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Re: Gaumont French Releases

#226 Post by rrenault » Tue Jul 09, 2013 6:18 am

I'd be curious to know whether or not these blu-rays from Gaumont are "mass-produced" like most major studio releases or if they're essentially "boutique" releases (i.e.the DVD/blu-ray equivalent of trade paperbacks). Likewise something like the Pathe blu-ray release of The Leopard.

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#227 Post by tenia » Tue Jul 09, 2013 10:22 am

rrenault wrote:I'd be curious to know whether or not these blu-rays from Gaumont are "mass-produced" like most major studio releases or if they're essentially "boutique" releases (i.e.the DVD/blu-ray equivalent of trade paperbacks). Likewise something like the Pathe blu-ray release of The Leopard.
I'm not sure at all of what you are saying. :-k

Gaumont BDs are produced just like any independant French editor would do, like Carlotta or Wild Side. Pathé did also a completely regular Blu Ray release of Le guépard, the only thing is that the first pressing as a digibook was limited. Otherwise, all these are perfectly regular BD releases.

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Re: Gaumont French Releases

#228 Post by rrenault » Tue Jul 09, 2013 11:50 am

All I'm wondering is whether or not they're more along the lines of boutique releases such as those from Criterion or MOC or if they're basically "mass-produced" like the stuff released by a major studio such as Warner Bros. or Fox.

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Re: Gaumont French Releases

#229 Post by Matt » Tue Jul 09, 2013 12:01 pm

You mean, do they have supplements and a booklet or are they just "bare bones?"

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#230 Post by rrenault » Tue Jul 09, 2013 12:14 pm

Well the Gaumont blu-rays actually don't really have booklets, but they do have supplements. Plenty of Warner Bros. DVDs, however, have booklets and supplements, but they're still mass-produced.

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#231 Post by Calvin » Tue Jul 09, 2013 12:27 pm

I think you're asking about the print run. Even the studios won't be producing 100,000 copies for every title they release. I'm guessing that the Pialats would have a print run in the low thousands as anything in the hundreds wouldn't be viable cost-wise.

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#232 Post by rrenault » Tue Jul 09, 2013 12:57 pm

Yes, I'm asking about the print run. With that said, low thousands for the Pialats? Didn't they produce 6,000 of the original Salo pressing that wound up becoming the most coveted DVD in the world? Low thousands seems off to me. Remember, some of those Pialat films were fairly mainstream hits in France. And I'm sure things like The Godfather, 2001, and Goodfellas, for instance, have seven-digit sales figures on physical media. Is the print run really THAT low for these "art house/boutique" DVDs? Surely, avid frequenters and posters on Mubi and Criterionforum aren't the only people buying these things.

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#233 Post by zedz » Tue Jul 09, 2013 5:56 pm

rrenault wrote:
Calvin wrote:This was what Nick had to say in 2011:
peerpee wrote:They did not sell anywhere near enough to warrant a Blu-ray release, I'm afraid. At this point in time, I can't see us ever upgrading any of our existing Pialat releases to Blu-ray. Our time would be better spent on titles that have not been released in the UK before.
Surely there would at least be demand for a blu-ray of A Nos Amours, which appears to be his most popular film. Isn't it one of the most viewed Criterion films on Hulu? By the way, why did MOC never release Van Gogh or Loulou, seeing as those are also owned by Gaumont, so surely it wasn't a rights issue.
Because they were already released in the UK by Artificial Eye - the rights weren't available. The masterpiece you should be asking about is La maison du bois.

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Re: Gaumont French Releases

#234 Post by tenia » Tue Jul 09, 2013 6:43 pm

rrenault wrote:Yes, I'm asking about the print run. With that said, low thousands for the Pialats?
Ah now I understand. :D
Thinking of the usual figures from Jérome Soulet (head of video dept @ Gaumont), the sales for a Pialat title is probably around 1000 copies in France. However, Gaumont don't limitate the run in any way, I've never seen any BD from the Gaumont Classiques being OOP (far from it). Their best releases are the Lautner / Audiard, with Les tontons flingueurs going up to 10 000 copies sold, but that's an exception. I think the next best is around 2000 copies, and it goes down to 500 for Danton (if I recall correctly).

He once wrote : "We open champagne in the office for 1000 DVDs, or 500 BDs sold of a given title".

Some Belmondo movies were released by Studio Canal these past month, including Le magnifique a month ago, which has already sold 1200 BDs. That's a HUGE success.

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#235 Post by ejp626 » Sun Jul 21, 2013 12:51 pm

perkizitore wrote:Are the re-releasing their Guitry box in October along with a new box of 5 DVDs?
So I've seen that this 5 DVD Guitry set does appear to have been re-released. boutique.gaumont.fr/fr/produit_5_Gaumont_110043_acheter_COFFRET_DVD_Sacha_Guitry_-_Un_esprit_fran%C3%A7ais_%281949-1952%29_en_stock.php

If anyone ordered it, do the main films actually have English subtitles? I am not expecting that, as they are not listed, but they did exist on the 8 DVD set (and generally weren't listed in product descriptions). Thanks.

