BFI: Pickpocket Detailed for Blu-ray
HomeBFI: Pickpocket Detailed for Blu-ray
Posted June 20, 2022 04:54 PM by Webmaster
The British Film Institute has detailed its upcoming Blu-ray release of Robert Bresson's Pickpocket (1959), starring Martin LaSalle, Marika Green, Jean Pélégri, Pierre Étaix, and César Gattegno. The release will be available for purchase on July 11.
Official description: Pickpocket sees resolute drifter Michel spends his days learning the art of pickpocketing and targeting the unsuspecting citizens of 1950s Paris. After his inevitable arrest (and almost immediate release), Michel reflects on the morality of crime, developing a vague theory that exceptional individuals are above the law. Lost in another world, he rejects his friends in favor of a life of crime and is seemingly set on finding his place in the world by engineering a head-on collision with society.
Pickpocket is a favorite of contemporary directors including Werner Herzog, Lynne Ramsay and Richard Linklater, and heavily influenced Paul Schrader and Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Official description: Pickpocket sees resolute drifter Michel spends his days learning the art of pickpocketing and targeting the unsuspecting citizens of 1950s Paris. After his inevitable arrest (and almost immediate release), Michel reflects on the morality of crime, developing a vague theory that exceptional individuals are above the law. Lost in another world, he rejects his friends in favor of a life of crime and is seemingly set on finding his place in the world by engineering a head-on collision with society.
Pickpocket is a favorite of contemporary directors including Werner Herzog, Lynne Ramsay and Richard Linklater, and heavily influenced Paul Schrader and Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Presented in High Definition
- NEW Paul Schrader on Pickpocket (2022, 11 mins): Schrader discusses his relationship with Bresson's film and how it has influenced him
- Robert Bresson Q&A (1971, audio only, 47 mins): the director in conversation with John Russell Taylor, recorded on stage at the NFT during the 15th London Film Festival
- The Models of Pickpocket (2003, 52 mins): Babette Mangolte's documentary tracks down Pickpocket's performers to discuss their experiences of working with Bresson
- Archive shorts:
- Thefts From Handbags (1961, 1 min): British television spot warning women to watch out for thieves
- Snatch of the Day (1975, 1 min): John Krish's sporty public information film on the tricks of the pickpocketing trade
- Four Men in Prison (1950, 41 mins): controversial drama-documentary from the Crown Film Unit using real-life prison situations to address the purpose of incarceration
- Original theatrical trailer
- Reissue trailer (2022)
- First pressing only: Illustrated booklet featuring an essay by Adrian Martin, a biography of Robert Bresson by Michael Brooke, credits and notes on the special features
- REGION-B "LOCKED"