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Re: Gaumont French Releases

#276 Post by L.A. » Tue Oct 07, 2014 8:20 am


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Re: Gaumont French Releases

#277 Post by pointless » Tue Dec 09, 2014 12:47 am

Gaumont announces two releases for February 25, 2015, both newly restored in 2K.

Les grandes personnes (Time Out for Love) - Jean Valère, 1961

Special Features:
  • Original Trailer
    History of Love - new documentary produced by Dominique Maillet, featuring Jean Valère.
    Optional English subtitles
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Crime et châtiment (Crime and Punishment) - Georges Lampin, 1956

Special Features:
  • Original Trailer
    Georges Lampin, cinéaste mystère/Mysterious Filmmaker - new documentary produced by Dominique Maillet, featuring interviews with Robert Hossein, Jean-Philippe Guérand and Jean Valère.
    Optional English subtitles
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Re: Gaumont French Releases

#278 Post by Calvin » Sat Jan 24, 2015 6:49 am

Jerome Soulet posted Gaumont's 2015 slate on DVDClassik.
February 25th, 2015 (Classiques)
Crime et châtiment (1956, G. Lampin) DVD/BD
Les grandes personnes (1961, J. Valère) DVD/BD

March 25th, 2015 (Découvertes)
Ni vu… ni connu… (1958, Y. Robert) BD
Du mouron pour les petits oiseaux (1962, M. Carné) BD
Le grand restaurant (1966, J. Besnard) BD
La valise (1973, G. Lautner) BD
La 7ème cible (1984, C. Pinoteau) BD

April 8th, 2015 (Classiques)
Lady Paname (1950, H. Jeanson) DVD/BD
L’affaire Maurizius (1954, J. Duvivier) DVD/BD

May 6th, 2015 (Classiques) 1 Box Set featuring the following titles
Les jeux de l’amour (1960, P. de Broca) DVD/BD
Le farceur (1961, P. de Broca) DVD/BD
L’amant de cinq jours (1961, P. de Broca) DVD/BD (titre du catalogue de TF1 Vidéo)
Un monsieur de compagnie (1964, P. de Broca) DVD/BD

May 6th, 2015 (Découvertes)
9 garçons… un cœur ! (1948, G. Freedland) BD
Comme un cheveu sur la soupe (1957, M. Régamey) BD
Un idiot à Paris (1967, S. Korber) BD
Le téléphone rose (1975, E. Molinaro) BD
Le coup du parapluie (1980, G. Oury) BD

June 10th, 2015 (Classiques)
Zazie dans le métro (1960, L. Malle) DVD/BD
Lacombe Lucien (1974, L. Malle) DVD/BD

June 10th, 2015 (Découvertes)
La grande sauterelle (1967, G. Lautner) BD
Les patates (1969, C. Autant-Lara) BD
Eugénio (1981, L. Comencini) BD
Héroïnes (1997, G. Krawczyk) BD
Vatel (2000, R. Joffé) BD

July 8th, 2015 (Classiques)
Les aristocrates (1955, D. de La Patellière) DVD/BD
Marie-Antoinette (1955, J. Delannoy) DVD/BD
Les désarrois de l’élève Törless (1966, V. Schlöndorff) DVD/BD

August 26th, 2015 (Découvertes)
Katia (1959, R. Siodmak) BD
Signé Arsène Lupin (1959, Y. Robert) BD
Arsène Lupin contre Arsène Lupin (1962, E. Molinaro) BD
Le monte-charge (1962, M. Bluwal) BD
Pas de problème ! (1975, G. Lautner) BD
Un monsieur de compagnie (1964, P. De Broca) BD
Les caprices de Marie (1970, P. De Broca) BD

SCHEDULED (TO CONFIRM)

Early September 2015 (Classiques)
Le souffle au cœur (1971, L. Malle) DVD/BD
Au revoir les enfants (1987, L. Malle) DVD/BD
Milou en mai (1990, L. Malle) DVD/BD

Late September 2015 (Découvertes)
L'affaire des poisons (1955, H. Decoin) BD
Quand passent les faisans (1965, E. Molinaro) BD
Estouffade à la Caraïbe (1967, J. Besnard) BD
Sous le signe du taureau (1969, G. Grangier) BD
L'homme orchestre (1970, S. Korber) BD

