The Lower Depths = Les Bas-Fonds
"Criterion's two-disc double bill of The Lower Depths provides a scintillating lesson in comparative cinema. When Jean Renoir adapted Maxim Gorky's acclaimed 1902 play in 1936, he changed the setting from Czarist Russia to an unspecified French slum, casting the great Jean Gabin as a thief strugglin...
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| Format: | Videos DVD |
| Language: | French |
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[New York] :
Criterion Collection,
[2004]
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| Edition: | Special ed. |
| Series: | Criterion collection ;
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| 040 | |a CNEDM |c CNEDM |d PCB | ||
| 245 | 0 | 4 | |a The Lower Depths = |b Les Bas-Fonds |h [videodisc] |c Janus Films ; Films Albatross ; directed by Jean Renoir ; produced by Alexandre Kamenka ; written by Jacques Companeez. The Lower Depths = Donzoko [videodisc] / Janus Films ; Toho Company, Ltd. ; directed by Akira Kurosawa ; produced by Akira Kurosawa, Shojiro Motoki ; screenplay by Akira Kurosawa and Hideo Oguni. |
| 246 | 3 | |a Lower Depths = |b Donzoko |h [videodisc] | |
| 246 | 3 | |a Donzoko = |b The Lower Depths |h [videodisc] | |
| 246 | 3 | |a Bas-Fonds = |b The Lower Depths |h [videodisc] | |
| 246 | 1 | |i Container title: |a Jean Renoir's The Lower Depths |h [videodisc] | |
| 246 | 1 | |i Alternate container title: |a Akira Kurosawa's The Lower Depths |h [videodisc] | |
| 250 | |a Special ed. | ||
| 260 | |a [New York] : |b Criterion Collection, |c [2004] | ||
| 300 | |a 2 videodiscs (212 min.) : |b sd., b&w ; |c 4 3/4 in. + |e 1 booklet. | ||
| 490 | 1 | |a The Criterion collection ; |v 239 | |
| 500 | |a In one container. | ||
| 500 | |a Each disc contains bonus material. | ||
| 500 | |a Original French title copyrighted and released as a motion picture in 1936; original Japanese title copyrighted and released as a motion picture in 1957. | ||
| 511 | 0 | |a Starring in Les Bas-fonds: Jean Gabin and others; starring in Donzoko: Toshirō Mifune, and others; based on the play Na dne by Maxim Gorky. | |
| 520 | 0 | |a "Criterion's two-disc double bill of The Lower Depths provides a scintillating lesson in comparative cinema. When Jean Renoir adapted Maxim Gorky's acclaimed 1902 play in 1936, he changed the setting from Czarist Russia to an unspecified French slum, casting the great Jean Gabin as a thief struggling to rise from his misery, and Louis Jouvet as the benevolent Baron, a flat-broke gambler on a downward social spiral. Renoir altered the play considerably, retaining its serious tone while infusing it with his trademark warmth and humanity. Two decades later, Kurosawa remained faithful to Gorky while daring to craft The Lower Depths as a comedy, in which Edo-period peasants (including Toshiro Mifune, in Gabin's role) concoct lavish illusions to ease the burden of their impoverished reality. While both films remained relatively overlooked during the careers of their creators, Criterion's DVD restores them to the prominence they deserve."--From Amazon.com. | |
| 546 | |a Les Bas-fonds in French with optional English subtitles. | ||
| 546 | |a Donzoko in Japanese with optional English subtitles. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Social status |z France |z Paris |v Drama. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Thieves |z Japan |v Drama. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Slums |z Japan |v Drama. | |
| 655 | 0 | 4 | |a Feature films. |
| 700 | 1 | |a Kurosawa, Akira, |d 1910-1998. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Renoir, Jean, |d 1894-1979. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Gabin, Jean, |d 1904-1976. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Mifune, Toshirō, |d 1920-1997. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Gorky, Maksim, |d 1868-1936. | |
| 830 | 0 | |a Criterion collection ; |v 239. | |
| 994 | |a C0 |b PCB | ||
| 949 | |a Schlow |b SAVDVD |c LOW |d i |e 39635103137371 |f 530460 |g loc |j 09/05/2013 | ||
| 999 | |a 350158 | ||
