Gaumont French Releases

[tenia]

Except La gueule ouverte (which looks more typical of your more recent Eclair restorations), it seems that Cohen used older HD masters for Loulou and Graduate First. Gaumont had those restored in 2K possibly in 2013 (they were part of their 2012 first 25-movies restoration program), so it's a possibility they have re-done them since.
I don't know what Gaumont will used though, ie if Gaumont meant "new to France" or not, but I wouldn't be surprised that these last 2 movies are truly newer masters.

[Calvin]

I'm aware the Criterion release of L'enfance nue was controversial for it's yellow-push. The Amazon listing for this release has a couple of screencaps that I assume are taken from the new restoration:

Spoiler

The first image is from the same scene as the fourth comparison on DVDBeaver. It looks considerably less yellow than the Criterion, with more of a teal push.

Gaumont never include English subtitltes with their extras anyway so this might be a moot point, but FNAC lists the extras as follows:

L'Enfance Nue
Entretien avec Patrick Grandperret et Arlette Langmann
Sur les traces de Michel Tarrazon, entretien avec le 1er rôle du film
Les courts-métrages Turcs de Pialat : Corne d’or, Istambul, Maître Galip, Byzance Pehlivan, Bosphore
Bande-annonce
L’Enfance nue restauré
Entretien avec Willy Kurant

La Gueule Ouverte
Entretien avec Nathalie Baye
Scènes coupées
D’épouse à gouvernante: Portrait de Micheline Pialat
Bande-annonce

Passe ton bac d'abord...
Après le bac : Documentaire avec les interventions des acteurs du film et de Dominique Besnehard
Entretien avec Patrick Grandperret et Arlette Langmann
Passe ton bac d’abord restauré
Bande-annonce

Le Garçu
Entretien avec Gérard Depardieu
Souvenirs du Garçu : Entretiens croisés Géraldine Pailhas et Dominique Rocheteau
Tentative de remontage du Garçu : Sylvie Pialat présente des fragments du film, près de 30 minutes coupés et écartés au montage
Le Garçu restauré
Bande-annonce

On L'Enfance Nue, it looks like we're losing Pialat's L'Amour existe, 'Champ contre champ' (32 min interview with Pialat) and 'Choses vues autour de l'Enfance nue' (52 min documentary) which were on the Gaumont DVD (and the Criterion and MoC too). It gains the Turkish shorts.

La Gueule Ouverte loses "Janine" (1962) : court-métrage de Maurice Pialat (17 min) and "Pialat au pilon" : conversation entre Cyril Collard et Maurice Pialat filmée par Yann Dedet (1987) (14 min) from the Gaumont DVD.

Passe ton bac d'abord... seems to retain its extras, while Le Garçu loses 'Scène de rush brute avec les indications de jeu de Maurice Pialat (5 min)' and 'Les dernières images de Maurice Pialat, filmées par son fils Antoine au Festival d'Angers 2002 (5 min)' while gaining a Depardieu interview.

[nitin]

Eclaired?

[Stefan Andersson]

Coffret Louis Feuillade – les Sérials noirs (Fantomas & Les Vampires)

How I wish this included Tih-Minh; has anyone seen any comment from Gaumont on the status of that film, and whether or not it's in the pipeline for restoration and release?

Tih-Minh is showing at the 2020 Il Cinema Ritrovato, starting August 25. Relevant links here:
https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/e ... rati-2020/

[L.A.]

What are the audio/subtitle options on La Fayette (1962)?

[Fred Holywell]

What are the audio/subtitle options on La Fayette (1962)?

Discussed last year on HTF.

"It has 5.1 sound but unfortunately, no English subtitles."

"On doing some research, it appears that in French sequences they speak French, but when they are supposed to be in America, they speak English."

"It's a very talky film but fortunately there is a fair amount of English dialogue throughout. Having French sub-titles is helpful because I find them far easier to read than following the French audio language track."

[L.A.]

Thanks, Fred.

[Calvin]

Our own Remy has reviewed L'enfance nue, Passe ton bac d'abord and La gueule ouverte

[tenia]

And Le garçu will be following tomorrow morning.

Gaumont and Pathé are releasing way too many titles in October, and with the delays of the Indicator titles and my upcoming week at Lyon Film Festival, I'm a tad overloaded and slightly lagging behind, but I'll make it !

[Calvin]

I watched L'enfance nue last night and the new restoration is gorgeous. There is a cool push as is typical of the Eclair lab, but it's less noticeable than I was expecting and is far superior to Criterion's vomit-yellow DVD.

Worth noting that the Jean Vigo set is down to 44,99 and the Feuillade set down to 59,99 as part of Amazon France's Prime Day Deals.