Early October 2015 (Classiques)
Pattes blanches (1949, J. Grémillon) DVD/BD
Pourquoi viens-tu si tard… (1959, H. Decoin) DVD/BD
Une histoire immortelle (1968, O. Welles) UK & French version DVD/BD

Late October 2015 (Découvertes)
La cage aux rossignols (1945, J. Dréville) BD
Bébert et l'omnibus (1963, Y. Robert) BD
L'homme qui valait des milliards (1967, M. Boisrond) BD OR ... La verte moisson (1959, F. Villiers)
Fleur d'oseille (1968, G. Lautner) BD
L’état sauvage (1978, F. Girod) BD

Early November 2015 (Classiques)
Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (1958, L. Malle) DVD/BD
Le feu follet (1963, L. Malle) DVD/BD
Black moon (1975, L. Malle) DVD/BD

Late November 2015 (Découvertes)
Un caprice de Caroline Chérie (1953, J. Devaivre) BD
Le fils de Caroline Chérie (1955, J. Devaivre) BD
Le dos au mur (1958, E. Molinaro) BD
Les lions sont lâchés (1961, H. Verneuil) BD
Les copains (1965, Y. Robert) BD

December 2015 (or January 2016) (Classiques)
Les amants (1958, L. Malle) DVD/BD
Atlantic city (1958, L. Malle) DVD/BD
Also planned are Fantômas, Les Vampires and a Nico Papatakis box set.

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Re: Gaumont French Releases

#279 Post by Jack Phillips » Sat Jan 24, 2015 11:58 am

Le dos au mur (1958, E. Molinaro) BD
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Re: Gaumont French Releases

#280 Post by TMDaines » Sat Jan 24, 2015 2:11 pm

It makes you weak at the knees, that list.

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Re: Gaumont French Releases

#281 Post by Finch » Sat Jan 24, 2015 3:43 pm

Would be nice if MoC ported the Gremillion over, perhaps in early 2016?

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Re: Gaumont French Releases

#282 Post by swo17 » Sat Jan 24, 2015 3:52 pm

Yes, please! It's one of his best/strangest films.

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Re: Gaumont French Releases

#283 Post by NABOB OF NOWHERE » Sat Jan 24, 2015 4:11 pm

And would make a great blu double with Lumiere d'été equally restored but not out on blu anywhere.
I really can't understand the reticence with Gremillon both in France and Anglophone territories. He has had two major retrospectives at Edinburgh and London film festivals, seasons in NY ,a major collection of essays in a recent Cahiers du Cinema issue and other than a few Gaumont a la demande and the Eclipse set there is relatively nothing.

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#284 Post by otis » Sat Mar 21, 2015 3:59 am

Three limited edition box sets coming from Gaumont this summer:
Coffret Collection 120 Ans, Vol. 1 : Le Muet - 1895-1929
20 DVD contenant :
Alice Guy (période 1897-1907) - 66 courts-métrages (240’)
Louis Feuillade (période 1907-1913) - 25 courts-métrages et moyens-métrages (300’)
Léonce Perret (période 1910-1913) - 15 courts-métrages, moyens-métrages et longs-métrages (420’)
Émile Cohl (période 1908-1921) - 60 courts-métrages (330’)
Jean Durand (période 1911-1915) - 40 courts-métrages et moyens-métrages (320’)
Jacques Feyder (période 1916) - 3 courts-métrages et moyens-métrages (70’)
Marcel L’Herbier (période 1920-1921) - 13 courts-métrages et 2 longs-métrages (L’homme du large, El Dorado)
Raymond Bernard (période 1924-1929) - 3 longs-métrages (Le miracle des loups, Le joueur d’échecs, Tarakanova)
Jean Renoir (période 1929) - 1 long-métrage (Le bled)
Réalisateur divers : Roméo Bosetti, Henri Fescourt, René Le Somptier, Gaston Ravel (période 1909-1915) - 13 courts-métrages et moyens-métrages (150’)
Films non attribués (période 1907-1916 ) - 12 courts-métrages et moyens-métrages (120’)
1 CD-audio de musiques d’accompagnement des films muets (32’30”)
1 livre (268 pages)

