I was in Pesaro last year as it happens, although sadly after the festival, as I was on a summer language course in Urbino. I'll definitely have to check these out in the future. Le marche are such an underrated part of Italy. Can't wait to go back there. This year, however, me and the missus will be visiting Milan, Genoa and the Gulf of Poets on our honeymoon.Saimo wrote:Yes, once you have got your badge you can easily watch everything.Is it generally open to public and easy to get seats once you buy accreditation?Then you may also consider attending Pesaro Film Festival, right on the seaside.I might have to head over next year and then spend a week over on the coast in Le marche.
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Viaggio di nozze? Auguri!
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And here are this year's DVD Awards nominees (pdf file)
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I guess we should take these noms without a grain of salt
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Jonathan Rosenbaum has posted this year's DVD awards.
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Can anyone who attended give some information about the Zanzibar Films retrospective? I can't find info about what films were shown or guests besides Jackie Raynal presenting Deux Fois.
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A little mistake:Jonathan Rosenbaum has posted this year's DVD awards.
David (not Davide) Maria Turoldo wasn't Pandolfi's father, he is called "padre"/"father" only because he was a priest (like Father O'Malley).Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote:the authors Vito Pandolfi and his father Davide Maria Turoldo
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Are they going to print / write a book about those films just before made WWII began? I've rewatched Borzage's 3 comrades and it's beautiful. On that retrospective I think it's missing Clarence Brwon's Idiot's delight.
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Deux fois was part of a program called "Cinemalibero".htshell wrote:Can anyone who attended give some information about the Zanzibar Films retrospective? I can't find info about what films were shown or guests besides Jackie Raynal presenting Deux Fois.
The screening consisted of:
Deux fois (1969, Jackie Ryanal. 72 min)
Vite (1968, Daniel Pommeruelle. 34 min)
- Introduction with Jackie Ryanal
In addition the following where shown as part of the program:
Afrique 50 (1950, René Vautier. 17 min)
Avoir vingt ans dans aurès (1971, -II-. 100 min)
- Introduction with René and Moria Vautier and Serge Toubiana
Borom Sarret (1963, Osman Sembene. 22 min)
Ni liv (1957, Arne Skouen. 96 min)
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Full 2014 program up. Is anyone here going? I had a great week there last year and I'm hoping to be back this year.
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I'm going for the first time. I've heard such great things about the festival!
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I really must go one of these years, but I suspect I'll be desperately trying to put the Borowczyk project to bed.jsteffe wrote:I'm going for the first time. I've heard such great things about the festival!
But I think James White is going, so I'll gladly arrange a virtual introduction beforehand - I suspect you two would get on rather well.
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Some interesting old Japanese films
Hanayome no negoto (The Bride Talks in Her Sleep, 1933) by Heinosuke Gosho Ureshii kor (Our Happy Day, 1933) by Hiromasa Nomura
Nakinureta haru no onna yo (A Woman Crying in Spring, 1933) by Hiroshi Shimizu Tonari no Yae-chan (Our Neighbour, Miss Yae, 1934) by Yasujiro Shimazu Shunkinsho: Okoto to Sasuke (Okoto and Sasuke, 1935) by Yasujiro Shimazu Gubijinso (The Field Poppy, 1935) by Kenji Mizoguchi
Ojo Okichi (1935) by Tatsunosuke Takashima
Hitori musuko (The Only Son, 1936) by Yasujiro Ozu
(I've seen five of these already)
Mizoguchi had some role (as adviser?) in Ojo Okichi
Hanayome no negoto (The Bride Talks in Her Sleep, 1933) by Heinosuke Gosho Ureshii kor (Our Happy Day, 1933) by Hiromasa Nomura
Nakinureta haru no onna yo (A Woman Crying in Spring, 1933) by Hiroshi Shimizu Tonari no Yae-chan (Our Neighbour, Miss Yae, 1934) by Yasujiro Shimazu Shunkinsho: Okoto to Sasuke (Okoto and Sasuke, 1935) by Yasujiro Shimazu Gubijinso (The Field Poppy, 1935) by Kenji Mizoguchi
Ojo Okichi (1935) by Tatsunosuke Takashima
Hitori musuko (The Only Son, 1936) by Yasujiro Ozu
(I've seen five of these already)
Mizoguchi had some role (as adviser?) in Ojo Okichi
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I wish I could go. At least they are screening a bunch of non-Satyajit Ray INDIAN classics there. I am not sure I will ever be able to see them on a proper home video release. That list of films is truly mind blowing.
