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Jean-Luc Garbo wrote:I had no idea we had a thread on it - even after I searched! Wow, that's incredibly intriguing. I have to say I'm twice as glad that I ordered it now. I'll have to carve out some Rozier time tout suite once the set arrives. If the set in my order arrives in good shape as I fear the size of the Rohmer box - which I forgot was so bulky - might attract some truly egregious UPS handling.

Same here..I thank this thread! It has all information about this box set of Eric Rohmer!

Have you received your box set yet?

I had no idea about shipping damage when I ordered this one but now I am worried after reading so many posts here describing the shipping damage and digipack's design issues..

I picked this one up for about 128+ EUR (incl VAT it was 153+ EUR) while it was on deal for the last 4 days but now its back to 219+ EUR again.

For those Rohmer fans who are yet to buy, here are the links of Amazon's European sites ; currently Amazon-IT has the best deal for about 139.28 EUR but their shipping charge is bit expensive!

Amazon-FR http://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B00E8WL6EA?

Amazon-ES http://www.amazon.es/gp/product/B00E8WL6EA?

Amazon-IT http://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B00E8WL6EA?

Was annoyed that this didn't already exist online (as far as I can tell), so here's a list of the Rohmer shorts in the Coffret, and the disc on which they appear:

Le Signe du lion (1959)
- Place de l'Étoile (1965)

La Boulangère de Monceau (1962)
- Charlotte et son steak (1951)
- Bérénice (1954)
- Le Celluloid et le Marbre (1966)

La Carrière de Suzanne (1963)
- Véronique et son cancre (1958)
- Louis Lumière (1968)

La Collectioneuse (1967)
- Nadja à Paris (1964)

Ma nuit chez Maud (1969)
- Une étudiante d'aujourd'hui (1966)

Le Genou de Claire (1970)
- Carl Th. Dreyer (1965)

L'Amour l'àpres-midi (1972)
- L'Homme et la machine (1967)
- L'Homme et son journal (1967)

La Marquise d'O... (1976)
- Nancy au XVIIIe siècle (1968)
- Catherine de Heilbronn (1979)

Perceval (1978)

La Femme de l'aviateur (1981)

Le Beau mariage (1982)

Pauline à la plage (1983)

Les Nuits de la pleine lune (1984)
- Ville nouvelle 1: enfance d'un ville (1975)
- Ville nouvelle 2: la diversité du paysage urbain (1975)
- Ville nouvelle 3: la forme d'une ville (1975)
- Ville nouvelle 4: le logement à la demande (1975

Le Rayon vert (1986)

4 aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle (1987)
- Trio et mi bémol (1987)

L'Ami de mon ami (1987)
- L'Homme et les frontières (1968)

Conte de printemps (1990)
- La Sonate à Kreutzer (1956)

Conte d'hiver (1991)

L'Arbre, le maire et la médiathèque (1993)
- L'Amour symphonique (1990)
- Bois ton café (1986)

Les Rendez-vous de Paris (1995)
- Les Jeux de société (1989)

Conte d'été (1996)

Conte d'automne (1998)
- Fermière à Montfaucon (1967)

L'Anglaise et le duc (2001)

Triple Agent (2004)
- L'Homme et les Gouvernements (1967)

Les Amours d'Astrée et de Céladon (2007)
- Raphaël par le dessin (1982)

And chronologically:

