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February - April 2010 Planning here : http://www.filmsactu.com/news-dvd-plann ... 0-8303.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

CARLOTTA RELEASES :

17 FEVRIER 2010
Pietro Germi :
- CES MESSIEURS DAMES (Signore & Signori) (1966)
- IL FERROVIERE (1956)
- MEURTRE A L'ITALIENNE (Murder, Italian Style) (1959)

11 MARS 2010
Collection La Cinémathèque de Toulouse :
- LA CAMPAGNE DE CICERON (1989)

25 MARS 2010
- ALLEMAGNE, MERE BLAFARDE (Deutschland, bleiche Mutter) (1980)

7 AVRIL 2010
- LES DESEMPARES (The Reckless Moments) (1949)

21 AVRIL 2010
3 MOVIES BY LIONEL ROGOSIN :

- ON TE BOWERY (1956)
- COME BACK, AFRICA (1959)
- GOOD TIMES, WONDERFUL TIMES (1965)

- THE SAVAGE EYE (1960)


BODEGA FILMS RELEASES:

7 AVRIL 2010
- CASANEGRA (Nouveauté) (2009)

Thanks for pointing this out. They're all SD, right? Shame there's no blu announcement there.

David, the Sirk Vol 3 is out now.

All are SD, yes. It's said that some BR are supposed to be made for the end of the year. No announcement about the movies concerned, but Carlotta always spoke about Double Indemnity, so maybe...

Douglas Sirk V3 is out since 3rd Dec. Nothing else for this month.

tenia wrote:All are SD, yes. It's said that some BR are supposed to be made for the end of the year. No announcement about the movies concerned, but Carlotta always spoke about Double Indemnity, so maybe...

Douglas Sirk V3 is out since 3rd Dec. Nothing else for this month.

My Sirk box 3 just arrived, with no english subs, as expected. I know a little french and like no German; would be good to have english scripts as a backup; I've found Pillars of Society's french subtitle file on opensubtitles.org which is then google translateable; anyone found the others?

1. La Habanera should be fine, I know that one, plus I have the Kino.

The other three I'm more worried about, because I've not seen them; which is why I got the box:

2. Pillars of Society
3. Zu neuen Ufern/Paramatta Bagne Les Femmes/To New Shores
4. Das Mädchen vom Moorhof/La Filles des Marais/Girl of the Moors

4 films by Mauro Bolognini :

July 7th :

Bubu de Montparnasse and Liberté, mon amour !

July 21st :

Les garçons and Vertiges

August 18th :

Les nuits blanches, by Luchino Visconti

Do the Mauro Bolognini DVDs have English subtitles?

Unfortunately, I don't think they will. But, very rarely though, Carlotta adds other subtitles than just French ones.
Wait & see ^^.

Release date this month.

In fact, Hi mom ! was released on May 5th.

Also to be released (sorry for the simple translation of the specs) :

June 16th :


DVD 1 : Movie + Extras

. REGARDS CROISÉS (20 mn)
Paola Pegoraro Petri, Elio Petri's wife, and producer Marina Cicogna speak about the shooting of the movie.

. LA STRATÉGIE DE LA TENSION (25 mn)
Interview with Fabio Ferzetti (critique at Messaggero), on the political context of this time and the manipulation of the public by the power in place, played here by Gian Maria Volonté.

. Trailer

DVD 2 : Extras

. ENNIO MORRICONE, LA MUSIQUE AU CORPS (19 mn)
M° Ennio Morricone speaks about his work on Enquête sur un citoyen au-dessus de tout soupçon.

. ELIO PETRI, NOTES SUR UN AUTEUR (2005 – Couleurs et N&B – 84 mn)
by Federico Bacci, Nicola Guarneri et Stefano Leone & produced by Paola Petri
Masterpiece documentary on Elio Petri, with exclusives interviews by Robert Altman, Ursula Andress, Bernardo Bertolucci, Dante Ferretti, M° Ennio Morricone, Franco Nero and Vanessa Redgrave !

Includes the OST CD of the movie.

Collector limited at 3000 editions.



Also, on June 16th, The Devil and Daniel Webster, in a new HD Master of the uncut 102 minutes version.

