 program on the many versions of Charles Perrault’s fairy tale ; "Donkey Skin" and the Thinkers, a 2008 program featuring critic Camille Tabouley ; New conversation between Demy biographer Jean-Pierre Berthomé and costume designer Jacqueline Moreau ; Interviews from 2014 with journalist Marie Colmant and film scholar Rodney Hill ; Archival audio Q&A with Demy ; Archival audio interviews with Legrand and Deneuve ; Interview with actor Anouk Aimée from 2012, conducted by Varda ; Interview with Varda from 2012 on the origin of Lola’s song ; Restoration demonstrations for Lola, Bay of Angels, Umbrellas, and Une chambre ; plus: A booklet featuring essays by critics Ginette Vincendeau, Terrence Rafferty, Jim Ridley, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Anne E. Duggan, and Geoff Andrew, and a postscript by Berthomé
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