The Resource Shoot the piano player : 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
Shoot the piano player : 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
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The item Shoot the piano player : 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 represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library.
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- 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
- Language
-
- fre
- eng
- fre
- fre
- Edition
- Special ed.; widescreen.
- Extent
- 2 DVDs (ca. 92 min.)
- 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
- Isbn
- 9780780030633
- Label
- Shoot the piano player : Tirez sur le pianiste
- Title
- Shoot the piano player
- Title remainder
- Tirez sur le pianiste
- Statement of responsibility
- 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
- Title variation
- Shoot the piano player
- Subject
-
- Brothers
- Brothers -- Drama
- Crime -- Feature
- Criminal behavior
- Criminal behavior -- Drama
- Drama
- Feature films
- Foreign films
- Foreign films
- Gangsters
- Gangsters -- Drama
- Man-woman relationship -- Drama
- Man-woman relationships
- Man-woman relationships -- Drama
- Motion pictures, French
- Motion pictures, French
- Pianists
- Pianists -- Drama
- Thriller -- Feature
- Thrillers (Motion pictures)
- Language
-
- fre
- eng
- fre
- fre
- 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
- Cataloging source
- TEFMT
- Characteristic
- videorecording
- Credits note
- Cinematography, Raoul Coutard ; editing, Claudine Bouché, Cécile Decugis ; music, Georges Delerue
- Dewey number
- 791.43/72
- Intended audience
- Not rated
- Language note
- French dialogue, with optional English subtitles
- LC call number
- PN1997
- LC item number
- .T57 2005
- PerformerNote
- Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, Michèle Mercier
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
-
- 1905-1990
- 1924-1995
- 1937-
- 1934-1967
- 1925-1992
- 1917-1967
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
-
- Braunberger, Pierre
- Truffaut, François
- Moussy, Marcel
- Aznavour, Charles
- Dubois, Marie
- Berger, Nicole
- Mercier, Michèle
- Delerue, Georges
- Goodis, David
- MK2 Productions
- Films de la Pléiade (Firm)
- Showtime Entertainment
- Runtime
- 92
- Series statement
- The Criterion collection
- Series volume
- 315
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Pianists
- Man-woman relationships
- Brothers
- Gangsters
- Criminal behavior
- Foreign films
- Motion pictures, French
- Pianists
- Man-woman relationship
- Brothers
- Brothers
- Criminal behavior
- Foreign films
- Gangsters
- Man-woman relationships
- Motion pictures, French
- Pianists
- Target audience
- general
- Technique
- live action
- Label
- Shoot the piano player : 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
- 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
- Color
- black and white
- Configuration of playback channels
- monaural
- Control code
- ocm61928081
- Dimensions
- other
- Edition
- Special ed.; widescreen.
- Extent
- 2 DVDs (ca. 92 min.)
- Isbn
- 9780780030633
- Medium for sound
- videodisc
- Other control number
- 037429212721
- Other physical details
- sound, black and white.
- Publisher number
- SHO140
- Sound on medium or separate
- sound on medium
- Specific material designation
- videodisc
- System control number
- (OCoLC)61928081
- System details
- DVD, region 1, widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono
- Video recording format
- DVD
- Label
- Shoot the piano player : 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
- 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
- Color
- black and white
- Configuration of playback channels
- monaural
- Control code
- ocm61928081
- Dimensions
- other
- Edition
- Special ed.; widescreen.
- Extent
- 2 DVDs (ca. 92 min.)
- Isbn
- 9780780030633
- Medium for sound
- videodisc
- Other control number
- 037429212721
- Other physical details
- sound, black and white.
- Publisher number
- SHO140
- Sound on medium or separate
- sound on medium
- Specific material designation
- videodisc
- System control number
- (OCoLC)61928081
- System details
- DVD, region 1, widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono
- Video recording format
- DVD
Subject
- Brothers
- Brothers -- Drama
- Crime -- Feature
- Criminal behavior
- Criminal behavior -- Drama
- Drama
- Feature films
- Foreign films
- Foreign films
- Gangsters
- Gangsters -- Drama
- Man-woman relationship -- Drama
- Man-woman relationships
- Man-woman relationships -- Drama
- Motion pictures, French
- Motion pictures, French
- Pianists
- Pianists -- Drama
- Thriller -- Feature
- Thrillers (Motion pictures)
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