Perhaps they maxed out on their monthly umlaut allowance with the Kaurismäki set.kaujot wrote:They're missing his umlaut.
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From the The Great Umlaut Debate of 2006:kaujot wrote:Apparently I missed the first one.
Tom Peeping wrote:About the spelling of "Ophuls". In his remarkable study on Ophuls that he published in 1963 (Collection Cinéma d'Aujourd'hui), Claude Beylie devotes a whole chapter to the question of the way the name "Ophuls" should be spelled. He was born Oppenheimer in Germany, took the pseudonym "Ophuls" and then became french. He always considered himself as french with a french name and did not want the german "umlaut" to appear in the spelling of his name. Beylie says he even had it erased from the opening credits of Le Plaisir, where the ghost trace of the "umlaut" is still visible. So, it should by spelled "Ophuls" and not "Ophüls", once and for all. If it doesn't make such a difference to us, to him, apparently it did.
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An excellent reminder that wildly excessive discussion of film-related minutea and tangents existed long before the advent of the internet.Jeff wrote: From the The Great Umlaut Debate of 2006:
Tom Peeping wrote:In his remarkable study on Ophuls that he published in 1963 (Collection Cinéma d'Aujourd'hui), Claude Beylie devotes a whole chapter to the question of the way the name "Ophuls" should be spelled.
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Why not? They've done it before with multiple releases from the same director:
Dassin's Night and the City and Thieves' Highway
Dassin's Brute Force and The Naked City
Malle's The Lovers and The Fire Within
Ichikawa's Fires on the Plain and The Burmese Harp
the Yojimbo and Sanjuro re-releases...
There might be more, but that's all I can think of off the top of my head.
Dassin's Night and the City and Thieves' Highway
Dassin's Brute Force and The Naked City
Malle's The Lovers and The Fire Within
Ichikawa's Fires on the Plain and The Burmese Harp
the Yojimbo and Sanjuro re-releases...
There might be more, but that's all I can think of off the top of my head.
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Anyone have an idea on how much the box would have cost, and how much they saved by not having a box? I assume it's not a negligible amount, being that Eclipse's box is pretty minimal, partly to save costs.
But then, are these films really related? I mean, as an Eclipse box they could be called "Late Ophuls" but for Criterion, they aren't a BRD trilogy or anything like that. They are just three films made around the same time by the same director.
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But then, are these films really related? I mean, as an Eclipse box they could be called "Late Ophuls" but for Criterion, they aren't a BRD trilogy or anything like that. They are just three films made around the same time by the same director.
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Well, the Varda box with 4 films was $100, but they didn't have commentaries. So for these, maybe $80-100 for 3 films with commentaries (and therefore a higher price point in general?) It definitely wouldn't have been a $120 dollar set, which is what they're cost if purchased seperately.
EDIT: It has been brought to my attention that I am a huge dope, and totally misunderstood what question was being asked. I'm going to just leave my original reply up to keep myself humble.
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Cover art for An Autumn Afternoon (towards the center of the press release).
You can also get a look at the Essential Arthouse Vol. 1 covers (small) towards the bottom of the page.
You can also get a look at the Essential Arthouse Vol. 1 covers (small) towards the bottom of the page.
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Essential Arthouse
That's kind of cool that you can get stripped down versions for I would imagine 15 to 17 bucks if you look.