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#236 Post by Emilio » Thu Jul 25, 2013 4:22 am

http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Conversat ... 11/#Review

That looks and sounds very promising...!

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#237 Post by shaky » Wed Sep 11, 2013 2:58 pm

Anybody heard any news on whether or not Gaumont's edition of FANNY AND ALEXANDER will have English subs? [-o<

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Re: Gaumont French Releases

#238 Post by NABOB OF NOWHERE » Wed Sep 11, 2013 3:13 pm

shaky wrote:Anybody heard any news on whether or not Gaumont's edition of FANNY AND ALEXANDER will have English subs? [-o<
According to the website no, it is paradoxically not the most reliable of sources but I would think most likely correct.

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#239 Post by artfilmfan » Fri Oct 04, 2013 10:21 pm

I've watched the Gaumont Blu-rays of A Nos Amours and Nous Ne Vieillirons Pas Ensemble twice now and, needless to say, both look wonderful. The second time around, I noticed that around the 10 minutes and 30 seconds (or so) mark of A Nos Amours, the light intensity goes up, then comes back down to the previous level, and then drops to a much lower level for a few seconds. It appears that someone was adjusting the light intensity during the film-to-digital transfer process. I don't know the process of transferring the image from film to digital medium, so I'm just guessing here. Has anyone else noticed this?

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#240 Post by rrenault » Sat Oct 05, 2013 4:08 am

I know what you're talking about with respect to A Nos Amours. I presumed it was just a "flaw" embedded within the transfer.

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Re: Gaumont French Releases

#241 Post by L.A. » Wed Nov 06, 2013 9:27 am

Interesting release of Les Tontons flingueurs coming on Nov. 27th. English subs are promised.

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#242 Post by Jack Phillips » Wed Nov 06, 2013 9:45 am

What about an English translation of "le scénario original de 608 pages"? No, I thought not. I guess I'll stay with the previous release.

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#243 Post by RossyG » Sat Nov 16, 2013 4:31 pm

Jack Phillips wrote:What about an English translation of "le scénario original de 608 pages"? No, I thought not.
You wouldn't genuinely expect that from a French release, would you?


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Re: Gaumont French Releases

#245 Post by shaky » Wed Feb 26, 2014 6:46 am

ughhhhh

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Re: Gaumont French Releases

#247 Post by FrauBlucher » Tue Jun 03, 2014 5:03 pm

Gaumont releases announced.....
SEPTEMBER 3

1. La Gifle a.k.a.The Slap (Claude Pinoteau, 1974)
2. Oscar (Édouard Molinaro, 1967)
3. Hibernatus (Édouard Molinaro, 1969)
4. Le dossier noir a.k.a. The Black Dossier (André Cayatte, 1955)
5. Carambolages a.k.a. Carom Shots (Marcel Bluwal, 1963)
6. La carapate a.k.a. Out of It (Gérard Oury, 1978)
7. Quelques messieurs trop tranquilles a.k.a. Some Too Quiet Gentlemen (Georges Lautner, 1973)
8. La maison assassinée a.k.a. The Murdered House (Georges Lautner, 1988)
9. Le miroir à deux faces a.k.a. A Mirror Has Two Faces (André Cayatte, 1958)
10. Le vice et la vertu a.k.a. Vice and Virtue (Roger Vadim, 1963).

NOVEMBER 5

1. La chèvre a.k.a. The Goat (Francis Veber, 1981)
2. Coup de tête a.k.a. Hothead (Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1979)
3. Les possédés a.k.a. The Possessed (Andrzej Wajda, 1988)
4. Toi... le venin a.k.a. Night Is Not for Sleep (Robert Hossein, 1958)
5. Le glaive et la balance a.k.a. Two Are Guilty (André Cayatte, 1963)
6. Le chemin des écoliers a.k.a. Way of Youth (Michel Boisrond, 1959)
7. Deux hommes dans Manhattan a.k.a. Two Men in Manhattan (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1959)
8. Clara et les Chics Types (Jacques Monnet, 1981)
9. Les malheurs d'Alfred a.k.a. The Troubles of Alfred (Pierre Richard, 1972)
10. Le bal des casse-pieds a.k.a. The Ball (Yves Robert, 1992).

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Re: Gaumont French Releases

#248 Post by Altair » Wed Jun 04, 2014 4:54 am

Are all of these Blu-rays? As if so, the Hossein and Melville in HD would be incredible news.

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#249 Post by zedz » Wed Jun 04, 2014 5:03 am

The Melville is already out on Blu in the US.

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Re: Gaumont French Releases

#250 Post by NABOB OF NOWHERE » Wed Jun 04, 2014 5:10 am

It's a new range which in shorthand is a bluray bare-bones Eclipse type deal. They are for the most part reissues of previous a la demande titles where elements allow for the upgrade. First batch came out last week See boutique at Gaumont for details. Molinaro and Autant-Lara figure from memory. 10 euros each.

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