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[Horrorcollector]

Hi,

Au der NY Times:


Seduced and Abandoned (1964)

Back when middle-class couples turned to foreign films for an acceptably racy evening out, a title like "Seduced and Abandoned" was catnip. Forty-two years later, the title is better known than the movie itself. And you can't help wondering, with this new Criterion edition, if Pietro Germi's film will ruffle sensitive contemporary sensibilities. The picture is about as brutal as a comedy can be and still be funny. Nobody will feel much like laughing when Don Vincenzo (Saro Urzi), a Sicilian patriarch, slaps around his beautiful daughter Agnese (the radiant Stefania Sandrelli), who has been impregnated by her sister's fiancé. But let's be clear about who's slapping around whom. Germi's film is a desecration of honor and family, the very values Don Vincenzo holds dear. Compassion did not exactly flow through Germi's veins. Clarity did. "Seduced and Abandoned" is so bracing precisely because Germi refuses to blunt his meanings with sops to fairness. A society where women can be treated so brutishly in the name of honor and family, Germi is saying, deserves to be called backward and barbaric because it is. This is the sort of place where Agnese's seducer, the mama's boy cad Peppino (Aldo Puglisi), can give her the reputation of a whore in the eyes of society, and then feel justified in announcing he wouldn't want to marry a woman who would let herself be dishonored in such a fashion. Whoredom, marriage or the nunnery are the options open to women, and Germi doesn't deny the part the Roman Catholic Church plays in the maintenance of that sexual hypocrisy. His wickedest bit of caricature is the way he links the quietly suffering face of Ms. Sandrelli to the icons of the Virgin that populate the movie. Germi implies that the reverence paid both is largely a function of their not being able to talk back. When our contemporary bromides about cultural tolerance have us shying away from naming the places where intolerance exists, this ruthless comedy about the twin tyrannies of honor and religion becomes even more potent. (Criterion, Aug. 22, $29.95) CHARLES TAYLOR


Six Moral Tales (1963-72)

The most famous line of criticism about the films of Eric Rohmer came not from a movie critic but from a movie, Arthur Penn's "Night Moves," in which a character returns from seeing "Claire's Knee" and announces that it was "like watching paint dry." There's no getting around the element of boredom that hangs over even Mr. Rohmer's best films. It's not that the characters talk and talk and talk (you could say the same thing about any of the great Howard Hawks movies), it's that they exist so fully inside their own heads that the prattle can drive you a bit batty. When Mr. Rohmer's movies fail, it's because he has failed to be sufficiently satirical or empathetic enough to get us past that self-absorption. When he succeeds, as he does in his masterpiece, "Summer (Le Rayon Vert)," he can make us feel a kinship with the most self-absorbed of characters, make us feel like we are seeing ourselves. The work he did under the heading "Six Moral Tales" remains his best known, and this Criterion set brings together not just the early shorts, but also the better-known features that close the series, like "Claire's Knee" and the nearly insufferable "Love in the Afternoon" (better known to some viewers as "Chloe in the Afternoon"). It's a measure of how good Mr. Rohmer can be that the best of the six, the 1969 "My Night at Maud's," is his most cerebral. And at first it's purgatorial. But the film opens up during the long conversation between a priggish Roman Catholic biologist (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and a woman (the luscious Françoise Fabian) he spends a chaste night with. Their talk is a dance between his naïveté and her worldliness that springs from a discussion of Pascal. Mr. Trintignant's character is every bit the idiot that Ms. Fabian's, not without tenderness, says he is, but one who is capable of self-realization. And as he sees in himself the rigidity he despises in Pascal, you experience the special grace that Mr. Rohmer's work can achieve. He brings you to an empathy you never imagined feeling. (Criterion, Aug. 15, $99.95) CHARLES TAYLOR

(http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/movies/07zacht1.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin)

Endlich die Moral Tales!

Grüsse,

Dennis
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"Wenn Gott mir doch irgend ein klares Zeichen geben würde wie zum Beispiel, bei einer Schweizer Bank eine grosszügige Einzahlung auf meinen Namen zu machen." - Allen

[Dr. Strangelove]

Sehr löblich von Criterion, daß sie sich des lange vernachlässigten Eric Rohmer annehmen. Bei der Criterion-Variante dürften spätestens bei der Nacht bei Maud französische Sprache, englische Subs und Diskussionen über Pascal die grauen Zellen zum wohligen Glühen bringen

Allerdings habe ich 4 der 6 Filme bereits von Arthaus, werde sie mir also nicht neu kaufen. Und da in den Rohmer-Filmen unverhältnismäßig viel gesprochen wird, ziehe ich hier die Arthaus-DVDs mit ihren vorzüglichen deutschen Untertiteln vor.

Aber ein wenig wurmt es mich aber doch, daß Criterion La boulangère de Monceau und La carrière de Suzanne nicht einzeln veröffentlicht. Die fehlen mir noch. Vielleicht rafft sich ja Arthaus noch dazu auf.
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"Un artiste est toujours jeune" Jean-Marie Straub

[Horrorcollector]

Hi,

War ja schon länger mehr oder weniger klar das Criteron die Moral Tales bringt, daher hab ich mir nie andere Versionen geholt.
Was dich sicher noch mehr ärgern wird bzw. wie käufer des Set's freuen ist das wohl folgende Rohmer Filme auch in dem Ser sein werden:

The Six Moral Tales Boxset will include these shorts-

Véronique et son cancre (1958)
Présentation ou Charlotte et son steak (1960)
Nadja à Paris (1964)
Entretien sur Pascal (1965)
Une étudiante d'aujourd'hui (1966)
La Cambrure (1999) Directed by Edwige Shaki

Bin gespannt was man noch erwarten kann, 100$ hatbis dato glaub ich noch keine Box von Criterion gekostet, oder?
Übrigens ist die Box nun auch im Criterion Newsletter bestätigt:

Neil LaBute has directed five films, including In the Company of Men, Your Friends and Neighbors, and Nurse Betty. He has contributed supplemental interviews to two Criterion DVD editions: Mike Leigh's Naked and Eric Rohmer's Love in the Afternoon, the latter part of our upcoming deluxe box-set edition of Rohmer's Six Moral Tales.

