Bande à part

[antnield]

Early 2016.

[swo17]

Special features per Amazon:

• Comprehensive interactive A-Z guide including a specially commissioned video interview with Anna Karina, Quentin Tarantino on the dance sequence, clips, stills, on-set footage and commentary by Dr Roland-Francois Lack, lecturer in the Department of French at University College London
• An interview with cinematographer Raoul Coutard
• Original theatrical trailer
• Fully illustrated booklet with full film credits

Other details TBC

[rapta]

Artwork:

[MichaelB]

Full specs:

Bande à part
A film by Jean-Luc Godard

Bande à part (The Outsiders), Godard's playful reimagining of the Hollywood crime films of the 1940s, follows Franz and Arthur (Sami Frey and Claude Brasseur), a couple of young misfits who team up with the shy Odile (Anna Karina), and whose plans to burgle a rich old lady go tragicomically wrong.

Shot in just 25 days on the wintery streets of suburban Paris, Bande à part remains one of Godard most loved films, and is often remembered for its exhilarating café dance sequence and famous race through the Louvre.

Special features
• Presented in High Definition;
• The Outsiders: alternative presentation of UK theatrical release credits;
• Original trailer;
• Feature-length audio commentary by film critic Adrian Martin;
• Anna Karina interviewed onstage at the BFI Southbank (2016, 31 mins): a conversation with the critic Jason Solomons about Bande à part;
• Anna Karina on Jean-Luc Godard (2016, 10 mins);
• An introduction to Bande à part by Ginette Vincendeau (2016, 20 mins);
• An interview with Raoul Coutard (2003, 11 mins);
• JLG/AK : an interview with Anna Karina (2010, 39 mins);
• JLG/CC : an interview with Claude Chabrol (2010, 26 mins);
• JLG/ADB : an interview with Antoine de Baecque (2010, 16 mins);
• JLG/DB : an interview with Denitza Bantcheva (2012, 22 mins);
• JLG/AA : an interview with Alexandre Astruc (2012, 19 mins);
• Les fiancés du pont Mac Donald (Agnes Varda, 1961, 5 mins): Delightful silent film starring Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina;
• Fully illustrated booklet featuring new writing by Andy Miller and full film credits.

France | 1964 | black and white | French language, with optional English subtitles | 96 minutes | BD50 | 1080p | Original aspect ratio 1.33:1 | PCM mono audio (48k/24-bit) | Cert PG

...and there's also a very substantial Easter Egg on there, but I'll let you find it for yourselves.

[domino harvey]

Congrats on the Adrian Martin commentary, he's provided some of my favorite Godard commentaries with his work on Madman's Masculin Feminin and especially Le gai savoir. Guess I'm double dipping again!

[cinemartin]

Man - this indeed seems worth the double dip. Michael, any clue to what the Easter egg could be??

[rapta]

Could it be the Tarantino clip originally mentioned in the early specs?

Looks like another packed release...looking forward to it!

[MichaelB]

I don't want to spoil the surprise, but it's not anything to do with Tarantino. Mainly because it's not just a clip - it's a substantial additional extra.

[PfR73]

So does this mean the "Comprehensive interactive A-Z guide including a specially commissioned video interview with Anna Karina, Quentin Tarantino on the dance sequence, clips, stills, on-set footage and commentary by Dr Roland-Francois Lack, lecturer in the Department of French at University College London" was dropped? Because it doesn't seem to be listed in the full specs.

[filmyfan]

I think I will DD on this...the Adrian Martin commentary has sold it !

[manicsounds]

4 hours of extras plus a full commentary makes this the most stacked of "Bande a part" releases on DVD or Blu-ray out there.
But it does seem odd that the 50 minute A-Z documentary was left off, considering that it was on the BFI DVD.

[MichaelB]

DVD Compare explores the disc in depth - and reveals that the Easter Egg is a 36-minute interview with Anna Karina about Vivre sa vie.

The reason it wasn't included on that disc is because it didn't take place until after it was released - and because it's off-topic with regard to Bande à part, it's been given the Easter Egg treatment here.

[NABOB OF NOWHERE]

Full specs:

...and there's also a very substantial Easter Egg on there, but I'll let you find it for yourselves.

Would some kind soul give me the open sez me on this I can't find the bleeder.

[A man stayed-put]

According to the DVD Compare review MichaelB linked to:-
To access it, highlight "Original Trailer", press up to highlight a "?", press enter.

[NABOB OF NOWHERE]

According to the DVD Compare review MichaelB linked to:-
To access it, highlight "Original Trailer", press up to highlight a "?", press enter.

Nailed it Thanks

[mfunk9786]

What is it?

[swo17]

See MichaelB's post five posts up.