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Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 10:25 pm
by accatone
ONE+ONE will also be released in germany but i am not sure about the extras...nevertheless it will be cheaper than the french release. Just orderd the DOCUMENTS - have to get my french in shape ....

Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 3:00 am
by The Fanciful Norwegian
ONE+ONE will also be released in germany but i am not sure about the extras...nevertheless it will be cheaper than the french release.
There's also the UK release, which will probably be cheaper than either (at least for folks in the UK and the U.S.). It looks like they'll be carrying over all the features from the Carlotta version.

Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 8:33 am
by Arn777
Re the exhibition, I read a short article in Les Inrockuptibles, basically mentioning that not many people still know the content of the exhibition, as plans keep changing, Godard changing his mind, budgetary issues and a few rifts, not even if it will actually start on the 11th.

Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 8:51 am
by ellipsis7
Arn777 wrote:Re the exhibition, I read a short article in Les Inrockuptibles, basically mentioning that not many people still know the content of the exhibition, as plans keep changing, Godard changing his mind, budgetary issues and a few rifts, not even if it will actually start on the 11th.
Yeah, I just heard something similar, that he is making it difficult...

Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 12:30 pm
by accatone
As far as there had been bilingual publications in the past (Cocteau...) i thought about the possibility of having english as well in the DOCUMENTS...
I regret the Godard catalogue is only in French but there is a dvd with it. You can buy it through :[email protected] Best regards, Benoît Collier.

Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 1:57 pm
by tavernier
accatone wrote:As far as there had been bilingual publications in the past (Cocteau...) i thought about the possibility of having english as well in the DOCUMENTS...
I regret the Godard catalogue is only in French but there is a dvd with it. You can buy it through :[email protected] Best regards, Benoît Collier.
So is the DVD English-friendly?

Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 8:41 pm
by otis
The Fanciful Norwegian wrote:
ONE+ONE will also be released in germany but i am not sure about the extras...nevertheless it will be cheaper than the french release.
There's also the UK release, which will probably be cheaper than either (at least for folks in the UK and the U.S.). It looks like they'll be carrying over all the features from the Carlotta version.
DVD Times review of the UK release.
The picture quality on Sympathy For The Devil and One + One is generally excellent. The image is colourful, bright and clear showing quite superb sharpness and detail. There is an absence of any troublesome grain and the image is perfectly stable. Other than one or two little marks that pop up now and again around the end of reels, this is virtually flawless.

Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 7:10 am
by accatone
tavernier wrote:So is the DVD English-friendly?
Just recieved a short response:
Sorry, no English subtitles!

Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 1:14 pm
by tavernier
accatone wrote:
tavernier wrote:So is the DVD English-friendly?
Just recieved a short response:
Sorry, no English subtitles!
Well that does it then; thanks.

Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 12:06 am
by otis
Review of the French One + One disc here. The Carlotta has one or two more extras than the British disc, but there's not a lot in it.

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Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 6:53 pm
by hellboytr
Unexpectedly, Amazon.fr shipped my "Documents" today, which i had placed on the 7th of April :o Luckily, it costed me a mere 20 euros, i'll comment on the quality of the DVD when the package arrives :)

Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 7:55 pm
by Arn777
hellboytr wrote:Unexpectedly, Amazon.fr shipped my "Documents" today
Got mine yesterday, at the full price plus high postage cost staright from Pompidou, definitely worth it, it will take me a while to go through the book, it i text heavy. The dvd is good, shame only one hour of images and sound, good to see all the crazy Girbaud ads in there and on s'est tous defile is great as is Letter to Freddy Buache.

Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 8:56 pm
by ellipsis7
amazon.fr site page says they have run out of copies and appear not to know when more will be available - strange!

Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 7:29 pm
by kalavin
hellboytr wrote:Unexpectedly, Amazon.fr shipped my "Documents" today
I, too, am waiting for my copy to ship from amazon.fr, but now they say that the shipping will be in one-to-two days.

I ordered on May 4th...and the price has gone up quite a bit, so I guess I'm waiting it out.

Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 8:14 pm
by accatone
kalavin wrote:
hellboytr wrote:Unexpectedly, Amazon.fr shipped my "Documents" today
I, too, am waiting for my copy to ship from amazon.fr, but now they say that the shipping will be in one-to-two days.

I ordered on May 4th...and the price has gone up quite a bit, so I guess I'm waiting it out.
me too! But didn't received a message about a higher price? The DOCUMENTS were off the list a few days, but now back for 45€ - My order is/was around 25€? I was wondering if they can cancel my order due to a now higher price ... any info? i hope the HISTOIRE(S) will finally be shipped on time ....

Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 9:06 pm
by hellboytr
accatone wrote:My order is/was around 25€ ...? I was wondering if they can cancel my order due to a now higher price ... any info?
I don't think amazon.fr changes prices after you place your order. I also ordered Documents very early for about 20 euros(initial price minus VAT), then the price went up to 40 euros but they still shipped my order and didn't want any extra charges :no:

Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 11:16 pm
by kalavin
accatone wrote:... i hope the HISTOIRE(S) will finally be shipped in time ....
Sorry to cause you confusion, accatone. Amazon.fr, like amazon.com and amazon.co.uk, won't increase the price that you've already "locked in" by ordering early. You'll pay exactly what your original invoice says; it's just a question of when you'll pay (that is, whenever the order ships).

Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 12:23 pm
by hellboytr
My "Documents" book just arrived and i should say this is not simply a book; it is something GIANT, more like a THICK volume of an ENCYCLOPEDIA :shock:

Believe me i have more than 2000 books in my home library and this will be absolutely one of the most precious additions to it =P~

I urge all Godardophiles one again not to miss this great book, i haven't checked the accompanying DVD yet but Letter To Freddy Buache and Meeting Woody Allen are like two jewels for me =D>

Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 3:50 pm
by BrightEyes23
Can we hope for an english translation of this gem? From the sounds of it, it is something that I, and any Godard fanatic, would LOVE to add in their library, but without more than a very elementary understanding of French, would be just a picture book.

Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 10:26 pm
by hellboytr
Here is a random collection of screnshots from each of the films/commercials on the DVD; the image is quite interlaced by the way, especially ON S'EST TOUS DEFILE. On Meetin' WA, there are unremovable French subtitles most of the film when the audio is in English...

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Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 9:27 pm
by kalavin
Thanks for the screenshots hellboytr. Looks great.

Now if amazon.fr would get around to shipping my copy, that would be truly lovely.

Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 5:37 pm
by numediaman2
The New York Times has spoken:

From an article on the difficulties of making documentaries from film clips:
One copyright holder, James Velaise, the president of Pretty Pictures, ultimately agreed to license a clip from François Truffaut's "Breathless" for $1,000, a fraction of his usual asking price.
So, Breathless is now a Truffaut film? Clearly a mistake, no?

So I wrote the public editor. His response:

Truffaut wrote the story, Godard the screenplay. No correction necessary, Breathless is a film by Truffaut.

So, there you have it. DVDBeaver will now have to shift Breathless from the Godard area to the Truffaut area. The newspaper of record has officially spoken.

Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 5:44 pm
by justeleblanc
hysterical

Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 5:48 pm
by David Ehrenstein
Further indication of the fact that the New York Times is the world's worst newspaper.

Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 5:56 pm
by Brian Oblivious
Oh dear. Did somebody actually take The Schreiber Theory seriously?