Re: Artificial Eye / Curzon Film World
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2025 8:51 pm
Interesting, since this and Riget were the only MIA full-lengths from their LVT set. I think the German Blu-ray was the only HD option until now
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Re: Artificial Eye / Curzon Film World
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2025 6:28 pm
Picked up the Curzon Kieslowski Three Colours set for the shorts. Has anyone else noticed a yellow tint in UHD version of Blue? I don’t remember this from previous screenings, including in the theatre when it was released. On the other hand, the Criterion 4K looks less vibrant and washed out. I can’t find any good comparisons of the Criterion and Curzon UHDs.
Re: Artificial Eye / Curzon Film World
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2025 12:29 am
Michael Haneke: A Curzon Collection...The 14-disc box is scheduled to arrive on the market on September 15
Re: Artificial Eye / Curzon Film World
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2025 1:33 am
FrauBlucher wrote: Tue Jun 03, 2025 12:29 am Michael Haneke: A Curzon Collection...The 14-disc box is scheduled to arrive on the market on September 15
Please god, don’t tell me I made a mistake with Umbrella’s
Re: Artificial Eye / Curzon Film World
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2025 11:30 am
Looks pretty similar at a cursory glance – only difference that I’ve noticed so far is that the Curzon set has the Funny Games remake. (Both are listed as having 14 discs though – I wonder how Curzon are squeezing their extra film on.)
Re: Artificial Eye / Curzon Film World
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2025 2:25 pm
The early television works are key here. Plus the adaptation of Kafka's The Castle, which I think has only had a 2007 Kino DVD release in the US before this.
Re: Artificial Eye / Curzon Film World
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2025 2:39 pm
What, if anything, is missing from this box?
Re: Artificial Eye / Curzon Film World
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2025 5:58 pm
I believe Cache, Amour, The Piano Teacher, and The White Ribbon will all have new masters in the Curzon set.
Re: Artificial Eye / Curzon Film World
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2025 6:18 pm
It doesn't have all of his early TV movies, though thankfully Three Paths to the Lake and Lemmings are included. After Liverpool, Variation, Who Was Edgar Allan?, and Fraulein: A German Melodrama are still MIA.domino harvey wrote:What, if anything, is missing from this box?
Re: Artificial Eye / Curzon Film World
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2025 6:21 pm
Maybe I spoke too soon, since the re-releases of Caché and The Piano Teacher are advertised on Curzon's site as 35mm suggesting no new masters, although another site listed them as 'new 2k restorations'.rrenault wrote: Tue Jun 03, 2025 5:58 pm I believe Cache, Amour, The Piano Teacher, and The White Ribbon will all have new masters in the Curzon set.
Re: Artificial Eye / Curzon Film World
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2025 7:00 pm
I like Haneke, but it's actually a little too complete for me and no 4k upgrades, so I think I'll stick with the piecemeal releases of the ones I love. Very nice release for the completists though.
Re: Artificial Eye / Curzon Film World
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2025 7:15 pm
I’ve got most of his films already, so will probably skip this one. I am hoping that Time of the Wolf will someday get a remastering and decent solo release.
Re: Artificial Eye / Curzon Film World
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2025 8:20 pm
Well, with the exception of Code: Unknown, I own the films I care about (Cache, White Ribbon, Amour), would be interested in rewatching some (Time of the Wolf, 71 Fragments) and watching the TV movies and the newest film, which I haven't seen. But I'm not a big fan of the rest (though I do think Funny Games is very good for being what Haneke didn't want it to be), especially the literary adaptations, which are okay (Piano Teacher) to bad (The Castle). So I guess I'm sitting this one out.
