Judex (#710) (Criterion Collection)[USA]

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Release Date: January 17, 2014
Purchase: Amazon

France
1963
97 minutes
Black and White
1.66:1
French

This effortlessly cool crime caper, directed by Georges Franju, is a marvel of dexterous plotting and visual invention. Conceived as an homage to Louis Feuillade’s 1916 cult silent serial of the same name, Judex kicks off with the mysterious kidnapping of a corrupt banker by a shadowy crime fighter (American magician Channing Pollock) and spins out into a thrillingly complex web of deceptions. Combining stylish sixties modernism with silent-cinema touches and even a few unexpected sci-fi accents, Judex is a delightful bit of pulp fiction and a testament to the art of illusion.

Disc Features:

1. New 2K digital film restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
2. Interview from 2007 with the film’s cowriter Jacques Champreux, the grandson of Louis Feuillade, cocreator of the silent serial Judex
3. Interview from 2012 with actor Francine Bergé
4. Franju le visionnaire, a fifty-minute program from 1998 on director Franju’s career and imagination
5. New English subtitle translation
6. PLUS: An essay by film scholar Geoffrey O’Brien, along with reprinted writings by and excerpted interviews with Franju (dual-format only)

 

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