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Re: Cohen Film Collection

#76 Post by manicsounds » Sat Jun 22, 2013 9:55 am

BlurayDefinition reviews "Perfect Understanding" (starring Gloria Swanson & Laurence Olivier)

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#77 Post by Calvin » Fri Jul 26, 2013 1:04 pm


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Re: Cohen Film Collection

#78 Post by Fred Holywell » Fri Aug 02, 2013 8:21 pm

DVDBeaver on "The Damned" ("Les Maudits"). And Cohen Media rerelease trailer.

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#79 Post by matrixschmatrix » Fri Aug 02, 2013 9:23 pm

Is there anywhere that's selling The Damned at a decent discount? It doesn't seem to be listed at importcds, and everywhere else seems to be offering a discount of at most about 25-30%.

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#80 Post by Askew » Fri Aug 02, 2013 9:34 pm

Here it is: http://www.importcds.com/movies/2617097/damned" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Re: Cohen Film Collection

#81 Post by matrixschmatrix » Fri Aug 02, 2013 9:37 pm

Cool, thanks. I forgot how poorly their search function works.

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Re: Cohen Film Collection

#82 Post by rockysds » Wed Aug 07, 2013 3:24 am


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Re: Cohen Film Collection

#83 Post by peerpee » Wed Aug 07, 2013 8:19 am

It says this is "E1", which would make more sense, because I think this has been licensed from Gaumont (ie. Criterion must have passed?, and Olive must have passed??)

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Re: Cohen Film Collection

#84 Post by Calvin » Wed Aug 07, 2013 9:01 am

peerpee wrote:
It says this is "E1", which would make more sense, because I think this has been licensed from Gaumont (ie. Criterion must have passed?, and Olive must have passed??)
E1 must be Cohen's distributor. Cohen have licensed some other titles from Gaumont - The Damned, The Bronte Sisters, Two Men in Manhattan

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#85 Post by peerpee » Wed Aug 07, 2013 9:08 am

Calvin wrote:
peerpee wrote:
It says this is "E1", which would make more sense, because I think this has been licensed from Gaumont (ie. Criterion must have passed?, and Olive must have passed??)
E1 must be Cohen's distributor. Cohen have licensed some other titles from Gaumont - The Damned, The Bronte Sisters, Two Men in Manhattan
Ah, it's just that all those other Blus at Amazon.com are listed as "Studio: Cohen Media Group", but this René Clair Blu is listed as "E1".

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Re: Cohen Film Collection

#86 Post by jindianajonz » Wed Aug 07, 2013 10:10 am

matrixschmatrix wrote:Cool, thanks. I forgot how poorly their search function works.
Whenever I find a site with a poor search function, it's usually easier to google "The Damned site:importcds.com".

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#87 Post by Ashirg » Wed Aug 07, 2013 8:29 pm

Be careful - this way you could put a damnation on importcds...

But, yeah, Entertainment One is the distributor for Cohen.

Their next releases (all on DVD and blu-ray):

October 22
Rachid Bouchareb's Just Like a Woman (2012)
October 29
René Clair's The Beauty of the Devil (aka La beauté du diable) (1950)
November 12
Ziad Doueiri's The Attack (2012)

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Re: Cohen Film Collection

#88 Post by Matt » Tue Aug 20, 2013 12:18 pm

Two Men in Manhattan will feature a "conversation between critics Jonathan Rosenbaum and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky." Not two people I'd expect to see talking about Melville, but it should be interesting nonetheless.

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Re: Cohen Film Collection

#89 Post by FrauBlucher » Tue Aug 27, 2013 7:54 pm


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Re: Cohen Film Collection

#90 Post by John Doe » Tue Sep 03, 2013 1:38 pm

Coming in November:

Tous Les Matins Du Monde (1991)
The Vivien Leigh Anniversary Collection (Dark Journey, Fire Over England, Sidewalks of London and Storm In a Tea Cup)
The Attack (2012)
Intolerance (1916)

All on BD.

An ecstatic month!

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#91 Post by eerik » Tue Sep 03, 2013 1:54 pm


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Re: Cohen Film Collection

#92 Post by chatterjees » Tue Sep 03, 2013 2:53 pm

Wow, their Nov slate really looks great!

On a separate note, can somebody ask them to change their cover art for Two Men in Manhattan? It seems that they are not reachable, but they need to know that some of their cover arts really suck, especially this one and the one for The Bronte Sisters!!!

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Re: Cohen Film Collection

#93 Post by matrixschmatrix » Tue Sep 03, 2013 3:35 pm

I thought that Thief of Bagdad's cover looked abominable on the computer, but it actually doesn't look bad in person. I think the big C just doesn't work digitally.

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#94 Post by videozor » Tue Sep 03, 2013 4:19 pm

chatterjees wrote:Wow, their Nov slate really looks great!
On a separate note they need to know that some of their cover arts really suck
What also sucks - and they have to know this - is the inclusion of start-up trailers of movies absolutely unrelated to the main feature

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Re: Cohen Film Collection

#95 Post by justeleblanc » Tue Sep 03, 2013 4:58 pm

I wonder if the Intolerance Blu ray will actually contain the original score by Joseph Carl Briel. It is one of the earliest original film scores to have survived and to have since been reconstructed to play along with the most recent reconstructions of the film itself. Griffith played a major role in designing both the musical themes and the general placement and pacing of the score -- especially as it compares to parallel editing and the frame rate of each reel -- and it would be a shame if CMG went with a new score in place of the readily available (and historically significant) original.

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Re: Cohen Film Collection

#96 Post by Calvin » Tue Sep 03, 2013 5:21 pm

I'm pretty sure that Intolerance will have the Carl Davis score and 'The Mother and the Law' and 'The Fall of Babylon' will have scores by the Mont Alto Orchestra.

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#97 Post by acf171072 » Wed Sep 04, 2013 6:40 am

eerik wrote:$49.98 MSRP for Intolerance, ouch...
Let's hope DVD Empire's running time is an error. 1hr 58m.

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#98 Post by videozor » Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:43 am

eerik wrote:$49.98 MSRP for Intolerance, ouch...
Amazon pre-order price is $34.49 http://www.amazon.com/Intolerance/dp/B0 ... ntolerance

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Re: Cohen Film Collection

#99 Post by isakborg » Wed Sep 04, 2013 9:40 am

Okay. So now we have the Cohen web site showing a running time of 118 minutes; the New York Times referencing the Cohen restoration at Film Forum as running 167 minutes; and Amazon as showing the upcoming Blu-ray at 197 minutes (which would reflect an acceptable fps, that bete noire of silent film presentations).

What is the officially official running time? Perhaps Cohen could weigh in on this question.

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Re: Cohen Film Collection

#100 Post by knives » Wed Sep 04, 2013 12:29 pm

In all of this Intolerance excitement it seems everyone is overlooking one other interesting nugget. Fires Over England is also a Criterion title; one they've been running on Hulu since the beginning.

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