Judex [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Georges Franju Georges Franju

Overview

The characters and plot convolutions of the classic silent French serial Judex are thrust into a 1960s framework in this Georges Franju concoction. Channing Pollock plays a mysterious masked avenger who kidnaps evil-banker Michel Vitold, then sets about to turn the banker's friends and loved ones against him. At first appearing to be as wicked as his captive, Pollock is actually motivated by familial love: his father had been driven to suicide by Vitold. Pollock is successful in destroying his enemy, adding spice to the program by wedding Vitold's daughter Edith Scob. In keeping with the spirit of the original serial, Pollock pops in and out of the plotline decked out in impenetrable disguises. As with his earlier horror film Eyes without a Face (1960), director Franju invests his two-dimensional material in Judex with three-dimensional characters.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/17/2014
UPC:	0715515117616
Original Release:	1963
Rating:	NR
Source:	Criterion Collection
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[B&W, Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	1:37:00
Sales rank:	12,979

Special Features

Interview from 2007 with cowriter Francine Bergé Franju le visionnaire, a fifty-minute program form 1998 on director Georges Franju's career Two short films by Franju: Hôtel des Invalides (1951), about the Paris military complex, and Le grand Méliès (1952), about director Georges Méliès

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Channing Pollock	Judex / Vallieres
Sylva Koscina	Daisy
Edith Scob	Jacqueline Favraux
Michel Vitold	Favraux
Jacques Jouanneau	Cocantin
Benjamin Boda	Reglisse
Philippe Mareuil	Amaury de la Rochefontaine
Rene Genin	Pierre Kerjean
Jean Degrave	Notary
Luigi Cortese	Pierrot
Roger Fradet	Leon
Ketty France	Jeanne-Marie Bontemps
Suzanne Gossen	Landlady
Andre Melies	Doctor
Francine Bergé	Marie Verdier / Diana Monti
Théo Sarapo	Morales
Max Montavon	le valet de Cocantin
Maurice Jarre	Composer

Technical Credits

Jacques Champreux

Francis Lacassin

Louis Feuillade

Robert de Nesle	Producer
Georges Franju	Director
Jacques Champreux	Screenwriter
Francis Lacassin	Screenwriter
Louis Feuillade	Screenwriter
Jean Labussière	Sound Effects

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Judex
1. Opening Credits [2:20]
2. Letter From Judex [7:39]
3. Favraux's Indiscretions [3:19]
4. Masquerade Ball [7:15]
5. The Night After [6:29]
6. Jacqueline's Inheritance [5:53]
7. Breaking And Entering [8:51]
8. Pigeons [2:36]
9. Favraux's Grave [4:01]
10. "She Fell For The Telegram" [4:33]
11. Ambulance Ambush [6:50]
12. Deserted Water Mill [5:04]
13. Vallières's Return [3:24]
14. Cocantin And The Kid [6:15]
15. "That Evening" [5:32]
16. "Your Loss, You Fool!" [5:00]
17. Daisy [2:42]
18. Diana's Demise [8:15]
19. Homage [1:32]
1. Color Bars [:20]
Disc #2 -- Judex - The Supplements
1. Introduction [5:40]
2. Blood Of The Beasts [5:02]
3. Head Against The Wall [5:44]
4. Documentaries And Art Films [7:12]
5. Color Vs. Black And White [8:33]
6. Judex [9:14]
7. Eyes Without A Face [10:01]

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Disc #1 -- Judex
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Disc #2 -- Judex - The Supplements
   Francine Bergé - The Following Interview With Actor Francine Bergé, Who Plays Diana In Judex, Was Recorded In 2012 For The Cinémathèque Française In Paris.
   Jacques Champreux - In This Interview From 2007, Judex Cowriter Jacques Champreux Recalls Collaboratin With Director Georges Franju On His 1963 Film, Which Was A Remake Of The 1916 Serial Of The Same Name, Directed By Champreux's Grandfather Louis Feuillade.
   Franju Le Visionnaire - The Following Fifty-Minute Program, Directed By André S. Labarthe, Explores The Singular Work Of Georges Franju. Featuring Interviews With Franju And Clips From Some Of His Better-Known Films, It Was Originally Broadcast On September 2, 1998, As Part Of The French Television Series Cinéma De Nôtre Temps.
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   Le Grand Méliés - This 1952 Short By Georges Franju Is A Biographical Film About The Cinematic Illusionist Georges Méliès. It Features Méliès Widow Jeanne D'Alcy, As Herself, And Their Son, André, As His Father. Le Grand Méliès, Like Franju's Louis Feuillade Tribute, Judex, Is A Revealing Homage To One Of The Director's Idols.
   Hôtel Des Invalides - In This Short Antiwar Documentary From 1951, Georges Franju Turns His Camera On The Famous Seventeenth-Century Parisian Military Complex Of The Title, Which Includes A Hospital Turned Museum And A Burial Site. The Film Is Narrated By Actor Michel Simon And A Museum Tour Guide, And Features Music By Composer Maurice Jarre And Images By Cinematographer Marcel Fradetal, Both Of Whom Also Worked On Judex.
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