Blanche (Walerian Borowczyk, 1971)

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erezija · #1 Post by **erezija** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 1:14 pm

Hi there,

I'm a big fan of this movie. Why isn't it on DVD yet?

ouatitw · #2 Post by **ouatitw** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 5:20 pm

Why isn't The Bloodbath of Dr. Jekyll or La marge not on DVD yet either

MichaelB · #3 Post by **MichaelB** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 10:45 pm

My understanding is that there are complex rights issues holding up Blanche and Docteur Jekyll - the latter in particular seems to be in a real tangle.

reaky · #4 Post by **reaky** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 8:33 pm

Borowczyk in general takes me back to the 80s when I used to haunt the Scala in London. Ever go there, Michael? Jekyll was a title that I never did catch up with, though I think I read in a recent Sight & Sound that you rate it highly, no?

MichaelB · #5 Post by **MichaelB** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 8:45 pm

Very highly - it's the best thing he did in his last decade by a fair distance.

I'd love a decent DVD - so far, I've only seen it in dubbed English (though I rather like the cod-Victorian dialogue, and would certainly want an English option on a DVD alongside the original French), and have had to put up with a Godawful pirate VHS to see the bits missing from my legitimate but censored VHS version. But I understand there are problems with it dating right back to a dispute between Borowczyk and the producers at the time of production, which may well be why the film's always been pretty elusive.

And I practically lived at the Scala in the 1980s.

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