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Two early Chabrol, Les Cousins and Le Beau Serge coming to Criterion in september next year?

Gaumont a trouvé un accord avec CRITERION qui va participer aux coûts de restauration de deux CHABROL dont je vous avais parlé : les cousins ; le beau serge. Ils seront édités dans cette collection et seront disponibles en septembre 2011 pour le 1er anniversaire de la mort de Claude Chabrol.

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Good looking Charbrols? That just sounds wrong. I'm glad that they're reaching out though.

A poster over at the blu-ray forums claims to be a friend of Sam Smith, and said that "He's doing the packing for another movie that hasn't been announced. It's a Tarkovsky. Rejoice!"

When another poster said he hoped it would be Andrei Rublev and not Solaris or Ivan's Childhood, the friend of Smith said "Prepare to be disappointed".

Assuming this is legit, neither Solaris or Ivan's Childhood need their packaging redesigned. However, I can see two situations in which Smith would be designing packaging for Solaris: either they are completely redoing Tarkovsky's Solaris and are going to include this version or Smith's friend misunderstood him and they are, despite their denials, actually going to release Soderbergh's Solaris

Edited to add this extra info. Over at his twitter page, Smith said "Working on a dream project." and in a blog post about Paranoid Park, he said this "It had frankly just been a while since a movie made me feel this way. Those aforementioned GDSMs, released between 2003 and 2004, along with some others like Soderbergh's SOLARIS, approached the level of film that I dream of. "

I wonder whether this friend of Sam Smith might not be referring to "Nostalghia"?

Kino's supposedly working on a blu-ray of The Sacrifice, & they had the rights to The Mirror, so it's got to be either Nostalghia or Stalker - the first is in desperate need of a remaster, but the second seems more likely to inspire 'level of film that I dream of' talk.

Doesn't Kino also have Stalker?

kaujot wrote:Doesn't Kino also have Stalker?

Yes

I figured as much, since I own the (2006?) edition they put out, but wasn't sure if they still had the rights.

It would have to be Nostalghia, right? Wasn't that one a Lorber? And Voyage in Time would be a non-brainer supplement.

For whatever it's worth, and I haven't seen anything else on the Forum so I'm not sure where to put this. In any event, Eureka's release of The Clouded Yellow is preceded by a Janus logo.

Nostalghia is the only Tarkovsky film I haven't seen. Not sure I welcome it coming before his other (safer) titles.

Saturnome wrote:Two early Chabrol, Les Cousins and Le Beau Serge coming to Criterion in september next year?

Gaumont a trouvé un accord avec CRITERION qui va participer aux coûts de restauration de deux CHABROL dont je vous avais parlé : les cousins ; le beau serge. Ils seront édités dans cette collection et seront disponibles en septembre 2011 pour le 1er anniversaire de la mort de Claude Chabrol.

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They've been sitting on these title for as long as I've been posting here, what's another eight months. Still, I don't know why they'd wait, I'd bet good money they'll port over the Madman commentary for Les Cousins and drop some archival interviews and call it a day.

Tribe wrote:For whatever it's worth, and I haven't seen anything else on the Forum so I'm not sure where to put this. In any event, Eureka's release of The Clouded Yellow is preceded by a Janus logo.

Janus/Homevision released Clouded Yellow on VHS in the U.S., along with some other British films that have yet to hit legit DVD in North America, like:

Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) (only available, as far as I know, in crappy PD prints on DVD)
The Elusive Pimpernel
Corridor of Mirrors (probably my fave British film of all time)
This Happy Breed
Fire Over England (same apparent PD status as Scarlet)

...and probably a few others I'm forgetting. Hopefully Janus still has the rights to these (or a relationship with whoever owns the best elements for the two supposed PD films) and we'll see a DVD/Blu-Ray release of them at some point (along with Clouded Yellow). I thought I remember hearing that Elusive Pimpernel was going to be released, maybe mentioned as an upcoming release in one of the catalogs.

Nostalghia is/was a Lorber title, so that could be the mystery Tarkovsky. I may have been taking Smith's friend's response to the post hoping for Andrei Rublev and not Solaris or Ivan's Childhood wrong.

I finally bought the OOP Nostalghia import from Kim's in NY, so of course this will probably get an amazing Blu-ray release from Criterion. Not that I'm complaining. I hope it's true.

It should be noted that Criterion did post in a positive manner about a new Solaris edition on their Facebook (or it might have been an email) at some point, and the artwork could definitely use a do-over.

SOLARIS would seem to be the next logical choice after RUBLEV given its a higher profile title than Tarkovsky's other films. Also, it's an older Criterion release than IVAN'S CHILDHOOD (issued in 2007). I also agree that SOLARIS could do with improved cover art, whereas IVAN is brilliant as it is.

Unless Criterion is planning to issue the longer cut of SOLARIS on Blu-ray, I'd rather they went with NOSTALGHIA given how difficult it is to see, not to mention that it's a very fine work with gorgeous cinematography.

onedimension wrote:Kino's supposedly working on a blu-ray of The Sacrifice

"The BluRay of THE SACRIFICE was postponed because the 35mm low-contrast print we were using as our source had printed-in dust and dirt which was unsatisfactory to us. We looked at two alternate film elements and neither of these was any better.

Fortunately, new technology has been developed that can remove the dust/dirt without affecting motion within the video, and without softening the detail of the image. Right now we're deciding between a couple of different processes and will then finish the master of THE SACRIFICE.

The film has been put back on the release schedule in Spring 2011."

This is an email I recieved from Brent Wood, the man overseeing the project. Looks like Kino has another big release on Blu-Ray. Too bad its happening next year.

I just watched a 14 minute interview that the folks at AVmaniacs conducted with Bill Lustig about the future of Blue Underground. He mentions that he wont be releasing Suspiria on blu since he doesn't have the rights anymore. Possible Criterion release? it'd be a major seller.

Crab Society North wrote:I just watched a 14 minute interview that the folks at AVmaniacs conducted with Bill Lustig about the future of Blue Underground. He mentions that he wont be releasing Suspiria on blu since he doesn't have the rights anymore. Possible Criterion release? it'd be a major seller.

The Weinstein Company bought the rights. They plan to remake the film. David Gordon Green is attached to direct the remake.

Criterion doesn't license from The Weinstein Company, so it seems unlikely to me.

Re Suspiria: looks like your only hope of an ideal presentation for that film may be the upcoming German Camera Obscure Blu since the Weinsteins are unlikely to give the title the attention and care it deserves.

Finch wrote:Re Suspiria: looks like your only hope of an ideal presentation for that film may be the upcoming German Camera Obscure Blu since the Weinsteins are unlikely to give the title the attention and care it deserves.

But the only problem is that Camera Obscura will be releasing 'Inferno' and not 'Suspiria'.

D'oh #-o my apologies!

Suspiria, along with Inferno and The Mother of Tears, is getting released on Blu-Ray in Japan on December 8.