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Matt wrote: Fri Nov 04, 2022 2:40 amSometimes it’s enough to say that you loved a film because it was beautiful or because it made you feel things you can’t quite express.

Maybe it is because I am also growing so old, but I rarely feel able to do much more than this. Lots of feelings, that I can't reduce to reasonable sounding words.

As Claude Chabrol once said, you can’t always do justice to a film in words— “That’s why films cost so much!”

(I’m glad you guys enjoyed the film so much, but I think it’s one of his worst— and I can put it in words why and did so a few pages back!)

Glad to get confirmation that the feature film in the recent Gaumont release of Lancelot du Lac has English subtitles, as the FNAC listing omits that fact while confirming English subtitles for Le Diable probablement. Can anyone confirm either way whether the supplements have English subtitles available?

There are no subtitles on the supplements of either

Next week lecinemackub is streaming Four Nights.

knives wrote: Wed Dec 21, 2022 8:16 pm Next week lecinemackub is streaming Four Nights.

Popping in here to say thanks for mentioning this — I had wanted to see this for years, but it wasn't accessible in a clean, subtitled version. It was a real pleasure!

Yeah, it was real fun and I didn’t realize how clear a progenitor it was for Carax.

eatandoph wrote: Sat Dec 24, 2022 9:07 pm

knives wrote: Wed Dec 21, 2022 8:16 pm Next week lecinemackub is streaming Four Nights.

Popping in here to say thanks for mentioning this — I had wanted to see this for years, but it wasn't accessible in a clean, subtitled version. It was a real pleasure!

It’s still on YouTube in case you miss the window

Bresson interview, 1979:
https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/to-try ... h-bresson/

Matt wrote: Fri Feb 16, 2024 8:32 pm Robert Bresson’s ‘Four Nights of a Dreamer’ to Be Restored in 4K by MK2 Films

Just saw this restoration screened tonight at BAMPFA, and it opens with a Janus Films logo. I’ve never seen this film before but I’ve seen the majority of Bresson’s films at this point, and the one thing that surprised me was how dark the image was through most of the scenes. Mostly it was figures barely glimpsed through shadow in the nighttime and a number of interior scenes, with luminous highlights in the darkness from the lights on passing ships on the river. I haven’t read any reviews to see whether this was noted in original theatrical screenings, but it was not typical of any Bresson films I’ve seen. (The other color films of his I’ve seen are The Devil, Probably and L’argent.)

I saw the new restoration of Four Nights of a Dreamer at NYFF last year and yes, the image is indeed very dark. Also, I'm sure it's been mentioned in other threads here but this restoration definitely has the 'Ritrovata piss yellow' look. I generally think that the piss yellow issue is often exaggerated, but it's really prominent on this one.

The Potemkine blu-ray was reviewed by DVDClassik and DVDFr with screengrabs. You can see the color for yourselves.

Not the yellow piss Ritrovata'd look, but the steely teal Eclair'd one.
https://www.dvdclassik.com/test/blu-ray ... #images-15

Roughly similar caps between Japanese BD sourced from a scan of a restored print and the 4K restoration

Les Dames de Bois de Boulogne, 4K UHD+blu from Rimini:
https://homepopcorn.fr/test-blu-ray-les ... t-bresson/
https://www.dvdfr.com/dvd/c302195-dames ... logne.html

Same master as TF1 edition 2018.

French HOH subs + audiodescription.