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[Peacock]

So i'm holding in my hands The Agnes Varda Collection Volume 1.
Yes as others have said Vagabond has been replaced with La Bonheur.

The case is the blue one shown on most of the websites and each of the films come in a seperate slimcase.

Lots of extras (excuse my lack of accents, i'm rushing!):


La Pointe Courte extras

Short film 'Du cote de la cote'
Cleo from 5-7 - theatrical trailer
La Bonheur - Theatrical Trailer
The Beaches of Agnes - Theatrial Trailer


Cleo from 5 to 7 extras

Memories and Anecdotes
Madonnas and Agnes speak about Cleo
Cleo's Time-lapse Trajectory
Subject of the Engaged
Les Fiances du pont Mac Donald
Cariatides of Paris
La Bonheur - Theatrical Trailer
The Beaches of Agnes - Theatrical Trailer



Le Bonheur extras
Agnes talkings about Le Bonheur
Words about Le Bonheur
Le Bonheur: The People of Fontenay respond
Jean-Claude Drounot returns to Fontenay-aux-roses
The two women from Le Bonheur
Agnes and Happiness: Fragments of a documentary
Cleo 5 to 7 - Theatrical Trailer
Le Bonheur - Theatrical Trailer
Beaches of Agnes - Theatrical Trailer


The Gleaners and I extras
Two Years Later - Documentary
Homage to Zgougou the Cat - Featurette
The Little Museum - Featurette
Cleo from 5 to 7 - Theatrical Trailer
Le Bonheur - Theatrical Trailer
The Beaches of Agnes - Theatrical Trailer




And thats it, not much huh!!!
I've simply copied what it says on the back of each slimpack and haven't watched any of the dvds yet, so no idea if the multitude of trailers are different or the same, nor whether most of these extras are featurettes or text.
Anyway! Very excited about delving into this

[reaky]

Thanks for the information, Peacock. Without Vagabond, I'll be passing on this set, tempted though I am by the four opportunities to see the trailers for Le Bonheur and The Beaches of Agnes, and three for Cleo.

I wonder if this suggests that the films may be released separately at a later date? I'd go for a solo Cleo.

[hangman]

Only titles I'm interested in is Beaches of Agnes and The Gleaners, since the set is in general a copy of the criterion in terms of extras (sans booklet but replaced by theatrical trailers ).

[perkizitore]

Is AE going to release Judex? Their Les Vampires and Fantomas boxsets are excellent, maybe they didn't sell well though?

[foggy eyes]

Is AE going to release Judex? Their Les Vampires and Fantomas boxsets are excellent, maybe they didn't sell well though?

I think they have to wait for Gaumont to finish the restoration first...

[perkizitore]

Is AE going to release Judex? Their Les Vampires and Fantomas boxsets are excellent, maybe they didn't sell well though?

I think they have to wait for Gaumont to finish the restoration first...

What's the problem with the US release except that it's tinted?

[MichaelB]

Is AE going to release Judex? Their Les Vampires and Fantomas boxsets are excellent, maybe they didn't sell well though?

I think they have to wait for Gaumont to finish the restoration first...

What's the problem with the US release except that it's tinted?

Lower bitrate, titles in English only (i.e. not Feuillade's French originals), comes on an annoying double-sided DVD-18.

[What A Disgrace]

Odd, my Judex is definitely a double disc set.

[MichaelB]

My apologies - for some reason I thought you were talking about Les Vampires, but clearly not. (I've just sold my US edition, which may explain why it was at the forefront of my mind).

[zone_resident]

Beaver on Nuri Bilge Ceylan's The Early Works: Kasaba & Clouds of May

[perkizitore]

Do you think that this will be released by AE?

[MichaelB]

Why don't you ask them?

[max_cherry]

Can somebody answer if there are english subtitles with Agnes Varda' Glaneurs et la Glaneuse and Glaneurs et la Glaneuse: Deux Ans Apres on recent AE box-set?

Also: what about PQ on these two films?

Thank you!

[MichaelB]

Can somebody answer if there are english subtitles with Agnes Varda' Glaneurs et la Glaneuse and Glaneurs et la Glaneuse: Deux Ans Apres on recent AE box-set?

Artificial Eye is a British label, so unless they've screwed up big time...

[foggy eyes]

Can somebody answer if there are english subtitles with Agnes Varda' Glaneurs et la Glaneuse and Glaneurs et la Glaneuse: Deux Ans Apres on recent AE box-set?

Of course there are, and the PQ looks absolutely fine to me.

[max_cherry]

foggy eyes, MichaelB:

thanks a lot!

well, so it's safe to buy this box-set...

[tojoed]

Agnes Varda Vol 2 in February has (so far) Beaches of Agnes, Jacquot de Nantes, and Vagabond. There will probably be more than that.

[perkizitore]

Agnes Varda Vol 2 in February has (so far) Beaches of Agnes, Jacquot de Nantes, and Vagabond. There will probably be more than that.

Hopefully, this will appear at 10£ some point as the first set did...

[bigP]

Hopefully, this will appear at 10£ some point as the first set did...

Amazon.co.uk have the listing for the fourth film in the set, which runs:

L'Une Chante, L'Autre Pas (1977)
Vagabond (1985)
Jacquot De Nantes (1991)
The Beaches of Agnes (2008)

Pre-order price is £29.39 but it may be worth holding off a little while and seeing if lightning strikes twice and the set drops to £10.

