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pro-bassoonist · #151 Post by **pro-bassoonist** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 3:51 pm

I posted the news at DVDTALK a few days ago but AE are releasing Ozon's latest - Time To Leave - on September 25th.

Ciao,
Pro-B

Fellini-Hexed · #152 Post by **Fellini-Hexed** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 12:24 am

While Gaumont seems to be fulfilling repressed sadistic tendencies with their on again, off again reports about Godard's L'Histoire(s) du Cinema, is there any news about the AE edition which DVDane reported in November of 2004? I've only seen Moments Choisis, but am itching to see the 8-part film. If AE do eventually publish it, what about Moments Chiosis? Does anyone know if it'll be included? Any information greatly appreciated.

I'm still waiting for the Vigo set to suddenly (but probably briefly) drop in price in order to pick it up.

ellipsis7 · #153 Post by **ellipsis7** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 7:18 am

I don't know DVDane's source, but mention of AE and HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA appeared in a round up of things to look out for on DVD the Time Out Film Guide 2005, published at the end of 2004, as if it was imminently to be released... Nothing more - mysterious!

Donald Brown · #154 Post by **Donald Brown** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 8:15 am

ellipsis7 wrote:I don't know DVDane's source, but mention of AE and HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA appeared in a round up of things to look out for on DVD the Time Out Film Guide 2005, published at the end of 2004, as if it was imminently to be released... Nothing more - mysterious!

Nothing mysterious about it. AE will almost certainly be porting the Gaumont edition, which obviously can't be done until Gaumont finishes production of theirs.

ellipsis7 · #155 Post by **ellipsis7** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 8:23 am

Yes - that make sense - what was unusual was that this forthcoming package with no release date was among a TIME OUT selection of already released R1 & R2 DVDs published at end 2004!... I was speaking to AE a couple of months back re. their 3 Bressons upcoming, and similarly they were waiting for French masters/materials...

Also, as I have said before, the subtitling is far from simple (there are simultaneous juxtapositions of several audio and video texts throughout) - I have a dub of the Channel Four versions of HISTOIRE(S) #1A & #1B which does a great job, but subtitlers hold copyright on their work, and is unlikely that this set could be used again, not least because JLG will have revised those parts since...

Gordon · #156 Post by **Gordon** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 3:39 pm

There is a listing for what looks like Sergei Bondarchuk's, War and Peace at Benson's World for 23 October. There is currently no listing on AE's website, which only goes up to August.

Arrow Films in the UK attempted to gain the rights last year, but it didn't happen. I would imagine that this is a port of the Ruscico package that Image distributed in the USA. I have that release and it seems to be one of those dodgy, analogue, interlaced PAL-NTSC conversions and there's mpeg atefacting, though it is still pretty watchable. I'd love to replace it with a significantly better presentation.

alfons416 · #157 Post by **alfons416** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 11:46 am

on bensonworld they also say that Sátantangó (Tarr) and Three Times (Hou) will be released in novemer 13.

lets hope that is true, Satantango have been in the making so long now and Three Times recently was released in the cinema by AE so november on dvd seems logical. lets hope AE includes Olivier Assayas HHH-documentary. if so it would be a no-brainer for me.

Ovader · #158 Post by **Ovader** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 12:07 pm

On Benson's World they also have the 2 DVD Eric Rohmer Collection of La Boulangere De Monceau, La Carriere De Suzanne and Le Signe Du Lion for November 13.

backstreetsbackalright · Mon Aug 14, 2006 2:22 pm

Pretty exciting news, then. Rohmer's debut film, if I'm not mistaken, has never been available with English subs in any home-viewing format. And if Satantango drops before the end of the year, no one will even need to sweat the Facets DVD.

What A Disgrace · Mon Aug 14, 2006 3:22 pm

Satantango? Before Christmas? YUM.

MichaelB · #161 Post by **MichaelB** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 7:53 pm

backstreetsbackalright wrote:Pretty exciting news, then. Rohmer's debut film, if I'm not mistaken, has never been available with English subs in any home-viewing format.

It was out on UK VHS in the early 1990s - on the Hendring label, if I remember rightly. In fact, I remember renting all three of those films on VHS on the same evening.

backstreetsbackalright · Sat Aug 19, 2006 5:13 pm

How did Lion strike you? I've heard mixed reports on it.

jguitar · #163 Post by **jguitar** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 5:28 am

backstreetsbackalright wrote:How did Lion strike you? I've heard mixed reports on it.

