The Rules of the Game

 

Year: 1939

Time: 106 min.

 

Series: The Criterion Collection

Edition #: 216

Release Date: November 15 2011

MSRP: $29.95

 

DVD

2 Discs | DVD-9

1.33:1 ratio

French 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono

Subtitles: English

Region 1

 

 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 Jean Renoir le patron: La Règle et l’exception (1966), a 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 in which Jean Gaborit and Jacques Durand discuss their reconstruction and rerelease of the film   Interviews with set designer Max Douy, Renoir’s son, Alain Renoir; and actress Mila Parély   A booklet featuring a new 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