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Yes! One can only hope that this means the films being screened have been restored. They're all great films, but my sentimental favorite is Guru Dutt's Kaagaz Ke Phool (Paper Flowers). I would love to see a proper restoration of that film in 'scope! Anyway, for me the fifties was the peak era of Indian cinema, and it's great to be able to see so many of those films together.chatterjees wrote:I wish I could go. At least they are screening a bunch of non-Satyajit Ray INDIAN classics there. I am not sure I will ever be able to see them on a proper home video release. That list of films is truly mind blowing.
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If these are restored then here is hoping that somebody will pick them up to home video release (blu-ray, specifically) in USA or UK. I would kill for Roy's Do bigha
zameen (Two Acres of Land, 1953) and Ghatak's Ajantrik (Pathetic Fallacy, 1958). Wasn't Pyaasa (The Thristy One, 1957) released in France last year on DVD?
zameen (Two Acres of Land, 1953) and Ghatak's Ajantrik (Pathetic Fallacy, 1958). Wasn't Pyaasa (The Thristy One, 1957) released in France last year on DVD?
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Carlotta released them, unfortunately without English subs.
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I don't need English subs for them, but I would rather wait for Blu-raysDrucker wrote:Carlotta released them, unfortunately without English subs.
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Here are the titles short-listed for this year's DVD awards (releases between April 2013-April 2014; movies of "acclamata importanza" made before 1984):
3 FILMS BY ROBERTO ROSSELLINI STARRING INGRID BERGMAN
(Stromboli, Europa ‘51, Viaggio in Italia, Italia/1950-1952-1954)
The Criterion Collection (Blu-ray)
ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET: RÉCITS CINÉMATOGRAPHIQUES
(Francia/1963-2006)
Carlotta Films (Dvd)
ART & CINEMA. DE BELGISCHE KUSTDOCUMENTAIRE
(Belgio/1938-1990) di Charles Dekeukeleire, André Cauvin, Paul Haesaerts, Pierre Alechinsky, Henri Storck, Luc de Heusch
Cinematek (Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique) (Dvd)
DER BOMBERPILOT & NEL REGNO DI NAPOLI
(RFT/1970-1978) di Werner Schroeter
Edition Filmmuseum (Dvd)
CINERAMA HOLIDAY
(USA/1955) di Robert L Bendick, Phillipe De Lacy
Flicker Alley, LLC – Cinerama Inc. (Bluray, Dvd)
THE CURTIS HARRINGTON SHORT FILM COLLECTION
(USA/1942-2002)
Flicker Alley, LLC – Drag City Inc. (Bluray, Dvd)
DŽIM ŠVANTĖ (SOL’ SVANETII) & GVOZD’ V SAPOGE
(URSS/1930-1932) di Michail Kalatozov
Edition Filmmuseum (Dvd)
ECHOES OF SILENCE
(USA/1964) di Peter Emanuel Goldman
Re:Voir (Dvd)
THE FLIGHT
(Beg, URSS/1970) di Alexander Alov, Vladimir Naumov
Ruscico (Dvd)
GRUPPO DI FAMIGLIA IN UN INTERNO
(Italia/1974) di Luchino Visconti
RaroVideo (Dvd)
HEAVEN’S GATE
(USA/1980) di Michael Cimino
Carlotta Films (Blu-ray, Dvd)
IKÁRIE XB 1
(Cecoslovacchia/1963) di Jindřich Polák
Second Run (Dvd)
IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD
(USA/1963) di Stanley Kramer
The Criterion Collection (Blu-ray, Dvd)
JACQUES TATI – L’INTÉGRALE