Extras

. UN HUMANISTE À HOLLYWOOD (24 mn)
Hervé Dumont, writer of "William Dieterle : un humaniste au pays du cinéma", speaks about how The Devil and Daniel Webster mixes the myth of Faust and the political folklore associated with the birth of the USA.

. "THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER" RADIO VERSION (1938 – B&W – 30 mn)
The radio version, put in pictures with a partition by Bernard Herrmann !

. SCREEN DIRECTORS PLAYHOUSE : "ONE AGAINST MANY" (1956 – B&W – 25 mn)
A movie by William Dieterle with Lew Ayres & Wallace Ford

- Le songe de la lumière 8 septembre
- Vittorio De Seta - Le monde perdu 22 Septembre
- Le monde sur le fil 6 Octobre
- Rue casse-nègres 20 Octobre
- L'ange de la rue 3 Novembre
- L'heure suprême 3 Novembre
- L'isolé 3 Novembre
- L'ange de la rue / L'heure suprême / L'isolé Blu Ray Boxset 3 Novembre
- Jeannot l'intrépide 18 Novembre
- L'aurore 8 Décembre
- City girl 8 Décembre
- L'aurore / City Girl Blu Ray Boxset 8 Décembre



Source : Filmsactu / DVDClassik

Welt am Draht on Blu! Oh man, why couldn't the UK or German publisher have released it like this too.

Three Borzages on Blu-Ray just like that??!! :

Not very unexpected, i bought the BFI DVDs on Sunday! #-o

Whaaa! I'm getting Lucky Star that's for sure. Amazing.

david hare wrote:THe Carlotta Blus are a great treat, but apart from Lucky Star does anyone really think the current masters of Seventh Heaven and Street Angel are going to stand up to the Blu treatment? And MoC has already done the yards on the two Murnaus.

And this is me speaking, who wants everything in Blu.

Well, considering that the sales of their first BRs (Sympathy for the devil and Fellin's Casanova) have been huge flops, I think they won't put anything else than "flawless" on Blu.
Normally, they should probably release Double Indemnity at some point, since they have been announcing it for, like, 2 years.
Anyway.
I will probably have the equipment for these releases, so I will probably pick the Murnaus and the Borzages.

And I just see that I didn't indicate it, but the Borzage BR are going to be also available in a boxset.
And the 2 Murnau will have a BR boxset as well. I think City Girl and Sunrise will look very like the MoCs, but Carlotta spoke about some "great work on some editorial surprises".

The PQ of Casanova is good, i don't think it affected sales.

perkizitore wrote:The PQ of Casanova is good, i don't think it affected sales.

The one from Salo and Sympathy for the devil too, but the problem is that, in France, old movies like these aren't selling at all on BR, to a point where the independant studios like Carlotta, Wild Side or MK2 basically stopped doing BR releases of such movies.

That's why, if they would moreover have bad technical reviews, it would just be icing on the cake for people to bash about it.

Anyway, here is (in French though) an interview of the director of Carlotta, in which you will also find all the visuals and dates for the september to december releases :
http://www.filmsactu.com/news-hd-interv ... -10649.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I would have bought their Fellini but it's just the cost of it.

I think it was less than 20 euro included shipping for a while.

perkizitore wrote:I think it was less than 20 euro included shipping for a while.

It appears that way but the French Amazon site doesn't display tax.

I saw the De Seta documentaries at the Jeu de Paume recently; they are beautiful, slow and meditative colour portraits of traditional life in Sicily and Sardegna (mostly) and have never been on DVD. Well done, Carlotta.

Documaniaque wrote:I saw the De Seta documentaries at the Jeu de Paume recently; they are beautiful, slow and meditative colour portraits of traditional life in Sicily and Sardegna (mostly) and have never been on DVD. Well done, Carlotta.

Not to be picky or to diminish the merit of the Carlotta release but for some months this DVD is already available through Edizioni Cineteca di Bologna.

JAP wrote:

Documaniaque wrote:I saw the De Seta documentaries at the Jeu de Paume recently; they are beautiful, slow and meditative colour portraits of traditional life in Sicily and Sardegna (mostly) and have never been on DVD. Well done, Carlotta.

Not to be picky or to diminish the merit of the Carlotta release but for some months this DVD is already available through Edizioni Cineteca di Bologna.

Well, that's normal : the Carlotta edition is made in partneship with the Bologna Cinematheque, like it was the case for Chung Kuo 2 years ago.