Cohen Film Collection

[FrauBlucher]

Cineteca di Bologna announces a multi-year project to restore Buster Keaton works

After dedicating over a decade to Charlie Chaplin's films and archive, Cineteca di Bologna and l'Immagine Ritrovata will restore Buster Keaton's silent films

The first restorations will be presented next summer in Bologna during the XXIX edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato Film Festival

The unforgettable works of another great master of silent cinema will be brought to life again thanks to Cineteca di Bologna and Cohen Film Collection at L'Immagine Ritrovata laboratory in Bologna: after devoting more than a decade to Charles Chaplin, now Buster Keaton's entire silent works will be the focus of a multi-year restoration project which will allow audiences from around the world to rediscover Buster Keaton's genius.

The first restorations of the Keaton Project, launched and promoted by Cineteca di Bologna and Cohen Film Collection, will be presented during next edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato festival (June 27th through July 4th): the 1920 short comedy One Week, which encapsulates perfectly the American collective imagination of prefabricated housing and Sherlock Jr. made in 1924 and listed in by the "Time" as one of the best 100 films ever.

[FrauBlucher]

Jamaica Inn blu coming in May

[Drucker]

The credits at Film Forum also credited the BFI, so hopefully/probably they are releasing it too?

[EddieLarkin]

They were probably just involved in the restoration, much like the silent films. I'm fairly certain the rights are with ITV, so if a U.K. disc is coming it'll be from them or (more likely) Network.

[rockysds]

Love Unto Death / Life Is a Bed of Roses double feature on July 21.

[sir_luke]

Jamaica Inn at Beaver. Looks tremendous, considering all the previous releases.

[sir_luke]

Jamaica Inn gets top marks for video at Blu-ray.com

[sir_luke]

David, I completely agree. But at least it looks nice!

[Dr Amicus]

Pity about the film

Maybe so, but do the cast mumble?

[TMDaines]

I agree with Hare. The film is a sack of shit.

Pity about the film

Maybe so, but do the cast mumble?

That was much ado about nothing. My wife (who isn't an English native speaker) didn't have any more trouble with that than usual. Shame that that adaptation wasn't up to much either.

That begs the question - has there been a decent adaptation of Jamaica Inn?

[FrauBlucher]

As per an answer to a twitter question about a bluray release of the 4k The General....."We do plan a major re-release of Keaton's The General sometime in the next few years."

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A Single Girl (Benoît Jacquot, 1995) - 2K Restoration Trailer

The film is expected to arrive on Blu-ray later this year.

[Gregory]

Look, she takes off her top in a locker room!

[domino harvey]

She's French, so it's art

[FrauBlucher]

Gary Tooze will be all over those "screen caps".

[FrauBlucher]

Cohen has a Pialat coming.....Under the Sun of Satan

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Cohen has a Pialat coming.....Under the Sun of Satan

A footnote in the same article:

Note: Last year, the Cohen Media Group acquired the U.S. rights to eight classic films from Gaumont's catalog: Jean-Luc Godard's A Married Woman, Federico Fellini's City of Women, and Pialat's Under the Sun of Satan, Loulou, Van Gogh, The Mouth Agape, Get Your Diploma, and L'Amour Existe (Love Exists).

[domino harvey]

It'll be interesting to see what Cohen cooks up in terms of extras to compete with the MoCs. I think this label is producing some of the best intelligent extras on the market, so I fully expect to be wooed to many a double-dip

[Ashirg]

2-disc Benoît Jacquot Collection is being released on October 20.

[FrauBlucher]

Kao (1984) Taviani Brothers, restoration trailer.

[domino harvey]

I'm generally pro-Cohen and they've been doing a good job with their French releases in particular, but man Two Men in Manhattan's interview between IV and Rosenbaum is poorly done-- the two are filmed sitting in director high chairs and Rosenbaum is balancing a paperback about Melville on his lap while the two exchange non-insights. The opening discussion prompt is, I kid you not, "Who in your opinion is the hero of this film?" I wouldn't even open my high school film studies classes with that! It didn't help that I found the film awful besides (I've seen nearly every Melville film and this is way down at the bottom with no real competition)

[Grisbi]

I actually appreciated Rosenbaum plugging Vincendeau's book here and making it a part of the conversation - it's not only the best Melville book out there but one of the best director studies, period, and a lot of the talking points are taken directly from it so it seems a stroke of honesty for him to have it on hand. I think it's a decent conversation, hardcore Melville fans probably won't learn much but I could see it being pretty informative for your casual cinephile who maybe took a chance on the release and for whom, say, the Melville-Resistance connection is less than obvious.

I like the movie, it's certainly slight but clearly personal and dripping with atmosphere. When You Read This Letter must be the one you've never seen - the only truly bad movie Melville made imo.

[domino harvey]

When You Read This Letter must be the one you've never seen - the only truly bad movie Melville made imo.

Guilty as charged, it and Magnet of Doom are my only remaining unseen Melvilles

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2-disc Benoît Jacquot Collection is being released on October 20.

Here are the three films for this Benoît Jacquot collection:

• A Single Girl (1995)
  Keep It Quiet (1999)
  The Disenchanted (1990)

All three have new 2K restorations/remasters.

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Kent Jones' documentary Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015)

Official trailer: Hitchcock/Truffaut