The Rules of the Game

 

Year: 1939

Time: 106 min.

 

Series: The Criterion Collection

Edition #: 216

Release Date: Tuesday, 06 June 2023

MSRP: $49.95

 

4K UHD + Blu-ray

2 Discs

1.37:1

French PCM Mono 1.0

Subtitles: English

Regions None/A

 

 Introduction to the film by director Jean Renoir   Audio commentary written by film scholar Alexander Sesonske and read by filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich   Comparison of the film’s two endings   Selected-scene analysis by Renoir historian Chris Faulkner   Excerpts from a 1966 French television program by filmmaker Jacques Rivette   Part one of Jean Renoir, a two-part 1993 BBC documentary by film critic David Thompson   Video essay about the film’s production, release, and 1959 reconstruction   Interview with film critic Olivier Curchod   Interview from a 1965 episode of the French television series Les écrans de la ville with Jean Gaborit and Jacques Durand   Interviews with set designer Max Douy; Renoir’s son, Alain Renoir; and actor Mila Parély   Booklet featuring an essay by Alexander Sesonske; writings by Jean Renoir, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bertrand Tavernier, and François Truffaut; and tributes to the film by J. Hoberman, Kent Jones, Paul Schrader, Wim Wenders, Robert Altman, and others