Julien Duvivier

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Knappen
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#51 Post by Knappen » Sun Mar 30, 2008 2:31 am

From Patrick Brion's blog:
En ce qui concerne les futures programmations, nous diffuserons je pense avant la fin de l'année "City Girl " de F.W.Murnau ainsi que la version parallèle allemande de ""Marianne de ma jeunesse" de Julien Duvivier. Cette version allemande n'est pas une version doublée mais un véritable film avec une distribution - presque - entièrement différente. Restent encore à régler quelques problèmes juridiques.

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#52 Post by Kinsayder » Sun Mar 30, 2008 5:05 am

That should certainly make for an interesting comparison with the French version. I don't like the sound of those "quelques problèmes juridiques", though.

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#53 Post by Zazou dans le Metro » Thu Jun 26, 2008 7:00 pm

Pathe have announced dvd release of Golgotha

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#54 Post by Knappen » Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:02 pm

Thanks. Not the most sought after release as it is already out in Italy and Japan, though.

A new film coming out this very week:

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No indications of English subs...

EDIT: Les 5 Gentlemen maudits seems to finally be coming out too. This release has been postponed for a long while as you can see from this thread.

David is gonna leave a lot of money in Paris in october buying Duviviers from LCJ (only €12.95 for each film on Amazon.fr, BTW).
There is a third one coming out too. September 18 for this one (that made it to Kinsayder's top 10!):

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#55 Post by Knappen » Wed Aug 27, 2008 8:08 am

A quick translation:

Dear nephew,

it always rains when I see this!

How much more will it rain?

etc etc

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#56 Post by foggy eyes » Thu Sep 04, 2008 9:45 am

The Great Duvivier Giveaway!

Get your free discs and bombard Criterion with requests for La Fin du jour in return.

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Re: Julien Duvivier

#57 Post by Knappen » Mon Nov 24, 2008 2:04 pm

The Cinémathèque francaise is showing L'Homme à l'hispano (1926) on march 2nd next year. This film was remade as a talkie by our friend Jean Epstein!

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Re: Julien Duvivier

#58 Post by Knappen » Fri Feb 13, 2009 11:02 am

I just had a coffee with fellow Parisian Ann Harding who mentionned an upcoming Duvivier retrospective at the MoMA in may. Ann or somebody else will probably come back to this in good time.

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#59 Post by HerrSchreck » Fri Feb 13, 2009 4:03 pm

Schwing!

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#60 Post by tojoed » Sat Feb 14, 2009 5:27 pm

Julien Duvivier's 1932 Poil de Carotte is being released on 24th February in Region 1.
It will be great to have this film to go with his Silent version.

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#61 Post by Zazou dans le Metro » Sat Feb 14, 2009 6:01 pm

tojoed wrote:Julien Duvivier's 1932 Poil de Carotte is being released on 24th February in Region 1.
It will be great to have this film to go with his Silent version.
I e-mailed Facets about 2 months ago about this and they confirmed they'd screwed up and despite giving the dates and cast of the 1932 version it is the 1925 Silent as the artwork attests.
They said they'd amend the information but apparently not.

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#62 Post by tojoed » Sun Feb 15, 2009 6:08 am

Thanks for clearing that up, Zazou. I was so pleased that I just assumed the artwork was a mistake.

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Re: Julien Duvivier

#63 Post by Knappen » Sun Feb 15, 2009 7:40 am

Given that the story is treated almost alike, why don't you make a try at the good (but unsubbed) René Chateau DVD? Should be rewarding and not too hard to follow.

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#64 Post by Ann Harding » Tue Apr 28, 2009 2:14 pm


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Re: Julien Duvivier

#65 Post by Knappen » Wed Apr 29, 2009 6:03 am

Gosh. I was in NYC a month too early!

Some rare stuff there: Even if I own copies of all the talkies except Le Petit Roi, most of the silents remain almost impossible to watch if you're not living in Paris and can catch an occational Cinémathèque française screening.

Whirlwind of Paris seems to be the biggest attraction here.

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#66 Post by HerrSchreck » Wed Apr 29, 2009 6:04 pm

(stirs amid pools of dust)

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#67 Post by ptmd » Thu Apr 30, 2009 12:03 am

Some of them are. The others (especially the silents) are almost certainly prints from the CNC and the Cinematheque with soft subtitles. It's a can't-miss series in any case!

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#68 Post by Tommaso » Wed Aug 05, 2009 4:48 pm

I watched Duvivier's "Anna Karenina" last night, and was surprised how good it was (including Leigh's performance). However, I want to abstain from any further comments for the moment, because what I watched was a German public-domain style disc which only contained a truncated version (93 mins.) as opposed to the R1 and R2 ones ( both 110 min. apparently). Looking at imdb and the amazon reviews, I learned that there's also an Australian disc apparently running the full 134 mins. I couldn't find any review, so can anyone confirm that the Aussie disc indeed has the full length cut? And how is the picture quality?

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#69 Post by Tommaso » Thu Aug 06, 2009 6:40 am

Thanks David, yes, that must be the disc. I suppose you haven't seen it? Shock Distribution...didn't they release that unwatchable disc of Greenaway's "Baby of Macon"? Makes me somewhat frightened, but then it seems to be the only full version of the film.

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#70 Post by Tommaso » Thu Aug 06, 2009 1:00 pm

Great David, let us know when/if you manage to find a copy. However, I doubt that Shock licensed this from Fox, as Fox has released only a 110 min. version in the US. I read somewhere that the film was shortened for international release, and that must be the version Fox released. The film itself is a British production for Korda's London Films, and I suppose the original British cut is in the public domain, like many (or all?) Korda films.

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Re: Julien Duvivier

#71 Post by jbeall » Sat Aug 08, 2009 11:43 am

Just watched Le petit monde de Don Camillo and enjoyed it immensely. Is it a bad thing that I liked this more than any American comedy I've seen the past several years?

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Re: Julien Duvivier

#73 Post by Knappen » Thu Sep 10, 2009 7:52 am

English subs you say? My advice would be to give up.

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#74 Post by HarryLong » Thu Oct 08, 2009 11:10 am

A heads up that TCM will be showing ANNA in November. The running time is listed as 113m.
Not exactly 134m but somewhat more than 110 ...

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#75 Post by knives » Sun May 15, 2011 10:22 pm

With all of the hubabaloo going on in the '30s thread now would probably be the opportune time to ask what's the deal with the separate cuts of Anna Karenina. All I know is the there is multiple cuts out there and the one on American DVD is the shorter one.

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