Foreign Film Preorder List (1 Viewer)

[Jay Gregory]

According to the Digital Bits, MGM is releasing Rohmer's A Tale Of Springtime March 5 for $19.95. I'm thankful that someone other than Fox/Lorber has gotten into the Rohmer business.

 

[Pascal A]

Updated with new releases.

Added the following titles:

1/2

Secret Defense (Jacques Rivette, France)

Gang of Four (Jacques Rivette, France)

Wuthering Heights (Jacques Rivette, France)

1/22

Purple Noon (Clement, France)

Children of Paradise (Carne, France)

Querelle (Fassbinder, Germany) Second Sight [DVD-R2 (UK)]

1/29

The Princess and the Warrior (Tykwer, Germany)

2/5

The Smokers (Peters, US)

3/5

A Tale of Springtime (Rohmer, France) MGM

Bar Girls (Giovanni, US) MGM

Boxcar Bertha (Scorsese, US) MGM

Rome is Bleeding (Medak, US) MGM

De Sade (Endfield, US/Germany) MGM

Angels and Insects (Haas, UK/US) MGM

Impromptu (Lapine, UK/France) MGM

Eat, Drink, Man, Woman (Ang Lee, US) MGM

Electra (Cacoyannis?, Greece?) MGM

Mademoiselle (Richardson, France/UK) MGM

 

[Ted Todorov]

Secret Defense (Jacques Rivette, France)
Gang of Four (Jacques Rivette, France)
Wuthering Heights (Jacques Rivette, France)

Yes! Yes! Yes! Finally, Jacques Rivette on DVD.
Unforunately, the studio is Image, which means a non-anamorphic transfer and subtitles only if we are lucky.
Also it never ceases to amaze me which movies the studios will put out first -- Celine and Julie Go Boating and Haut, Bas, Fragile being his best movies.
But wait, what do I see: both parts ofJean la Pucelle (Joan the Maid) are already out! Does anybody know if the DVD is OAR (1.85:1) or Pan & Scan??? Cut or uncut? Increadible movie, for those who haven't seen it.
Ted

 

[Andrew_K]

According to imdb the original version of Joan the Maid has two parts 160 min + 176 min = 336 min. The Facets Video DVD has 227 min, so it must be the cut version.

Facets Video is a crap company, they probably used VHS masters, similarly as with Kieslowski's Decalogue.

 

[Doug R]

Pascal,

Is the Princess and the Warrior date the Europe release only or the US also?

thanks

 

[Pascal A]

The 1/29 release date for The Princess and the Warrior is the US release date from Columbia Tristar. Amazon is already listing it, although it doesn't specify if the release will be anamorphic.

 

[Ali B]

I've just seen a features list for some R2 UK Artificial Eye releases:

Due January 21st. This 2 disk set will be priced at £19.99. The picture is presented anamorphic while the soundtrack is DD5.1 Russian sondtrack. Subtitles are English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese and Russian. Extras will be:
Filmographies
Stills Gallery
Interview with Andrei Tarkovsky's sister Marina Tarkovskaya
Tarkovsky trailers
Theophanes the Greek, Andrei Rublev and behind the scenes featurettes.

From the looks of it the Tarkovsky's are just licensed Rusico releases (I think).
ali

 

[Rich Malloy]

Yup - those descriptions sound just like the Ruscico releases!

 

[Pascal A]

Added the following titles:
1/22 Le Magnifique (de Brocka, Italy/France) Image
1/29 Vacas (Medem, Spain) Vanguard
2/12
Giants and Toys (Masumura, Japan) Image/Fantoma
Two Friends (Campion, Australia) Image
2/19
Thief (1952, Rouse, US) Image
Coming Soon (any day now?)
Close-up (Kiarostami, Iran) Facets
Daisies (Chytilova, Czechoslovakia) Facets
Soigne ta Droite (Godard, France) Facets
Outskirts (Lutsik, Russia) Facets

 

[Ali B]

Something that may be of interest to Widescreen TV owning Seijun Suzuki fans is the release of both Branded to Kill and Tokyo Drifter in anamorphic widescreen in R2 UK. Here's the exact wording of the press release, as well as the runtimes:

Following brand new transfers the DVD's will be presented in original ratio anamorphic widescreen
TOKYO DRIFTER
Cert: 18, R/T: 80 mins
RRP: £19.99
BRANDED TO KILL
Cert: 18, R/T: 87 mins RRP: £19.99

Both are released on 25th Feb 2002.
ali

 

[Pascal A]

Added the following films:
12/18
Melies The Magician – Facets doumentary
Giacometti – Facets doumentary
1/15
La Promesse (Dardenne, Belgium) New Yorker
1/22
Lisa Picard Is Famous (Dunne, US) First Look
Coming Soon
Bimal Roy films from Facets:
Bandini
Devdas
Do Bigha Zamin
Madhumati
SujataBandini
Devdas
Do Bigha Zamin
Madhumati
Sujata

 

[Rich Malloy]

Is New Yorker ever gonna release L'ATALANTE??? They've been advertising this (on their DVDs) since their very first release - and it's certainly one of my most anticipated titles from their catalog.

 

[Gary Tooze]

Wow... La Promesse... sabes me from buying that video... WOOHOOO!!!

 

[Ali B]

/me gloats at having had La Promesse on DVD for over 6 months now

 

[Pascal A]

Updated with this week's releases.

Added the following Criterion titles:

2/12

Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)

2/26

In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai)

3/12

Juliet of the Spirits (Federico Fellini)

George Washington (David Gordon Green)

3/26

Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)

 

[Gary Tooze]

Looks like All the Vermeers in New York has been put back again, this time to:
Release Date: April 16, 2002
Why do they keep announcing it, if they have no intention of releasing... it was supposed to be months ago, then got put back to next Tuesday... now 4 months later ... ??
Sheesh...

 

[Pascal A]

Updated. Moved the Bimal Roy films to 1/15, since the Facets website shows them as being available on 1/11.

Added the following films:

2/22

Eureka (Shinji Aoyama) Media Factory [16 x 9] [DVD-R2 (Japan)]

2/26

The Taste of Others (Agnes Jaoui) Miramax

Va Savoir (Jacques Rivette) Columbia Tristar

 

[Ted Todorov]

Va Savoir (Jacques Rivette) Columbia Tristar

Well there will be at least one Rivette movie with a decent transfer!
About today's releases: Baise-Moi is NOT OAR -- the DVD says 1.33:1 (Full Screen). I beleive that OAR is 1.77:1
Hey just because it's trash...
The Servant is 16:9 enhanced. Count on Anchor Bay to transfer anything widescreen in anamorphic DVD format. I vote that any art film not released by Criterion go to Anchor Bay
I didn't see Of Freaks and Men at J&R -- has anyone gotten it? It's a movie I already loved on page 1 of this thread...
Ted

 

[JohnN]

I just picked up the Alliance Atlantis release of Tornatore's The Legend of 1900. It is widescreen 2.35:1 and listed as 125 minutes long.

The box says "Authorized for sale in Canada only".

There does not appear to be any other region 1 dvd release out there.

I knew nothing about the film, but bought it only on the basis that I had missed buying Tornatore's Cinema Paradiso before it went oop.

This turned out to be a very pleasant surprise.

 

[Ali B]

Has anyone got a review (or actually own it themselves) of the Fox Lorber discs of The Circle and Under The Sand?