StudioCanal (Dvd)
JEAN EPSTEIN COFFRET
Agnès b. Dvd – La Cinémathèque française – Potemkine Films (Dvd)
LATE MIZOGUCHI – EIGHT FILMS, 1951-1956
(Giappone/1951-1956) di Kenji Mizoguchi
Eureka Entertainment Ltd. (Blu-ray)
LOST AND FOUND: AMERICAN TREASURES FROM THE NEW ZEALAND FILM ARCHIVE
(GB-USA/1914-1929) di John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, Graham Cutts, Mabel Normand, Norman Taurog, Lyman Howe
National Film Preservation Foundation (Dvd)
DIE NIBELUNGEN
(Germania/1924) di Fritz Lang Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung, Wiesbaden – Transit Film GmbH, München (Dvd)
PAULINO VIOTA. OBRAS/WORKS/OUVRES 1966-1982
Intermedio (Dvd)
PERFECT UNDERSTANDING
(GB/1933) di Cyril Gardner
Cohen Film Collection (Blu-ray)
PETER THOMPSON: 6 CINEMATIC ESSAYS +2 INTERVIEWS
(USA/1981-2012)
Chicago Media Works
PINTILIE CINEAST DVD BOX
(Romania/1965) di Lucian Pintilie Transilvania Film (Dvd)
POD ZNAČKOU BAT’A
(Cecoslovacchia/1935-1948) di Elmar Klos, Otakar Vávra
Národní filmový archiv – Filmexport Home Video (Dvd)
POLISH CINEMA CLASSICS VOLUME II
(The Promised Land, Illumination, Escape from the ‘Liberty’ Cinema, Polonia/1974-1972-1990) di Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Zanussi, Wojciec Marczewski Second Run (Dvd)
PROVIDENCE
(Francia-Svizzera/1977) di Alain Resnais
Jupiter Film (Dvd)
RICHARD WAGNER
(Germania/1913) di Carl Froelich, William Wauer
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung, Wiesbaden – Transit Film GmbH, München (Dvd)
TAM NA KONEČNÉ
(Slovenia-Cecoslovacchia/1957) di Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos
Národní filmový archiv – Filmexport Home Video (Dvd)
TECOPPA E ALTRI PERSONAGGI DI EDOARDO FERRAVILLA
(Italia/1914) di Luca Comerio
Fondazione Cineteca Italiana (Dvd)
UNDERGROUND
(GB/1928) di Anthony Asquith
BFI Video Publishing (Blu-ray, Dvd)
VOLGA EN FLAMMES
(Francia/1933) di Victor Tourjansky
Lobster Films (Dvd)
WHEEL OF ASHES
(USA/1968) di Peter Emmanuel Goldman
Re:Voir (Dvd)
WHITE OF THE EYE
(USA/1987) di Donald Cammell
Arrow Films (Blu-ray, Dvd)
3 FILMS BY ROBERTO ROSSELLINI STARRING INGRID BERGMAN
(Stromboli, Europa ‘51, Viaggio in Italia, Italia/1950-1952-1954)
The Criterion Collection (Blu-ray)
ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET: RÉCITS CINÉMATOGRAPHIQUES
(Francia/1963-2006)
Carlotta Films (Dvd)
ART & CINEMA. DE BELGISCHE KUSTDOCUMENTAIRE
(Belgio/1938-1990) di Charles Dekeukeleire, André Cauvin, Paul Haesaerts, Pierre Alechinsky, Henri Storck, Luc de Heusch
Cinematek (Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique) (Dvd)
DER BOMBERPILOT & NEL REGNO DI NAPOLI
(RFT/1970-1978) di Werner Schroeter
Edition Filmmuseum (Dvd)
CINERAMA HOLIDAY
(USA/1955) di Robert L Bendick, Phillipe De Lacy
Flicker Alley, LLC – Cinerama Inc. (Bluray, Dvd)
THE CURTIS HARRINGTON SHORT FILM COLLECTION
(USA/1942-2002)
Flicker Alley, LLC – Drag City Inc. (Bluray, Dvd)
DŽIM ŠVANTĖ (SOL’ SVANETII) & GVOZD’ V SAPOGE
(URSS/1930-1932) di Michail Kalatozov
Edition Filmmuseum (Dvd)
ECHOES OF SILENCE
(USA/1964) di Peter Emanuel Goldman
Re:Voir (Dvd)
THE FLIGHT
(Beg, URSS/1970) di Alexander Alov, Vladimir Naumov
Ruscico (Dvd)
