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Yeah I love that movie - if I had to kind of dream what a Rivette musical would look like, it would pretty much look exactly like HBF.

HBF is one of those Rivette films that I have seen only in unsubbed form (thanks to the wonderful long-ago Arte box set).

Funny enough, Haut bas fragile is my favourite of all his post-Noroît films.

nolanoe wrote:And I wanted to have this book for a long time now. My french is a bit spotty, though.

Frappat's books on Rivette, "Secret compris" and the aforementioned "Trois films fantômes" are pretty informative, though personally I don't have much use for her analysis.
There's also the french dvd of Histoire de Marie et Julien, where, if memory serves, Lubtchansky talks a little bit of the original project.

Has anyone here seen Va Savoir +? As time goes by it has remained his most elusive film.

Oops! Sorry.

As you were.

Move along, there's nothing to see.

The love for HBF baffles me. I think it's his weakest - both visually and narratively. Where his others seem very tightly knit, this one has a feeling of stagnation to me - the characters drift back and forth and nothing really happens, except for some dancing and occasional singing, which is also not to my musical tastes as much as I liked it to be. The cinematography here is also the least pretty, I think.

Perhaps some of us liked the characters and the mood, and enjoyed at least some of the musical/dance moments -- and didn't mind the "drifting".

I think your criticisms of HBF can easily be applied to any Rivette film if you wanted to. As for least pretty, for a guy who made a great deal of cinema on 16mm, a 35mm production being the least pretty of his films seems a little baffling.

I don't get your correlation. 16 can be very beautiful even as it has a different aesthetic.

Yeah it can be - but the majority of motion pictures are shot on 35mm because it gives a "better" image. It's not an arbitrary thing. I'm also not saying I feel 16 is necessarily inferior or anything. But I don't think it takes a huge leap to understand what I'm talking about.

It's also worth pointing out that, on the same Facebook post revealing the artwork, Arrow shared this tidbit: "Please be aware that owing to a new contractual obligation we have unfortunately had to amend to region-coding to REGION B ONLY."

Classy!

They are a little similar to the covers in the Rohmer box.

The booklet cover should be the box cover but still lookin nice!

Sorry for grumbling, but the new artwork is way too cute for my taste. I actually prefer the temp art Arrow originally used.

I predict it'll be 7 discs going by how the films are divided.

Emak-Bakia wrote:It's also worth pointing out that, on the same Facebook post revealing the artwork, Arrow shared this tidbit: "Please be aware that owing to a new contractual obligation we have unfortunately had to amend to region-coding to REGION B ONLY."

Goddammit. Yeah, I know should get a multi-region player. To the unwatched pile my preorder will go.

Why does Merry Go Round have a different font for "A Film By Jacques Rivette"?

I'm a little confused how/why there's suddenly new contracts being signed - surely the films were signed off ages ago?

Drucker wrote:Why does Merry Go Round have a different font for "A Film By Jacques Rivette"?

They alternate between blocky bold font and cursive script for "A film by..." and the title, so Merry Go Round gets script title and block font "A film by"

I assume the oversea-rights went to somebody else... maybe?

nolanoe wrote:I assume the oversea-rights went to somebody else... maybe?

Likely Carlotta's forthcoming French and US release of Out 1.

That it was ever region free considering Carlotta's US plans was always surprising, so this isn't a big shock

But surely the contract Arrow signed should have already been taken care of? I don't see why a new vendor/distributor signing on abroad should change the deal Arrow had theoretically already made.

It really doesn't matter for me because I can still play it but changing this and making some people need to cancel their order is less than ideal to my mind.

Now that we have this when do we think we'll get the proper packshot for Yoshida? I'm expecting it to be a similar setup but I'm surprised we saw this first.