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Title Elevator To The Gallows (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud)
Label Janus Films, The Criterion Collection 335
Barcode 7 15515 01772 5
Country USA
Year 2006
Video Info 16:9
NTSC
Dolby Digital Mono
DVD-Details Disc #1 -- Elevator to the Gallows
1. "Je T'Aime" 
2. Mr. Carala
3. Julien Tavernier
4. Florence Carala
5. Secret Agent Man
6. Miles Apart
7. Night on the Champs-Élysées
8. A Mercedes 300 SL
9. Party in the Benckers' Room
10. "A Good Joke"
11. Night Watchman
12. Friend of Julien's
13. Midnight Getaway
14. "The Tragic Lovers"
15. Police Roundup
16. Scene at the Trappes Motel
17. Breakthrough
18. The Same Man
19. "A Little Riddle for You"
20. "I'll Save You, Julien"
21. Photos
22. Color Bars

Disc #2 -- The Supplements
1. From Cousteau to Bresson
2. Directorial Debut
3. A Clear Premonition
4. Themes Revisited
1. "When I Met Louis"
2. A Revolutionary Film
3. The Actress and Her Director
4. "This Beautiful Lie"
1. Touring With Miles
2. Recording the Score
3. Time in the Spotlight
1. The Cool and the Hip
2. A Fascinating Story
3. Antithesis of Bebop
4. In Louis' Hands
5. Where Miles Went, Jazz Went


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08:44
06:35
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02:54
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03:45
06:14
04:01
04:04
02:54
05:07
06:38
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Comment Regie: Louis Malle
Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Lino Ventura, Georges Poujouly, Yori Bertin, Jean Wall
Soundtrack-Session:
Le Poste Parisien Studios, Paris, France, December 4 & 5, 1957
Miles Davis (tp); Barney Wilen (ts); Rene Urtreger (p); Pierre Michelot (b); Kenny Clarke (d)

Content: 
New, restored high-definition digital transfer
New interview with actor Jeanne Moreau
Archival interviews with director Louis Malle, actors Maurice Ronet and Moreau, and original soundtrack session pianist René Urtreger
Footage of Miles Davis and Louis Malle from the soundtrack recording session
New video program about the score with jazz trumpeter Jon Faddis and critic Gary Giddins
Malle’s student film Crazeologie, featuring the title song by Charlie Parker
Theatrical trailers
New and improved English subtitle translation
A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Terrence Rafferty, an interview with Louis Malle, and a tribute by film producer Vincent Malle