Carlotta Releases

[MichaelB]

It also means the Oppo trick will work to bring in your own English subtitles

Absolutely. Although if we’re talking BD rather than UHD I can easily rip the disc and add a subtitle track even if one isn’t already present, as I had to do with a couple of the Tavernier discs.

[Rupert Pupkin]

Tenia, do you know if Carlotta plans after the release of the box set to release individually, as a single blu-ray release "La Maman et la putain" ?

Was initially a UHD of the new restoration of "La Maman et la putain" planned ? There is a "2160" floating around. If Criterion could release a UHD+Blu-Ray release that would be awesome! (after all for Antoine Doinel restoration Carlotta/Mk2 released it on UHD too). The restoration was a pleasant surprise for me (with the "new" scene inserted or "restored"; some black & white scenes looks like they are lacking deep dark level but I guess that it could have been worst. A lot of scenes are in the dark so I guess that was not easy to deal with... but it looks more like a grey palette to me than a black & white palette.
I was able to see "Les petites amoureuses" retorde and I'm afraid that I'm not at ease for the color grading (the DVD looks ok).

Do Criterion still has the right and plans to release "La Maman et la putain" ? Do you think they will release as well a Jean Eustache box set ?

[spectre]

My understanding is that we're all assuming they'll be doing a box set because Janus Films presented a complete retrospective of Eustache films (including Le cochon, which isn't in the Carlotta set) last year.

I guess, in theory, it could be more like the old Akerman Eclipse set / Jeanne Dielman situation where they pull the highest-profile title out for a solo release and then package the more "minor" titles together, but that doesn't seem to be the way Criterion has been approaching stuff like this for a long time now.

[tenia]

Tenia, do you know if Carlotta plans after the release of the box set to release individually, as a single blu-ray release "La Maman et la putain" ?

Was initially a UHD of the new restoration of "La Maman et la putain" planned ? There is a "2160" floating around. If Criterion could release a UHD+Blu-Ray release, that would be awesome! (after all for Antoine Doinel restoration Carlotta/Mk2 released it on UHD too).

I have no idea about an individual release from Carlotta though I doubt it.
They never announced a UHD of any of the 4k restored movies. I highly doubt there's a sales potential good enough in France to begin with.

[Rupert Pupkin]

It's sad that "Mes petites amoureuses" (this is the 2022 restoration) suffers from the cyan-yellowish-greenish color grading; I was since worse in color, but it's difficult for me to get used to this "unformisation" of color grading.

The WEB (Mubi ?) release came with English subs; they seem to be accurate to me although some political statement by Alexandre are not constantly translated : I was not from this "era" but I know Jacques Chaban-Delmas and I often laugh about some political quotes here and there or Alexandre remarked about Guy Lux et Pierre Belmard on TV after deciding to not go on cinema to see the last E.Pietro movie.
I'm still figure out how many King Crimson albums there are in the room : we can see clearly the mythic "In The Court Of The Crimson King" but there are also the "In The Wake In The Poseidon" album (which oddly has an old man who looks like Eric Rohmer); I have the feeling that I can see the front artwork of "More" Pink Floyd but I'm not totally sure.

Perhaps he was a bit younger and a kind of romantic guy who fell on earth not at the right era, but to me, Alexandre character was very close to J-P Leaud in "Masculin Feminin" (despite what Truffaut said to Godard about it).

[Stefan Andersson]

tenia reviews Carlotta´s 6-film Ozu box:
https://testsbluray.com/2024/03/21/test ... u-inedits/

One of the extras is a 1963 TV film co-written by Ozu, taken from an upscaled kinescope: Seishun hôkago.

[Stefan Andersson]

Sept. 3 release:
World Cinema project : Prisonniers de la Terre (Mario Soffici), La Femme au couteau (Timité Bassori), Muna Moto (Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa), Huit balles meurtrieres (Mikko Niskanen)

Source:
https://www.dvdclassik.com/forum/viewto ... start=8970

[Stefan Andersson]

Sept. 3 release:
World Cinema project : Prisonniers de la Terre (Mario Soffici), La Femme au couteau (Timité Bassori), Muna Moto (Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa), Huit balles meurtrieres (Mikko Niskanen)

Source:
https://www.dvdclassik.com/forum/viewto ... start=8970

Update:
reviewed by tenia:
https://testsbluray.com/2024/11/17/test ... a-project/

La Femme au couteau (Timité Bassori), Muna Moto (Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa) and Huit balles meurtrieres/Eight Deadly Shots (Mikko Niskanen) are not in any other WCP box.

[Kauno]

La Femme au couteau (Timité Bassori), Muna Moto (Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa) and Huit balles meurtrieres/Eight Deadly Shots (Mikko Niskanen) are not in any other WCP box.

Muna Moto is in World Cinema Project No. 4.

[Stefan Andersson]

La Femme au couteau (Timité Bassori), Muna Moto (Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa) and Huit balles meurtrieres/Eight Deadly Shots (Mikko Niskanen) are not in any other WCP box.

Muna Moto is in World Cinema Project No. 4.

OK, many thanks for the correction!

[Stefan Andersson]

Carlotta and Les Films Acacias co-distribute the restored Home and the World (Ray):
https://www.dvdclassik.com/forum/viewto ... 2#p3136742 - Dec 2 post
https://www.acaciasfilms.com/film/la-ma ... -le-monde/

[kekid]

Carlotta and Les Films Acacias co-distribute the restored Home and the World (Ray):
https://www.dvdclassik.com/forum/viewto ... 2#p3136742 - Dec 2 post
https://www.acaciasfilms.com/film/la-ma ... -le-monde/

I hope Criterion releases this in 4K soon.
They should also get to other great Rays (Pratidvandi, Aranyer din ratri).
Elsewhere various people have noted the neglect of great Chabrols and great Viscontis.
Surely there are enough resources to get these out since we can see that a lot of far lesser stuff is being released.
If there are rights issues, I don't think they are insurmountable if there was the will to do it.
Money cannot be the main issue because Criterion issues films with limited profit potential from time to time.
I hope someone from Criterion or Radiance read these posts and do something.

[Cash Flagg]

Does Carlotta not ship to the US? When I try to check out on their site, it keeps telling me to change my address.

[ryannichols7]

Does Carlotta not ship to the US? When I try to check out on their site, it keeps telling me to change my address.

this, I'm interested in that Otar Iosseliani box that people are voting for. is Amazon really the best place to get it without a forwarder?

[jheez]

this, I'm interested in that Otar Iosseliani box that people are voting for. is Amazon really the best place to get it without a forwarder?

Try FNAC. Much, much faster than Amazon and often cheaper

[criterionsnob]

I agree, my FNAC order was fast and well packaged.

[swo17]

It's also the least expensive option that I'm aware of

[MichaelB]

I used Amazon.fr and it arrived very quickly, although it didn't have to travel far in my case.

I've been going through it film by film on Bluesky and have got up to 1984, although I've been bogged down with flu and a backlog of work since. But I'm raring to watch the rest.