Raúl Ruiz

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#226 Post by Roscoe » Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:12 am

Oh dear -- the Blu-Ray of TIME REGAINED doesn't look great to these eyes, based on these screen captures at DVDBeaver:

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/dvdrevie ... lu-ray.htm

It looks like that dreadful old Kino version -- muddy and brown.

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#227 Post by domino harvey » Mon Nov 12, 2018 1:07 pm

Looks like every other recent restoration of a color French film

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#228 Post by NABOB OF NOWHERE » Mon Nov 12, 2018 1:47 pm

Proust has been rewritten where he dunks his Madelaine into a urine sample

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#229 Post by zedz » Mon Nov 12, 2018 4:55 pm

I'm usually cautious about claiming a photographic memory for films I saw decades ago, but one of my clearest impressions of the 35mm print I saw on release was "crisp whites", which, um, no. With this release, it looks like the entire film has been dipped in tea.

Still, a fantastic film, and I will pick this up a.s.a.p.

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#230 Post by Murdoch » Sun Nov 18, 2018 12:18 am

How's the Second Sight DVD fare? I always avoided the Kino but I never could find any opinions on the Second Sight's quality.

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#231 Post by feihong » Sun Nov 18, 2018 2:32 am

The Second Sight DVD is a very nice disc. Anamorphic, great subtitles, strong picture quality...all around a quality DVD.

There is also a French blu ray from Blaq Out, but I'm not sure it's available anymore (it is part of a series of Ruiz blu rays, along with Three Lives and Only One Death and Geneaologies of a Crime). It looks beautiful in motion, very similar to the theatrical experience as I recall it. There are no English subtitles on the disc, but the picture quality is better than those shots of the Kimstim disc look. My impression is more depth, and lacking the yellow cast on the Kimstim disc.

I think Kimstim remains a company where they have great taste in acquisitions...and yet their disc authoring never does justice to the films they acquire.

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Re: Raúl Ruiz

#232 Post by Roscoe » Wed Nov 21, 2018 9:53 am

I got the KimStim Blu-Ray of TIME REGAINED and took a look -- it may just be my TV and my settings, but it looks a lot better on my TV with my settings than it does in those stills on DVDBeaver. Brighter, sharper more colorful. Some speckles still remained, interestingly, especially in night-time scenes.


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#234 Post by therewillbeblus » Wed Jun 19, 2019 8:08 pm

For those interested, La Recta Provincia is on YouTube in decent quality with good English subs (I'm no subtitle expert, but they really hit the humor and ideas Ruiz throws at you in a way that's well handled compared to other "YouTube Ruiz experiences" I've had). Seemingly absent from any Ruiz discussion I've come across, this ranks up there with his better works, namely Love Torn in a Dream in the way he plays with narrative in alternate dimensions I didn't know were possible for a mind to dream up. I wish I could include this in the upcoming Horror Redux list project because, like other Ruiz, the fantasy contains eerie elements that play with the genre, this time in a more personal milieu for the director of Chilean folklore.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kNO0E8-diA

[Note: There are hardcoded Portuguese subs, which may be frustrating to some though I didn't find it disturbing since there was barely any overlap with the English subs, if at all]


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Re: Raúl Ruiz

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#237 Post by dadaistnun » Sat Jan 16, 2021 1:25 am

New Ruiz book coming in March:
An unpublished tale by Raoul Ruiz.

A previously unpublished story by filmmaker Raul Ruiz that was found in a trunk by his wife Valeria Sarmiento, A Nine Year-Old Aviator was written in Paris when Ruiz had just fled Chile. This tale is one of a series of stories written in the 1970s for Sarmiento. As they were both living in exile and he did not have work while his wife was childminding to provide for them both, every day Ruiz would present her with a different story to read to the child she was looking after. This story is illustrated by Camila Mora-Scheihing, to whom this tale was read as a child.