Coffret Collection 120 Ans, Vol. 2 : 1930-1944
La fin du monde  d’Abel Gance (1931)
Daïna la métisse  de Jean Grémillon (1931)
Les 28 jours de Clairette  d’André Hugon (1933)
Zéro de conduite  de Jean Vigo (1933)
Madame Bovary  de Jean Renoir (1934)
L’Atalante  de Jean Vigo (1934)
Toni  de Jean Renoir (1935)
Jenny  de Marcel Carné (1936)
Le roman d’un tricheur  de Sacha Guitry (1936)
Courrier sud  de Pierre Billon (1937)
L’homme du jour  de Julien Duvivier (1937)
Un carnet de bal  de Julien Duvivier (1937)
 Quadrille  de Sacha Guitry (1938)
Les nuits blanches de Saint-Petersbourg  de Jean Dréville (1938)
La maison du Maltais  de Pierre Chenal (1938)
J’étais une aventurière  de Raymond Bernard (1938)
Pièges  de Robert Siodmak (1939)
De Mayerling à Sarajevo  de Max Ophuls (1940)
Premier rendez-vous  de Henri Decoin (1941)
Le dernier des six  de Georges Lacombe (1941)
Le journal tombe à 5 heures  de Georges Lacombe (1942)
Le mariage de Chiffon  de Claude Autant-Lara (1942)
 L’assassin habite… au 21  de Henri-Georges Clouzot (1942)
Picpus  de Richard Pottier (1943)
La main du diable  de Maurice Tourneur (1943)
Marie-Martine  de Albert Valentin (1943)
1 CD-audio des plus grandes musiques des films Gaumont

Coffret Collection 120 Ans, Vol. 3 : 1945-1954
La cage aux rossignols  de Jean Dréville (1945)
Untel père et fils  de Julien Duvivier (1945)
Trente et quarante  de Gilles Grangier (1945)
Les maudits  de René Clément (1947)
Antoine et Antoinette  de Jacques Becker (1947)
9 garçons… un coeur !  de Georges Freedland (1948)
Parade du temps perdu (les casse-pieds)  de Jean Dréville (1948)
Le silence de la mer  de Jean-Pierre Melville (1949)
Rendez-vous de juillet  de Jacques Becker (1949)
La beauté du Diable  de René Clair (1950)
Lady Paname  de Henri Jeanson (1950)
Justice est faite  de André Cayatte (1950)
Ma pomme  de Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon (1950)
 Caroline chérie  de Richard Pottier (1951)
 La poison  de Sacha Guitry (1951)
La vérité sur Bébé Donge  de Henri Decoin (1952)
Le plaisir  de Max Ophuls (1952)
La minute de vérité  de Jean Delannoy (1952)
Les belles de nuit  de René Clair (1952)
Madame de…  de Max Ophuls (1953)
Le blé en herbe  de Claude Autant-Lara (1954)
Le défroqué  de Léo Joannon (1954)
 Le grand jeu  de Robert Siodmak (1954)
L’affaire Maurizius  de Julien Duvivier (1954)
Le rouge et le noir  de Claude Autant-Lara (1954 - film en 2 époques - 2 DVD)
1 CD-audio des plus grandes musiques des films Gaumont
Any ideas as to which of these are otherwise unavailable?

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Re: Gaumont French Releases

#285 Post by tenia » Sat Mar 21, 2015 6:50 am

The 1st set is purely packing already-available stuff together, no exclusivity whatsoever. I'm not sure for the other 2, but I think it's the same (the 2nd set surely looks like it has no exclusitivy too).

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Re: Gaumont French Releases

#286 Post by EddieLarkin » Sat Mar 21, 2015 10:07 am

tenia, do you know if everything that makes up the first set had English subs?

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#287 Post by sinemadelisikiz » Sat Mar 21, 2015 10:16 am

EddieLarkin wrote:tenia, do you know if everything that makes up the first set had English subs?
I'm pretty sure the L'Herbier twofer did not have English subs, but the Bernard set did so probably a mixed bag.

