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Recent pick-ups: Jacques Doillon's upcoming Rodin-biopic, new Agnes Varda doc on the artist JR, and Bertrand Tavernier's doc about French cinema.

City Of Women at Beaver. Seems like an upgrade over the MOC.

DVD Beaver reviews A Married Woman - Video and audio better than the OOP MoC

pointless wrote:DVD Beaver reviews A Married Woman - Video and audio better than the OOP MoC

I'm wondering if the sound is still as low as the MoC disc. It was so low I had to increase my amp volume almost to its maximum (it's a Yamaha which goes from -60dB to +20, I usually listen at -32.5) to hear the dialogues.

Sudden Fear coming later this year

blu-ray.com on "Under the Sun of Satan"

Yet again, Dolby Digital audio only.

Howard's End 2k restoration Trailer

Restoration credits:
-4K restoration from the original camera negative and magnetic soundtrack held at the archive of the George Eastman Museum
-Digital restoration completed by Cineric Portugal
-5.1 audio track restoration by Audio Mechanics (Burbank)
-Color grading by Deluxe Restoration (London) under the supervision of cinematographer Tony Pierce-Roberts and director James Ivory

manicsounds wrote:blu-ray.com on "Under the Sun of Satan"

Yet again, Dolby Digital audio only.

Ugh. Dare I hope MoC will do a proper blu release of this (and their other Pialat titles)?

FrauBlucher wrote:Howard's End 2k restoration Trailer

Restoration credits:
-4K restoration from the original camera negative and magnetic soundtrack held at the archive of the George Eastman Museum
-Digital restoration completed by Cineric Portugal
-5.1 audio track restoration by Audio Mechanics (Burbank)
-Color grading by Deluxe Restoration (London) under the supervision of cinematographer Tony Pierce-Roberts and director James Ivory

Did Crit loose the rights? I thought this was the one film of theirs they still had for the long term?

There was an ugly lawsuit between the Merchant Ivory company and Criterion. Not sure of all the details, but Merchant Ivory has a reputation of being tough to deal with.

The CC of Howards End has been OOP for a few years now.

CSM126 wrote:

manicsounds wrote:blu-ray.com on "Under the Sun of Satan"

Yet again, Dolby Digital audio only.

Ugh. Dare I hope MoC will do a proper blu release of this (and their other Pialat titles)?

They already confirmed they will not, so if you need the lossless audio, you can buy the gaumont.

Sry m8, need dat whispy spiritual discourse in full fuckin range audio

Cohen will be putting out "Two Films By Douglas Sirk" in September. Google suggests that one is probably "A Scandal in Paris."

The second will most likely be Lured.

The cover confirms that it's A Scandal in Paris and Lured.

pointless wrote:Two Philippe De Broca Films

L'amant de cinq jours (Five Day Lover) (1961) - New Restoration of the film completed by TF1 International in France - Trailer

Le bossu (On Guard) (1997) - Newly remastered by TF1 International in France - Trailer

Blu-Ray.com review

Is there any info anywhere about the new Chabrol set - specs street date etc.?

Any news on future Pialats?

kekid wrote:Any news on future Pialats?

I think the future Pialats are all in the past now. The five features released by Cohen to date are it as far as US rights go, since L'Enfance Nue and A Nos Amours are (presumably) still with Criterion and Nous ne vieillerons pas ensemble and Police are in print from Kino and Olive. Le Garcu is in a seemingly perpetual rights abyss (even Gaumont couldn't license it for individual release, and its inclusion in the Integrale box set was apparently a "once and never again" arrangement), and La maison des bois seems to be beyond the resources of any English-language company. Even Gaumont haven't upgraded this to BluRay yet.

NABOB OF NOWHERE wrote:Is there any info anywhere about the new Chabrol set - specs street date etc.?

Betty (1992), L'enfer (1994) and Rien ne va plus (1997) with new 2K restorations - Late 2016/Early 2017

Cohen is releasing Joan Crawford's Sudden Fear. Saw this screened recently and it looked terrific. First time seeing it and thought it was an excellent Crawford noir.