Re: Artificial Eye / Curzon Film World
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2025 8:49 pm
A remaster of Amour doesn’t seem likely as that film was shot digitally in the first place and apparently finished in 4K. The White Ribbon is another case where the film was heavily post-processed (shot on color film and B&W-converted digitally) and already finished in 2K. I can see someone fiddling with Caché again and attempting to squeeze every last bit of detail out of the 1080p-shot film though but it doesn’t seem likely either. Curzon probably would’ve advertised new masters with the box announcement like they did with the von Trier set.rrenault wrote: Tue Jun 03, 2025 6:21 pmMaybe I spoke too soon, since the re-releases of Caché and The Piano Teacher are advertised on Curzon's site as 35mm suggesting no new masters, although another site listed them as 'new 2k restorations'.rrenault wrote: Tue Jun 03, 2025 5:58 pm I believe Cache, Amour, The Piano Teacher, and The White Ribbon will all have new masters in the Curzon set.
Re: Artificial Eye / Curzon Film World
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2025 9:16 pm
The Castle was in the TFI boxed set. Blu Ray with English subtitles. I do want the early TV-stuff. But I'm not sure I can justify paying for the box just to get those.colinr0380 wrote: Tue Jun 03, 2025 2:25 pm The early television works are key here. Plus the adaptation of Kafka's The Castle, which I think has only had a 2007 Kino DVD release in the US before this.
Re: Artificial Eye / Curzon Film World
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2025 10:27 pm
To actually answer your question, nothing in terms of the actual films. In fact, this includes the English-language remake of Funny Games that is not included in the Umbrella set. Umbrella's is also a "Collector's Edition" that includes a 100-page book and is (apparently) region-free. Based on prices at OrbitDVD, the Umbrella costs $40 more (not including whatever the added tariff charge is today).
Re: Artificial Eye / Curzon Film World
Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2025 12:42 am
I received the Umbrella set this morning, it's nice and compact; about the size of one of Criterion's World Cinema Project boxed sets, but made of much sturdier material. The discs are housed in a book-shaped package with paper sleaves on each page, but all the discs slide out easily. There's a liner booklet detailing the contents of each disc, plus the hardback book advertised.
Re: Artificial Eye / Curzon Film World
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2025 3:38 pm
Curzon on Bluesky wrote:
NEW FILM ADDITION - Our Michael Haneke Blu-ray collection will include an additional TV Movie directed by Haneke, for a total of 18 films: 12 features and 6 TV Movies.
Full list of special features and exploded art revealed tomorrow"
Re: Artificial Eye / Curzon Film World
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2025 9:28 am
Full details of the Haneke set:
https://film.curzon.com/film/michael-haneke-collection/This 14-disc Blu-ray collection contains Michael Haneke's entire feature filmography, many available on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK, plus newly restored TV works from the acclaimed director. This limited edition also includes an 80-page booklet with two essays by Haneke and new essays by Catherine Wheatley, Ian Haydn Smith and Haneke's longtime producer Veit Heiduschka, as well as 3 reversible posters.
From his Glaciation Trilogy to the shock of Funny Games and subsequent Palme d’Or-winning films The White Ribbon and Amour, Haneke has developed a style that articulately fuses social critique with a cinema of transcendent beauty in its precision, purpose and humanity. With formal disruption and sly reminders of artifice, as well as emapthy and dark humour, Haneke stares where others fear to glance. In his worlds, we are all complicit – even him, even you.
As well as 12 feature films and 6 TV movies, this set also includes several documentaries about Haneke, new commentaries, interviews, behind-the-scenes featurettes and more.