Grüsse,

Dennis
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DVD-Profiler Stand anfang März, seit dem nicht mehr aktualisiert.

"Wenn Gott mir doch irgend ein klares Zeichen geben würde wie zum Beispiel, bei einer Schweizer Bank eine grosszügige Einzahlung auf meinen Namen zu machen." - Allen

[Dr. Strangelove]

Bei den Kurzfilmen sieht es ähnlich aus, die sind auch auf den bisher erhältlichen deutschen DVDs enthalten:

Véronique et son cancre (1958)
Entretien sur Pascal (1965)
Une étudiante d'aujourd'hui (1966)
La cambrure (1999) Directed by Edwige Shaki

Mal sehen, was Criterion an zusätzlichen Extras bringt.
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"Un artiste est toujours jeune" Jean-Marie Straub

[Ashitaka]

[Horrorcollector]

[Horrorcollector]

Hi,

Von der Image Website mehr zu den Extras des Rohmer Set's:


* New, restored high-definition digital transfers supervised by Eric Rohmer
* Exclusive new video conversation with Eric Rohmer and Barbet Schroeder
* Short film: "Nadja in Paris"
* Short film: "Charlotte and Her Steak"
* Short film: "Une etudiante d'aujourd'hui"
* Short film: "The Camber"
* Short film: "Veronique and Her Dunce"
* Video afterword with filmmaker and writer Neil LaBute
* Original theatrical trailers
* A book featuring the original stories by Eric Rohmer
* A memoir from Nestor Almendros
* Six new essays
* Essay: "For a Talking Cinema" by Eric Rohmer

Grüsse,

Dennis
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"Wenn Gott mir doch irgend ein klares Zeichen geben würde wie zum Beispiel, bei einer Schweizer Bank eine grosszügige Einzahlung auf meinen Namen zu machen." - Allen

[4LOM]

Der Link zum "Six Moral Tales"-Set auf der Image-Seite.
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--- Orson Welles

[Horrorcollector]

Noch ein August Titel:

KICKING AND SCREAMING

Paralyzed with post-graduation ennui, a group of college friends remain on campus, patching together a community for themselves in order to deny the real-world futures awaiting them. Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Noah Baumbach's hilarious and touching directorial debut was one of the highlights of the American independent film scene of the Nineties, speaking directly to a generation of adults-to-be unable to reconcile their hermetic education experience with workaday responsibility, and posing the eternal question, "Where do we go from here?" Stingingly funny and incisive, Baumbach's breakthrough features endlessly quotable dialogue delivered by a stellar ensemble cast.

Special Features:

* New high-definition digital transfer supervised by Noah Baumbach
* New video interview with writer-director Baumbach
* New video conversations featuring Baumbach and cast members
* Deleted scenes
* Baumbach short film: "Conrad and Butler in 'Conrad and Butler Take a Vacation'"
* 1995 interviews with Baumbach and the cast, originally broadcast on IFC
* Theatrical trailer
* New essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum


SRP $29.95 Release Date August 22nd, 2006.
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"Wenn Gott mir doch irgend ein klares Zeichen geben würde wie zum Beispiel, bei einer Schweizer Bank eine grosszügige Einzahlung auf meinen Namen zu machen." - Allen

[Horrorcollector]

Da Rosenbaum ein Essay für die Disk geschrieben hat und ich ihn als Kritiker schätze hier mal ein paar Sätze zum Film von ihm:

Kicking and Screaming
Capsule by Jonathan Rosenbaum
From the Chicago Reader

Superficially, this first feature by 25-year-old writer-director Noah Baumbach (1995)--a comedy about four male college graduates who find themselves unable to leave campus and start their lives--calls to mind Bodies, Rest & Motion and Reality Bites (both of which shared this movie's producer, Joel Castleberg) as well as the two brittle and literate features of Whit Stillman, Metropolitan and Barcelona (both sharing actor Chris Eigeman). But part of what makes this effort more soulful and sustaining than any of those reference points is the curiosity and alertness of Baumbach's direction of his actors--Eigeman, Josh Hamilton, Jason Wiles, Carlos Jacott, Eric Stoltz, Olivia d'Abo, Elliott Gould, Cara Buono, and Parker Posey. There's plenty of wit on the surface, but the pain of paralysis comes through loud and clear. Check this one out.

Vorher nie von dem Film gehört und Baumnach kenne ich nur duch "The Squid and the Whale" (den ich aber noch nicht gesehen habe) aber ich bin an dem Titel doch etwas interessiert...kennt den einer?

Grüsse,

Dennis
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DVD-Profiler Stand anfang März, seit dem nicht mehr aktualisiert.

"Wenn Gott mir doch irgend ein klares Zeichen geben würde wie zum Beispiel, bei einer Schweizer Bank eine grosszügige Einzahlung auf meinen Namen zu machen." - Allen

[4LOM]

# 342: "Six Moral Tales
Synopsis