I saw this ages ago screening at Facets. I remember it very fondly--it didn't seem much like Rohmer's other work, much more similar to other first films by New Wave directors. But the fact that I'm struggling to say more now perhaps tells you what you wanted to know.

solent · #164 Post by **solent** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 11:07 pm

LION is very unlike all of Rohmer's other work. It is conventional - with a few New Wave touches here and there (i.e. the party scene with Godard, etc.) - it is a narrative and it has a standard moral about the essential aloneness of life. In a sense it is an absurdist comedy. Here is this healthy man in an international city in summer (if I remember correctly) left to fend for himself, as if he is lost in a forest. It ends well. Dialogue is kept at a minimum.

Cobz · #165 Post by **Cobz** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 1:37 pm

anonye know when AE is finally going to release "Histoire du cinema"?

ellipsis7 · #166 Post by **ellipsis7** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 1:42 pm

LE SIGNE DE LION from Time Out Film Guide....

Le Signe du Lion
Rohmer's first feature, not so much a moral tale as a cautionary anecdote (loosely modelled on Murnau's The Last Laugh) in which an impoverished American musician living in Paris (Hahn) runs himself into debt on the strength of an inheritance he doesn't inherit. Very much of its nouvelle vague day in its amused anatomy of the Latin Quarter fauna as the hero desperately does the rounds in quest of a loan, having no luck because it is summer and everyone's on holiday, and gradually slipping without realising it into becoming a clochard. But also a precise, poetic documentary on Paris, with the city turning into a stone prison that gradually crushes resistance until the musician suffers total moral and physical disintegration. TM

colinr0380 · #167 Post by **colinr0380** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:03 pm

ellipsis7 wrote: as the hero desperately does the rounds in quest of a loan, having no luck because it is summer and everyone's on holiday, and gradually slipping without realising it into becoming a clochard. But also a precise, poetic documentary on Paris, with the city turning into a stone prison that gradually crushes resistance until the musician suffers total moral and physical disintegration.

How amazing, it's like someone has taken my life and put it right up on the screen!.....except I'm not American.

.....or a musician......

.....or live in Paris, but apart from that!

ellipsis7 · #168 Post by **ellipsis7** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:04 pm

Paris in the Pennines?!...

denti alligator · Thu Sep 21, 2006 10:45 pm

Looks like AE is putting all of Rohmer's Four Seasonstogether next month.

Decent price for all four, I guess. What's the chance of these getting the Criterion treatment?

Ashirg · #170 Post by **Ashirg** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 11:10 pm

A Tale of Springtime is with MGM/Sony, so that one is out of the question (Fox only controls ditribution of MGM titles, not actual release or license).

ellipsis7 · #171 Post by **ellipsis7** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 6:43 am

Looks like AE is putting all of Rohmer's Four Seasons together next month.

Decent price for all four, I guess. What's the chance of these getting the Criterion treatment?

AE transfers on these are pretty crap according to DVD Beaver...

If CC goes again for Rohmer, it would probably be the 6 films in the Comedies and Proverbs series that followed the Moral Tales...

Rich Malloy · #172 Post by **Rich Malloy** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 8:49 pm

Any word on the AE "Four Seasons" set? Released this week, no? Just a repackaging of previous releases? Said releases being subpar?

Well, I've used up my daily compliment of question marks and sentence frags.

Subbuteo · #173 Post by **Subbuteo** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 9:01 pm

Rich Malloy wrote: Just a repackaging of previous releases?

I'm afraid so!

AE rarely revisit previous releases with a view to improvement.

A Summers Tale is one of my fav Rohmer films and this alone would be worth the set price, not great transfers by any means, but they will do until we get the definitives!

ellipsis7 · #174 Post by **ellipsis7** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:06 am

Just to say, the ROHMER/4 SEASONS box contains 4 narrow plastic amaray cases, so it pleasantly matches the CC SIX MORAL TALES on the shelf... With the Arrow box of 8 films including all the COMEDIES & PROVERBS, it makes a nice overall collection, although Arrow and AE are obviously not a patch of the CC box...

Looking at AE's disc of A TALE AT SPRINGTIME - perfectly acceptable transfer - box says it is 16:9 enhanced but is actually not on the disc...

artfilmfan · #175 Post by **artfilmfan** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 1:13 am

ellipsis7 wrote:Looking at AE's disc of A TALE AT SPRINGTIME - perfectly acceptable transfer - box says it is 16:9 enhanced but is actually not on the disc...

On the back side of the box of the individual release, it also says "enhanced for widescreen TVs". However, the film transfer on the disc is not.

The picture quality of the R1 disc of "A Tale of Springtime" is a lot better than that of the AE individual release.

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