Shoot The Piano Player
a.k.a. Tirez Sur Le Pianiste, Shoot the Piano Player, Shoot the Pianist
Director:
François Truffaut
Cast:
Charles Aznavour, Nicole Berger, Marie Dubois, Michele Mercier
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- DVD Release Date: 12/06/2005
- Original Release: 1960
- Rating:
- Sales Rank: 7,567
Features
New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Raoul Coutard; Audio commentary by film scholars Annette Insdorf and Peter Brunette; Exclusive new video interviews with actors Charles Aznavour and Marie Dubois; Video interview with Coutard, conducted in 2003. Rare interview with Francois Truffaut collaborator Suzanne Schiffman, from 1986. Excerpts from a 1965 episode of the French television program Cineastes de notre temps dedicated to Truffaut; An excerpt from the French television program Etoiles et toiles in which Truffaut discusses his adaptation of the David Goodis novel. "The Music of George Delerue," an illustrated essay. Dubois' screen test for the film. Theatrical trailer; New and improved English subtitle translation. A new essay by film critic Kent Jones.
Full Product DetailsScene Index
Disc #1 -- Shoot the Piano Player: The Film
1. Credits [1:43]
2. A Chance Encounter [3:11]
3. Brothers Reunited [5:20]
4. "Framboise!" [2:43]
5. "I'm Scared"/Walking Home [4:38]
6. Clarisse [4:04]
7. Ernest and Momo [8:22]
8. Edouard and Thérésa [3:46]
9. Lars Schmeel [2:34]
10. Argument [2:15]
11. Shyness [2:52]
12. A Tragic Confession [4:29]
13. Edouard's Story [3:32]
14. A Team [2:47]
15. Kidnapped [2:06]
16. "Someone Must Win" [6:43]
17. Fido and the Gangsters [2:23]
18. Farewell [5:40]
19. Back Home [5:34]
20. Good News [2:50]
21. Gunfight [2:49]
22. Charlie and the Piano Player [1:13]
1. Gentle Self-Consciousness [1:43]
2. Postmodern Before the Word [3:11]
3. "A Respectful Pastiche"/Doubling [5:20]
4. Boby Lapointe [2:43]
5. Fragmentation/Voice-Over [4:38]
6. American Influence/Shyness [4:04]
7. Frustrated Males/Mixture of Tones [8:22]
8. Delerue/Heymann/Berger [3:46]
9. Woman With a Violin [2:34]
10. Mirrors [2:15]
11. Identity/Father Figures [2:52]
12. Backlash/The Real Self [4:29]
13. Motion and Emotion [3:32]
14. A Man Who Loved Women [2:47]
15. Two Views of Love [2:06]
16. Detachment/Auteurism [6:43]
17. The Tradition of Quality [2:23]
18. Unpredictability [5:40]
19. Circular Structure/Plot [5:34]
20. A Lean Film That Takes Its Time [2:50]
21. Influence [2:49]
22. Life's Possibilities Exhausted [1:13]
Editorial Reviews
Francois Truffaut's loving homage to Hollywood gangster films is less a plot-filled film noir than a free-associative meditation on the genre. Charles Aznavour stars as a one-time concert pianist who gained fame as Edouard Saroyan but has since changed his name to Charlie Kohler and plays honky-tonk in an out-of-the-way saloon. His self-imposed exile is shattered by the appearance of his mobster brother Richard Saroyan (Jacques Aslanian). Richard and his other brother, Chico (Albert Remy), are on the lam from gangsters they've double-crossed. Charlie helps Richard and Chico get away, but he now finds that his life, along with his younger brother Fido's (Richard Kanayan, has been put into jeopardy, having gotten mixed up with gangsters Momo (Claude Mansard) and Ernest (Daniel Boulanger) who are pursuing Richard and Chico. Momo and Ernest keep an eye on Charlie's apartment and, although they don't get Fido, they manage to kidnap Charlie and Lena (Marie Dubois), a co-worker with whom he has fallen in love. But when Ernest runs a red light and is pulled over, Charlie and Lena escape the gangsters' clutches. They take refuge in Lena's apartment, where Charlie sees a poster for a performance by Edouard Saroyan, causing Charlie to think back upon the circumstances that had led him to this moment in his life. Lena and Charlie make love, and Charlie returns to his apartment, only to discover Fido has been kidnapped. Lena and Charlie then head back to his club, where they plan to quit their jobs and try to find Fido. Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
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