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ellipsis7 · **Joined:** Tue Nov 02, 2004 1:56 pm **Location:** Ireland

Except their release dates are notoriously unreliable, always being multiply put back, delayed etc... More annoying than serious... Other fly in the ointment is that they've made some silly mistakes on previous releases... See www.Nostalghia.com for the saga of some of the Tarkovsky releases...

Upside is that they have an excellent catalogue.... Coming in 2005 (postponed several times) are Robert Bresson's "A Man Escaped", "Le Diable Probablement" and "Lancelot du Lac". "L'Argent" which they release on VHS, should also be probably added at some stage...

In the London Film Festival catalogue 2004 AE advertise forthcoming additions to the DVD collection as, 'Rohmer's "Tales of 4 Seasons", Loach's "Land and Freedom", Dreyer's "Passion of Joan of Arc", Pialat's "Van Gogh", Feuillade's "Van Gogh, Jarman's "The Garden", and a collection of titles from Bresson (including "A Man Escaped"), Fassbinder (including "Veronika Voss"), Satyajit Ray (including "Days and Nights in the Forest") and Angelopoulos (including "The Travelling Players" & "Eternity and a Day")'....

vertovfan · **Joined:** Tue Nov 02, 2004 7:46 pm

I just got their Jean Vigo double-disc set and I'm pretty pleased. The prints aren't pristine, but they're certainly good enough for me - and you can't beat getting his entire oeuvre in one set!

mingus · **Joined:** Wed Nov 03, 2004 7:04 pm **Location:** Vienna

ellipsis7 wrote:

... forthcoming additions to the DVD collection as, 'Rohmer's "Tales of 4 Seasons", Loach's "Land and Freedom", Dreyer's "Passion of Joan of Arc", Pialat's "Van Gogh", Feuillade's "Van Gogh, Jarman's "The Garden", and a collection of titles from Bresson (including "A Man Escaped"), Fassbinder (including "Veronika Voss"), Satyajit Ray (including "Days and Nights in the Forest") and Angelopoulos (including "The Travelling Players" & "Eternity and a Day")'...

It's great to hear all that but the one title from their VHS catalog i miss most on DVD would be Jean Eustache's "La maman et la putain". That was my most watched VHS a couple of years ago...

Bring it on AE !

unclehulot · **Posted:** Mon Nov 08, 2004 12:18 am

vertovfan wrote:

I just got their Jean Vigo double-disc set and I'm pretty pleased. The prints aren't pristine, but they're certainly good enough for me - and you can't beat getting his entire oeuvre in one set!

It's probably somewhere on the old forum, but are all of the supplements from the French Vigo set carried over to the UK one?

vertovfan · **Joined:** Tue Nov 02, 2004 7:46 pm

Don't know about the French release, but the UK one has "Filmmakers of Our Times: Jean Vigo", "The Voyages of L'Atalante", a sound restoration piece, Otar iosseliani interview, Vigo bibliography, stills & poster gallery, and some Taris newsreels. Haven't had a chance to check them out yet, though.

Lino · **Posted:** Tue Nov 09, 2004 11:56 am

Here's a reply email I received about the upcoming Satyajit Ray's titles:

Quote:

Many thanks for your inquiry. Yes, we are planning on releasing Days and Nights... and the Chess Players. You will be pleased to know that we are also releasing Devi and Three Daughters as well. I;m afraid at this point that we don't have release dates as of yet or details of any extras. Please refer to our website for up to date release information.

All best wishes,

Joel Kennedy
DVD & Video Department
Artificial Eye
14 King Street
WC2E 8HR
T: 020 7240 5353
F: 020 7240 5242

Fantastic news! I'm yearning for more Ray ever since I saw the Apu trilogy and more recently, The Music Room. If ever there was a master storytelling, he definitely deserves that accolade. Such poetry, such delicate feelings, wonderful, simply wonderful!

dvdane · **Joined:** Tue Nov 02, 2004 7:36 pm **Location:** Denmark

In addition to their theatrically to DVD releases, here is a list of possible releases by AE over the next 15 months:

Theo Angelopoulos
The Travelling Players
Ulysses' Gaze
Eternity & a Day
Voyage to Cythera
The Beekeeper
Alexander the Great
The Hunters
The Suspended Step of the Stork
Days of 36
Landscape in the Mist
Reconstruction

Robert Bresson
A Man Escaped
Pickpocket
The Trial of Joan of Arc
Lancelot du Lac
The Devil Probably
L'Argent

Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Clouds of May
Kasaba

Carl Theodor Dreyer
The Passion of Joan of Arc

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
Martha
In the Year of 13 Monns
The Third Generation
Lola
Veronika Voss

Louis Feuillade
Les Vampires

Jean-Luc Godard
Weekend
Slow Motion/Sauve Qui Peut (La Vie)
Histoire(s) du Cinema

Maurice Pialat
Loulou
Van Gogh

Satyajit Ray
Days & Nights in the Forest
Devi
Three Daughters
]The Chess Players

Eric Rohmer
Tales of the Four Seasons
Rendezvous in Paris
La Collectioneuse
La Boulangere de Monceau
La Carriere de Suzanne
Le Signe du Lion

Ken Loach
Land & Freedom

Derek Jarman
The Garden

Subbuteo · **Posted:** Tue Nov 09, 2004 6:50 pm

Quite an impressive list!

matt wrote:

Not bad, for a British company.

artfilmfan · **Joined:** Wed Nov 03, 2004 9:11 pm

Why doesn't the list of the Ray titles include "Charulata"? Isn't it one of his better films?

ellipsis7 · **Joined:** Tue Nov 02, 2004 1:56 pm **Location:** Ireland

Yes, HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA was listed as a forthcoming AE release in the 12th (2004) Time Out Film Guide...

