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Title Statement | Jean Renoir's The rules of the game [DVD] / Janus Films ; produced by Claude Renoir, Sr. ; directed by Jean Renoir ; written by Jean Renoir, with Carl Koch. |
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Alternative Title(s) | Rules of the game |
Series | Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) |
Additional Contributors | Renoir, Jean,1894- |
Dalio, Marcel,1900-1983 | |
Grégor, Nora,ca.1890-1949 | |
Toutain, Roland | |
Publication | [New York]: Criterion Collection, [2004] |
Edition | Special ed. |
Extent of Item | 2 videodiscs (106 min.) |
ISBN | 0780026926 (v.r.) |
Standard Number (UPC, etc.) | 037429180624 |
Other Number | 1381208 |
General Notes | Disc label title. DVD. Production notes inserted in container. Special features: introduction to the film by Jean Renoir, audio commentary written by film scholar Alexander Sesonske and read by filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich, selected scene audio commentary by Renoir historian Christopher Faulkner, "Jean Renoir le Patron: La Regle et l'Exception" (1966), a French television program about "The rules of the game" featuring interviews with Renoir and actor Marcel Dalio, a new video essay about the film's production, release, and later reconstruction, Jean Gaborit and Jacques Durand discuss their reconstruction and re-release of the film (1965), new interview with Renoir's son, Alain, an assistant cameraman on the film, new interview with "The rules of the game" set designer Max Douy, written tributes to the film and Renoir by Francois Truffaut, Paul Schrader, Bertrand Tavernier, Wim Wenders, and others. Original title: La règle du jeu. Originally released as a motion picture in 1939. |
Production Credits | Director of photography, Jean Bachelet; cinematographers, Jacques Lemare, Jean-Paul Alphen, Alain Renoir; production designers, Eugène Lourié, Max Douy; editor, Marguerite Renoir; music arranged by Roger Désormières, Joseph Kosma. |
Performance Credits | Marcel Dalio, Nora Grégor, Roland Toutain, Jean Renoir, Mila Parély. |
Audience & Ratings | MPAA rating: Not rated. |
Languages | In French with optional English subtitles. |
System Details | DVDs, Dolby digital mono. |
Terms of Use | For private home use only. |
Summary | A comedic contrast between the affairs of the French aristocracy and the working class at a weekend house party. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Man-woman relationships--Fiction |
Motion pictures, French | |
Foreign films | |
Comedy films | |
Feature films | |
By Location | France--Fiction--Social life and customs |