Shoot the piano player Tirez sur le pianiste Cover Image

DVD

Shoot the piano player [videorecording] = Tirez sur le pianiste / Janus Films ; MK2 diffusion ; Pierre Braunberger présente ; adaptation de F. Truffaut et Marcel Moussy ; dialogue et mise en scène de François Truffaut ; Les Films de la Pléiade.

Braunberger, Pierre, 1905-1990 (Added Author). Truffaut, François. (Added Author). Moussy, Marcel, 1924-1995 (Added Author). Aznavour, Charles. (Added Author). Dubois, Marie, 1937-2014 (Added Author). Berger, Nicole, 1934-1967 (Added Author). Mercier, Michèle. (Added Author). Delerue, Georges, 1925-1992 (Composer). Goodis, David, 1917-1967 Down there. (Added Author). MK2 Productions. (Added Author). Films de la Pléiade (Firm) (Added Author). Showtime Entertainment. (Added Author). Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, Michèle Mercier. (Cast).

Summary:

Charlie Kohler is a piano player in a bar. Lena, a waitress at the bar, is in love with him. One of Charlie's brothers, Chico, a crook, takes refuge in the bar because he is being chased by two gangsters, Momo and Ernest. But Charlie's real name is Edouard Saroyan, who was once a virtuoso who gave up playing after his wife's suicide. Charlie now has to deal wih Chico, Ernest, Momo, Fido (his youngest brother who lives with him), and Lena. Charlie ends up stumbling into the criminal underworld and a whirlwind love affair.

Record details

ISBN: 078003063X
ISBN: 9780780030633
Physical Description: 2 videodiscs (ca. 92 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition: Special ed.; widescreen.
Publisher: Los Angeles, CA : Showtime Entertainment, [2005]

Content descriptions

General Note:	Based on the novel "Down there" by David Goodis. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1960. Program notes (28 p.) with essays "You'll laugh, you'll cry" by Kent Jones, "Interview with François Truffaut: Shoot the piano player" by Hèléne Larouch Davis, and "Truffaut on his actor" inserted in container. Special 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 François Truffaut collaborator Suzanne Schiffman, from 1986; excerpts from a 1965 episode of the French television program "Cinéastes de notre temps" dedicated to Truffaut; an excerpt from the French television program "Étoiles et toiles" in which Truffaut discusses his adaptation of the David Goodis novel; "The music of Georges Delerue": an illustrated essay; Dubois' screen test; theatrical trailer.
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Cinematography, Raoul Coutard ; editing, Claudine Bouché, Cécile Decugis ; music, Georges Delerue.
Participant or Performer Note:	Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, Michèle Mercier.
Target Audience Note:	Not rated.
System Details Note:	DVD, region 1, widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.
Language Note:	French dialogue, with optional English subtitles.