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life_boy wrote:Did Moses und Aron ever receive the New Yorker DVD release that was rumored at one point in time (seems like a year ago, now)?

Not that I know of. Go for the French set, if you have the money. If you know German or French, even better, though I don't think that you need to know German to follow Moses und Aron.

To add, all of the screenings at AFI Silver for Godard's Weekend have been cancelled.

Okay, New Yorker has clearly lost the rights. This really needs to come from Criterion. Does anyone see a way to get Criterion to release this title?

I think it seems likely that the title is now with Rialto.

miless wrote:I think it seems likely that the title is now with Rialto.

Do you have a source. That would mean Criterion.

I have no source, I just thought it would be a likely place for Weekend to end up, given their track-record with Godard (and they have bought up NY'er titles in the past, right? I'm thinking of some of the Bresson titles)

Just received Moolaade. Very nice edition, very nice booklet with lots of links to other sites. I'm screening this for my world lit class in a couple of weeks, so I had to pick up the R1, and I'm VERY happy with this release. I hope NY'er will do more work like this! =D>

HerrSchreck wrote:Although the transfer is slightly cropped versus the sublime AEye Complete Vigo, I like the subs in the NYer L'Atalante better. They capture the humor, and the AE leaves some spots untranslated that the NYer does not. And it has its own perfectly charming documentary by Eisenschitz and co that is not on the AE (but at all costs get the AE for, at very least, all the rest of the Vigo canon!)

I'm not sure if anyone is aware, but.

New Yorker's L'Atalante is now OOP, and selling fairly high. And good as the subs are, I need money.

What A Disgrace wrote:I'm not sure if anyone is aware, but.

New Yorker's L'Atalante is now OOP, and selling fairly high. And good as the subs are, I need money.

Holy shit. I could sell L'Atalante, Weekend, and Wings of Desire and make $200 easy. I don't think I'm going to though.

jbeall wrote:Just received Moolaade. Very nice edition, very nice booklet with lots of links to other sites ... I hope NY'er will do more work like this!

New Yorker scheduled Camp de Thiaroye to be released on October 28.

With any New Yorker release I'll believe it when I see it, but Camp di Thiaroye is certainly something to get excited about, absolutely excellent film.

At the bottom of this page Rosenbaum states:

Jackie Raynal taped my interview in Paris with screenwriter Eduardo de Gregorio for New Yorker Video’s upcoming DVD release of CELINE AND JULIE GO BOATING, to be released later this year.

No mention of interviewing Rivette at all.

Good Eyes. I'll probably double dip on this since I've now become a collector of anything Rivette, but I assume most others will not unless the disc is a significant improvement on the BFI. It would be nice if it was, but kinda doubtful.

Too bad no interview with Barbet either.

life_boy wrote:Did Moses und Aron ever receive the New Yorker DVD release that was rumored at one point in time (seems like a year ago, now)?

DVDAf gives this a 10/21 release date.

Like many other people I'm hoping that the eventual Celine and Julie Go Boating release will lead to more Rivette on DVD considering New Yorker owns the rights to most of his 60s-70's films.

Really? I think the only other Rivette title waiting in their queue is L'Amour fou, and it's been disputed somewhere here on this forum that they may not still own that title. Paris Belongs to Us is Janus, The Nun is Lionsgate (those are definite) and it's been rumored that Kino is working on Spectre. That leaves the full Out 1, Duelle, Noroit, and Merry-Go-Round (of the 60s and 70s works) and I don't believe New Yorker owns these.

But I agree that I hope the New Yorker release of Celine and Julie leads to more Rivette. Similarly, I hope Criterion's upcoming Rivette title(s) will help as well. I'm guessing he's off the radar for a lot of people, and both releases will cause cinephiles with money to ask "Who is Jacques Rivette?"

On a side note, would anyone else like to see Project X work on Rivette now that their Watkins work is nearly complete?

I think the only other Rivette title waiting in their queue is L'Amour fou, and it's been disputed somewhere here on this forum that they may not still own that title.

They do not. The international rights are with Tamasa in France; nobody owns the rights in North America right now and it's consequently very hard to imagine this coming to DVD in the US in the foreseeable future unless somebody like Criterion got involved (and they don't seem particularly interested in doing that). MoC could potentially try to license this in the UK, but there may be other issues in play there.

Tamasa? I've never heard of that company. The rights haven't been reverted back to Rivette?

justeleblanc wrote:On a side note, would anyone else like to see Project X work on Rivette now that their Watkins work is nearly complete?

Yes but isn't their work British cinema focused? Perhaps Oliver Groom needs to be sent an email or two. I'll give him my money for a L'Amour Fou/Out 1 DVD before it comes out.

They are not British only.... recently just Watkins only. PM me if you are serious about funding any of his Rivette transfers.

Tamasa? I've never heard of that company. The rights haven't been reverted back to Rivette?

Tamasa was formerly known as Connaissance du Cinema. As far as I know, Rivette has never had the rights to any of his films since he has never been the producer.

I don't see any Rivette listed on their site, but I do see that they hold the rights to almost all of Eustache's oeuvre.

justeleblanc wrote:Looks OOP to me.

It would also be nice to know what their plan is with much of their catalog. They really need to start licensing out their titles to companies willing to take care of their films if they plan on having any sort of business model on home video.

I recall pointing out that Weekend, Fireworks, and numerous other NYer titles by major directors went OOP months ago, and said the more or less the same thing.

The print of Out 1 I saw still has the New Yorker label at the beginning.

Are you referring to Out 1: Spectre? New Yorker controlled hundreds of titles back in the 1970s (when their focus was on distributing international art cinema rather than contemporary documentaries) that they no longer have the rights to, so while the prints may still have the old labels, that has no bearing on future releases/screenings. The only Rivette titles New Yorker controls now are La Belle Noiseuse, Divertimento, and Celine and Julie. They also have non-theatrical rights for Va Savoir, but that's because of a special arrangement with Sony.