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#288 Post by tenia » Sat Mar 21, 2015 10:22 am

EddieLarkin wrote:tenia, do you know if everything that makes up the first set had English subs?
I haven't seen any specs yet regarding the subs, but as sinemadelisikiz wrote, it could be a mixed bag (such are currently the BD releases of Gaumont, where some have Eng subs and others don't). I just asked Jerome Soulet on DVD Classik where he is quite active, I'll post here the answer if/when I get one.

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#289 Post by Jonathan S » Sat Mar 21, 2015 10:40 am

The original two Gaumont sets titled Le Cinema Premier (6 discs each) have no subs. Most of the listed shorts, and a few features, derive from these. As far as I'm aware, only the Bernard features have subs - the original issue of Renoir's Le bled has none.

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#290 Post by FrauBlucher » Sat Mar 21, 2015 2:00 pm

DVDClassiK wrote:Début décembre 2015 (sus réserve car peuvent basculer en janvier 2016): 2 titres GC
Les amants (1958, L. Malle) DVD/BD
Atlantic city (1958, L. Malle) DVD/BD
I'm going to assume this is a typo and the Atlantic City is from 1980, which I would be really excited about. Hopefully, a possible blu ray release in the states.

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Re: Gaumont French Releases

#291 Post by tenia » Sat Mar 21, 2015 3:31 pm

OK, so for the 120th anniversary boxsets, Gaumont will be using the existing DVDs so if there weren't Eng subs to being with, there still won't be any.
In the 2nd and 3rd sets, there are a couple of exclusivities but they won't last (usually they will last only a couple of weeks).

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#292 Post by otis » Sat Mar 21, 2015 9:18 pm

Thanks for the clarification, tenia.

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#293 Post by pointless » Sat Apr 11, 2015 12:42 am

June and July titles


JUNE 10th

Lacombe, Lucien (Louis Malle, 1974)

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Héroïnes (Gérard Krawczyk, 1997)

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Vatel (Roland Joffé, 2000)

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Eugenio (Luigi Comencini, 1980)

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Zazie dans le metro (Louis Malle, 1974)

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Les Patates (Claude Autant-Lara, 1969)

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JULY 8th

The Aristocrats (Denys de La Patellière, 1955)

Marie-Antoinette (Jean Delannoy, 1956)

Young Torless (Volker Schlöndorff, 1966)

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Re: Gaumont French Releases

#294 Post by EddieLarkin » Sat Apr 11, 2015 9:10 am

Any suggestion that Zazie will be a new transfer? The Criterion is old and lacking, and I'm fairly sure in the wrong ratio (though I think more due to being cropped at the sides as opposed to being open matte).

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#295 Post by Telstar » Wed Jun 03, 2015 8:18 am

I understand that English subs are provided (although not for the extras), but can anyone speak to the picture quality? (Reviews of this title appear to be in very short supply.)

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#296 Post by tenia » Wed Jun 03, 2015 9:36 am

Here is my review : http://retro-hd.com/tests/blu-ray/1908- ... ounov.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

It is very good IMO, and there are indeed optional English subs.

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#297 Post by CR2 » Thu Jun 04, 2015 12:36 am

Is Heroïnes interesting at all? I can find little if anything about it, but the premise interests me enough.

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#298 Post by nolanoe » Sat Jun 06, 2015 11:52 am

Virginie Ledoyen is in it - that should suffice. ;)

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#299 Post by andyli » Wed Jul 08, 2015 8:55 pm

Zazie reviewed at Blu-ray.com. Despite a clearly more recent scan, The reviewer gave it only 3.5 out of 5 for PQ. He even went on to call the old Criterion transfer "unquestionably superior". :-k

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#300 Post by pro-bassoonist » Fri Jul 17, 2015 4:48 pm

As strange as it may sound, the Criterion transfer has a lot more detail. In darker sequences there is a massive amount of detail that is wiped out on the Gaumont transfer, which isn't surprising at this point as many of their catalog transfers are filtered across the board. The filtering has also affected the dynamic range as well as various color tonalities. You can see how drastic the discrepancy can be here:

1. Gaumont (New transfer)
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/screensho ... osition=13" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

2. Criterion (Old transfer)
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/screensho ... osition=12" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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