Studio Canal / Kinowelt / Optimum

[L.A.]

Is this edition of Le Trou (Jacques Becker, 1960) English-friendly?

[tenia]

It only has French SDH subs on the main feature and the book is only in French. I don't think anything has been done to make the extras English-friendly either, so I don't think so.
Since the book is only in French and is the main reason for the higher price, I suggest you rather go with the UK release instead.

[domino harvey]

Or wait for the Criterion reisssue, since it was on the list of SC titles Criterion allegedly regained the rights to

[L.A.]

Cheers domino and tenia.

[hearthesilence]

it's the usual greenish/yellowish restoration. This doesn't look to me natural or accurate in comparison to the MoC release.
It's difficult so swallow that all 70's movies, because of film-stock, with different director of photography with their own style will all look like "Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noir" (The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe)

I actually caught Serpico in 35mm at Quad Cinema not long before the pandemic, and it definitely did NOT look like that. It's really getting tiresome how the same people are fucking up all of these restorations.

[anton]

The mafia never lose

[Stefan Andersson]

Not sure where this should be posted, since it concerns The Elephant Man on both Studio Canal and Criterion discs -- but Studio Canal was apparently responsible for restoring the film, so here goes: there is a fadeout missing from the film discussed here on p. 19 onwards (scroll down for video comparisons):
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.ph ... 28&page=19
A good example of a QC issue.
Thread also discusses a missing fade to white on Criterion´s Eraserhead (corrected), missing fade-in to the jitterbug sequence in Mulholland Drive (not corrected) and the soundtrack of Elephant Man.

[hearthesilence]

Not sure where this should be posted, since it concerns The Elephant Man on both Studio Canal and Criterion discs -- but Studio Canal was apparently responsible for restoring the film, so here goes: there is a fadeout missing from the film discussed here on p. 19 onwards (scroll down for video comparisons):
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.ph ... 28&page=19
A good example of a QC issue.
Thread also discusses a missing fade to white on Criterion´s Eraserhead (corrected), missing fade-in to the jitterbug sequence in Mulholland Drive (not corrected) and the soundtrack of Elephant Man.

If Criterion fixes the Mulholland Drive disc, I hope they re-encode it and make it look like SC's BD, with none of the artifacts plaguing the Criterion disc. I'll happily double dip if they do (or I guess triple-dip - I eventually sold off the Criterion disc and picked up the SC BD).

[dwk]

I'm pretty sure the missing fade in Mulholland Drive is actually the one Lee Kline mentions in his Team Deakins podcast interview and not the missing fade in Eraserhead, which was fixed. It seems that Lynch really didn't care about fixing it, so I wouldn't expect it to be fixed.

[L.A.]

Circus of Horrors (Sidney Hayers, 1960) coming October 12th.

[FrauBlucher]

Le Cercle Rouge 4K bluray dated and detailed with trailer

[rockysds]

Blu-rays of Nanni Moretti's Aprile and The Son's Room coming November 23th.

[dwk]

From Variety

For 2021, Studiocanal has several high-profile re-releases planned, including “Basic Instinct” in May and several titles that have yet to be scheduled, such as Joe Dante’s 1981 “The Howling”;
Joseph Losey’s 1976 wartime drama “Monsieur Klein,” starring Alain Delon, and his 1963 drama “The Servant”; Michael Powell’s 1960 horror thriller “Peeping Tom”; and Jacques Becker 1945 French classic “Paris Frills” (“Falbalas”), all of which will receive theatrical releases in at least one of Studiocanal’s territories.

The company is also planning a special event next year to celebrate the 20th anniversary of “Bridget Jones’s Diary” – if circumstances surrounding the pandemic allow for it, Hochart added.

Also among Studiocanal’s 2021 releases is Ousmane Sembène’s 1968 Senegalese classic “Mandabi,” the first feature-length African-language film from West Africa. A restored version is premiering this week at the Lumière Film Festival in Lyon, with global releases planned for early 2021.

[therewillbeblus]

Guess that puts to rest hopes of Indicator picking up the Loseys, though good news nonetheless

[NABOB OF NOWHERE]

Guess that puts to rest hopes of Indicator picking up the Loseys, though good news nonetheless

Yes indeed that's a shame in many respects.
Indicator could have had a field day with those two. King and Country is still in limbo though I don't know whether they could get it.

[domino harvey]

That one’s already out on Blu from VCI

[What A Disgrace]

There's no indication in the article that Studio Canal wouldn't license the Losey titles out to Indicator when it comes time to release them on home video, at least in the UK. But I guess I'm just being needlessly hopeful. They're not nearly as high profile as Le Cercle Rouge, The Howling or Peeping Tom.

[NABOB OF NOWHERE]

That one’s already out on Blu from VCI

In the US sure and it looks bare bones. If available to them I'm sure Indicator would easily outclass it -no?

[Drucker]

Mr. Klein played for several sold out weeks last fall at the Film Forum. Not sure if it was a fluke, or whatever, but it was a huge deal at the time!

[swo17]

The Servant at least is rumored to be with Criterion in the U.S.

[senseabove]

From Variety

For 2021, Studiocanal has several high-profile re-releases planned, including...Jacques Becker 1945 French classic “Paris Frills” (“Falbalas”), all of which will receive theatrical releases in at least one of Studiocanal’s territories.

Glad this is finally inching closer to the release it deserves.

[domino harvey]

That one’s already out on Blu from VCI

In the US sure and it looks bare bones. If available to them I'm sure Indicator would easily outclass it -no?

My apologies, for some reason my mind saw “Criterion” when you said “Indicator”!

[L.A.]

Also among Studiocanal’s 2021 releases is Ousmane Sembène’s 1968 Senegalese classic “Mandabi,” the first feature-length African-language film from West Africa. A restored version is premiering this week at the Lumière Film Festival in Lyon, with global releases planned for early 2021.

Very exciting news. Would this be the second Sembène on Blu-ray after Black Girl / Borom Sarret?

[tenia]

Remember that the article is about Canal's catalogue, not Canal physical releases. The line-up Variety bases their article on also contained movies that are going to only be re-released theatrically, and some that have actually already been restored and released (The Servant and Terminator 2) but that are going to be re-released theatrically. It also mostly focused on France, though it touched the UK and Germany, but it'd probably jumping to conclusion to guess that the list of movies listed by the article (the Losey notably) will automatically released in the UK (1) physically (2) by Canal (3).

For instance, TF1 catalogue line-up had stuff sub-licenced to others for the physical releases, some are so far only released theatrically, and others from last year still are nowhere to be seen.

This being written, Peeping Tom is being restored by The Film Foundation, and the following are only mentioned as "French projects" : Mr Klein, Falbalas.
The Howling is an international project but seems to only be theatrical. Same for Bridget Jones.

(Disclaimer : I have watched the Canal line-up myself)

[FrauBlucher]

The Servant at least is rumored to be with Criterion in the U.S.

Does anyone recall if the KLInsider addressed this title?