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Re: French DVD & Blu-ray Recommendations

#126 Post by Stefan Andersson » Sat Jul 03, 2021 12:45 pm

Coin de Mire Cinéma in France announces a new label, "Emeraude" (emerald-coloured covers), featuring a bluray and a UHD 4K disc, for release around October 2022.

Planned titles:
"L'homme de Rio" -new 4K restoration
"Le salaire de la peur"
"Les diaboliques"

Re-editions from TF1´s "Héritage" label (edition prestige or émeraude):
- "Panique" de Duvivier, TF1 disc OOP
- "Le carosse d'or" de Renoir, TF1 disc OOP
- "Garde à vue" de Miller, TF1 disc OOP
- "Gueule d'amour" de Grémillon

Source:
several posts here: https://www.dvdclassik.com/forum/viewto ... &start=840

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#127 Post by eerik » Tue Jul 13, 2021 1:10 am

Potemkine are going 4K UHD with Kieslowski in November.
Both scheduled for 2nd November.

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#128 Post by mhofmann » Tue Jul 13, 2021 4:39 am

eerik wrote:
Tue Jul 13, 2021 1:10 am
Potemkine are going 4K UHD with Kieslowski in November.
Both scheduled for 2nd November.
Ooohhh, great — just ordered, thanks!

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Re: French DVD & Blu-ray Recommendations

#129 Post by Stefan Andersson » Tue Sep 14, 2021 2:37 pm

Don´t really know the best thread for this news, but it originates in France:
On social media, French label Spectrum Films announce that Sony will raise their production costs for bluray discs etc. effective October 1, because of cost increases due to Covid:
https://www.dvdclassik.com/forum/viewto ... start=1020 - scroll down to message Aug. 20, 2021

French label Coin de mire Cinéma will release Clair´s Tout l´or du monde (1961), Granier-Deferre´s L´Étoile du Nord (1982), Vadim´s Les liaisons dangereuses (1960), Grémillon´s Le ciel est a vous (1944) and many other titles:
https://www.dvdclassik.com/forum/viewto ... &start=855 - scroll down to message Sept. 14, 2021

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#130 Post by Stefan Andersson » Fri Oct 22, 2021 5:01 pm

Mention of an upcoming bluray/dvd box of Volkoff´s Casanova, co-produced by Giornate del Cinema Muto and Cinematheque Francaise:
https://www.ilfriuliveneziagiulia.it/ca ... e-blu-ray/

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#131 Post by Stefan Andersson » Mon Oct 25, 2021 11:51 am

Queimada! has been released on bluray and DVD in France, in two versions, 110 minutes (English and French dubs) and 130 minutes (Italian dub).

Review:
https://homepopcorn.fr/test-blu-ray-que ... more-47631

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#132 Post by GoodOldNeon » Mon Jan 03, 2022 7:17 pm

Received an email from Potemkine saying that they are releasing

Paris nous appartient (Rivette)
La lettre inachevée (Kalatozov)
Pierre Clémenti Intégrale boxset
Dementia (Parker)
L'Ascension (Chepitko)
Walkabout (Roeg)
La belle noiseuse (Rivette)
La bande des quatres (Rivette)
Nosferatu (Murnau)
Rashomon (Kurosawa)
Metropolis (Lang)
Guerre et Paix (Bondarchuk)

in "versions restaurées". They don't specify whether these are UHDs, Blu-rays, or DVDs.

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#133 Post by Stefan Andersson » Thu Jan 06, 2022 6:14 am

A Lelouch-Belmondo box set, featuring Un homme qui me plaît (no English subs), Itinéraire d´un enfant gâté (English subs) and Les Misérables (English subs). Released by Metropolitan Vidéo, rights holders of the Lelouch catalogue.

Restorations by Éclair.

