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Ne change Rien: Includes a synopsis of Ne change Rien, photos, and a short clip.

Sorry if this doesn't quite belong here, but the Cannes '09 thread didn't seem appropriate...Is there enough info on the board to warrant a Costa thread in the Filmmakers section?

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Coming to Anthology Film Archives in NYC:

Nov 3-16
Pedro Costa’s NE CHANGE RIEN
The NY theatrical premiere run of Portuguese master Pedro Costa’s most recent feature film, a gorgeous and fascinating portrait of French actress and singer Jeanne Balibar that stands as a companion film to his equally process-oriented portrait of Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet, WHERE DOES YOUR HIDDEN SMILE LIE. We will be presenting NE CHANGE RIEN alongside a number of films selected by Costa.

IMDB lists two films that go by the name Ne Change Rien, is that a mistake on their part, or did he really make two films with the same name?

There are two versions. One is a short film that I believed premiered at Cannes (which you can actually see on YouTube) and the other one is a feature length expanded version that he did a few years later.

Thanks for that, especially the link, came off as odd.

Edit: damn that opening shot is just perfect, though the whole thing is hypnotic.

I've only seen the short, but a close friend of mine and an acquaintance saw Pedro Costa present it himself sometime last year and that the entire feature length film is just as hypnotic as the feature. No one can make slow and long shots as hypnotic quite the way Pedro Costa does. So many of those simple and beautiful shots of people doing everyday things in In Vanda's Room and the record playing moment from Colossal Youth are just perfect examples of it. I'm very glad Criterion is planning on releasing Ne Change Rien because the short alone is amazing and even without the subtitles, I can almost feel what the music is about in the beautiful blacks of Pedro Costa's miniDV cam.

If you think the short is hypnotic, wait till you see the feature! The extra material is lots and lots of recording and rehearsal footage, with Jeanne at times going over the same small phrase dozens of times, so it's even more trance-inducing (if you like it) or tedious (if you don't).

Let's hope Criterion announces it next week than. The more I find out about the man's films (this was only my second) the more he lives up to his reputation. When did they start announcing the ATP titles last time?

Can we take Criterion's release of Ne change rien as a sort of confirmation that the Fontainhas Trilogy sold well enough? I'm really pleasantly surprised if that's the case.

According to this, Ne Change Rien was released on DVD (and CD-Rom) set on Friday. No news about subtitles or where exactly it can be found - not through my research at least.

It's listed at fnac.pt as coming soon with subs in french and portuguese (so far)

It's actually DVD+OST.

So uh, not a Criterion release after all?

Pedro Costa will be in residence for a week at the Indiana University Cinema this fall for a retrospective of his films. Should be pretty amazing.

Harmonov wrote:Pedro Costa will be in residence for a week at the Indiana University Cinema this fall for a retrospective of his films. Should be pretty amazing.

A reminder it starts this Thursday but not lasting for a whole week.

Have any of Costa's pre-O Sangue short films been available on DVD? IMDB seems to suggest that there's one called É Tudo Invenção Nossa from 1984, and there's also mention elsewhere of Manel (1984) and Cartas a Júlia (1987).