Blu-ray, DVD Release: Judex (1963)

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Blu-ray & DVD Release Dates: June 17, 2014
Price: DVD $24.95, Blu-ray/DVD Combo $39.95
Studio: Criterion

Judex movie scene

A criminal masquerade is perpetrated in Judex.

This 1963 effortlessly cool French crime caper film Judex, directed by Georges Franju (Eyes Without a Face), is a marvel of dexterous plotting and visual invention.

Conceived as an homage to Louis Feuillade’s 1916 cult silent serial of the same name, Judex kicks off with the mysterious kidnapping of a corrupt banker (Michel Vitold) by the shadowy crime fighter Judex (American magician Channing Pollock) and spins out into a thrillingly complex web of deceptions.

Combining stylish Sixties modernism with silent-cinema touches and even a few unexpected sci-fi accents, Judex is a delightful bit of pulp fiction and a testament to the art of illusion.

Criterion’s Blu-ray/DVD Combo and DVD standalone editions of the movie include the following features:

• New 2K digital film restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Interview from 2007 with the film’s co-writer Jacques Champreux, the grandson of Louis Feuillade, co-creator of the silent serial Judex
• Interview from 2012 with actor Francine Bergé
• Franju le visionnaire, a fifty-minute program from 1998 on the director’s career and imagination
• New English subtitle translation
• One Blu-ray and one DVD, with all content available in both formats
• A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Geoffrey O’Brien, along with reprinted writings by and excerpted interviews with Franju

 

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About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.