Kino International proudly announces the DVD release of five films by celebrated French documentarian Nicolas Philibert.
Last year’s critically-acclaimed Nénette (along with the short subject Night Falls on the Menagerie) and Animals & More Animals come to DVD in a splendid two-disc set priced at $39.95. This DVD is available for prebook on April 26, 2011, and the street date is May 24.
The other three titles, Louvre City (1990), In the Land of the Deaf (1992), and Every Little Thing (1997) are available as individual DVDs, each priced at $24.95. Each DVD is available for pre-book on April 26, 2011, and the street date is May 24.
NÉNETTE (2010) and Animals & More Animals (1996) 2-disc Set
Nénette (2010) - Disc One
“Outstanding. Hypnotically captures the peculiar life of a 40-year-old orangutan living in a Paris zoo.” – J.S. Marcus, The Wall Street Journal
“Remarkable!” – Sight & Sound
Born in the jungles of Borneo, Nénette is a 40-year-old orangutan – and the oldest (and most popular...
Last year’s critically-acclaimed Nénette (along with the short subject Night Falls on the Menagerie) and Animals & More Animals come to DVD in a splendid two-disc set priced at $39.95. This DVD is available for prebook on April 26, 2011, and the street date is May 24.
The other three titles, Louvre City (1990), In the Land of the Deaf (1992), and Every Little Thing (1997) are available as individual DVDs, each priced at $24.95. Each DVD is available for pre-book on April 26, 2011, and the street date is May 24.
NÉNETTE (2010) and Animals & More Animals (1996) 2-disc Set
Nénette (2010) - Disc One
“Outstanding. Hypnotically captures the peculiar life of a 40-year-old orangutan living in a Paris zoo.” – J.S. Marcus, The Wall Street Journal
“Remarkable!” – Sight & Sound
Born in the jungles of Borneo, Nénette is a 40-year-old orangutan – and the oldest (and most popular...
- 3/30/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
An elderly orangutan is the star of Etre et Avoir director Nicolas Philibert's new documentary. But the real action is going on outside the cage, he tells Catherine Shoard
The star of Nicolas Philibert's new film picks sceptically at her lettuce. From behind lavish lashes, she regards the crowd below, auburn hair flaming in the sunlight. Her director waves and smiles. After a pause, she advances, and, with a poise that bespeaks 38 years in the public eye, slowly runs her tongue, big as bacon, over the glass. Politesse dispensed, it's back to her tyre for a scratch.
We're in Paris's Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes, beside the Seine, off the Boulevard St Germain, on a perishing morning. Outside, in pens whose size testifies to the place's age (built in 1794), an ostrich hammers at the frost. A yak snorts. Doleful? Or just cold?
Philibert, 60, smiles and shrugs and hops gently from foot to foot,...
The star of Nicolas Philibert's new film picks sceptically at her lettuce. From behind lavish lashes, she regards the crowd below, auburn hair flaming in the sunlight. Her director waves and smiles. After a pause, she advances, and, with a poise that bespeaks 38 years in the public eye, slowly runs her tongue, big as bacon, over the glass. Politesse dispensed, it's back to her tyre for a scratch.
We're in Paris's Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes, beside the Seine, off the Boulevard St Germain, on a perishing morning. Outside, in pens whose size testifies to the place's age (built in 1794), an ostrich hammers at the frost. A yak snorts. Doleful? Or just cold?
Philibert, 60, smiles and shrugs and hops gently from foot to foot,...
- 1/28/2011
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
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