GRUPPO DI FAMIGLIA IN UN INTERNO
(Italia/1974) di Luchino Visconti
RaroVideo (Dvd)
HEAVEN’S GATE
(USA/1980) di Michael Cimino
Carlotta Films (Blu-ray, Dvd)
IKÁRIE XB 1
(Cecoslovacchia/1963) di Jindřich Polák
Second Run (Dvd)
IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD
(USA/1963) di Stanley Kramer
The Criterion Collection (Blu-ray, Dvd)
JACQUES TATI – L’INTÉGRALE
StudioCanal (Dvd)
JEAN EPSTEIN COFFRET
Agnès b. Dvd – La Cinémathèque française – Potemkine Films (Dvd)
LATE MIZOGUCHI – EIGHT FILMS, 1951-1956
(Giappone/1951-1956) di Kenji Mizoguchi
Eureka Entertainment Ltd. (Blu-ray)
LOST AND FOUND: AMERICAN TREASURES FROM THE NEW ZEALAND FILM ARCHIVE
(GB-USA/1914-1929) di John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, Graham Cutts, Mabel Normand, Norman Taurog, Lyman Howe
National Film Preservation Foundation (Dvd)
DIE NIBELUNGEN
(Germania/1924) di Fritz Lang Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung, Wiesbaden – Transit Film GmbH, München (Dvd)
PAULINO VIOTA. OBRAS/WORKS/OUVRES 1966-1982
Intermedio (Dvd)
PERFECT UNDERSTANDING
(GB/1933) di Cyril Gardner
Cohen Film Collection (Blu-ray)
PETER THOMPSON: 6 CINEMATIC ESSAYS +2 INTERVIEWS
(USA/1981-2012)
Chicago Media Works
PINTILIE CINEAST DVD BOX
(Romania/1965) di Lucian Pintilie Transilvania Film (Dvd)
POD ZNAČKOU BAT’A
(Cecoslovacchia/1935-1948) di Elmar Klos, Otakar Vávra
Národní filmový archiv – Filmexport Home Video (Dvd)
POLISH CINEMA CLASSICS VOLUME II
(The Promised Land, Illumination, Escape from the ‘Liberty’ Cinema, Polonia/1974-1972-1990) di Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Zanussi, Wojciec Marczewski Second Run (Dvd)
PROVIDENCE
(Francia-Svizzera/1977) di Alain Resnais
Jupiter Film (Dvd)
RICHARD WAGNER
(Germania/1913) di Carl Froelich, William Wauer
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung, Wiesbaden – Transit Film GmbH, München (Dvd)
TAM NA KONEČNÉ
(Slovenia-Cecoslovacchia/1957) di Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos
Národní filmový archiv – Filmexport Home Video (Dvd)
TECOPPA E ALTRI PERSONAGGI DI EDOARDO FERRAVILLA
(Italia/1914) di Luca Comerio
Fondazione Cineteca Italiana (Dvd)
UNDERGROUND
(GB/1928) di Anthony Asquith
BFI Video Publishing (Blu-ray, Dvd)
VOLGA EN FLAMMES
(Francia/1933) di Victor Tourjansky
Lobster Films (Dvd)
WHEEL OF ASHES
(USA/1968) di Peter Emmanuel Goldman
Re:Voir (Dvd)
WHITE OF THE EYE
(USA/1987) di Donald Cammell
Arrow Films (Blu-ray, Dvd)
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So, no Zatoichi, Shoah, Investigation of a Citizen, World Cinema Project, Marketa Lazarova, but hey:
JAP wrote:IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD
(USA/1963) di Stanley Kramer
The Criterion Collection (Blu-ray, Dvd)
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At least they nominated the fascinating Cinerama Holiday. Hopefully more people give it a try, it's a pretty unique experience
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How on earth?!JAP wrote:GRUPPO DI FAMIGLIA IN UN INTERNO
(Italia/1974) di Luchino Visconti
RaroVideo (Dvd)
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The winners have just been announced...