Review and comparison screencaps:
https://www.dvdclassik.com/test/blu-ray ... itan-video

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#134 Post by Stefan Andersson » Thu Jan 27, 2022 1:54 pm

Editions Montparnasse have announced Blurays of Un soir, un train (Delvaux) and La nuit fantastique (L´Herbier):
https://www.dvdclassik.com/forum/viewto ... 22&t=39811

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#135 Post by Stefan Andersson » Sat Jul 02, 2022 4:18 pm

Upcoming on DVD from Malavida:

La Famille Homolka de Jaroslav Papoušek (Malavida - DVD - 24/08/22)
Fin août à l'hôtel Ozone de Jan Schmidt (Malavida - DVD - 24/08/22)
Happy End de Oldřich Lipský (Malavida - DVD - 24/08/22)

Source: https://www.dvdclassik.com/forum/viewto ... 4&start=30 - June 30 post




Coin de mire bluray lineups for Sept. 2022 and (subject to change) Dec. 2022:

septembre 2022
Notre Dame de Paris (1956) Jean Delannoy
Le meurtrier (1963) Claude Autant-Lara
Martin Roumagnac (1946) Georges Lacombe
Le ciel est à vous (1944) Jean Grémillon
L'air de Paris (1954) Marcel Carné
Du rififi à Paname (1966) Denys De la Patellière
Adorables créatures (1952) Christian-Jaque
Pétrus (1946) Marc Allégret

décembre 2022 (sous réserves)
Cerf-volant du bout du monde (1958) Roger Pigaut
Dans l'eau qui fait des bulles (1961) Maurice Delbez
Le drapeau noir flotte sur la marmite (1971) Michel Audiard
La loi c'est la loi (1958) Christian-Jaque
L'Étoile du Nord (1982) Pierre Granier-Deferre
Prêtres interdits (1973) Denys de la Patelllère
La vierge du Rhin (1953) Gilles Grangier
+ L'homme de Rio (1964-UHD) Philippe De Broca (collection Émeraude).

Source: https://www.dvdclassik.com/forum/viewto ... &start=960 - July 2 post

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#136 Post by Stefan Andersson » Mon Aug 08, 2022 12:54 pm

Le bel Antonio (Bolognini) restored in 4K, released by Lobster on Blu in France:
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=353244

Lobster also released Bolognini´s La Viaccia, with extract from original sepia version as an extra, and L´Avventura, which has an extra entitled "La fin originale" (original ending):
https://www.lobsterfilms.com/fr/evenement/49

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#137 Post by furbicide » Wed Aug 17, 2022 12:41 pm

Listings for the La Belle Noiseuse and Gang of Four Blu-rays are now up:

https://store.potemkine.fr/dvd/35450200 ... s-rivette/
https://store.potemkine.fr/dvd/35450200 ... s-rivette/

No sign of English subtitles, but doesn’t necessarily mean they won’t have them – I might make some enquiries and see. The La Belle Noiseuse release looks particularly good; it includes Divertimento plus the Claire Denis documentary on Rivette.

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#138 Post by furbicide » Mon Aug 22, 2022 6:48 am

Just heard back, no dice for these two unfortunately

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Re: French DVD & Blu-ray Recommendations

#139 Post by hearthesilence » Mon Aug 22, 2022 10:03 am

I'm guessing La Belle Noiseuse looks identical to the Cohen Collection's Blu-ray (though the Cohen Collection's edition has either fallen out-of-print or is once again waiting for a re-press)?

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#140 Post by domino harvey » Mon Aug 22, 2022 10:04 am

Kino has been gradually bringing back all the OOP Cohen discs, if it’s not available yet, it likely will be soon

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#141 Post by tenia » Mon Aug 22, 2022 10:44 am

hearthesilence wrote:I'm guessing La Belle Noiseuse looks identical to the Cohen Collection's Blu-ray (though the Cohen Collection's edition has either fallen out-of-print or is once again waiting for a re-press)?
It looks like it will be placed on a single BD-50 rather than split on 2 like Cohen did, which makes me wary about potential compression issues like Jeanne la pucelle had (it also was only on a single BD-50).

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#142 Post by Stefan Andersson » Wed Aug 31, 2022 2:04 pm

A test of the French 4K UHD Rules of the Game (English subs):
https://digitalcine.fr/4k-bluray-dvd/te ... jeu-en-4k/
The included bluray is identical to an earlier French blu from Movinside. No English subs.

Discussion with ESC about why they did not include a regular Bluray based on the new restoration:
https://digitalcine.fr/4k-bluray-dvd/ne ... selon-esc/

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French DVD & Blu-ray Recommendations

#143 Post by Matt » Thu Sep 15, 2022 12:24 pm

I have ordered the Pierre Clementi Integrale set from Potemkine without knowing much about it, anyone else considering it? It’s Region ABC and appears to be English-friendly.

We need to start a Watch Buddy program here to help people work through these niche releases together.

