- Description:
- BluRay - Multi-Zone. viewing copy. 1 videodisc of 1.
24 fps
- Notes:
- This comprehensive collection places Varda’s filmography in the context of her parallel work as a photographer and multimedia artist—all of it a testament to the radical vision, boundless imagination, and radiant spirit of a true original for whom every act of creation was a vital expression of her very being.
The 15 blu-ray special edition set includes the entirety of Agnes Varda's body of work, digitally restored, with supplemental materials including introductions from the director, over 7 hours of archival footage featuring the director, and rare behind-the-scenes footage, video essays, and trailers. The set also includes a lavishly illustrated 200-page book, featuring notes on the films and essays on Varda’s life and work by writers Amy Taubin, Michael Koresky, Ginette Vincendeau, So Mayer, Alexandra Hidalgo, and Rebecca Bengal, as well as a selection of Varda’s photography and images of her installation art
Titles
+ Varda by Agnès
- Director:
- Varda, Agnès
- Production Co:
- Ciné Tamaris, ARTE
- Running Time:
- Feature. 120 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - 5.1 Dolby surround
- Color:
- color and b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 2019
- Language:
- French and English with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Documentary, Biography, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Agnès Varda, photographer, installation artist and pioneer of the Nouvelle Vague, is an institution of French cinema. Taking a seat on a theatre stage, she uses photos and film excerpts to provide an insight into her unorthodox oeuvre.
Disc includes a number of supplemental featurettes, as well film trailers, and the Janus retrospective trailer.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ 3 Boutons, Les
- Director:
- Varda, Agnès
- Production Co:
- Hi! Production, Miu Miu
- Running Time:
- Short. 11 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 2015
- Language:
- French with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Short, Drama, Female Directors, Fashion
- Notes:
- A 14-year-old girl opens a package containing a magical magenta ball dress ten times her teenage size. Jasmine enters the folds of the dress, into a modern anti-fairy tale and everyday empowerment.
+ Art of Family Life: Mathieu Demy and Rosalie Varda, The
- Running Time:
- Short. 17 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 2020
- Language:
- French with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Notes:
- Supplemental short documentary featuring interviews from Mathieu Demy and Rosalie Varda,
+ Telluride Film Festival
- Running Time:
- Event Documentation. 39 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 2019
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Event Documentation, Interview
- Notes:
- Rosalie Varda and Mathieu Demy are joined by filmmaker Martin Scorses and Telluride Film Festival cofounder Tom Luddy in this discussion of director Agnès Varda’s work, recorded at the North American premiere of Varda by Agnès at the Telluride Film Festival in 2019, and moderated by film scholar Annette Insdorf.
+ Agnès Varda’s Credit Sequences
- Director:
- Vuillaume-Tylski, Alex
- Running Time:
- Short. 8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 2019
- Language:
- French with English subtitles
- Notes:
- This 2019 video essay explores the unique ways in which Agnès Varda opens and closes her films, starting with 1955’s La Pointe Courte and continuing through her final work, Varda by Agnès
+ Sensing Bodies
- Director:
- Longinotti, Nicolas
- Production Co:
- Troiscouleurs
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color and b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 2019
- Language:
- French with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Video Essay
- Notes:
- A brief video essay highlighting the way Agnès Varda sought to capture details of the human body throughout her filmmaking.
+ Chat With Nini, A
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 2019
- Language:
- French with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Short, Comedy
- Notes:
- A chat between Agnès and her cat, Nini.