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Very affordable!H.G. Clouzot Box Set - This set features Le Corbeau, Quai des Orfevres and The Wages of Fear. All titles are re-mastered on this set which will retail at £24.99.
Very affordable!H.G. Clouzot Box Set - This set features Le Corbeau, Quai des Orfevres and The Wages of Fear. All titles are re-mastered on this set which will retail at £24.99.
I would add that the extras don't quite match as well...although a strange mix of titles..
Not true -- or at least not necessarily true; Renoir was and remains decades ahead of "critical consensus." Although not included in this set, 'The Golden Coach' is, in my opinion, staggeringly profound, one of the greatest films ever made, -- and 'French Cancan' too. 'Eléna et les hommes,' which is in the set, was one of -the- touchstone films for Godard and Truffaut while writing at Cahiers in the mid- and late-'50s. Tag Gallagher has said several times that he would place 'French Cancan' in his top-3 greatest films. And 'Golden Coach,' besides inspiring Truffaut's beautiful comment likening it to a glove turned inside-out being finger-by-finger returned right-side-out, and the name of his production company (Les Films du Carrosse - Films of the Coach), is also the film responsible for one of the two most infamous "movie watching" sessions in cinephile lore: Rivette's going to the theater to see it on opening day, and not leaving until, at midnight, he had seen it six times in a row.Gropius wrote:Are those later Renoir films worth watching? The critical consensus seems to be a thumbs-down on his post-River stuff.
Confirmation of details for Jean Renoir: The Collection too:A Bout De Souffle (1959)
Stylish and sexy, Breathless [A Bout De Souffle] is the epitome of cinematic cool. A fast tale of a young man on the run in Paris at the end of the 50's, Breathless shook up the film world upon its release and has made a lasting impression on cinema history. Starring Jean Paul Belmondo, the film was produced by Godard from an original treatment by François Truffaut in a production that united the four initiators of the ‘nouvelle Vague' - Claude Chabrol acted as artistic director while acclaimed director Jean Pierre Melville appeared in front of camera.
Features include:
1.33:1
French Mono with English subtitles
Chambre 12, Hotel de Suede about the genesis of A Bout de Souffle (80 mins)
Trailer
Posters
Stills
Introduction by Colin MacCabe, author of the book Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at Seventy
Alphaville (1965)
Written and directed by Godard, Alphaville is the strangely beautiful futuristic tale of Lemmy Caution, an American private eye sent to a planet ruled by Von Braun, a malevolent scientist who has outlawed human emotions in favour of logic. The film deals with the fight between indivualism in face of inhumanity and blind conformity, and won the Golden Bear award of the Berlin Film Festival in 1965.
Features include:
1.33:1
French Mono with English subtitles
Trailer
Posters
Introduction by Colin MacCabe
Alphaville, Peripheria, documentary on the film (29 mins)
Made in the USA (1966)
A Classic New Wave crime thriller, Made in USA is inspired by the American Noir thrillers of previous decades but, as ever, Godard colours the old traditions with his own distinctive style. Anna Karina stars as the questing anti-hero searching the murderer of her lover, and the film features a cameo by Marianne Faithful.
Features include:
1.33:1
French Mono with English subtitles
Introduction by Colin MacCabe
Anna Karina interview
Trailer
Poster
Les Cahiers du Cinema
Passion (1982)
Godard's 1982 film Passion is a fascinating musing on the nature of life love and art, in a world seen through the eyes of disoriented Polish film director Jerzy and his partner Laszlo. Staying at the hotel where he is filming, Jerzy becomes involved with the hotel owner Hanna and Factory worker Isabelle and reality and art mingle as he searches for the story he wishes to tell. To the displeasure of his financial backers, Jerzy has no script to speak of, and hopes instead to live the narrative as he films it. A UK DVD premiere.
Features include:
1.33:1
French Mono with English subtitles
Posters
Stills Gallery
Press Kit
Introduction by Colin MacCabe
Bonus Disc includes:
The Dinosaur & The Baby, classic interview between Fritz Lang and Jean-Luc Godard (60 min)
Jean-Luc As Seen By Luc, Short film by Godard's long time friend and director Luc Moullet (8 min)
Godard, Love, Poetry, Exploring how Godard's relationship with Anna Karina has fed Godard‘s cinema (52 min)
With all titles digitally restored, this box-set also marks the UK DVD premiere of all titles apart from La Grande Illusion and La Bête Humaine.
The titles are presented in a mixture of 4:3 and 1.66:1 with mono audio and English subtitles. Extras across the set include:
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The line-up for the Screen Icons - Dirk Bogarde set has finally been announced: it will contain The Blue Lamp, The Sleeping Tiger, The Servant, Accident, Victim, The Spanish Gardener and Hunted.
Optimum will release David Lynch's Inland Empire as a two-disc set on August the 20th. Bonus features will include (TBC) David Lynch Masterclass; David Lynch interview at the Cartier Foundation; Guardian / NFT interview with David Lynch and Mark Kermode; Film 2007 Interview with David Lynch; and an interview with sound mixer Dean Hurley.
Optimum's schedule:
9th July - Visconti's Senso; Antonioni's L'Eclisse; The Conquest of Everest; Gerad Depardieu in Buffet Froid, Helas Pour Moi and Camille Claudel; The Harold Lloyd Collection
23rd July - Silent Tongue; The Jean-Luc Godard Collection - Volume 2 (Pierrot Le Fou, Une Femme Est Une Femme, La Chinoise, Le Petit Soldat and Detective); Screen Icons - James Mason; Screen Icons - Dirk Bogarde; The Minus Man
6th August - Unknown; The Caiman; Aprile; Jacques Becker's Casque D'Or, Le Trou and Touchez Pas Au Grisbi
20th August - Inland Empire; Western Classics Deadly Companions (Peckinpah), Canyon Passage (Tourneur), Seminole (Boetticher) and The True Story of Jesse James (Ray); The All Blacks rugby documentary
3rd September - This Is England; Sam Fuller's House of Bamboo, Fixed Bayonets and Hell and High Water
19th September - Patrice Leconte's My Best Friend; French Classics Les Bronzes and Romuald et Juliette; a Brotherhood of the Wolf Special Edition; Comic Icons - Alastair Sim; Comic Icons - Will Hay;
Let's hope this has some real rarities, as opposed to repackagings of Hue and Cry or the first two St Trinian's films.Lino wrote:Comic Icons - Alastair Sim
Hmm. Not too bad, but I'd personally have swapped The Happiest Days of Your Life for the already-available The Green Man.Lino wrote:Contains: The Green Man, Folly To Be Wise, Geordie, Left, Right and Centre and Laughter in Paradise