Palisades Tartan

Michael Kerpan · **Posted:** Tue Sep 11, 2007 12:59 pm

Kinoshita's Narayama -- Alas, this is a film I found quite unappealing -- largely due to its visual (and performance) style. There are lots of films of that vintage that I'd rather see get loving (subbed) treatment.

stephan73 · **Posted:** Sun Oct 14, 2007 4:00 pm

Tartan posted 4 clips from the upcoming KTL edition of the Phantom Carriage on Youtube.

Here's one!

rollotomassi · **Posted:** Mon Oct 22, 2007 8:37 am

They may have the clips, but the DVD itself has been delayed in typical fashion until Feb 2008 and the double edition with The Image Makers seems to have been aborted (they still have it on amazon, but play.com and others hhave removed it) - what's the reason for the delay this time?

Awesome Welles · **Posted:** Fri Nov 09, 2007 12:24 pm

I recently received an email from one of the guys at Tartan, here's what he said:

Quote:

Thank you very much for your comments regards The Phantom Carriage. We are still releasing the 2 disc set with the Image Makers and the date is now February 11th 2008. I apologise for all the delays surrounding this title but we want to get it looking the best it can before releasing it.

There are no plans at the current time to release any Pudovkin titles although I think we still have the rights to Mother.

colinr0380 · **Posted:** Fri Nov 09, 2007 12:39 pm

Oh well, at least I've got my order in with MovieMail!

However this reminds me - did Tartan ever release Blood and Bones, which I remember them advertising (I think I even pre-ordered that one from MovieMail a year or so ago!)

solent · **Posted:** Wed Nov 21, 2007 3:34 pm

I just got THE RITE at a reduced price from Amazon. In the booklet it says this film was filmed after SHAME in just 7 days. This is at odds with the info from this site http://www.bergmanorama.com/films/rite.htm which puts it just before SHAME but released after (in 1969).

Can anyone confirm the dates from another source?

ellipsis7 · **Posted:** Wed Nov 21, 2007 3:50 pm

Well... Re. THE RITE

Quote:

"There's always such a lot of pretentiousness surrounding films. Such a lot of apparatus. Shooting takes forty-five days, fifty days, sixty-five days. For Fellini it takes twenty-eight weeks and there's a hell of a hullaballoo and cost God knows how much. So I thought: Hell, I'll gather four of my close friends and we'll rehearse for four weeks and then we'll shoot it. I figure out I'd be able to shoot it in nine days."
- Ingmar Bergman in Bergman on Bergman

Official site here although no definitive info on production order, but confirms screening dates as SHAME (1968) & THE RITE (1969)...

Images: My Life in Film puts SHAME (1967) first then THE RITE (1967), with premieres respectively in 1968 & 1969...

TV screenings:

THE RITE: TV-screening: 1969-03-25 Sweden 72 minutes
1973-08-01 TV2 Sweden

SHAME: TV-screening: 1986-05-29 TV1 Sweden 99 minuter - Theatrical - Release date: 1968-09-29 Spegeln Stockholm Sweden 103 minuter
1968-09-29 Camera Täby Sweden

domino harvey · **Joined:** Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:42 pm **Posts:** 7879

I believe the Rite was filmed for TV, so it may have been seen before Shame but not released theatrically until much later.

zone_resident · **Joined:** Thu Jan 05, 2006 1:33 pm **Posts:** 213

DVD Times review of The Phantom Carriage / The Image Makers is here.

stephan73 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 26, 2008 5:20 pm

On June 23 Tartan will release a boxset of Fukasaku films.

Quote:

Collection of three early classics from renowned Japanese filmmaker, Kinji Fukasaku, director of BATTLE ROYALE. Includes BLACKMAIL IS MY LIFE, BLACK ROSE MANSION and IF YOU WERE YOUNG.

zone_resident · **Joined:** Thu Jan 05, 2006 1:33 pm **Posts:** 213

DVD Times reviews of I, Pierre Riviere... and Back to Normandy.

colinr0380 · **Posted:** Sun Apr 13, 2008 12:17 pm

Has anyone seen any of René Allio's films and have any comments on this director?

Zazou dans le Metro · **Posted:** Sun Apr 13, 2008 3:02 pm

colinr0380 wrote:

Has anyone seen any of René Allio's films and have any comments on this director?

I've seen René in 'Allo 'Allo. Not sure it's Criterion material. Eclipse perhaps.

The Glue Man · **Joined:** Tue Mar 11, 2008 2:38 pm **Posts:** 28

Any ideas what's happened to the 2nd Eisenstein Collection? IIRC it was put back from September-October last year to 28th April this year, which has come and gone with no Sergei... Have emailed Tartan, but no response yet.

miless · **Joined:** Sat Apr 01, 2006 9:45 pm **Posts:** 1435

The R0 PAL Silent Light has amazing picture quality.
I've even been watching it on my HD computer monitor and it looks fantastic (which is especially interesting since the special features and even the menus are compressed to shit... hell, a lot of DVD's look terrible on that thing).

domino harvey · **Joined:** Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:42 pm **Posts:** 7879

the US branch of Tartan has been shuttered

miless · **Joined:** Sat Apr 01, 2006 9:45 pm **Posts:** 1435

I wonder what will happen to their Reygadas holdings?

Cold Bishop · **Posted:** Tue May 27, 2008 3:09 pm

I may as well break down and get the Uk Silent Light now.

miless · **Joined:** Sat Apr 01, 2006 9:45 pm **Posts:** 1435

Cold Bishop wrote:

I may as well break down and get the Uk Silent Light now.

it is R0

kaujot · **Posted:** Tue May 27, 2008 4:26 pm

Come on CC Taxidermia.

MichaelB · **Posted:** Tue May 27, 2008 4:45 pm

kaujot wrote:

Come on CC Taxidermia.

By all accounts the Hungarian two-discer is pretty phenomenal - and English-friendly.

colinr0380 · **Posted:** Tue May 27, 2008 8:35 pm

domino harvey wrote:

the US branch of Tartan has been shuttered

I'm surprised by this news - I thought that since the US arm was releasing some films that Tartan UK had not (rather than purely reissuing from the UK back catalogue) that it was in a pretty good state. Apparently not.

Scharphedin2 · **Posted:** Thu Jun 05, 2008 3:57 pm

Any recommendations for titles that are particularly good and worthwhile, and not available from the UK arm? In the interest of securing these, before they are sold out from the e-tailers.

MichaelB · **Posted:** Thu Jun 05, 2008 4:49 pm

MichaelB wrote:

kaujot wrote:

Come on CC Taxidermia.

By all accounts the Hungarian two-discer is pretty phenomenal - and English-friendly.

I can now confirm this - it's a superb two-disc set that's mostly English-friendly, bar the deleted scenes and commentaries. But most of the other extras have English subtitles.

kaujot · **Posted:** Thu Jun 05, 2008 5:13 pm

Any chance of some pictures on the famed packaging?

Edit: I decided to actually do some work myself for once. Shocker, I know.

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