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swo17 wrote:It also means the Oppo trick will work to bring in your own English subtitles

Absolutely. Although if we’re talking BD rather than UHD I can easily rip the disc and add a subtitle track even if one isn’t already present, as I had to do with a couple of the Tavernier discs.

Tenia, do you know if Carlotta plans after the release of the box set to release individually, as a single blu-ray release "La Maman et la putain" ?

Was initially a UHD of the new restoration of "La Maman et la putain" planned ? There is a "2160" floating around. If Criterion could release a UHD+Blu-Ray release [-o< that would be awesome! (after all for Antoine Doinel restoration Carlotta/Mk2 released it on UHD too). The restoration was a pleasant surprise for me (with the "new" scene inserted or "restored"; some black & white scenes looks like they are lacking deep dark level but I guess that it could have been worst. A lot of scenes are in the dark so I guess that was not easy to deal with... but it looks more like a grey palette to me than a black & white palette.
I was able to see "Les petites amoureuses" retorde and I'm afraid that I'm not at ease for the color grading (the DVD looks ok).

Do Criterion still has the right and plans to release "La Maman et la putain" ? Do you think they will release as well a Jean Eustache box set ?

My understanding is that we're all assuming they'll be doing a box set because Janus Films presented a complete retrospective of Eustache films (including Le cochon, which isn't in the Carlotta set) last year.

I guess, in theory, it could be more like the old Akerman Eclipse set / Jeanne Dielman situation where they pull the highest-profile title out for a solo release and then package the more "minor" titles together, but that doesn't seem to be the way Criterion has been approaching stuff like this for a long time now.

Rupert Pupkin wrote: Tue Feb 06, 2024 2:12 am Tenia, do you know if Carlotta plans after the release of the box set to release individually, as a single blu-ray release "La Maman et la putain" ?

Was initially a UHD of the new restoration of "La Maman et la putain" planned ? There is a "2160" floating around. If Criterion could release a UHD+Blu-Ray release, that would be awesome! (after all for Antoine Doinel restoration Carlotta/Mk2 released it on UHD too).

I have no idea about an individual release from Carlotta though I doubt it.
They never announced a UHD of any of the 4k restored movies. I highly doubt there's a sales potential good enough in France to begin with.

It's sad that "Mes petites amoureuses" (this is the 2022 restoration) suffers from the cyan-yellowish-greenish color grading; I was since worse in color, but it's difficult for me to get used to this "unformisation" of color grading.

The WEB (Mubi ?) release came with English subs; they seem to be accurate to me although some political statement by Alexandre are not constantly translated : I was not from this "era" but I know Jacques Chaban-Delmas and I often laugh about some political quotes here and there or Alexandre remarked about Guy Lux et Pierre Belmard on TV after deciding to not go on cinema to see the last E.Pietro movie.
I'm still figure out how many King Crimson albums there are in the room : we can see clearly the mythic "In The Court Of The Crimson King" but there are also the "In The Wake In The Poseidon" album (which oddly has an old man who looks like Eric Rohmer); I have the feeling that I can see the front artwork of "More" Pink Floyd but I'm not totally sure.

Perhaps he was a bit younger and a kind of romantic guy who fell on earth not at the right era, but to me, Alexandre character was very close to J-P Leaud in "Masculin Feminin" (despite what Truffaut said to Godard about it).

tenia reviews Carlotta´s 6-film Ozu box:
https://testsbluray.com/2024/03/21/test ... u-inedits/

One of the extras is a 1963 TV film co-written by Ozu, taken from an upscaled kinescope: Seishun hôkago.

Sept. 3 release:
World Cinema project : Prisonniers de la Terre (Mario Soffici), La Femme au couteau (Timité Bassori), Muna Moto (Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa), Huit balles meurtrieres (Mikko Niskanen)

Source:
https://www.dvdclassik.com/forum/viewto ... start=8970

Stefan Andersson wrote: Sun Jun 16, 2024 2:39 pm Sept. 3 release:
World Cinema project : Prisonniers de la Terre (Mario Soffici), La Femme au couteau (Timité Bassori), Muna Moto (Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa), Huit balles meurtrieres (Mikko Niskanen)

Source:
https://www.dvdclassik.com/forum/viewto ... start=8970

Update:
reviewed by tenia:
https://testsbluray.com/2024/11/17/test ... a-project/

La Femme au couteau (Timité Bassori), Muna Moto (Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa) and Huit balles meurtrieres/Eight Deadly Shots (Mikko Niskanen) are not in any other WCP box.

Stefan Andersson wrote: Sun Jun 16, 2024 2:39 pmLa Femme au couteau (Timité Bassori), Muna Moto (Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa) and Huit balles meurtrieres/Eight Deadly Shots (Mikko Niskanen) are not in any other WCP box.

Muna Moto is in World Cinema Project No. 4.