Films included:
Three Paths to the Lake (1976)
Lemmings 1: Arcadia (1979)
Lemmings 2: Injuries (1979)
Variation (1983)
The Seventh Continent (1989)
Benny's Video (1992)
The Rebellion (1993)
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994)
Funny Games (1997)
The Castle (1997)
Code Unknown (2000)
The Piano Teacher (2001)
Time of the Wolf (2003)
Hidden (2005)
Funny Games U.S. (2007)
The White Ribbon (2009)
Amour (2012)
Happy End (2017)
Full list of disc contents:
Disc 1 - LEMMINGS
Lemmings 1: Arcadia (1979) - TV movie
Lemmings 2: Injuries (1979) - TV movie
English SDH Subtitles
Disc 2 - THE SEVENTH CONTINENT
Three Paths to the Lake (1976) - TV movie
Interview with Michael Haneke
English SDH Subtitles
Disc 3 - BENNY’S VIDEO
Variation (1983) - TV movie
Interview with Michael Haneke
Deleted Scenes
English SDH Subtitles
Disc 4 - 71 FRAGMENTS OF A CHRONOLOGY OF CHANCE
The Rebellion (1993) - TV movie
Interview with Michael Haneke
English SDH Subtitles
Disc 5 - FUNNY GAMES
NEW Commentary with Ian Haydn Smith
Interview with Michael Haneke
Theatrical Trailer
English SDH Subtitles
Disc 6 - THE CASTLE
Michael H. Profession: Director (2013) - Documentary
Interview with Michael Haneke: The Beginning
English SDH Subtitles
Disc 7 - CODE UNKNOWN
NEW Commentary with Catherine Wheatley and Ian Haydn Smith
Introduction by Michael Haneke
Making of Code Unknown
Filming the Boulevard Sequences Featurette
Theatrical Trailers
English SDH Subtitles
Disc 8 - THE PIANO TEACHER
NEW Commentary with Catherine Wheatley
Interview with Michael Haneke
Interview with author Elfriede Jelinek
Scene commentaries with Isabelle Huppert
Post-Synchronisation Session Featurette
Theatrical Trailer
English SDH Subtitles
Disc 9 - TIME OF THE WOLF
NEW Commentary with Catherine Wheatley
24 Realities per Second (2005) - Documentary
Making Of Time of the Wolf
Cannes Film Festival Featurette
Theatrical Trailer
English SDH Subtitles
Disc 10 - HIDDEN (CACHÉ)
NEW Commentary with Catherine Wheatley and Ian Haydn Smith
Making of Hidden (Caché)
Interview with Michael Haneke
Theatrical Trailer
Theatrical Retrospective Trailer (2025)
English SDH Subtitles
Disc 11 - FUNNY GAMES U.S.
Michael Haneke - My Life (2009) - Documentary
Q&A with producers Hamish McAlpine and Chris Coen
User's Guide to Home Invasion
Theatrical Trailer
English SDH Subtitles
Disc 12 - THE WHITE RIBBON
NEW Commentary with Ian Haydn Smith
Directors Dialogues: Michael Haneke & Darren Aronofsky
Making of The White Ribbon
Interview with Michael Haneke
Cannes Film Festival Featurette
Theatrical Trailer
English SDH Subtitles
Disc 13 - AMOUR
Introduction by Philippe Rouyer
The Making of Amour
Interview with Michael Haneke (Cannes 2012)
Interview with Michael Haneke (Los Angeles 2012)
Interview with Jean-Louis Trintignant
Theatrical Trailer
English SDH Subtitles
Disc 14 - HAPPY END
Masterclass with Michael Haneke
Making of Happy End
Theatrical Trailer
Disc encoding by Visual Data Media Services, including newly authored Blu-rays for Hidden, Funny Games U.S., The White Ribbon and Amour.
Re: Artificial Eye / Curzon Film World
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2025 6:00 pm
Well, the new commentaries make this less of a double-dip fest than I feared, so I might well take the plunge.
Re: Artificial Eye / Curzon Film World
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2025 9:13 pm
What Michael said and I’ll add to that the new encodes. Really looking forward to this one now.
Re: Artificial Eye / Curzon Film World
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2025 9:54 pm
I mean, I bought the Peter Strickland box, and I had four out of six of the discs already - and literally the same discs. Although I passed on the Béla Tarr box as I had virtually everything already courtesy of Arbelos and Carlotta, and in FiM encodes.
But here, it looks as though Amour is the only direct overlap - I have Hidden and The White Ribbon on BD as well, but not with those specs.
But here, it looks as though Amour is the only direct overlap - I have Hidden and The White Ribbon on BD as well, but not with those specs.
Re: Artificial Eye / Curzon Film World
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2025 10:44 pm
Commentaries make this tempting. Best place to buy for US residents?
Re: Artificial Eye / Curzon Film World
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2025 10:48 pm
OrbitDVD, I imagine
Re: Artificial Eye / Curzon Film World
Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2025 2:09 pm
Slightly slower from Amazon UK. Will I get hit with tariffs?