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de Trois Couleurs trilogy op blu-ray?
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Uit de nieuwsbrief van gisteren:
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de Trois Couleurs trilogy op blu-ray?
September titels:
Le beau Serge
SYNOPSIS
Of the hallowed group of Cahiers du cinéma critics turned filmmakers who would transform French film history, Claude Chabrol was the first to direct his own feature. His stark and absorbing landmark debut, Le beau Serge, follows a successful yet sickly young man (Jean‑Claude Brialy) who returns home to the small village where he grew up. There, he finds himself at odds with his former close friend (Gérard Blain)—now unhappily married and a wretched alcoholic—and the provincial life he represents. The remarkable and raw Le beau Serge heralded the arrival of a cinematic titan who would go on to craft provocative, entertaining films for five more decades
Disc Features
New digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
New audio commentary featuring Guy Austin, author of Claude Chabrol
Segment from a 1969 episode of the French television series L’invité du dimanche in which Chabrol revisits Sardent, the town he grew up in and the film’s location
New and improved English subtitle translation
Theatrical trailer
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Terrence Rafferty
More!
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Les cousins
SYNOPSIS
In Les cousins, Claude Chabrol crafts a sly moral fable about a provincial boy who comes to live with his sophisticated bohemian cousin in Paris. Through these seeming opposites, Chabrol conjures a piercing, darkly comic character study that questions notions of good and evil, love and jealousy, and success in the modern world. A mirror image of Le beau Serge, Chabrol’s debut, Les cousins recasts that film’s stars, Jean-Claude Brialy and Gérard Blain, in startlingly reversed roles. This dagger-sharp drama won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and was an important precursor to the French New Wave.
Disc Features
New digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
Audio commentary featuring film scholar Adrian Martin
New and improved English subtitle translation
Theatrical trailer
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Terrence Rafferty
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The Phantom Carriage
SYNOPSIS
The last person to die on New Year’s Eve before the clock strikes twelve is doomed to take the reins of Death’s chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year. So says the legend that drives The Phantom Carriage (Körkarlen), directed by the father of Swedish cinema, Victor Sjöström, about an alcoholic, abusive ne’er-do-well (Sjöström himself) who is shown the error of his ways and the pure-of-heart Salvation Army sister who believes in his redemption. Based on a novel by Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerlöf, this extraordinarily rich and innovative silent classic (which inspired Ingmar Bergman to make movies) is a Dickensian ghost story and a deeply moving morality tale, as well as a showcase for groundbreaking special effects.
Disc Features
New digital transfer, restored in collaboration with the Archival Film Collections of the Swedish Film Institute
Two scores, one by acclaimed Swedish composer Matti Bye and the other by the experimental duo KTL
Audio commentary featuring film historian Casper Tybjerg
Interview with Ingmar Bergman excerpted from the 1981 documentary Victor Sjöström: A Portrait, by Gösta Werner
The Bergman Connection, an original visual essay by film historian and Bergman scholar Peter Cowie on The Phantom Carriage’s influence on Bergman
Archival footage from 1919 of the construction of Räsunda Studios, where The Phantom Carriage was filmed
New and improved English subtitle translation
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by screenwriter and filmmaker Paul Mayersberg
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Carlos
SYNOPSIS
Carlos, directed by Olivier Assayas, is an epic, intensely detailed account of the life of the infamous international terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sanchez—also known as Carlos the Jackal. One of the twentieth century’s most-wanted fugitives, Carlos was committed to violent left-wing activism throughout the seventies and eighties, orchestrating bombings, kidnappings, and hijackings in Europe and the Middle East. Assayas portrays him not as a criminal mastermind but as a symbol of seismic political shifts around the world, and the magnetic Édgar Ramírez brilliantly embodies him as a swaggering global gangster. Criterion presents the complete, uncut, director-approved, five-and-a-half-hour version of Carlos.
Disc Features
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:
New digital transfer, supervised and approved by directors of photography Denis Lenoir and Yorick Le Saux, with DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition
New video interviews with director Olivier Assayas, Lenoir, Le Saux, and actor Édgar Ramírez
Twenty-minute making-of documentary on the film’s OPEC raid scene
Original theatrical trailer
PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by critics Colin MacCabe and Greil Marcus, plus biographies on selected historical figures portrayed in the film, written by the film’s historical adviser, Stephen Smith
Much more!
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Blu-ray upgrades:
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Vooral de release van 3 Women op blu-ray is geweldig nieuws. Die ga ik tzt zeker aanschaffen, ook al heb ik de dvd al.
en de sale bij Barnes & Noble is begonnen...
Oktober releases:
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Wel weer veel upgrades. Vind ik eigenlijk jammer, zouden beter nog niet uitgebrachte films releasen...
Ugh, had eindelijk Dazed and Confused op DVD gekocht, wordt hij op BluRay uitgegeven.
Harakiri wordt bekijken of de MoC beter is. Kuroneko ben ik blij mee maar MoC is voor mij wel genoeg.
Island of Lost Souls aan te raden? De rest ben ik niet geinteresseerd in...
Tsja, ik ga nu ook twijfelen. De UK uitgave van Dazed & Confused staat in de preorder, en komt over een weekje uit.
De prijs is wat gunstiger dan de Criterion natuurlijk, maar als bijvoorbeeld het beeld een stuk minder is..... Het beeld van de HD-DVD was wel aardig. Zou Criterion een hele nieuwe transfer gaan maken?
Zeker, erg bijzondere film.
Leuk om te zien dat die Antonioni nu uitgegeven wordt, heb ik nogal prettige herinneringen aan toen ik hem een paar jaar terug in de bioscoop zag. Vooral omdat ik tijdens de film... laten we zeggen... seksuele gratificatie ontvangen heb. Gebeurt ook niet iedere dag.
Uit de nieuwsbrief:
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Belle du Jour?
Kwam op de site van Criterion Altman`s "Secret Honor" tegen. Is die de moeite waard voor iemand als ik die houdt van de Amerikaanse (politieke) geschiedenis?
Ok thanks. Kennis van de Amerikaanse politiek heb ik wel (zei hij bescheiden :p)
Ga `m zo bestellen (y)
The Killing is al verzonden door planetaxel (y)
Heb het merendeel van mijn bestelling binnen. Dat worden weer heerlijke maanden met Criterion en MoC!
Wel zo dom geweest om de DVD versies van Last Year in Marienbad en Sweet Smell of Success te bestellen ipv BR. Dazed and Confused wordt ook geBRd. Toch jammer dat de verpakking van de BRs "minder" is dan de oude. Gelukkig was Night of the Hunter wel die digipak verpakking.
Maar ja, gaat natuurlijk om de film en extras en niet de verpakking.
Veel moois tussen zoals:
Days of Heaven
The Thin Red Line
Bottle Rocket
The Darjeeling Limited
Last Year In Marienbad
Le Corbeau (dacht die OOP was)
Diabolique
Wages of Fear
Dazed and Confuses
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas
Spoorloos
Blast of Silence
The Hit
Letter From Fontainhas
Sweet Smell of Success
Paths of Glory
Kiss Me Deadly
Night Train In Munich
En er zijn nog 10 of zo onderweg....wat een feest.
Vandaag ook de eerste van m`n bestelling binnen gekregen: de br`s van Pale Flower en Insignifcance
Uit de nieuwsbrief:
Citaat:
We will soon be announcing revised Blu-ray and DVD editions of Jean Renoir's masterpiece The Rules of the Game as part of our November lineup—we are replacing one supplement and creating new packaging.
Our original DVD edition will then be officially out of print