Grasshopper Film

[Aunt Peg]

Grasshopper releasing Kleber Mondonca's Pictures of Ghosts (2023) on August 6: https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=34688

[ando]

I see twelve Straub/Huillet films streaming here, six not on blu:

https://projectr.tv/films/category/the- ... 000171ed17

PROJECTR now has the The Complete Straub-Huillet Collection
streaming. Be interested to see which U.S. libraries aside from NYPL that provide the service to their patrons.

[Michael Kerpan]

I can't find any list on institutions that offer access to this service....

[hearthesilence]

I watched most of them when Metrograph streamed them last year. Would love a Blu-ray box set but I imagine that might be tough to pull off - I'm not sure how many copies they'd sell.

EDIT: Here's what I posted:

The quality is top-notch - I haven't watched all of them, but they appear to be derived from recent 2K restorations made from fresh scans of the original camera negative (with 4K scans for those that I know to be filmed on 35mm). When you get to the very end of the credits (after the music finishes), they will have restoration cards that will display all the relevant information in French.

FWIW, even though it says "complete," they clearly don't have everything they made. (They do have most of their work though.) As if to drive this point home, a bunch of them will no longer be available after tomorrow, including several of their best films that aren't available on Blu-ray either. Among those being pulled after tomorrow, I personally favor the features From the Cloud to the Resistance and Too Early, Too Late and the shorts Black Sin (worth it for the opening alone) and Cezanne, Conversation with Joachim Gaasquet.

[ando]

I can't find any list on institutions that offer access to this service....

I can't either, but I do see various university libraries (like USC) which offer it via a Google search.

[GrasshopperFilm]

Hello all, thanks for your interest in Projectr! The platform is available to anyone living in NY state via the New York Public Library (you can get an instant digital library card on the NYPL site). It's also available in universities and colleges around the country. But the platform is new, and we're hoping to add more libraries in the coming months. If you like, please do email your local public library and request the service.

There are over 1300 titles on Projectr, from many great distributors, and of course, the complete restored Straub-Huillet collection.

If you have any questions about the platform or anything else, don't hesitate to let us know.

Thanks!

[ando]

If you have any questions about the platform or anything else, don't hesitate to let us know.

Thanks!

Are there plans to develop a stand alone application? Currently, if I want to watch a feature on my large screen tv I have to cast it from the website. Thanks.

[GrasshopperFilm]

Are there plans to develop a stand alone application? Currently, if I want to watch a feature on my large screen tv I have to cast it from the website. Thanks.

Yes, definitely. We're hoping to have apps ready by early next year.

[ando]

We're hoping to have apps ready by early next year.

Good to hear. Thanks.

[Peacock]

Any hope for more Straub-Huillet films on disc dear Grasshopper?

[GrasshopperFilm]

Not at the moment. It's always something we're hoping to do. But it doesn't seem like a sustainable project unfortunately. We are happy though that we can at least make all the SH titles available for streaming on Projectr.

[Peacock]

Heartbreaking! A handful of major films not available on English-friendly disc yet, but I understand it from a business perspective, S-H just aren’t high profile enough figures these days sadly, not sure why that is.

Very grateful that you guys put out the films that you did on disc and I guess as a UK customer who doesn’t stream I’ll have to improve my French and purchase the French releases instead.

Thanks for answering.

[Calvin]

As Peacock said - heartbreaking!

If there's any way of getting these on disc - I'm thinking a crowd funded box set or something along those lines - then I'd certainly support it

[hearthesilence]

Black Friday sale is on. 40% off all Blu-rays, DVDs and vinyl LP's until Monday - no code needed.