Tag: Jean Vigo

Blu-ray Review: The Complete Jean Vigo

August 31, 2011

Dead at 29 from tuberculosis French filmmaker Jean Vigo left behind just one feature length film and three shorts. Despite his meager output, Vigo was a major influence on the French New Wave of the late 1950s and early 1960s….

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Criterion Announces August 2011 Releases

May 16, 2011

THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS – Blu-ray One of the most influential political films in history, The Battle of Algiers, by Gillo Pontecorvo (Kapò), vividly re-creates a key year in the tumultuous Algerian struggle for independence from the occupying French in…

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