Claire Denis

[The Fanciful Norwegian]

Le Cinéma Club to relaunch on June 14th with Denis' New York-set 1991 short Keep It for Yourself.

[dda1996a]

Wow! That's a double dose of great news

[bearcuborg]

That’s quite a platform they have lined up. The website in progress looks someone’s phone camera is on while in their pocket though.

[DarkImbecile]

Good BFI interview:

Cinema is also born as a fairground art, by people who were already on the margins in some way. Not the Lumière brothers, of course, they were industrialists. But they quickly came to film marginalised people, and most actors were people from the margins. So I think that it’s an obligation, for me. And gangsters aren’t the only kind of marginalised people. And cinema isn’t just about compassion, we don’t have to cry about the terrible misfortune of someone. We can also show to what extent marginalised people cope and pull through without necessarily calling for help.

[Satori]

That is a great interview. Thanks for posting it. It is useful how it centers No Fear, No Die in her oeuvre. I think that is a great film that sometimes gets overlooked because of how many masterpieces she churned out in the 90s.

[criterionsnob]

Le Cinéma Club to relaunch on June 14th with Denis' New York-set 1991 short Keep It for Yourself.

This is streaming now for free for one week at Le Cinéma Club. It is a rare Japanese subtitled VHS copy currently streaming, but here's an update: Le Cinéma Club team believes they've "located the negatives of the film, and is hoping to be help restore them."

[spectre]

It's an excellent and enjoyable short film, kind of like early Jim Jarmusch in many respects (indeed, it even features a John Lurie soundtrack, and Sara Driver has a cameo). Amazing the things that turn up – anyone know which anthology the film belonged to? Anyway, great to hear that the negatives have been located!

[zedz]

It's an excellent and enjoyable short film, kind of like early Jim Jarmusch in many respects (indeed, it even features a John Lurie soundtrack, and Sara Driver has a cameo).

Makes sense, as she was assistant director on Down By Law.

[knives]

There's a whole bunch of overlapping crew for sure. As to the short there's a summary below the video, but basically it was part of a feature car ad called Figaro.

[kuzine]

Anyone any idea how the first outdoors NYC tracking shot was done roughly 2 minutes in? It starts quite high up and ends up almost at street level. Would guess they used some existing transport but unless there is a cable car or something I haven't heard of, can't figure out what it is...

[Oedipax]

Anyone any idea how the first outdoors NYC tracking shot was done roughly 2 minutes in? It starts quite high up and ends up almost at street level. Would guess they used some existing transport but unless there is a cable car or something I haven't heard of, can't figure out what it is...

It's the tram that runs from Roosevelt Island to Manhattan - ending up on E 60th St & 2nd Avenue.

It's weird that I know this as a non-native New Yorker (I've only visited a few times in my life), but on one of those trips I happened to take the same tram. This is the second time recently I've noticed it in a film - it's also featured at the very end of the Safdies' Daddy Longlegs, albeit from the perspective of the platform as the tram departs.

[kuzine]

Thanks for that info!

[NABOB OF NOWHERE]

Claire's Parisien diary
https://www.vulture.com/2020/04/claire- ... ripts.html

[criterionsnob]

L’intrus listed as ”A Metrograph Pictures release”and coming digitally July 24. I wonder what the chances of Metrograph releasing this on Blu-ray are.

[senseabove]

I don't believe they've released any discs themselves, but Metrograph has struck a deal with Kino recently. Here's hoping there's been an unannounced restoration...

[criterionsnob]

I have the recent Hyenas Blu-ray, which has the Metrograph Pictures logo on the front exclusively, but also Kino on the back. It appears similar for the recent Blu-ray of Downtown 81 and upcoming A Bigger Splash (neither of which I have yet). Anyway, here's hoping they/Kino will release L'intrus too.

[criterionsnob]

L'intrus page on Metrograph site.

[senseabove]

It seems odd for them not to have done one, but I'm not holding my breath since nowhere on anywhere does it mention a new restoration for L'Intrus, while many other titles on that filmstage.com list do... if anybody watches it let us know how it looks!

[whaleallright]

Not every film demands a "restoration," a word that comes pretty cheap nowadays anyway (often meaning any new digital transfer with a little algorithmic scrubbing applied).

[kubelkind]

If not a full restoration, L'Intrus certainly deserves something better than the typically murky Tartan DVD (which is now out of print), hopefully it won't be streamed from that as a source. Having the Bruce Baillie film as a curtain raiser is a nice idea, though I think Valentin de las Sierras would have been a more inspired choice.

[senseabove]

Okay... I hope there's a newer transfer than was used for DVDs released fifteen years ago, which would seemingly warrant mention for one of the most celebrated living French filmmakers and would probably be described as "a restoration" of some sort by the company releasing it, since their press release for the online film series mentions several "restorations" as well as, more narrowly, "digital restorations" for several other films, but whose promotional website for L'Intrus includes a still that, unfortunately, looks like this.

[criterionsnob]

I watched the Metrograph stream of L'intrus, and while it looked like an older source, it certainly looked much better than my old DVD.

[Oedipax]

I watched the Metrograph stream of L'intrus, and while it looked like an older source, it certainly looked much better than my old DVD.

Argh, I wish I had known this earlier. It looks like L'intrus is already unavailable on their streaming platform.

[Oedipax]

Sadly, the Metrograph screening of Trouble Every Day looked worse than the various DVD releases. Massive macroblocking apparent from the opening moments of light shining on the Seine. So bad that I wouldn't completely rule out some kind of connectivity issues, though I'm on a fast fiber connection.

[criterionsnob]

I emailed Metrograph about the possibility of L’intrus on Blu and here’s their response:

I love to hear this! We definitely have plans to bring this out on dvd / blu-ray! When that time comes we will post about it and put it in our newsletter. I don’t have an exact timeline now, but know it is definitely in the works.