Pickpocket
(DVD)

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1959.

Special features: new, restored high-definition digital transfer; audio commentary by film scholar James Quandt; new video introduction by writer-director Paul Schrader; the models of "Pickpocket", a 2003 documentary by filmmaker Babette Mangolte, featuring actors from the film; a 1960 interview with Bresson, from the French television program Cinépanorama; Q & A on Pickpocket, with actress Marika Green and filmmakers Paul Vecchiali and Jean-Pierre Améris fielding questions at a 2000 screening of the film; footage of sleight-of-hand artist and Pickpocket consultant Kassagi, from a 1962 episode of the French television show La piste aux étoiles; original theatrical trailer; plus a new essay by novelist and culture critic Gary Indiana.

Cinematography, Léonce-Henri Burel; editor, Raymond Lamy ; music, Jean-Baptiste Lully.

Martin Lassalle, Marika Green, Pierre Leymarie, Jean Pelegri.

Michel, an insignificant man who drifts into crime, is arrested and imprisoned. Upon release, he abandons an attempt at reform when a master pickpocket teaches him his art.

DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.

French soundtrack with optional subtitles in English.