Re:Voir

[swo17]

Is there an easy way to tell what else has been released this year?

[zedz]

Is there an easy way to tell what else has been released this year?

If you go the the sale link posted above, they all seem to be at the end (Gottheim, Mazars, Garrel, Kramer)

[swo17]

Thanks!

[kuzine]

Wow, crazy discounts (for Re:voir at least, can't remember a similar sale?). I was planning to drop by the store when I'm in Paris in two weeks for work, but I guess the picking titles up part is not needed any more... Although I did ask if I can just pick it up in store to save on the US shipping.

Now to actually write something up from what I watch... A big thank you to those who have done so here in the past.

[rrenault]

How are Re:Voir’s encodes? Some of their releases have intrigued me, although they seem expensive compared to their French peers like Carlotta, Potemkine, Chat Qui Fume etc. (I just missed the window on the flash sale)

On a side note, Garrel got ensnared in a MeToo scandal recently, although it didn’t get much press outside France.

[tenia]

I didn't cover the Garrel for these reasons, despite having covered other ReVoir releases.
You can find reviews and caps of several of their releases on testsbluray.com, in particular the Robert Kramer ones, if you want to see a bit how they can look like (hazy memory, so it's as easy just to have a look there).

[kuzine]

How are Re:Voir’s encodes?

The blu-rays I have look excellent to my eyes (but I'm not super tech critical and don't have a high-end setup). With the dvds YMMV but there limitations could be more source material or transfer related in combination with the dvd format limitations(?). Then, it's not like there are several competing releases of this sort of material out there to pick from. Also shout out to their substantial booklets.

[Jean-Luc Garbo]

Yeah the shipping is pretty expensive - I got four titles and shipping was ten euros less than that! - but at least they offer tracking. I was resigned to ordering Les amants reguliers from them anyway so this sale was as good a time as any. Oddly, I didn't get any notification from them that the sale was happening. I also ordered Wheel of Ashes, Echoes of Silence, and the Klonaris/Thomadaki - Double Labyrinthe. I really hope they print that Hanoun Les saisons tetralogy box set again.

[Glowingwabbit]

Sad to report that I just received the new Garrel and it's in a regular blu-ray case. Ok maybe not that sad, but I liked the uniformity of the dvd cases.

[nicolas]

I also received my order today and am immensely happy with the Garrel BDs I got as the technical quality of them are fantastic. I expected lossy sound and bit-starved encodes but got the total opposite with Regular Lovers looking like a FiM encode (which it isn’t). Sound is also lossless. She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps is a 137-minute film in 1.66:1 on a BD-25 and looks just as good, which also blew me away by how great it turned out. Both masters are also beautiful. I wouldn’t be surprised if these were 4K restorations.

I have to say I was skeptical with this label as their website and order process doesn’t exactly evoke that they’re a genuine quality label but now I’m definitely looking forward to more if they keep that up.

[zedz]

I also received my order today and am immensely happy with the Garrel BDs I got as the technical quality of them are fantastic. I expected lossy sound and bit-starved encodes but got the total opposite with Regular Lovers looking like a FiM encode (which it isn’t). Sound is also lossless. She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps is a 137-minute film in 1.66:1 on a BD-25 and looks just as good, which also blew me away by how great it turned out. Both masters are also beautiful. I wouldn’t be surprised if these were 4K restorations.

I have to say I was skeptical with this label as their website and order process doesn’t exactly evoke that they’re a genuine quality label but now I’m definitely looking forward to more if they keep that up.

It's a really dedicated operation. The releases are often limited by what materials are available for very marginal titles, and the obvious budget constraints of working in this part of the field, but they consistently overdeliver (not least in the bilingual booklets).

[nicolas]

I also received my order today and am immensely happy with the Garrel BDs I got as the technical quality of them are fantastic. I expected lossy sound and bit-starved encodes but got the total opposite with Regular Lovers looking like a FiM encode (which it isn’t). Sound is also lossless. She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps is a 137-minute film in 1.66:1 on a BD-25 and looks just as good, which also blew me away by how great it turned out. Both masters are also beautiful. I wouldn’t be surprised if these were 4K restorations.

I have to say I was skeptical with this label as their website and order process doesn’t exactly evoke that they’re a genuine quality label but now I’m definitely looking forward to more if they keep that up.

It's a really dedicated operation. The releases are often limited by what materials are available for very marginal titles, and the obvious budget constraints of working in this part of the field, but they consistently overdeliver (not least in the bilingual booklets).

I had no idea, that’s really great. Re:voir’s quality puts much bigger labels to shame and especially so on their limited budget. We can only hope that they’re able to sustain some momentum and continue releasing titles that wouldn’t otherwise find homes with other labels.

[Grand Wazoo]

Has anyone had issues with the Robert Kramer blu rays? I bought the whole set during the sale, and they are certainly beautiful objects so credit to Re:Voir for their work. But the blu ray discs from the Ice/The Edge and In The Country sets refuse to load beyond the company logo. The dvds work fine and the blu rays from the other sets loaded normally too. My player hasn't had problems with any discs in the past and I don't have a second player to test them on at the moment, hence the ask.

[tenia]

I watched them on my PS3 (last year ? 2 years ago ? Something like that), and they all played fine. I haven't played them on my new UB820 though. They also played fine on my computer BD-Rom drives.

[Glowingwabbit]

On December 15, Re:Voir is releasing a blu-ray set of early Philippe Garrel films: https://re-voir.com/shop/en/philippe-ga ... ierge.html

Le Révélateur (1968) - upgrade
Actua 1 (1968) - previously on their Marie pour mémoire release
La Concentration (1968)
Le Lit de la Vierge (1970) - upgrade

Not sure if they'll republish the texts that came with the dvds, but I ordered it already so I can report back.

They are also releasing another Robert Kramer set:

https://re-voir.com/shop/en/robert-kram ... -roue.html

[spectre]

The Garrel set looks pretty amazing! It seems like there's at least some new material – a Facebook friend posted that his new essay on La concentration has been included on the release.

[dadaistnun]

Another Garrel set is on the way, this one focused on films with Nico:

A legendary icon of the European underground, Nico shared both a romantic and artistic relationship with Philippe Garrel from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. While their first film together—La Cicatrice intérieure, featuring Pierre Clémenti—is well known, the trilogy it belonged to has only rarely been screened in theaters and has never been fully digitized.

These two previously unreleased films, Un ange passe and Le Berceau de cristal, along with
the legendary short film Athanor, have become cult classics for devotees of 1970s French cinema
and fans of Nico’s music.

Release is early September. Here is the email announcement.