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#144 Post by therewillbeblus » Sun Sep 18, 2022 6:57 pm

Matt wrote:
Thu Sep 15, 2022 12:24 pm
I have ordered the Pierre Clementi Integrale set from Potemkine without knowing much about it, anyone else considering it? It’s Region ABC and appears to be English-friendly.

We need to start a Watch Buddy program here to help people work through these niche releases together.
I haven't picked up the set yet but decided to sample one of the films just to check to see if it was up my alley. I'm pleased to report that La révolution n'est qu'un début. Continuons le combat is terrific; a spellbinding kaleidoscopic collage that's mixing home movies with May '68 political enthusiasm. The latter is quarantined primarily to superficial words talking about "revolution" -as if incorporating only the banal text in Godard's idiosyncratic essay work and swirling them around the images to mimic a hallucinogenic trip- but the political ideas eventually become a reality, as the home movies spill into guerrilla footage of pre-May '68 uprisings in the last act. This is just so aesthetically digestible, like a less stimulated Mekas with a psychedelic neon-soaked sheen coating the imagery -the overall vibe trumping any vapid curiosity, until that last act becomes an intimate and urgent exhibition of revolution in action. It's very satisfying to watch on a visceral level, and adds an extra thematic layer by transitioning from talking the talk to walking the walk, mirroring the evolution from Clémenti's videography of childhood play to front-lines documentation of matured hostile revolt. There's something empowering yet fatalistically depressing about this demonstration of what can/has to happen with aging alongside a world that we are eventually forced to see as larger than that ignorant happy place of our early youth.

The literal text's simplified messaging toward the finish undercuts the visual power a bit, revealing this to be not much more than an amateur propaganda project, but since one can just oscillate attention back from any shallow thematic interest into the phantasmagoric schema enveloping our surface senses, it's hard to critique when that backup strength is so potent.

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Re: French DVD & Blu-ray Recommendations

#145 Post by Almereyda » Mon Sep 19, 2022 6:32 am

Matt wrote:
Thu Sep 15, 2022 12:24 pm
I have ordered the Pierre Clementi Integrale set from Potemkine without knowing much about it, anyone else considering it? It’s Region ABC and appears to be English-friendly.

We need to start a Watch Buddy program here to help people work through these niche releases together.
I have not watched everything from the set, but I can tell you that if you know and like those films you'll likely be very happy with the presentation, Potemkine did a great job.
Most of the movies outside of the third disc were shot entirely without audio, here they are accompanied by newly recorded music and it's terrific, very psychedelic and it totally fits the spirit of the films.
Everything else has english subtitles except for the extras (for some reason), and the booklet is only in french but it doesn't have much text, overall you're not missing much if you can't understand french.
The films themselves are a peculiar thing but they're very good, if you're going into this blindly I hope you enjoy them !

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#146 Post by kekid » Tue Sep 20, 2022 8:05 pm

Request to Mods:
It would be great if there was a thread for all Integrale or big sets in one place.
We could conveniently find which sets exist, whether and whether they are English-Friendly.
Please consider.

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#147 Post by swo17 » Tue Sep 20, 2022 11:02 pm

I'm not entirely sure how such a thread would look, but perhaps it could work if there was enough interest and someone willing to maintain it like Finch does the UHD Titles Worth Upgrading thread

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#148 Post by kekid » Wed Sep 21, 2022 12:35 am

Here are two recent examples. The Tavernier box and the Claude Berri Box. The latter is called "Integrale", the former is not, but Tavernier is a substantial box. I wanted to know which films within these boxes have English subtitles. I have not been able to locate that information on the Berri box in this forum. That's when the thought occurred to me. If people who buy any such boxes (or find the pertinent information from some source), there should be a single place to share that with people on the forum. The mods can only provide the place. The success of the concept would depend on whether people take time to post information about the boxes they have. I thank the mods for considering it.

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#149 Post by Matt » Wed Sep 21, 2022 3:33 pm

My Clementi set arrived today. It’s a beautiful package, limited to 1000 numbered copies apparently. We’re getting some beautiful early autumn weather this week, but if I can, I will work my way through the set and post impressions as I go (like I did for the Duvivier silents box).

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#150 Post by Stefan Andersson » Fri Oct 21, 2022 3:29 pm

Peaux de vaches, with a strong Sandrine Bonnaire performance (and brief animal cruelty, if I remember correctly), now on Blu w/ English subs:

https://www.amazon.fr/Peaux-Vaches-Blu- ... C98&sr=8-1

https://www.editionsdeloeil.com/product ... icia-mazuy

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