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Hail Mary
Bonus Features:

- New HD transfer

- A Few Notes About the film Hail Mary, Jean-Luc Godard's video notebook, 1983 (20 minutes)

- Three short films from 2010:
o JLG/MR, a conversation with Myriem Roussel (17 minutes)
o JLG/ADB, a conversation with Antoine de Baecque (14 minutes)
o JLG/PR, a conversation with Pierre Rissient (19 minutes)

- Feature-length audio commentary by director Hal Hartley and Museum of the Moving Image Chief Curator David Schwartz

- Essay by David Sterritt

- Original French Trailer

- 2013 Re-release Trailer

Cohen also said in their email that The Book of Mary would be included


For Ever Mozart
Bonus Features:

- New HD transfer

- Four short films from 2010:

o JLG/JCS, a conversation with Jean-Claude Sussfeld (23 minutes)
o JLG/FM, a conversation with François Musy (15 minutes)
o JLG/WK, a conversation with Willy Kurant (20 minutes)
o JLG/ADB, a conversation with Antoine de Baecque (11 minutes)

- Feature-length audio commentary by Senior Programmer for TIFF Cinematheque and film critic James Quandt

- Booklet essay by critic and author Fergus Daly

- 2013 Re-release trailer

Great extras but any confirmation on the aspect ratios?

Wow! Those special features are amazing. I would have happily settled for decent transfers with removable subtitles. But the special features alone, the commentaries especially, make these must buys.

Yes - the only drawback is not having Godard's original trailer for For Ever Mozart, which he did himself. They have the 2013 trailer, which is awful - "From the director of Breathless and Hail Mary". The only good news about this trailer is that when watching it online, you can clearly see that transfer has been framed at 1:33, which clears up the widescreen issue Domino brought up another thread.

Whoops - I mean THIS thread!

domino harvey wrote:Great extras but any confirmation on the aspect ratios?

The Blu-Ray.com listings should be sorted out soon. For some reason, someone submitted the wrong value(s) for the original aspect ratio and it carried over

Wow, I was worried these would be shit. Hopefully everything works out.

The Hal Hartley and James Quandt commentaries are a great surprise! I need all the help I can get with Godard's eighties work. Are those short films from 2010 any good?

I suspect from the description they are just interviews.

Hal Hartley is one of the few filmmakers I can think of who really managed to absorb the influence of 1980s Godard (especially visible in his first four features), so that's not a bad choice at all.

Hartley also did an interview with Godard back in the day, which can be found here.

Keep'em coming Cohen.....
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Those Godard releases do look impressive, and even though I wasn't a fan of For Ever Mozart, I may still pick up the Blu-Ray at a discounted price, as the special features do look nice. And Hail Mary is a film that I've been meaning to see for a while now, so it will be good to finally have a decent copy of the film.

Are there any other Godard films that Cohen has the rights to?

Is there any chance the 'French Trailer' for Hail Mary is the 25 minute making of directed by Godard?

I believe that film is listed as "A Few Notes on the Film....", so it looks like it will be included.

knives wrote:Is there any chance the 'French Trailer' for Hail Mary is the 25 minute making of directed by Godard?

Petites notes à propos du film 'Je vous salue, Marie' isn't a making of. It was shot two years before the project that is its subject, and it acts as a series of sketches and inquiries outlining the themes and story of the film Godard hoped to make. Presumably the Petites notes were produced, at least in part, to help round up money for the feature. Since it was made so far ahead of time, it also includes glimpses of a number of things Godard had intended to put in Hail Mary but finally didn't, including Jacques Dutronc.

I love it. Godard's dress rehearsal for the finale, with toy helicopter hovering over imaginary figures, is one of the loveliest, funniest images of the eighties films. It's also much better than the other two "scenarios" he made, which can be a bit of a slog.

That's good to hear/ informative. I haven't seen much of '80s Godard so this is all of interest to me. It seems that the previous disc also had a related short from AMM. Any info on that?

The previous disc had the trailer, the short video piece, and Mieville short - at least that's what I remember. But the film is so beautiful, the blu should surpass that dvd by a mile.

knives wrote:That's good to hear/ informative. I haven't seen much of '80s Godard so this is all of interest to me. It seems that the previous disc also had a related short from AMM. Any info on that?

The Book of Mary is a fiction short that Miéville made specifically as a companion piece to Hail Mary. It was shot with much of the same crew and has a lot in common with Godard's work (not surprising, considering how instrumental Miéville was in the development of his style in this period) but stands, somewhat defiantly, on its own.

Theatrically it is inseparable from Hail Mary, as they share a first reel. It is also, to my knowledge, the only solo film by Miéville available on home video.

In that case I hope they squeeze it in on this one. All very exciting.

FerdinandGriffon wrote:Theatrically it is inseparable from Hail Mary, as they share a first reel. It is also, to my knowledge, the only solo film by Miéville available on home video.

Après la réconciliation is out on DVD in Portugal—no English subs, though an unofficial translation is out there.

The Fanciful Norwegian wrote:Après la réconciliation is out on DVD in Portugal—no English subs, though an unofficial translation is out there.

Ah, the situation has changed a bit since I last checked on it. I've got some watching to do.

February 2014

2/11 The Artist and the Model (2012) DVD and Blu
2/25 You Will Be My Son (2011) DVD and Blu