However it will be a daunting task to attempt to subtitle the various overlaid audio and visual texts. Plus there may be problems with clearing the rights of the constituent clips... When originally parts of the HISTOIRE(S) were broadcast on UK Channel 4, the legal loophole was that Godard was said to be 'quoting' from other works, and thus clips did not have to be individually cleared unless they representated a substantial or significant part of the quoted work... (See Colin MacCabe's 'Godard')... I wonder if AE could get away with this approach on a DVD release...

Lino · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2004 7:28 am

Quote:

Why doesn't the list of the Ray titles include "Charulata"? Isn't it one of his better films?

Yes, but that doesn't mean that they would have print availability for a DVD release. And you can say that about still too many titles from other directors that are seriously MIA.

denti alligator · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2004 12:15 pm

Finally, Angelopoulos!

htdm · **Joined:** Wed Nov 03, 2004 3:46 am

ellipsis7 wrote:

Yes, HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA was listed as a forthcoming AE release in the 12th (2004) Time Out Film Guide...

However it will be a daunting task to attempt to subtitle the various overlaid audio and visual texts. Plus there may be problems with clearing the rights of the constituent clips... When originally parts of the HISTOIRE(S) were broadcast on UK Channel 4, the legal loophole was that Godard was said to be 'quoting' from other works, and thus clips did not have to be individually cleared unless they representated a substantial or significant part of the quoted work... (See Colin MacCabe's 'Godard')... I wonder if AE could get away with this approach on a DVD release...

I was going to tape this when it screened on TCM a couple years back. Does anyone remember how it was subtitled there? That might give an indication of how it could be handled. There is a DVD box set of this available in Japan which has selectable Japanese-only subtitles.

franco · **Posted:** Wed Nov 17, 2004 11:06 pm

So, according to MovielMail, Silence Between Two Thoughts is to be released on March 26th 2005. Does this mean Payami is actually getting the negative back from the government?

I can hardly wait to watch this because I find Secret Ballot immensely moving. I hope Artificial Eye also gets to release One More Day...

iangj · **Posted:** Wed Nov 17, 2004 11:33 pm

Did anyone else feel that the subtitles on L'ATALANTE left a bit to be desired -- seemed a bit sparse in places, with some dialogue left completely untranslated.

I picked up one stupid mistranslation on the Rozier documentary, where the subtitles tell us that an ancestor of the original scriptwriter "ordered a frigate" called 'L'Atalante'. Should have been "commanded a frigate", of course. On that basis, maybe there are other errors that I didn't notice...

artfilmfan · **Joined:** Wed Nov 03, 2004 9:11 pm

iangj wrote:

Did anyone else feel that the subtitles on L'ATALANTE left a bit to be desired -- seemed a bit sparse in places, with some dialogue left completely untranslated.

I'd agree with that.

Caligula · **Posted:** Fri Jan 07, 2005 3:14 am

Rohmer's Four Seasons appears to be slated for 28 March 2005 (notice on DVDBeaver.com; advertised on amazon.co.uk).

Anyone has any particulars for this release?

I want to scream: I bought the Green Ray yesterday.

Arn777 · **Joined:** Wed Nov 03, 2004 6:10 am **Location:** London

The Green Ray is the last film in the Comedies et Proverbes serie, and not part of Four seasons.

Caligula · **Posted:** Fri Jan 07, 2005 4:48 am

Thanks for the correction - of course the American title (Summer) had me confused. Hope the AE Four Seasons release does not get caught up in this company's habit of postponing & re-postponing.

godardslave · **Posted:** Fri Jan 07, 2005 1:15 pm

Arn777 wrote:

The Green Ray is the last film in the Comedies et Proverbes serie, and not part of Four seasons.

correction to the correction!

The Green Ray is the 5th of 6 films in the Comedies and proverbs series, the last is L'Ami de mon amie (Boyfriends and Girlfriends).

charulata · **Joined:** Wed Nov 03, 2004 12:19 pm **Location:** Blighty

WEEKEND first review From DVD Times

Emmm... Fair but not great by the sounds of it...

kieslowski · **Posted:** Sun Feb 20, 2005 6:12 pm

Play.com are listing some nice extras for AE's forthcoming Pickpocket disc:

Special Features:
Interview with Robert Bresson
The Models of Pickpocket - interviews with Martin Lassalle, Marika Green and Pierre Leymarie
Around Pickpocket - discussion with Marika Green, Jean-Pierre Améris and Paul Vecchiali. Kassagi cabaret performance
Trailer

Hopefully it will be the full-length feature Models Of Pickpocket.

peerpee · **Joined:** Tue Nov 02, 2004 3:41 pm

12.99 at Bensonsworld, and they acknowledge that the list price is 22.99 too, so I don't know what's going on there.

reaky · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2005 4:29 pm

£11.69 now.

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