Cohen Film Collection

[zedz]

I don't think it gets any more screamingly mediocre than THE SWINDLE.

I have to agree with this. It seemed like an overlong episode of Miami Vice or something to me.

[vidussoni]

The Pialat titles in the Vol. 1 set will be: Graduate First, The Mouth Agape, Loulou and Love Exists.

[pointless]

La città delle donne (City of Women) - Federico Fellini - 1980

March 31 release - 2K restoration

City of Women Trailer

[FrauBlucher]

Five Day Lover (1961) Dir. Philippe de Broca coming...

[domino harvey]

The Pialat titles in the Vol. 1 set will be: Graduate First, The Mouth Agape, Loulou and Love Exists.

Not quite: Van Gogh and Under the Sun of Satan are in, Love Exists is out!

[swo17]

I guess because Criterion has the rights to the latter?

[domino harvey]

What is even left for their second Pialat volume after that powerhouse of five titles? And all for $37 preordered! Love this label not gouging customers unlike some boutiques...

[rockysds]

Pretty sure the list of titles vidussoni posted is correct and that the image is for the DCP retro - and a sign of what will be in the second volume, possibly along a bunch of shorts. Still very reasonably priced though.

Also, unless I'm mistaken the Love Exists included on the Cohen set is the 2007 feature length documentary about Pialat, and not the 1960 short by Pialat, which is the one Criterion has rights to.

[vidussoni]

This is what's on the Amazon page

Cohen Film Collection is proud to present for the first time in HD, a collection of films by French director Maurice Pialat.


Graduate First: In a town in northern France, teenagers sitting for the baccalaureate await the fateful date with anxiety tempered with indifference. The past year has been the scene of their conflicts with adults and teachers alike who consider the exam as the highway to employment. The disillusioned teenagers see it more as the dead-end street to unemployment.


Mouth Agape: When cancer strikes the mother of the family in this French film, everyone in the family expresses a previously invisible caring and tolerance of the others. The father has always been a bit of a drunk, and is forever chasing younger women. Despite that, he and his wife care for each other, and he tends attentively to her in her last days while remaining unchanged in character. The son and daughter-in-law, whose marriage is somewhat sterile, have similarly penetrating interactions with the dying mother.


Loulou: One evening Nelly meets Loulou, a down-and-out young man. After her husband kicks her out, she goes off to live with Loulou. She is soon with child, but Loulou doesn't change his wayward life, spending time with his pals and pulling off small-time robberies. Deeply hurt by his attitude, Nelly decides not to keep the baby.


Love Exists: A certainty runs through Maurice Pialat's cinema: whatever is lived, spoken, invented or destroyed in real life will probably find its echo in a film one day. Beginning with these fictional reverberations, we sketched the self-portrait of a director who never forgot what it was to be a child, and was as uncompromising as one when it came to defining what love meant to him.

I guess Vol. 2 will have Van Gogh and Under the Sun of Satan. Maybe Cohen also acquired Pialat's last film Le Garçu.

[Gregory]

Pretty sure I've still never seen Loulou. Not much reason save that it wasn't one of the MoC series and I was unsure I could ever buy Depardieu as a leather-jacketed street tough.
So I have to ask, does that description essentially reveal the film's entire storyline? That's just unnecessary.

[domino harvey]

I have seen it (I think New Yorker put it out?) and remember literally not one thing about it

[Zot!]

Might want to check out Gerard's bio.

[Gregory]

Good for him, giving up the grave-robbing and all, but I'm still not sure I could be convinced by that particular famous actor as a leather-jacketed street tough. Maybe the obstacle's on my end. I'll approach Loulou with an open mind but until then will "await the fateful date with anxiety tempered with indifference," to quote one of the descriptions. Bof!

[knives]

I have seen it (I think New Yorker put it out?) and remember literally not one thing about it

Ditto. It's definitely not one of Pialat's strongest and I suspect on a certain level I've just seen too many films to remember slightly above average films. If my memory is right it play like a weaker Police.

[pointless]

Sous le soleil de Satan a.k.a. Under the Sun of Satan (Maurice Pialat, 1987) - June 14 release

2K restoration

Special Features:

• 2012 Interview with star Gerard Depardieu (12 minutes)
  2012 Interview with cinematographer Willy Kurant (17 minutes)
  2012 Interview with production designer Katia Wyszkop
  Deleted Scenes (58 minutes)
  Behind The Scenes footage (15 minutes)
  Original Trailer - 2015 Re-release trailer

Trailer

This Blu-ray.com webpage seems to indicate that this film is a part of the The Films of Maurice Pialat: Volume 2 set but doesn't mention the other titles in it.

[Jean-Luc Garbo]

The trailer says its a new restoration. Maybe the scene with the devil will actually look like it takes place at night?

[Emak-Bakia]

Fun fact I just learned from the latest issue of Film Comment: former FC editor Gavin Smith has taken a new job in acquisitions at Cohen.

[pointless]

Rams (Grímur Hákonarson, 2015) - June 28

Special Features:

• Original Theatrical Trailer
  Interview with Director Grímur Hákonarson
  Wrestling , a short film by Director Grímur Hákonarson

Trailer

[Der Spieler]

Sous le soleil de Satan a.k.a. Under the Sun of Satan (Maurice Pialat, 1987) - June 14 release

2K restoration

Special Features:

• 2012 Interview with star Gerard Depardieu (12 minutes)
  2012 Interview with cinematographer Willy Kurant (17 minutes)
  2012 Interview with production designer Katia Wyszkop
  Deleted Scenes (58 minutes)
  Behind The Scenes footage (15 minutes)
  Original Trailer - 2015 Re-release trailer

Trailer

This Blu-ray.com webpage seems to indicate that this film is a part of the The Films of Maurice Pialat: Volume 2 set but doesn't mention the other titles in it.

I think it's been confirmed that volume 1 will include Mouth Agape, Graduate First and Loulou and volume 2 will have Van Gogh, Under the Sun of Satan and...? I'm thinking Police but it hasn't been confirmed yet as far as I know.

Both sets will be day one buys to me. Pialat is definitely my favorite French director.

[perkizitore]

Mouth Agape and Graduate First have not been released on BD before, have they? I hope Criterion tackles L'Enfance Nue soon, that will be his only major film without an HD release.

[Ashirg]

Volume 2 includes only Under the Sun of Satan. Must be more volumes are coming -

[CSM126]

That's a horrendous cover, but if the transfer's good, I'll take it.

[pointless]

The Films of Maurice Pialat: Volume 3: Van Gogh - July 12

Van Gogh (1991)

Special Features:

• Interview with actor Jacques Dutronc (21:35)
  Interview with actor Bernard Le Coq (31:57)
  Interview with cinematographer Emmanuel Machuel (24:28)
  Deleted Scenes (46:14)
  Original Trailer (1:50) - Re-release Trailer (1:34)

Van Gogh trailer

[chatterjees]

The titles are little misleading. They call them Collection Vol.2 and Vol.3, but include only one film in each. This is really weird.

[pointless]

Two Philippe De Broca Films

L'amant de cinq jours (Five Day Lover) (1961) - New Restoration of the film completed by TF1 International in France - Trailer

Le bossu (On Guard) (1997) - Newly remastered by TF1 International in France - Trailer