Carlotta Films

[HerrSchreck]

L'Inhumaine just didnt work in narrative terms for me, fascinating though it is visually.

[HerrSchreck]

Well.. this is a better place to say it away from the Roue controversy (the recent moronic assault upon me by a certain, uh, label-ambassador, which riccocheted back upon them to my total vindication by the always excellent La Cle du..)--

La Roue restored felt totally overwrought, filled with wretchedly turgid acting. By the time of the end of disc two I felt I'd been importuned all the way home for spare change by a homeless teller of tales. WOnderful innovations in spots, but way too long, too little story, and atomically melodramatic, and not on a par with the swedes, murnau, dreyer, griffith, and certainly not Epstein.

I just couldnt stir up more muck on that thread so close in to last week.

[tojoed]

Carlotta are releasing Mean Streets and Taking Off on Blu-Ray in April.

[Peacock]

Carlotta are releasing the first World Cinema Foundation boxset (Volume 1) in April 2012.
The four titles are
Revenge/Mest
The Wave/Redes
Touki Bouki
Trances/El Hal

Wonder if these were/are the same titles in that delayed-for-reasons-beyond-their-control set Criterion were going to be releasing around summertime last year? I was expecting the Housemaid or the Yang to be included in the first set to help sell it though, so maybe not...?

[yoshimori]

Also from Carlotta, on 2.22.12, Schatzberg's Puzzle of a Downfall Child.