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cinemaguild wrote:CYBER WEEKEND SALE!! 50% off all DVDs and Blu-rays.

We're trying to get into the holiday spirit here at CG, so we're doing our first ever holiday sale. Starting Friday, all DVDs and Blu-rays on our site are going to be reduced to 50% of MSRP. Sale officially kicks off Thursday at midnight and ends Monday night.

Please feel free to pass it on and re-post.

Thanks very much.

CG

Strange Case of Angelica will make a great stocking stuffer, people!

No chance we can't just email somebody at Cinema Guild if wanting to make an international purchase? Rather than calling?

Scratch that, I looked back a few pages. Will email you at [email protected].

This is a great opportunity, especially since Cinema Guild titles are seldom heavily discounted by the main online sellers. As swo indicates, The Strange Case of Angelica is one of the releases of the year, but alongside the obvious suspects (Rivette and Denis and Costa and Kiarostami) I'd also like to draw attention to a couple of really great documentaries: Marwencol and The Order of Myths. Both of these were among the best films I saw of any kind in their respective years.

And the Petzolds, of course

Yep, just ordered a swath of their recent releases (and some catch-up that I've been umming and ahhing about). And they've been nothing but helpful when ordering via email. Marwencol this time, The Order of Myths will have to wait for the next sale.

Sadly, my budget is very slim but I think I'll be picking up Strange Case of Angelica blu, Marwencol blu, Ne Change Rein and 35 Shots of Rum. I have enough to add one more title to the bunch but I'm not sure what. I have a couple possible candidates Shirin (I didn't care much for Close-Up, but this sounds mildly more entertaining) and Beaches of Agnes (looks bizarre and surreal, but documentaries in general are iffy for me). I'm open to other options though.

I wouldn't recommend Shirin to any Kiarostami neophyte. I'm a big fan of his and even I find it more interesting than great. The other de Oliveira (Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl) might be a better bet, or Around a Small Mountain.

Ne Change Rien is wonderful. In terms of mise-en-scene, it's rather spare but combined with Balibar's lovely singing it's quite ravishing. I haven't watched the extras, but the feature is more than adequate to the price to pay during this sale. I highly recommend this one. I'd rate it one of the best home video experiences I've had this year.

In the City of Sylvia is also one worth picking up.

I really want the Angelica blu, what should my other options be? I was thinking of picking up In The City Of Sylvia, Ne Change Rien and possibly Eccentricities (I already own the Varda)
Can the extras of In The City of Sylvia justify shelling out more cash than the R2?

I haven't seen Cinema Guild's version of Gespenster (Ghosts), as I have the German DVD, but it's a masterpiece and worthy of being seen

I'd strongly recommend the Putty Hill / Hamilton set as another title to consider. I ordered that and The Strange Case of Angelica (already owned Ne change rien).

Ended up only picking these four;
35 Shots of Rum
Marwencol [blu]
Ne Change Rein
Strange Case of Angelica [blu]

I might be able to squeeze another 1 to 2 titles out of my budget if no other Black Friday or weekend deals present themselves. Thanks for the input and suggestions as I'm sure I'll be picking one or two of them. Eccentricities and Sylvia seem like good candidates.

I am very curious about Aurora myself, since its eligible and I doubt they'll charge me right away so it would be a safe order to make.

If I remember correctly, they charged me for my Costa and Oliveira pre-orders right when I placed it.

Picked up Marwencol and the Strange Case of Angelica on Blu plus Beeswax, the Order of Myths, and Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl. Nice art house balance to my more populist-leaning Black Friday scores!

Also, man, that's a huge spoiler in the Yella thumbnail description!

It's the last day of our Cyber Weekend Sale!!

We're extremely thrilled with the amazing response so thanks to everyone who's taken part.

Our top selling title thus far is the blu-ray of THE STRANGE CASE OF ANGELICA. Also: NE CHANGE RIEN, ECCENTRICITIES OF A BLONDE-HAIRED GIRL and IN THE CITY OF SYLVIA.

Bought:
Yella
Strange Case of Angelica
In the City of Sylvia
35 Shots of Rum
and pre-ordered Aurora.

Happy Thanksgiving to me.

This may have been stated already, but is there any general idea of release date for the blu of The Turin Horse?

Sometime before the end of the world?

Trip wrote:This may have been stated already, but is there any general idea of release date for the blu of The Turin Horse?

Nothing confirmed yet. But it will open theatrically in New York on February 10.

Aw, crap. I just checked this thread and missed the sale. Any chance of it being extended or happening again?

cinemaguild wrote:

Trip wrote:This may have been stated already, but is there any general idea of release date for the blu of The Turin Horse?

Nothing confirmed yet. But it will open theatrically in New York on February 10.

Anything planned for LA yet?

Yes, most likely in March.

jbeall wrote:Aw, crap. I just checked this thread and missed the sale. Any chance of it being extended or happening again?

There are no plans for another sale. However, even without the sale, we do offer pretty solid discounts on our titles all year round

swo17 wrote:Sometime before the end of the world?

The rumour I heard was three or four days before, but the guy who told me didn't seem especially reliable.

isakborg wrote:Hopefully, one of the salvageable films is Whispering Pages. I never thought I'd see this film on DVD (or, even better, Blu-ray). When it showed at the NYFF, the Times noted it as a film that was markedly unlikely to get a commercial release, though (my comment) it certainly would have had more of a chance than Stone. Re Whispering Pages - you might call it an aberrant adaptation of Crime and Punishment, with a succinct twist in the last seconds of the film that, if you've read the novel, is breath-takingly horrific. Those few seconds, as I read them, is one of the greatest examples in film of a minimum of means yielding a maximum of effect. Without editorializing, it's about an entire culture choosing self-damnation.

I've just seen Whispering Pages, showing as part of the Sokurov retrospective at the BFI. Sadly, the trouble they have had getting a screenable print confirms what Cinema Guild said, and it was shown from a DVD (with free admission, partly because of the relatively poor quality). What a stunning film, though - it had the genuinely disorienting feel of a nightmare. I hope the word gets around that this is a film that needs to be seen. It is certainly a film that could find an audience, given a chance. Isakborg, could you elaborate on your reading of the last few seconds of the film? I'm intrigued.

On a related note, the version of Stone that was shown was Sokurov's recent re-edit. He has apparently shorn it of 10 minutes.