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Science is fiction : 23 films by Jean Painlevé / producer, Kate Elmore.
LIBRA DVD 007 794 discs 1-3 + booklet
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- MacDonald, Scott, 1942- Going beneath the surface, author.
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 468.
- Criterion collection ; 468
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Painlevé, Jean.
- Nature in motion pictures.
- Nature--Songs and music.
- Nature.
- Painlevé, Jean--Interviews.
- Motion picture producers and directors--France--Interviews.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- France.
- Genre:
- Songs and music.
- Interviews.
- Nature television programs.
- Biographical television programs.
- Documentary television programs.
- Video recordings.
- Songs.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- 3 videodiscs (471 min.) : sound and silent, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (19 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
- Place of Publication:
- [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2009]
- Language Note:
- In French; with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD; NTSC; region 1; Dolby digital mono and stereo.
- digital
- optical
- mixed
- mono
- Dolby
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- Focusing on the work of French filmmaker Jean Painlevé, this collection features twenty-three Painlevé nature films; a 2005 performance of the ninety-minute score, The sounds of science, written in 2001 by members of the rock group Yo La Tengo to accompany eight of Painlevé's films; an interview with Yo La Tengo; and the eight-part 1988 French television series, Jean Painlevé au fil de ses films, which explores Painlevé's life and work through interviews with the filmmaker.
- Contents:
- Disc 1. Hyas and stenorhynchus = hyas et stenorinques (1927, 10 min.) ; Sea urchins = Oursins (1954, 11 min.) ; How some jellyfish are born = Comment naissent des méduses (1960, 14 min.) ; Liquid crystals = Cristaux liquides (1978, 6 min.) ; The sea horse = L'hippocampe (1933, 14 min.) ; The love life of the octopus = Les amours de la pieuvre (1967, 14 min.) ; Shrimp stories = Histoires de crevettes (1964, 10 min.) ; Acera, or, The witches dance = Acera, ou, Le bal des sorcières (1972, 13 min.) ; The vampire = Le vampire (1945, 9 min.) ; Freshwater assassins = Les assassins d'eau douce (1947, 24 min.) ; Sea ballerinas = Les danseuses de la mer (1956, 13 min.) ; Diatoms = Diatomées (1968, 17 min.) ; Pigeons in the square = Les pigeons du square (1928, 27 min.) ; The sounds of science / (Yo La Tengo) ; Interview with Yo La Tengo
- disc 2. The octopus = La pieuvre (1927, 13 min.) ; Sea urchins = Les oursins (1928, 10 min.) ; Daphnia = La daphnie (1928, 9 min.) ; The stickleback's egg = L'oeuf d'épinoche (1925, 26 min.) ; Experimental treatment of the hemorrhage in a dog = Traitement expérimental d'une hémorragie chez le chien (1930, 4 min.) ; The fourth dimension = La quatrième dimension (1936, 10 min.) ; The struggle for survival = Images mathématiques de la lutte pour la vie (1937, 14 min.) ; Voyage to the sky = Voyage dans le ciel (1937, 11 min.) ; Similarities between length and speed = Similitudes des longueurs et des vitesses (1937, 10 min.) ; Bluebeard = Barbe-Bleue (1938, 13 min.)
- disc 3. Jean Painlevé through his films = Jean Painlevé au fil de ses films (1988).
- Notes:
- Title from container.
- Accompanying booklet includes an essay by Scott MacDonald entitled Going beneath the surface.
- Aspect ratio 1.33:1.
- Contains:
- MacDonald, Scott, 1942- Going beneath the surface, author.
- Jean Painlevé au fil de ses films (Television program)
- ISBN:
- 9781604651447
- 160465144X
- OCLC:
- 318462544
- Publisher Number:
- 715515044912
- CC1805D Criterion Collection
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