200-205 Fantastique: The Dreams and Nightmares of French Cinema

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fiendishthingy · #26 Post by **fiendishthingy** » Thu Oct 22, 2026 10:13 pm

I received an email this morning saying that my order is on its way. (I’m in the US.) So far, the tracking just says that a shipping label has been created.

rapta · #27 Post by **rapta** » Fri Oct 23, 2026 11:05 am

Stupidly I pre-ordered it from Amazon UK (using up some credit) and they've revised the release date to November 9th, literally a week before the Imamura set and a week after the annual Criterion UK sale starts. Yippee!

dadaistnun · #28 Post by **dadaistnun** » Fri Nov 06, 2026 5:40 pm

Beaver review

High marks all around, especially for the Golem transfer.

(How Gary manages to include only one screenshot of Melvil Poupaud and Chiara Mastroianni, aka film's cutest couple ca. 1996, is beyond me.)

Lowry_Sam · #29 Post by **Lowry_Sam** » Tue Nov 10, 2026 6:52 pm

Is The Woman With Red Boots a comedy?

The Curious Sofa · Tue Nov 10, 2026 7:07 pm

Lowry_Sam wrote: Tue Nov 10, 2026 6:52 pm Is The Woman With Red Boots a comedy?

It's the only film in the set that I've seen before, and while it's not an outright comedy, it was directed by the son of Luis Buñuel, who is certainly a chip off the old block. It leans more into the supernatural than the surreal but it has a similarly wry, absurdist quality.

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