More info from Loris Dru-Lombroso about the TV series Tous les Garcons et les Filles de leur Age, and about Nuit et jour:hearthesilence wrote: Mon Sep 29, 2025 3:12 amI actually saw this and it appears to be a straight scan of a film print. I say a straight scan because all the blemishes and imperfections of a print are left in, particularly at the start of the film and around the joined ends of one reel change (which also had burnt marks signaling it was time to switch reels). So no restoration work likely, but the color and detail was good and even - the DCP may have been created from a rare archival print they simply wanted to preserve rather than loan out.Stefan Andersson wrote: Sat Sep 20, 2025 5:21 pm I understand there might be rights issues with Portrait d'une jeune fille de la fin des années 60 à Bruxelles (Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 1960s in Brussels); there is a DCP, credited to Royal Film Archive of Belgium — CINEMATEK and Fondation Chantal Akerman:
https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/10843
Richard Brody had an excellent write-up this month that also quotes Loris Dru-Lumbroso, a publicist for Capricci, saying music licenses were definitely the issue - not only were they limited to the original television broadcast, the licenses were not in perpetuity and lasted for only a short time. I'll only add that by doing minimal production design and filming this in the world of 1993, it makes the promise of the impending May 1968 protests all the more disillusioning and the future all the more fatalistic - time has marched on and we see the revolution will never happen. Seen in the context of today's world and the failure of, say, Occupy Wall Street, the 2016 and the 2024 U.S. elections, the film is even more potent and much more damning.
- no music rights problems for the long versions, only for the short versions, of films by Kahn, Téchiné and Assayas
- Akerman´s film has expensive James Brown, Leonard Cohen and Johnny Hallyday music. No deal yet between Arte, Studio Orange and the music houses.
-On Nuit et jour:
"the film is currently blocked for rights reasons," says Loris Dru-Lumbroso, head of communication and partnerships at Capricci. "Night and Day was produced by various companies (including Marilyn Watelet's Paradise Films, which has accompanied Chantal Akerman on almost all of her films), one of which is currently in judicial liquidation. However, as long as the legal procedure is not closed, which can take several years depending on the disputes encountered during this process, it is impossible for us to follow the "usual" route: buying back the rights > restoring the film > re-re-release in theaters and on video." He added: "The Chantal Akerman Foundation and Capricci nevertheless remain on the lookout for any development that could allow us to put the spotlight back on this beautiful film."
https://www.allocine.fr/article/fichear ... 09726.html
