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tavernier wrote:John Paul the Eleventh? That's nine more than we could ever want!

Yeah, I noticed that, too! Oh well, good thing there's no direct correlation between the quality of the cover art and the quality of the movie!

Yeah, nice work on the "11." Pure genius. Does this New Yorker DVD include Anne-Marie Miéville's short (Le Livre de Marie) that Godard always insisted run with the film? There seems to be an assumption in this thread that it does, even though it's not listed amongst the extras? It would be hard to believe it could be released without it since it seems part of its history. Anyway, just looking for confirmation of its inclusion if anyone knows. Thanks!

Donald Trampoline wrote:Yeah, nice work on the "11." Pure genius. Does this New Yorker DVD include Anne-Marie Miéville's short (Le Livre de Marie) that Godard always insisted run with the film? There seems to be an assumption in this thread that it does, even though it's not listed amongst the extras? It would be hard to believe it could be released without it since it seems part of its history. Anyway, just looking for confirmation of its inclusion if anyone knows. Thanks!

Yes, New Yorker confirmed it. They have yet to confirm though whether or not the making-of doc is in fact the video that Godard made.

I assume this Godard video that you're referring to would be:

Petites notes à propos du film 'Je vous salue, Marie' (1983) 25 minutes

Perhaps they're including something different since the video is from 1983 and the film itself is from 1985, quite a gap, meaning it was completed before shooting on the film proper began and wouldn't be too much like your traditional "making of."

But it would be great if it was included, because, if it doesn't go on a release of this film, it's not going to find a home anywhere.

New Yorker's disc of Bresson's L'Argent is now listed as out-of-print.

Donald Trampoline wrote:I assume this Godard video that you're referring to would be:

Petites notes à propos du film 'Je vous salue, Marie' (1983) 25 minutes

Perhaps they're including something different since the video is from 1983 and the film itself is from 1985, quite a gap, meaning it was completed before shooting on the film proper began and wouldn't be too much like your traditional "making of."

But it would be great if it was included, because, if it doesn't go on a release of this film, it's not going to find a home anywhere.

Good point. Though I assumed it was the petite notes video since I can't imagine NY producing a new making of for the film. I emailed NY and they haven't gotten back to me on this, so who knows. I'm hoping I'm right.

The hail mary cover is like a bad dream, whoever designed it should be consigned to the 8th level of Dante's Hell.

and thats being generous.

godardslave wrote:The hail mary cover is like a bad dream, whoever designed it should be consigned to the 8th level of Dante's Hell.

The circle for the fraudulent? Yeah, that fits New Yorker about right.

Matt wrote:The circle for the fraudulent? Yeah, that fits New Yorker about right.

And Lest we forget, the 8th circle has no less than 10 (count em!) ditches:
I find the following 2 particularly appealing, considering my view of new yorker DVD releases:

Ditch 4: Sorcerers and false prophets have their heads twisted around on their bodies backward, so they can only see what is behind them.

Ditch 9: A sword-wielding devil hacks at the sowers of discord. As they make their rounds the wounds heal, only to have the devil tear apart their bodies again.

ouch!

Hail Mary has been moved from October 3 to October 10.

The Weeping Meadow coming from New Yorker on December 12.

Specs look the same as the AE disc, with an optional 5.1 audio mix added.

The running time is listed as 170 minutes, so we'll see if this ends up as a port of the AE disc with all the attendant New Yorker screw-ups.

Donald Trampoline wrote:Petites notes à propos du film 'Je vous salue, Marie' (1983) 25 minutes

can this be it?

from amazon:

* Available Subtitles: English
* Available Audio Tracks: French (Unknown Format)
* "Notes About Hail Mary" featurette
* Foreign theatrical trailer

looks like good news!

The featurette is definitely Petites notes a propos du film Je Vous Salue, Mary.

According to DVD Beaver, the disc includes both Livre de Marie and Petites notes.

It's been a year since the New Yorker website dropped Celine and Julie Go Boating from their "coming soon" list. Is there any hope for this one anytime soon?

Yes, I emailed them around a month ago and they confirmed that this is on their release schedule for 2007.

Forgive my paranoia, but someone got me a copy of Platform from Amazon Marketplace for Christmas and given my past experience with Marketplace I'm wondering if he was swindled by a bootlegger. I'm mainly wondering about a) the disc itself (mine has a large silver ring in the center with "Cine Magnetics" and a serial number inscribed on the front and back) and b) the cover art, which looks a bit like something that might've been produced by an inkjet printer -- that is, fuzzy text and lots of edge artifacts. I've never seen a certifiably legitimate copy so I have nothing to compare it to. If it was a bootleg they were at least nice enough to rip off the insert as well.

I just pulled our legit copy off the shelf... the cover does look like it was spit out by someone's printer at home. The disc actually looks better, I can't find any of the serials you note, and there should be an insert, a rather nice foldout ala Criterion that has an interview, a review, chapter selections, a note on the different versions and a cast/crew listing.

So I don't know what to think, it's certainly not a terribly professional job but everything beyond the cover doesn't look like a bootleg, either.

Last week I sent an email to New Yorker Films asking about Robert Kramer films and this was the response I got today.

I'm afraid New Yorker Films does not hold the rights to any Robert Kramer films

Best,

Emilio Oliveira
New Yorker Films

I wonder who has the rights to Robert Kramer films?

davebert wrote:I just pulled our legit copy off the shelf... the cover does look like it was spit out by someone's printer at home. The disc actually looks better, I can't find any of the serials you note, and there should be an insert, a rather nice foldout ala Criterion that has an interview, a review, chapter selections, a note on the different versions and a cast/crew listing.

So I don't know what to think, it's certainly not a terribly professional job but everything beyond the cover doesn't look like a bootleg, either.

Thanks. And just to wrap up all the loose ends, I did some googling and found that Cine Magnetics is an authoring house that's worked with New Yorker since day one; if I'd looked closer I would've seen them credited in the insert. I guess my disc just came from a different batch than yours.

Re: New Yorker's release of CELINE & JULIE (from Jonathan Rosenbaum)

The New Yorker DVD of "Celine and Julie vont en bateau" is definitely in the works, because I'll be working on it--most likely interviewing the screenwriter Eduardo de Gregorio in Paris next February for an extra.

This is fabulous news. Go Rosenbaum! I hope that New Yorker does a good job. What are the chances we'll see this on a single DVD?

Jean-Luc Garbo wrote:This is fabulous news. Go Rosenbaum! I hope that New Yorker does a good job. What are the chances we'll see this on a single DVD?

I imagine this will be a single disc, only since the BFI disc was a single disc and it contained about 30 minutes of extras.

BFI was a double disc.

davidhare wrote:What's New Yorker's source/licensor? If it's the MK2 do we expect another shitty PAL to NTSC transfer?

You bet!

Ciao,
Pro-B