Camila Mora-Scheihing is a multidisciplinary artist started her acting career with Raul Ruiz as a child in "The Territory". Growing up with Ruiz as family and a mentor, she continued to regularly work with him on short films, radio and feature films such as "Genealogy of a Crime". After working as a director and directing a documentary "The Drift", she then studied at the Royal College of Art in London as a way of cementing her artist career. Her artwork continues to be shown in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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#238 Post by therewillbeblus » Sat Jan 16, 2021 1:34 am

This story is illustrated by Camila Mora-Scheihing, to whom this tale was read as a child.
Her illustrations' cryptic essence seem to be perfectly suited for Ruiz regardless, but the idea of an adult expressing the imagery from their imagination recalled from their memories as a child when read a story by Raul Ruiz is the most Ruiz-ian thing ever. I need this now.

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#239 Post by Stefan Andersson » Wed Jun 02, 2021 3:16 pm

Valeria Sarmiento wants to complete Socialist Realism, an unfinished film begun in 1972 by Ruiz in Chile:
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts ... enterprise
Donations: https://www.ruizsarmiento.film/en/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070596/
http://www.rouge.com.au/2/socialist.html

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#240 Post by dadaistnun » Mon Jul 26, 2021 12:39 pm

Mubi is currently showing The Wandering Soap Opera, the theatrical version of Mysteries of Lisbon, and a 2K restoration of Three Crowns of the Sailor.

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#241 Post by Stefan Andersson » Thu Aug 05, 2021 6:44 am

dadaistnun wrote:
Sat Jan 16, 2021 1:25 am
New Ruiz book coming in March:
An unpublished tale by Raoul Ruiz.

A previously unpublished story by filmmaker Raul Ruiz that was found in a trunk by his wife Valeria Sarmiento, A Nine Year-Old Aviator was written in Paris when Ruiz had just fled Chile. This tale is one of a series of stories written in the 1970s for Sarmiento. As they were both living in exile and he did not have work while his wife was childminding to provide for them both, every day Ruiz would present her with a different story to read to the child she was looking after. This story is illustrated by Camila Mora-Scheihing, to whom this tale was read as a child.

Camila Mora-Scheihing is a multidisciplinary artist started her acting career with Raul Ruiz as a child in "The Territory". Growing up with Ruiz as family and a mentor, she continued to regularly work with him on short films, radio and feature films such as "Genealogy of a Crime". After working as a director and directing a documentary "The Drift", she then studied at the Royal College of Art in London as a way of cementing her artist career. Her artwork continues to be shown in the United Kingdom and internationally.
Update re: the above -- this book is available in English and French:
https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=8096
https://www.lespressesdureel.com/ouvrage.php?id=8095

Source: https://sabzian.be/note/new-book-releas ... ummer-2021

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#242 Post by dadaistnun » Mon Aug 22, 2022 12:02 pm

DisVoir's newest Ruiz publication is extracts from the diary he kept from 1993-2011. Disappointingly, it is only 104 pages; the original Spanish-language edition published by Diego Portales University is well over 2000 pages. (I can't find an exact page count anywhere, though this Google books listing says volume 1 is 1206 pages, which sounds about right compared to the copy I have actually seen in person.)

Jaime Grijalba has been working on a translation of the entire thing (I'm not sure how long he's been at it, but he's already into volume 2). I can't quite figure out how to peruse the old entries on his site, but you can sign up for his mailing list to receive the new ones as he does them.

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#243 Post by Stefan Andersson » Thu Apr 20, 2023 12:28 pm

Ruiz´s "Socialist Realism" (1973) now reconstructed and restored. Trailer:
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts ... the-making

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#244 Post by Stefan Andersson » Sat Dec 23, 2023 3:29 pm

Ruiz retrospective in Austria.

In program notes, we learn that Daphne du Maurier´s short story The Apple Tree was the basis for Ruiz´s aborted 1967 project El tango del viudo y su espejo deformante (The Tango of the Widower and its Distorting Mirror): https://www.filmmuseum.at/en/film_progr ... 5952219581

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