[Stefan Andersson]

Gaumont Blu releases for Feb. 17, 2021, include:
Le Camion, Duras
Pièges, Siodmak
Source: https://www.dvdclassik.com/forum/viewto ... start=5910

[Stefan Andersson]

Post deleted, moved to StudioCanal thread.
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Mods: sorry, could not find "Delete post" button so wrote this instead.

[tenia]

They're not from Gaumont but Studio Canal.

[Stefan Andersson]

They're not from Gaumont but Studio Canal.

Oops!

Thank you tenia for pointing this out. I was overenthusiastic when I posted it I guess.

Post moved to SC thread.

[Stefan Andersson]

Gaumont Decouvertes DVD releases February-May 2021:

Février :

1. LA NUIT DE DÉCEMBRE DE KURT BERNHARDT (1941)
2. LE CAMION DE MARGUERITE DURAS (1977)
3. LA RAISON D’ÉTAT DE ANDRÉ CAYATTE (1978)
4. GWENDOLINE DE JUST JAECKIN (1984)

Avril :

1. LE TOURNOI DE JEAN RENOIR (1928)
2. LETTRES D’AMOUR DE CLAUDE AUTANT-LARA (1942)
3. LA BELLE DE CADIX DE RAYMOND BERNARD (1953)
4. JALOUX COMME UN TIGRE DE DARRY COWL (1964)

Mai :

1. EL DORADO DE MARCEL L’HERBIER (1921)
2. NE LE CRIEZ PAS SUR LES TOITS ! DE JACQUES DANIEL-NORMAN (1943)
3. UNE HISTOIRE D’AMOUR DE GUY LEFRANC (1951)
4. LES 7 PÉCHÉS CAPITAUX DE PHILIPPE DE BROCA, CLAUDE CHABROL, JACQUES DEMY, SYLVAIN DHOMME, MAX DOUY, JEAN-LUC GODARD, ÉDOUARD MOLINARO ET ROGER VADIM (1962)


"El Dorado" has the same master and the same music as the old DVD, but a new "compression" (=authoring in English?)
"L´Homme du Large" also upcoming, not sure if it is on DVD or Blu.

L´Herbier´s "Les derniers jours de Pompéï" upcoming on Blu.

"Les bas-fonds" (Renoir) out on Blu in May 2021, with English subtitles. Maybe Criterion will update their OOP DVD-only "Lower Depths"?

Sources:
https://www.dvdclassik.com/forum/viewto ... &start=660
https://www.dvdfr.com/dvd/f168155-bas-f ... tocomplete

[Stefan Andersson]

Pièges (Siodmak, 1939) on French Blu, with English subtitles, disc test:
https://testsbluray.com/2021/04/02/test-blu-ray-pieges/

[Calvin]

As per a rep on the DVDClassik forum, Bresson's Lancelot du Lac will be released on Blu-Ray towards the end of the year. The Devil, Probably is due to be restored soon and won't be released this year.

I notice that they released Bresson's Les Anges du péché on back in November as part of their Discovery collection - but on DVD only, which is a real shame. Does anybody know if it was restored or the same as this one?

[therewillbeblus]

As per a rep on the DVDClassik forum, Bresson's Lancelot du Lac will be released on Blu-Ray towards the end of the year.

Fantastic news- very excited to see this one in a decent transfer

[The Fanciful Norwegian]

Pretty safe bet this will be the same 4K remaster that was released in Japan in 2019, licensed from Gaumont and with the restoration credited to Eclair. Unfortunately from what I've seen it's a classic Eclair job, with a heavy green-and-teal push.

[therewillbeblus]

Bummer, though that film has always seemed to me as suitably distorted in color. Such a weird green and brown juxtaposition that just feels splendidly nasty.

[L.A.]

Another silent Figaro (Gaston Ravel, 1929) just came out. English subs, yes!

Second, how English-friendly is the new Blu-ray of Quest for Fire (1981)?

[tenia]

I suppose Quest for Fire having English subs means it is as English friendly as it needs to be (otherwise, they wouldn't have been included at all).
Figaro has its intertitles translated in English. For those interested, I just published my review of it (in French, but with screencaps). Les bas-fonds' review will follow shortly, it also has English subs.

[L.A.]

If I remember correctly Quest for Fire has an introductory text before the film which was in different languages depending on the region. Is that subbed?

Also I think Annaud recorded two commentaries - one in French and another in English. Which one does the new Gaumont have?

Those deleted scenes (Retour de flamme scènes coupées), is this the first time these are released as a supplemental material?

[domino harvey]

It’s been a while since I’ve seen it, but isn’t it like Themroc in that you don’t need subs since it’s mostly grunting?

[knives]

Yep