Best Special Features (Blu-ray) – LATE MIZOGUCHI (Eureka/MoC)
Best Special Features (DVD) – PINTILE CINEASTE (Transylvania Film)
Best Rediscovery – IKARIE XB-1 (Second Run)
Best Blu-ray Boxed Set – 3 FILMS BY ROSSELLINI (Criterion)
Best DVD Boxed-Set – JEAN EPSTEIN COFFRET (Potemkine)
Best Publishing Strategy by a Label – ARROW FILMS
Best Blu-ray – UNDERGROUND (BFI)
Best DVD – DZIM SVANTE and GVOZD’ V SAPOGE (Edition Filmmuseum)
Best Special Features (Blu-ray) – LATE MIZOGUCHI (Eureka/MoC)
Best Special Features (DVD) – PINTILE CINEASTE (Transylvania Film)
Best Rediscovery – IKARIE XB-1 (Second Run)
Best Blu-ray Boxed Set – 3 FILMS BY ROSSELLINI (Criterion)
Best DVD Boxed-Set – JEAN EPSTEIN COFFRET (Potemkine)
Best Publishing Strategy by a Label – ARROW FILMS
Best Blu-ray – UNDERGROUND (BFI)
Best DVD – DZIM SVANTE and GVOZD’ V SAPOGE (Edition Filmmuseum)
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...and here's the full press release:
DVD AWARDS 2014: XI edition
Jurors: Lorenzo Codelli, Alexander Horwath, Mark McElhatten, Paolo Mereghetti and Jonathan Rosenbaum, chaired by Peter von Bagh
BEST SPECIAL FEATURES ON BLU-RAY: LATE MIZOGUCHI – EIGHT FILMS, 1951-1956
(Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan) – Eureka Entertainment
The publication of eight indisputable masterpieces in stellar transfers on Blu-Ray is a cause for celebration. If Eureka is not exclusive in offering these individual titles, what makes this collection especially praiseworthy and indispensable is the scholarship, imagination and care that went into the accompanying 344-page booklet. Over 60 rare production stills are included, many featuring Mizoguchi at work. Striking essays by Keiko I. McDonald, Mark Le Fanu, Mori Ogai, and Nakagawa Masako are anthologized along with extensively annotated translations of some of the key sources of Japanese literature that inspired some of Mizoguchi’s late films. The volume closes with tributes to the great director written by Tarkovsky, Rivette, Godard, Straub, Angelopoullos, Shinoda, and others. Tony Rayns provides spoken essays and some full-length commentaries.
BEST SPECIAL FEATURES ON DVD: PINTILIE, CINEAST
(Lucian Pintille, Romania) – Transilvania Films
An impeccable collection devoted to eleven films by an important and neglected maverick Romanian filmmaker, with invaluable contextualizing extras concerning his life, work, and career drawn from ten separate sources. Among the remarkable and ambitious features are Reconstruction (1968), The Oak (1992), and An Unforgettable Summer (1994).
BEST REDISCOVERY: IKARIE XB1
(Jindřich Polák, Czechoslovakia, 1963) – Second Run Features
An almost forgotten gem, inspired by a Polish novel by Stanislaw Lem and originally butchered in the West, is rightly considered by Joe Dante “a groundbreaking celestial saga”. It had a strong impact on major SF works of the 60s and 70s such as Kubrick's 2001, and Second Run offers a stunning restoration of the uncut version, plus some scholarly essays.
BEST BLU-RAY BOX SET: 3 FILMS BY ROBERTO ROSSELLINI STARRING INGRID BERGMAN
(Stromboli, Europe '51, Journey to Italy, 1950-1954) – Criterion
A superb, definitive edition of three very personal masterworks, with a good many critical, biographical, and historical supplements by many of the best Rossellini scholars and critics, including Adriano Aprà, Richard Brody, Fred Camper, Elena Dagrada, Tag Gallagher, Dina Iordanova, Laura Mulvey, James Quandt, and Paul Thomas, not to mention pertinent contributions by Guy Maddin, Martin Scorsese, and both Rossellini and Bergman and many family members.
BEST DVD BOX SET: JEAN EPSTEIN COFFRET
(Le Cinematheque Francaise, Potemkine Films) (TK, PM)
Produced by Potemkine Film, the Cinémathèque française and agnès b. DVD, for the first time the «Jean Epstein» box set offers an opportunity to follow the cinematographic path of the french director. With the films made under the Film Albatros label (1924-1925) as a starting point, the review continues with Epstein's own productions (1926-1928) and those directed in the period from 1928 to 1948, a series of registrations characterized by the freedom and careless of financial or narrative constraints. Every film included has been restored and musical comments, written specially for the edition, accompany the selection of mute films. A series of supplements and a profusely illustrated 160-page book complete the eight DVDs set.