Kauno wrote: Fri Nov 22, 2024 8:56 pm

Stefan Andersson wrote: Sun Jun 16, 2024 2:39 pmLa Femme au couteau (Timité Bassori), Muna Moto (Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa) and Huit balles meurtrieres/Eight Deadly Shots (Mikko Niskanen) are not in any other WCP box.

Muna Moto is in World Cinema Project No. 4.

OK, many thanks for the correction!

Carlotta and Les Films Acacias co-distribute the restored Home and the World (Ray):
https://www.dvdclassik.com/forum/viewto ... 2#p3136742 - Dec 2 post
https://www.acaciasfilms.com/film/la-ma ... -le-monde/

Stefan Andersson wrote: Mon Dec 02, 2024 5:48 pm Carlotta and Les Films Acacias co-distribute the restored Home and the World (Ray):
https://www.dvdclassik.com/forum/viewto ... 2#p3136742 - Dec 2 post
https://www.acaciasfilms.com/film/la-ma ... -le-monde/

I hope Criterion releases this in 4K soon.
They should also get to other great Rays (Pratidvandi, Aranyer din ratri).
Elsewhere various people have noted the neglect of great Chabrols and great Viscontis.
Surely there are enough resources to get these out since we can see that a lot of far lesser stuff is being released.
If there are rights issues, I don't think they are insurmountable if there was the will to do it.
Money cannot be the main issue because Criterion issues films with limited profit potential from time to time.
I hope someone from Criterion or Radiance read these posts and do something.

Does Carlotta not ship to the US? When I try to check out on their site, it keeps telling me to change my address.

Cash Flagg wrote: Mon Jan 20, 2025 7:56 pm Does Carlotta not ship to the US? When I try to check out on their site, it keeps telling me to change my address.

this, I'm interested in that Otar Iosseliani box that people are voting for. is Amazon really the best place to get it without a forwarder?

ryannichols7 wrote: Thu Mar 20, 2025 4:59 am this, I'm interested in that Otar Iosseliani box that people are voting for. is Amazon really the best place to get it without a forwarder?

Try FNAC. Much, much faster than Amazon and often cheaper

I agree, my FNAC order was fast and well packaged.

It's also the least expensive option that I'm aware of

I used Amazon.fr and it arrived very quickly, although it didn't have to travel far in my case.

I've been going through it film by film on Bluesky and have got up to 1984, although I've been bogged down with flu and a backlog of work since. But I'm raring to watch the rest.

Carlotta has recently acquired Yi Yi for release. Hopefully this means a new 4K scan.

Rivière de nuit / Yoru no kawa, Yoshimura, Aug. 19
Il ferroviere, Germi, Aug. 19

https://www.dvdclassik.com/forum/viewto ... start=9345

Carlotta just announced, but French subs only:

Yi Yi 4K
Edward Yang Box (In Our Time, The Terrorizers, Confucian Confusion, Mahjong) BD

Glad they were able to license In Our Time and The Terrorizers, but I'm more than a little skeptical that those two are actually "nouvelles restaurations."

The Terrorizers was released in France already, but through an obviously dated master, and it won't be what Carlotta will use but something more recent.

I'm pretty certain the Spectrum release used the old CMPC restoration, which until now is the only one I'd ever heard about. I'm glad there's something newer out there, just a bit surprised that it's apparently been so under the radar (the TFAI itself has screened the film a few times since they acquired the CMPC library and have never trumpeted a new master or restoration). In Our Time looked especially rough on the Sony/CMPC Blu-ray so I hope it's been given similar treatment.

Edit: Dug a little deeper and it looks like there were two CMPC restorations of The Terrorizers, at least judging from the Taiwan Cinema website run by the Ministry of Culture—it lists digital restorations of The Terrorizers and In Our Time from 2013, several years after the first BD releases of The Terrorizers (but a couple years before In Our Time first hit Blu). The Sony/CMPC reissue of Dust in the Wind from 2014 (in a set with The Time to Live and the Time to Die) used a different master from the earlier standalone release, so I can imagine they redid The Terrorizers around the same time. If Spectrum somehow got saddled with the older ca. 2010 master I can see this being a big improvement, though I hope there's something more "nouvelle" out there, especially if the Sony/CMPC In Our Time was a fair representation of the 2013 restoration.

tenia wrote: Fri Sep 05, 2025 9:00 pmThe Terrorizers was released in France already, but through an obviously dated master, and it won't be what Carlotta will use but something more recent.

The Fanciful Norwegian wrote: Fri Sep 05, 2025 9:24 pmEdit: Dug a little deeper and it looks like there were two CMPC restorations of The Terrorizers, at least judging from the Taiwan Cinema website run by the Ministry of Culture—it lists digital restorations of The Terrorizers and In Our Time from 2013, several years after the first BD releases of The Terrorizers (but a couple years before In Our Time first hit Blu).

Wow! It's the first time I learn there's something newer than the dated master everyone used for this film. Judging by the only frame grab Carlotta provides on their website, I thought it was still the same old magenta-pushed transfer. At least Carlotta should be able to improve the encode and fix Spectrum's mistake of omitting the title shot.