Charlotte et son steak (1951), on La Boulangère de Monceau
Bérénice (1954), on La Boulangère de Monceau
La Sonate à Kreutzer (1956), on Conte de printemps
Véronique et son cancre (1958), on La Carrière de Suzanne
Le Signe du lion (1959)
La Boulangère de Monceau (1962)
La Carrière de Suzanne (1963)
Nadja à Paris (1964), on La Collectionneuse
Place de l'Étoile (1965), on Le Signe du lion
Carl Th. Dreyer (1965), on Le Genou de Claire
Le Celluloid et le Marbre (1966), on La Boulangère de Monceau
Une étudiante d'aujourd'hui (1966), on Ma nuit chez Maud
La Collectionneuse (1967)
Fermière à Montfaucon (1967), on Conte d'automne
L'Homme et la machine (1967), on L'Amour l'après-midi
L'Homme et son journal (1967), on L'Amour l'après-midi
L'Homme et les Gouvernements (1967), on Triple Agent
Louis Lumière (1968), on La Carrière de Suzanne
Nancy au XVIIIe siècle (1968), on La Marquise d'O...
L'Homme et les frontières (1968), on L'Ami de mon ami
Ma nuit chez Maud (1969)
Le Genou de Claire (1970)
L'Amour l'après-midi (1972)
Ville nouvelle 1: enfance d'un ville (1975), on Les Nuits de la pleine lune
Ville nouvelle 2: la diversité du paysage urbain (1975), on Les Nuits de la pleine lune
Ville nouvelle 3: la forme d'une ville (1975), on Les Nuits de la pleine lune
Ville nouvelle 4: le logement à la demande (1975, on Les Nuits de la pleine lune
La Marquise d'O... (1976)
Perceval (1978)
Catherine de Heilbronn (1979), on La Marquise d'O...
La Femme de l'aviateur (1981)
Le Beau mariage (1982)
Raphaël par le dessin (1982), on Les Amours d'Astrée et de Céladon
Pauline à la plage (1983)
Les Nuits de la pleine lune (1984)
Le Rayon vert (1986)
Bois ton café (1986), on L'Arbre, le maire et la médiathèque
4 aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle (1987)
L'Ami de mon ami (1987)
Trio et mi bémol (1987), on 4 aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle
Les Jeux de société (1989), on Les Rendez-vous de Paris
Conte de printemps (1990)
L'Amour symphonique (1990), on L'Arbre, le maire et la médiathèque
Conte d'hiver (1991)
L'Arbre, le maire et la médiathèque (1993)
Les Rendez-vous de Paris (1995)
Conte d'été (1996)
Conte d'automne (1998)
L'Anglaise et le duc (2001)
Triple Agent (2004)
Les Amours d'Astrée et de Céladon (2007)

That's a great resource, thanks for putting it together! Aren't all of the shorts in the set presented sans English subtitles?

Some of those "shorts" are pretty long -- but all the extras I have checked have been sub-less.

Yeah, it's a great summation until it dawns on you how much you're missing! Not a single one of the supplements has subs.

I just ordered the Arrow DVD box set - I'm just curious if there's been any rumblings as to if the BD releases could come out through a English-language label? I don't expect Criterion to upgrade the box or anything but it seems odd to me they just stopped there without exploring the later stuff (and it's been nigh-on a decade since they put out the box).

Is this a ground Arrow Academy might explore, or might it's already being released in R2/B render that pointless?

Ribs wrote:I just ordered the Arrow DVD box set - I'm just curious if there's been any rumblings as to if the BD releases could come out through a English-language label? I don't expect Criterion to upgrade the box or anything but it seems odd to me they just stopped there without exploring the later stuff (and it's been nigh-on a decade since they put out the box).

Is this a ground Arrow Academy might explore, or might it's already being released in R2/B render that pointless?

Won't happen...why didn't you order the French BD box? It is English friendly for ALL the features.

I just didn't want to spend the extra $35 right now on the equivalent box. I'm thinking I probably should have just waited until I could, but the order's already shipped so I'll just make do with it and probably spring on the BD versions for the other Rohmer stuff as I get to it.

This is probably covered somewhere in this thread but I quickly read through it last night and it didn't seem to come up: These are Region B/2 locked, yes? I'm covered if it is but I'm curious for convenience's sake.

Hi all! For what an additional opinion is worth:

I already owned every Rohmer movie on DVD and was reluctant to re-buy for slightly better resolution. When I looked at some DVD Beaver comparison shots, I realized that the difference might not be so slight. Anyway, I ordered the Potemkine box.

If you love Rohmer, you HAVE to buy this set. It is startling how much better some of the movies look here as compared, say, to the Arrow DVDs (which of course I loved). The image quality is improved enough that the movies make a different impression on the whole.

