Rivette's Duelle and Noroît coming in October

[Michael Kerpan]

Duelle / Noroît

I doubt these will be subbed -- but still....

;~}

[Steven H]

English subs are "possible", I suppose. Les Films de Ma Vie's Derzu Uzala (Kurosawa), Les Boucher, and Le Femme Infidele (Chabrol) at least have english subs.

[Tommaso]

This is news I had stopped to even dream of! Hooray! Praying for subs as well (even FRENCH subs would be better than none). Hope they do "Merry-go-round" and "Pont du Nord" any time soon, too..

[Artois]

oh wow, great news! didn't think i'd get another chance to see these films after a train broke down on the track and I missed the NFT screenings.

I don't think the english subs are too much of a problem, there are enough anglo-franco-cinephiles in dedicated film communities on the net that fan subs will inevitably appear at some point.

[Ted Todorov]

Any news on this? According to the link, the DVDs should have been released today.

amazon.fr says they are unavailable

[Tommaso]

According to the linked site, it should have even been out in August...
These French dvd-producers seem to be notoriously unreliable. I encountered the same problem with the forthcoming French release of Powell/Pressburger's "Oh Rosalinda" and with the two new French releases of Paradjanov's "Sayat Nova" and "Forgotten ancestors" (I'm even more eager to have these than the two Rivettes....). But anyway: the simple fact that they are announced should be a sure indication that they all will come soon. But I suspect we will have to wait until early 2007.

[Michael Kerpan]

I spent over three years waiting for Cahiers to publish their book on Naruse (after the date it was originally announced to come out). ;~}

I recently saw a great looking (German) TV broadcast of "Merry Go Round". So these new DVDs _could_ look pretty nice.