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Artificial Eye have acquired Peter Strickland's second feature, Berberian Sound Studio. (The film will receive its premiere at this year's Edinburgh Film Festival.)

AE are releasing Holy Motors in the UK on Friday 28 September.

Theatrical or video?

Theatrical.

Expect the DVD (and most likely Blu-ray) around January 2013, going by AE's usual pattern.

Finch wrote:Beev on Bergman Blus

perkizitore wrote:Marvellous release, but it has been postponed another week ](*,)

And the price went up quite a bit, £50 at Amazon and elsewhere.

It was £38 for ages, people who haven't pre-ordered this should regret it.

perkizitore wrote:It was £38 for ages, people who haven't pre-ordered this should regret it.

I gather that the price is going down very soon. Am I right? I won't pay 50 quids.

With a voucher I managed to get it for £32, but good luck waiting to drop to £25 (it will take at least a year).

perkizitore wrote:(it will take at least a year).

Now you are kidding. Don't fool the innocent.

While individual blu-ray releases take from 3-6 months to drop to £7 or around 70% off RRP, boxsets take longer or even never reach such a huge discount. If you don't believe me, check the prices for the Three Colours blu-ray trilogy. The Classic Bergman blu set sold at £38 was more than 45% off RRP, which was a good price since most Artificial Eye releases do not get discounted more than 35% off on average during pre-order.

Look also at the Kiarostami Boxset - almost a year in and still at £36 which was more than it's pre-order price. It's almost a no-brainer to snap up an AE boxset during early pre-order these days as it's likely the cheapest it will get.

It's actually £22.98 you forgot about the £1.99 shipping charge.
Luckily I had a 10% voucher code for The Hut and got it for £20.65 \:D/

Zavvi had a similar offer last weekend, though I notice that they haven't shipped my copy yet. (No hurry, though - I wasn't intending to buy it at all until the price unexpectedly dropped).

bigP wrote:Look also at the Kiarostami Boxset - almost a year in and still at £36 which was more than it's pre-order price. It's almost a no-brainer to snap up an AE boxset during early pre-order these days as it's likely the cheapest it will get.

However there are sellers with it at half this price and if you are outside the UK the shipping is the same as from Amazon

NABOB OF NOWHERE wrote:However there are sellers with it at half this price

Indeed - there's one who has it for less than £20 including postage. And it's marked as new, which means that if it isn't shrinkwrapped when it arrives you can send it straight back.

NABOB OF NOWHERE wrote:However there are sellers with it at half this price and if you are outside the UK the shipping is the same as from Amazon

Domestic delivery only.

The AE DVD sets literally took years to drop massively in price and we don't have a precedent of a blu-ray set doing the same, although there is a good likelihood of that happening. Speaking for myself, a difference of £5-10 is not good enough to make me wait a long period for Bergman in HD!

EDIT: I finally decided to buy the Kiarostami Collection, because the individual Taste Of Cherry/Ten release is OOP. Unfortunately, I already own The Wind Will Carry Us and the Certified Copy DVD is useless, but this is still a good buy.

Mia Hansen-Løve's third feature Goodbye First Love coming on blu August 2012.

It was shown in Copenhagen recently (CPH PIX 2012) but I missed it. I really liked her first two films, so I'm looking forward to the blu..

martin wrote:Mia Hansen-Løve's third feature Goodbye First Love coming on blu August 2012.

It was shown in Copenhagen recently (CPH PIX 2012) but I missed it. I really liked her first two films, so I'm looking forward to the blu..

Definitely picking up. Have missed her first 2 but this sounds EXCELLENT and I've been waiting to see one of her movies for a while.

Received my blu-ray set of Classic Bergman today in the US from Amazon UK. It's five slim blu-ray cases housed in a cardboard slip.

Der Spieler wrote:Does anybody know how the AE Rohmer Moral Tales set compare to the Criterion PQ-wise?

The question repeated. Can anyone tell anything?

Classic Bergman is £38.95 at theHut right now. Sadly, theHut is no good for me. I don't want my bergman to get hold at the customs. Hopefully Amazon will lower the price in near future.

TheHut still operates from Jersey, am I right?

Courtesy of pro-b at blu-ray.com:

29th Oct - Etre et Avoir

19th Nov - In Your Hands

Dec TBC - Berbarian Sound Studio

Q1 TBC
360
Holy Motors
Amour

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