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#651 Post by Doug Cummings »

But the cat suggests Left Bank?
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Cinephrenic
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#652 Post by Cinephrenic »

Somebody in New York get reading please!!!

Is there a website?
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#653 Post by justeleblanc »

What about a box set of:

Breathless
Beau Serge
Paris Belongs to Us
Sign of Lion?

plus shorts
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#654 Post by CSM126 »

Cinephrenic wrote:Somebody in New York get reading please!!!

Is there a website?
I'm pretty sure that paper is dead. Jean Seberg's character in Breathless sells it along the Champs-Elysees, which is where the reference would come from.
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#655 Post by Rich Malloy »

I don't know for sure, but I think the NY Herald-Tribune is what we know now as the International Herald-Tribune.
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#656 Post by ellipsis7 »

Sounds likely...

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#657 Post by justeleblanc »

Without question it's BREATHLESS.

Though, there was a famous cat scene in Rivette's L'Amour fou.
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#658 Post by mezcla »

Cinephrenic wrote:Somebody in New York get reading please!!!

Is there a website?

I'm pretty sure that paper is dead. Jean Seberg's character in Breathless sells it along the Champs-Elysees, which is where the reference would come from.
i took this as a joke. That said, this line (NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE!!!) was quite annoying to my special lady and I when we watched Breathless and it is the one thing we quote from it when we are reminded of the film.
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#659 Post by Cinephrenic »

Also,
BREATHLESS (1960, Jean-Luc Godard) - Criterion's email: "We do in fact hold the rights to release Breathless. While the film is not on our current release schedule, we hope to have a finished product available some time next year (2007)"
And this might be released at the same time:
PIERROT LE FOU (1965, Godard) - Rialto says Criterion has the rights, appeared with Janus credits at retrospective. UPDATE: Turrell says this is getting a release in 2007 according to member email.
There is going to be a shit load of extras for sure on Breathless. Supervision with Raoul Coutard. A nice digipak for sure. :lol:
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#660 Post by jbeall »

Rich Malloy wrote:I don't know for sure, but I think the NY Herald-Tribune is what we know now as the International Herald-Tribune.
Likewise, I'm not sure about whether or not the NY Herald-Tribune has changed its name, but from living in the NY area I can confirm that there isn't any current paper by that name.

So it's Breathless for sure (I suppose it could have been The Dreamers, but Criterion wouldn't be able to get their hands on that one for a loooong time, if ever).
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#661 Post by Michael Kerpan »

It looks like the New York Herald and the International Herald-Tribune are indeed related
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#662 Post by ellipsis7 »

Similar logo anyway...

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#663 Post by Narshty »

It sounds like Breathless plus Eclipse's "New Wave" set that was recently mentioned. One of the extras for Breathless is bound to be the 80-minute Chambre 12, Hotel de Suede documentary that's on the upcoming Optimum UK Godard boxset.
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#664 Post by Anonymous »

Great! Finally the ultimate Breathless DVD is getting released!
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#665 Post by criterionsnob »

Could someone post a link to the online newsletter? I didn't get my email yet. Thanks.
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#666 Post by domino harvey »

Narshty wrote:It sounds like Breathless plus Eclipse's "New Wave" set that was recently mentioned.
I would bet good money on this being right-on.
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#667 Post by justeleblanc »

domino harvey wrote:
Narshty wrote:It sounds like Breathless plus Eclipse's "New Wave" set that was recently mentioned.
I would bet good money on this being right-on.
Where did we get confirmation of a New Wave Eclipse set?
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#668 Post by domino harvey »

There was a newspaper article about Eclipse that mentioned a New Wave boxed set as an example of a non-director specific set they planned to release.
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#669 Post by justeleblanc »

domino harvey wrote:There was a newspaper article about Eclipse that mentioned a New Wave boxed set as an example of a non-director specific set they planned to release.
Thanks! I must have missed that.
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#670 Post by sidehacker »

Regarding Breathless being released in a new wave boxset, I don't see how it would happen. The film doesn't really fit the criteria for the Eclipse series at all. I mean it's designed to release "lost, forgotten, or overshadowed classics" and Breathless is a pretty well known and canonized film last time I checked.

Unless of course, it is implied that it would be correspondingly released under Criterion at the same time as a new wave boxset would be released by Eclipse. That would be pretty cool.
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#671 Post by domino harvey »

sidehacker wrote:Regarding Breathless being released in a new wave boxset, I don't see how it would happen. The film doesn't really fit the criteria for the Eclipse series at all. I mean it's designed to release "lost, forgotten, or overshadowed classics" and Breathless is a pretty well known and canonized film last time I checked.

Unless of course, it is implied that it would be correspondingly released under Criterion at the same time as a new wave boxset would be released by Eclipse. That would be pretty cool.
the second one is what I and the other poster surely meant.
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#672 Post by Derek Estes »

Maybe, they could stop calling this film Breathless.
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#673 Post by Gigi M. »

I thought this film was called A Bout de Souffle. Isn't Breathless a film with, what's his name... Richard Gere?
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#674 Post by kieslowski »

Breathless is the Jim McBride 'remake'.
'A bout the souffle' is a film about cooking.
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#675 Post by Jeff »

I imagine the "New Wave" reference is just pointing to Breathless as well, since it is the defining film of that movement.

It's Breathless, kids. Just Breathless. Very clearly and obviously Breathless. Anyone who saw the phrase "New York Herald-Tribune" and didn't immediately picture it plastered across Jean Seberg's tits should have their forum membership revoked.
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