BEST PUBLISHING STRATEGY BY A LABEL: ARROW VIDEO
Arrow Video, an excellent new label in the U.K., has already given us exemplary editions, with many thoughtful and valuable extras, of several features, including Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye, Donald Cammell's White of the Eye, Don Siegel's The Killers, and many Brian De Palma films.
BEST BLU-RAY: UNDERGROUND
(Anthony Asquith, U.K., 1928) – BFI
Young Anthony Asquith's “story of ordinary workaday people,” conceived near the end of the silent era, is getting a well-deserved second breath due to a gorgeous BFI restoration. This dual format edition, in both high definition and standard definition, offers many background materials, including rare shorts tracing a cultural history of the British underground train system.
BEST DVD: DZIMN SVANTE (SOL'SVANETII & GVOZD' V SAPOGE
(Michail Kalatozov, USSR, 1930-32) - Edition Filmmuseum (PM, TK)
As part of the series edited under the collection «filmmuseum», the Cineteche of Monaco and the Filmmuseum of Vienna in association with the National Archives of Georgia at Tbilisi have join efforts to rescue from l'oubli two unknown films of Michail Kalatozov, whose cinematographic path has still some parts that remain in the dark. The first film, Džim Švantė (Salt for Svanetia) directed in 1930, is a reconstruction of the harsh daily life conditions of the Caucasus mountains peasants. The second title, Gvozd’ v sapoge (A nail in the boot) from 1932, is a parable about the lack of responsiveness in times of war, that constitutes a dreadful anticipation of the Stalin regime purges. Both films were ristored for the occasion and additioned with a musical comment and subtitles in German and English. The edition is accompanied by a 16-page bilingual booklet (German-English).
The jurors would like to stress that none of us is in a position to know all the important DVD releases, even though all of us have encountered important examples, some of which were not nominated for awards but deserve in any case to be far better known so each of us has selected one or more personal favorites that he would like to recommend.
Lorenzo Codelli's personal choice is an innovative online museum organized by the city of Valencia which allows visitors to enjoy the complete works of Luis Garcia Berlanga: berlangafilmmuseum.com.
Alexander Horwath's personal pick is POD ZNAČKOU BAT'A, a 3-DVD box set copublished by the Czech National Film Archive with a huge number of shorts made by the BAT’A Corporation in the City of Zlin. It's a wonderful example of a non-cinema company making public their archive of films.
Mark McElhatten wants to cite the ongoing devotion shown in publishing the extraordinary films of Werner Schroeter in DVD releases by Edition Filmmuseum Munich. Recent releases have included WILLOW SPRINGS paired with DAY OF THE IDIOT and DER BOM BERPILOT with NEL REGNO DI NAPOLI, both releases with many extras. He also wishes to recognize the importance of the underexposed films of Peter Thompson made available through the valiant efforts of Chicago Media Works
Paolo Mereghetti has selected Alberto Cavallone’s BLUE MOVIE, released on Raro Video.
Jonathan Rosenbaum would like to cite two releases: PETER THOMPSON: 6 CINEMATIC ESSAY& 2 INTERVIEWS (Chicago Media Works, U.S., 1981-2012) and Alain Resnais and David Mercer's PROVIDENCE (Jupiter Film, France, 1977). He hastens to add that while he helped to conduct both of the two interviews with the late Peter Thompson included in this set, he originally became friends with Thompson because of his enthusiasm for the passionate originality and beauty of his work. The belated release of one of Resnais' greatest features includes both the English and the French-dubbed versions (which Resnais supervised), and many fascinating extras, with English subtitles.
Finally, Peter von Bagh has selected FRITZ LANG & L‘AMÉRIQUE – 2 FILMS DE FRITZ LANG: WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS and BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT, a DVD box set from Wild Side that includes a 120-page book by Bernard Eisenschitz, La nuit américaine de Fritz Lang.
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A great surprise and an unexpected honour for us! Totally delighted!
Congratulations also to Eureka Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Arrow Films & Video, and BFI who have also received deserved recognition!
Congratulations also to Eureka Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Arrow Films & Video, and BFI who have also received deserved recognition!