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Also coming soon: a Blu-ray presenting a 2016 restoration of Patrick Bokanowski's L'Ange!

swo17 wrote:Also coming soon: a Blu-ray presenting a 2016 restoration of Patrick Bokanowski's L'Ange!

Ooh, now that's a film I really want to see in HD.

zedz wrote:

swo17 wrote:Also coming soon: a Blu-ray presenting a 2016 restoration of Patrick Bokanowski's L'Ange!

Ooh, now that's a film I really want to see in HD.

Absolutely seconded.

*dies* I've been bugging them about this for years! Can finally put my VHS out to pasture.

swo17 wrote:Also coming soon: a Blu-ray presenting a 2016 restoration of Patrick Bokanowski's L'Ange!

Where did you see this, swo? I couldn't find it on their site anywhere.

It was also confirmed in their 2017 catalog, which listed all these as coming soon:

Blu-Ray
Un Rêve Solaire (Patrick Bokanowski)
L’Ange (Patrick Bokanowski)
Anticipation of the Night (Stan Brakhage)
Marie pour Mémoire (Philippe Garrel)

DVD
Le Critique Filmeur (Raphaël Bassan)
Recreation (Robert Breer)
Un Miracle (Robert Breer)
The Triumph of Sympathy (Les Frères Buharov)
Carnets d’Atelier (Olivier Fouchard)
Portraits Décadrés (Marie Losier)

That Breer situation remains mysterious.

zedz wrote:That Breer situation remains mysterious.

How so? [The DVDs came out last year.]

...and yet remain unavailable from Re:voir directly.

That is indeed mysterious.

Thanks for the info – so exciting. And a new film by Bokanowski! I had no idea that one even existed.

furbicide wrote:Thanks for the info – so exciting. And a new film by Bokanowski! I had no idea that one even existed.

It looks amazing.

Received a nice little bundle from Re:Voir today. Haven't watched anything yet, but I had to comment on the extraordinary packaging of Peter Gidal's Condition of Illusion (a collection of shorts from the 1960s to the present day), which takes to extremes the transparent packaging idea of the Index label and the first Faust album. The booklet creates a 3D drop-shadow effect behind the cover and is itself entirely transparent (there's a loose translucent page that you can tuck behind each page in order to actually read the text).

Wow! That's beautiful. The future of home media lies in this kind of artistry, perhaps.

Even snazzier than what they did for Lebrat!

A coming-soon date for L'Ange, at last: 31st of January, according to Re:Voir's Facebook page.

http://www.chaosreigns.fr/lange-reve-so ... d-blu-ray/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

From Twitter: "our next Blu-Ray/DVD of Philippe Garrel's "Marie pour mémoire" (1967)) + "Les Enfants Désaccordés" (1964) + "Actua 1"(1968)."

I wont have time to watch the whole film until the weekend but I picked up Marie pour mémoire and first impressions are that it looks very good. Unfortuately the disc is 1080i/interlaced.

In addition to the two Bokanowski features, it looks like Re:voir snuck in a BD release of a complete shorts collection as well, and you can currently buy the lot of them for a 25% bulk discount!

Is it me or is it a tad expensive even at -25% ?

Well I've been buying their releases for years and this is the first time I remember seeing any kind of discount at all. I was already going to order these but now it's practically buy 2 get 1 free.

Marcel Hanoun's seminal Une simple histoire is out on DVD on the 5th of March, according to Re:voir's social media. Looks beautiful, particularly in comparison with the murky online copy that most people would be familiar with.

https://www.facebook.com/ReVoirVideos/v ... 816048662/

Is there anywhere besides their website to purchase Re:Voir titles. I have tried to access their site on multiple occasions the last two weeks with no luck (and yes I have tried different computers/browsers). I keep getting 403 Forbidden errors.

Strange, their site seems to be working fine for me. In any case, the BFI Film Shop keeps a lot of their product in stock, though you have to email them to get a listing of current inventory.