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Re: Cohen Media Acquires Merchant Ivory Catalog - details:

A Room with a View, Remains of the Day, Jefferson in Paris, and Mr. and Mrs. Bridge will not be included.

Director James Ivory will work closely with the U.S. label on the restoration and re-releases of the films.

ACQUIRED FEATURE FILMS:

• 1. The Householder
  2. Shakespeare Wallah
  3. Autobiography of a Princess
  4. Bombay Talkie
  5. Savages
  6. Roseland
  7. Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures
  8. The Europeans
  9. Jane Austen in Manhattan
  10. Quartet
  11. The Bostonians
  12. The Courtesans of Bombay
  13. Howards End
  14. The Perfect Murder
  15. The Ballad of the Sad Café
  16. In Custody 1994
  17. The Proprietor
  18.The Mystic Masseur
  19. Heat and Dust
  20. Maurice
  21. The Deceivers

ACQUIRED DOCUMENTARIES AND SHORTS:

• 1. The Sword and the Flute
  2. Venice: Themes & Variations
  3. The Creation of Woman
  4. The Delhi Way
  5. Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of Civilization
  6. Helen, Queen of the Nautch Girls
  7. Mahatma and the Mad Boy
  8. Sweet Sounds
  9. Street Musicians of Bombay 1994

first 2016 titles announced -

January 26th - François Ozon's The New Girlfriend (Une nouvelle amie, 2014)
February 9th - Jérôme Enrico's Paulette (2012)
February 16th - 3-disc Taviani Brothers Collection (Night of the Shooting Stars, Kaos, Padre Padrone) (trailer)

Ooo, the Taviani collection sounds fantastic.

TMDaines wrote:Ooo, the Taviani collection sounds fantastic.

Absolutely agree - you might also enjoy this - Fughe E Approdi by Giovanna Taviani...

in the Benoit Jacquot trilogy : I've seen a very short clip (but who wouldn't notice this?) from Emmanuelle Béart in the bathroom in "L'Enfer" (Chabrol) as well as a very short clip of "Betty".
I hope that these 2 will came out via Cohen on Blu-Ray very soon

FrauBlucher wrote:Jean-Luc Godard's Une Femme Mariee (1964), March 15th release.

Special Features:

• 2010 interview with French fashion designer and film producer Agnès B. (20 minutes).
  2010 interview with Godard scholar Antoine de Baecque (18 minutes).
  2010 interview with star Macha Méril (30 minutes).
  2015 Re-release trailer

TMDaines wrote:Ooo, the Taviani collection sounds fantastic.

The Taviani Brothers Collection (Padre Padrone / The Night of the Shooting Stars / Kaos) is now down to $30.99 for pre-order.

Cohen will be releasing a Maurice Pialat Vol 1 set in May. Three discs with contents not announced yet, though the cast details on Amazon reveal one of the films is Loulou

Loulou is the Depardieu that I've anticipated the most since the acquisition announcement. I wouldn't be surprised if they chose all the Depardieu features for that volume then. Police, Loulou, and especially Satan are all stellar performances it'd certainly make sense.

I think Police is still with Olive, though Cohen does have Satan

Jean-Luc Garbo wrote:Loulou is the Depardieu that I've anticipated the most since the acquisition announcement. I wouldn't be surprised if they chose all the Depardieu features for that volume then. Police, Loulou, and especially Satan are all stellar performances it'd certainly make sense.

Don't forget Le Garcu! Though I assume it's still a licensing nightmare.

Credits for the prints in the Pialat retrospective currently running @ the (new) PFA are:

Cohen:
Loulou
Maurice Pialat: Love Exists
Van Gogh
Under the Sun of Satan
The Mouth Agape (Digital Restoration)
Graduate First

Gaumont:
Pialat's Turkish Chronicles
Police

La Cinémathèque Française:
Le Garçu

Institut Francais
A Nos Amours

Janus/Criterion:
Naked Childhood

The Film Desk:
We Will Not Grow Old Together

No Credit mentioned (or whether 35mm or digital):
The House in the Woods

all are imported 35mm prints except where noted.

I would love to see The House in the Woods and Le Garçu receive English friendly releases. Can anyone shed any light on the licensing nightmare's keeping them from wider release?

Gaddis wrote:I would love to see The House in the Woods and Le Garçu receive English friendly releases. Can anyone shed any light on the licensing nightmare's keeping them from wider release?

I don't know the full details of the Le Garcu hold-up, but its inclusion in the Gaumont Integrale sets was a very expensive 'once and never again' special arrangement. The producer commented to this effect in an interview I read (but don't remember where). It may just be yet another case of a sales agent having totally unrealistic financial expectations, and holding the film hostage to them.

I don't think there's any real obstacle to The House in the Woods. It was a standard TV production (ORTF / RAI) and it's been reissued in France. The obstacles here are will and economics. Pialat has never been a big name abroad, this is his least known work, and it's seven hours long. Fortunately, there's a serviceable transfer, but it's still an almighty gamble for any English-language label, who seem to be struggling to make even Van Gogh pay its way.

Thanks for the reply. Sad to hear that Le Garçu has been effectively Eustached.

It was actually Rivette's comments that piqued my interest in The House in the Woods: "I would put Van Gogh (1991) and The House in the Woods (1971) above all his other films. Because there he succeeded in filming the happiness, no doubt imaginary, of the pre-WWI world. Although the tone is very different, it’s as beautiful as Renoir."

The Claude Chabrol Blu-ray Collection Trailer

All with 2K restorations

Betty (1992)
L'enfer a.k.a. Torment (1994)
The Swindle (Rien ne va plus) (1997)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihxAV1QQS7E

Sweet, Betty's not very good but the other two are among Chabrol's best

domino harvey wrote:Sweet, Betty's not very good but the other two are among Chabrol's best

On the other hand I would suggest that the first 20 minutes represents one of the top updated Simenon adaptations to date.

pointless wrote:The Claude Chabrol Blu-ray Collection Trailer

All with 2K restorations

Betty (1992)
L'enfer a.k.a. Torment (1994)
The Swindle (1997)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihxAV1QQS7E

I think I will pass, it's better to wait for the eventual Arrow release

domino harvey wrote:Sweet, Betty's not very good but the other two are among Chabrol's best

Woo-boy I couldn't disagree more, BETTY is pretty close to a masterpiece in my eyes. Both Trintignant and Audran here are two of the strongest performances in all of Chabrol I feel, particularly the latter in her last collaboration with the director, all the more poignant in a role all about aging and death.

L'ENFER is very good, but I don't think it gets any more screamingly mediocre than THE SWINDLE.

Nonetheless, exciting release!

Rien ne va plus is Chabrol's To Catch a Thief-- light, airless, and sublime.