It makes me sad that the seemingly endless and amazing-looking special features aren't subbed. I wish, at least, that Rohmer's own shorts had been subbed. On the other hand, some of those shorts can be enjoyed without much knowledge of French. (My sadly limited French was good enough to allow me to keep up with, e.g., Nadja a Paris.) Also, you can find some of the shorts on YouTube with subs (see, e.g., http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/gallery/20 ... dja-paris/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;) and then watch them again on the Blu Ray.

The Potemkine set is basically giving me a chance to remember how much these movies meant to me. I can't imagine anyone ordering this set and being disappointed, even at the fairly high price.

PS: Thanks to FerdinandGriffon for the list above. Helpful!

Potemkine's online store is currently selling the box set for 139 euros: http://www.potemkine.fr/Potemkine-fiche ... 12809.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Michael Kerpan wrote:Potemkine's online store is currently selling the box set for 139 euros: http://www.potemkine.fr/Potemkine-fiche ... 12809.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

OK, I'm convinced! Works out at about £116 including delivery. Perhaps I should be ashamed to admit it, but the set includes 4 films I don't think I've seen before (Le signe du lion; Perceval le Gallois; 4 aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle; L'arbre, le maire et la médiathèque); I certainly don't have them on DVD. I'll probably keep my Criterion, Arrow and AE DVD sets, for the extras and subtitled shorts.

I think I paid about twice the current price for this set. After having it for awhile, I'd gladly pay twice more to have all these films. I wish we'd see more complete filmographies released in such a fashion.

Beaver: Pauline at the Beach shows 1.66 framing on the Kino compared to 1.33 on the Potemkine.

So does that indicate this is from the additional, new restorations that apparently have happened since the last set? It seems unlike Kino to make this judgment call otherwise.

I'm taking this as a good sign that Arrow's likely to put out their own Rohmer set(s) in the coming months.

ermylaw wrote:I think I paid about twice the current price for this set. After having it for awhile, I'd gladly pay twice more to have all these films. I wish we'd see more complete filmographies released in such a fashion.

Sadly, Rohmer is one of the very very few filmmakers for whom this is feasible, on account of him controlling the rights to all his films pretty much from the start. Most filmographies are scattered around multiple rightsholders, with all the contractual challenges that this implies.

criterionsnob wrote:Beaver: Pauline at the Beach shows 1.66 framing on the Kino compared to 1.33 on the Potemkine.

Fortunately, Beaver also shows that the Potemkine is full frame, not cropped from a 1.66:1 source. My Arrow and MGM DVDs are 1.66:1, so that's what I'm used to, but I can live with the extra headroom (and legroom) on the Potemkine. And, wrong or not, I prefer the Potemkine's brighter look.

Potemkine's online store is currently selling the box set for 139 euros: http://www.potemkine.fr/Potemkine-fiche" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ... 12809.html

Does Potemkine ship to the US? I couldn't find it in the country code drop down box.

It does - it's under Etats-Unis.

Posters on the Blu-ray.com forum are reporting that some copies of the Potemkine set are bronzing, specifically the Green Ray...

I have two sets (don't ask) - one I watched back in February 2016, and one still in its original shipping packaging. I've only checked the Green Ray from the "watched" set, but it does not appear to be bronzing...yet. Which reminds me: perhaps it's time to go through the Criterion list again.

My set is fine so far but I can confirm that French members (on DVD Classik notably) are reporting bronzing issues for quite some time now.

I checked The Green Ray and it was fine. Can anyone provide a link to the discussions on Blu Ray.com and Classik.com as I am unable to locate the specific discussions.

Will be most annoyed if these discs begin to fail over time.

domino harvey wrote:Posters on the Blu-ray.com forum are reporting that some copies of the Potemkine set are bronzing, specifically the Green Ray...

That’s pretty alarming! Was it just the blu-rays, or the DVDs too? Do you have a link to the thread?

I was moving and my box set fell twenty feet and split open at the bottom



While spot checking all of the discs (thankfully none of the individual cases were harmed), I sadly could see my copy of Le reyon vert was indeed clouded up. Not a huge deal since I have the Arrow set, but still lame

I just checked mine and it looks fine. Another reminder of how big my kevyip is!