Eclipse Series 44: Julien Duvivier in the Thirties
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Re: Eclipse Series 44: Julien Duvivier in the Thirties
I'm not Zionist nor right and dislike the implication of such. I find at the moment you are treating my comments in a way they are not just so you can imagine an argument I am posing which I find to be annoying. I am not saying the film is bad or even racist and even if I were I don't see how that would render me zionist since the film has nothing to do with Israel or right wing since I am fine with an anti-capitalist message and have already said so. My question above was really only just do I have things right with my Jew Suss comparison and if so wouldn't a more effective way of dealing with this idea of a bad jew be to show other types of jews such as the North African Jews which would be well known to the French.
Even if that is a no and the film for whatever reason must be askenormative then why show and criticize (at least in the film) the character blindly. A well characterized stereotype is still a stereotype and the film does nothing to comment upon such a stereotype (which I take to be your perspective) presenting it very straightforwardly though I could someone being able to argue the ending against my question which I hope someone does. I really liked your first response and would have liked more information like that, but for whatever reason you are reacting defensively and I just don't get it.
Even if that is a no and the film for whatever reason must be askenormative then why show and criticize (at least in the film) the character blindly. A well characterized stereotype is still a stereotype and the film does nothing to comment upon such a stereotype (which I take to be your perspective) presenting it very straightforwardly though I could someone being able to argue the ending against my question which I hope someone does. I really liked your first response and would have liked more information like that, but for whatever reason you are reacting defensively and I just don't get it.
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Re: Eclipse Series 44: Julien Duvivier in the Thirties
Just finished this set last night. What a treasure the whole thing is. There's a particular scene in Un Carnet de Bal that cements Duvivier in my mind as one of the great early sound directors.
It's a fantastic layering that takes a simple camera technique and explores it in several facets in the span of maybe ten minutes. I'm not sure I've seen anything quite like it before.
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The astonishing sequence in which Christine goes to visit Thierry, the abortion doctor, is shot almost entirely in shifting Dutch angles. I think there are three layers at work here. Not only does this technique externalize Thierry's mental instability and the queasiness of his abusive relationship, but it also illustrates what could be his future as a ship's doctor (I forgot for a second that it wasn't taking place on a ship, so omnipresent is the movement). And by the end of the scene, Thierry is stumbling around as if the room is moving diegetically.
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Re: Eclipse Series 44: Julien Duvivier in the Thirties
"La tête d´un homme" has been restored in 4K, from the OCN and other materials. Billed as "version originale inédite", running 100 minutes:
https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/48359.html
The film is also billed at 100 minutes on this VOD service available in France, Germany and Austria:
https://www.lacinetek.com/fr/tous-les-f ... e-vod.html
The Eclipse version runs 93 minutes.
Runtime 88 minutes according to this: http://www.dvdclassik.com/critique/la-t ... e-duvivier
https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/48359.html
The film is also billed at 100 minutes on this VOD service available in France, Germany and Austria:
https://www.lacinetek.com/fr/tous-les-f ... e-vod.html
The Eclipse version runs 93 minutes.
Runtime 88 minutes according to this: http://www.dvdclassik.com/critique/la-t ... e-duvivier
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Re: Eclipse Series 44: Julien Duvivier in the Thirties
This set will be redundant pretty quick once it is all on Blu-ray.
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Re: Eclipse Series 44: Julien Duvivier in the Thirties
As long as there are casual film fans it won't.
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Re: Eclipse Series 44: Julien Duvivier in the Thirties
Also : this is from TF1, who pretty much don't release catalogue BDs themselves anymore, and sadly, not many people are picking those up in France (and the ones who do don't release tons of discs per year). In the US, it would require Criterion upgrading a title from an Eclipse set, which IIRC still remains yet unheard of. That leaves the UK as the best shot, with either Arrow Academy or Eureka, and Japan with IVC (who release quite a hefty amount of newly restored French movies). This isn't much.
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Re: Eclipse Series 44: Julien Duvivier in the Thirties
Didn’t one of the Ozu early films end up as a Blu-Ray extra?
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Re: Eclipse Series 44: Julien Duvivier in the Thirties
I Was Born But...
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Re: Eclipse Series 44: Julien Duvivier in the Thirties
Oh right, I forgot about that. It's inside a boxset though, and not an individual release, so that probably was a different thought process for Criterion.The Pachyderminator wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 2:17 pmExcept for the Early Bergman titles that ended up in the box set.
This one however was more of an upscaled extra than a real upgrade (unlike the Bergmans).
This being written, some Eclipse movies WERE included elsewhere, so my bad.
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Re: Eclipse Series 44: Julien Duvivier in the Thirties
Criterion is 100% going to upgrade Daisies at some point, bet money on it, so you’ll get a better example one of these days