[pro-bassoonist]

Michael Haneke's Das Weisse Band a.k.a The White Ribbon (2009) has received a preliminary release date for the UK: March 8. Winner of the Palme d'Or, FIPRESCI Prize, and Cinema Prize of the French National Education System awards at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Courtesy of Artificial Eye. Arriving on Blu-ray and SDVD.

Official UK site and trailer:
http://www.thewhiteribbon.co.uk/

Variety:

Immaculately crafted in beautiful black-and-white and entirely absorbing through its longish running time, Michael Haneke’s “The White Ribbon” nonetheless proves a difficult film to entirely embrace. Stressing, as usual, a conspicuously dim view of the world, the Austrian writer-director here spins a mysterious story about a series of untoward events in a rural village in pre-World War I Germany to advance the notion that malice is arguably the dominant human trait. Haneke’s eminence will provide automatic access to Western art cinemas (Sony Classics acquired North American rights on the eve of Cannes) and prestige Euro tube slots, but there is a medicinal quality to the film that suggests a limit to its appeal even among the faithful.

Perhaps closest to his two-part 1979 TV film “Lemmings” that scrutinizes the ills passed down from generation to generation, but similar as well to a number of his other pictures, including his 2004 international hit “Cache” (Hidden), in its refusal to clearly solve the deadly central mystery, this ironically titled film goes beyond its general analysis of humanity to implicitly suggest some tendencies in the German character and culture that could point to certain developments in the subsequent three decades.

“The White Ribbon” is structured around a string of misfortunes that befall citizens of Eichwald, an agricultural community where half the population works for the Baron (Ulrich Tukur) and where the stern Protestant pastor (Burghart Klaussner) wields a strong influence, especially on the children. In the opening scene, the local doctor (Rainer Bock) is severely injured when his horse stumbles over what is soon discovered to be a trip wire someone deliberately stretched between two trees.

Not long after, the wife of a farm worker dies from a fall through the Baron’s faulty barn loft floor; blaming the Baron, the woman’s hot-headed son slashes the boss’s cabbage crop, and the Baron’s son is found beaten and tied upside down in the barn.

Marbled in between such occurrences are slashing glimpses of village life, including the pastor’s brutal caning of his children over a mild disturbance; a woman’s frustration at a musical accompanist who can’t keep up; and a little boy’s questioning of his nanny about death, in the course of which he learns that his own mother, supposedly away on a long trip, is no longer living. The rare expression of genuine childhood innocence and good will is occasionally tolerated, but more often squashed, by the grown-ups, but even children’s own true nature comes increasingly under a cloud, to the point where “The White Ribbon” feels like a thematic companion piece to “Lord of the Flies.”

The only warm narrative thread is the endearingly bashful courtship between the pudding-faced young school teacher (Christian Friedel) and 17-year-old Eva (Leonie Benesch), who works as a nanny at the Baron’s estate. The ever-so-gradual blossoming of their romance is a tickling delight, even though one suspects Haneke will throw a monkeywrench into it.

As the harvest season passes into winter and then toward what one eventually realizes will be the start of World War I in the summer of 1914, the village’s misdeeds morph into genuine atrocities, resulting in mutual distrust among longtime neighbors and the arrival of outside police. There is enough potential guilt to be spread around among a number of possible culprits, but this remains a whodunit cloaked both in the mists of time and in the collective nature of the human beings under investigation, and hence, a mystery not of suspense but of suspicion.

The villagers here live a mostly isolated existence far more redolent of 19th century life than of the mechanized 20th century that will soon engulf them, and the film meticulously conveys both the physical realities of the times and of the moral strictures under which almost no family is a stranger to child abuse, malicious behavior, adultery and premature death. About the only leading character immune from such a stigma is the childless one, the schoolteacher who, in a welcoming older voice (Ernst Jacobi), also serves as the sorry tale’s narrator.

Craft contributions are superb in every respect, notably production designer Christoph Kanter’s simple, geographically coherent rendering of the village and Christian Berger’s detail-filled monochromatic lensing. Only music is that briefly heard from natural sources within the film.

The pic's full German title translates to "The White Ribbon: A German Children's Story."

Camera (B&W), Christian Berger; editor, Monika Willi; production designer, Christoph Kanter; art director, Anja Muller; set decorator, Hans Wagner; costume designer, Moidele Bickel; sound (Dolby Digital/DTS), Guillaume Sciama, Jean-Pierre Laforce; associate producer, Stefano Massenzi; assistant director, Hanus Polak Jr.; second unit camera, Leah Striker. Reviewed at Cannes Film Festival (competing), May 20, 2009. Running time: 144 MIN.

Pro-B

[myrnaloyisdope]

Anyone grab the new Orlando disc? I haven't heard a peep about it.

[Caligula]

Can anyone comment as to how the transfer on the new 3-disc edition of La Belle Noiseuse compares to the older release?

[cinemartin]

Same transfer; same discs even. The only difference is the third disc.

[Dadapass]

Can anyone comment on AE's transfer of The Castle, which is only available in The Essential Michael Haneke? 24 Realities per Second is also exclusive to this boxset.

[Tribe]

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