Release Schedule

Françoise Romand's remarkable experimental documentary Mix-Up has been released by the Paris-based independent DVD production company, Lowave. The disc is all region NTSC, with subtitles in English, French, and German. For the film itself, the English subtitles are not required since the spoken language is English and the handful of intertitles are written in simultaneous French and English. Also included on the DVD are brief interviews with Jonathan Rosenbaum (an early advocate of the film) and Françoise Romand.

Lowave has announced the release of two new DVDs of note. The first is a two film monograph of Maurice Lemaître's recent work, Nos Stars and Le Petit Dieu. As in Lemaître's other recent films such Ganeden, his visual expositions and imaginary (and imaginative) adventures are also surveys through the history of the medium (in Nos Stars, the intersection is not only of feminine dreams and desire in contemporary cinema, but also of such representations throughout the history of cinema.

The second is the latest installment of the anthology Cinéma Différent, featuring pieces by Valérie Morignat, Olivier Fouchard, Shiho Kano, Mauro Santini, Dominik Lange, Solomon Nagler, Frédérique Devaux, and Ruben Guzman. According to Lowave, the films on this edition are linked by the themes of "feminity, investigation, and the search for identity, all of which are far from being exclusive or definitive..."

Updated: 07-16-08

Released

• Satyajit Ray Collection 1: Mahanagar, Charulata, Nayak (Satyajit Ray) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
• My Blueberry Nights (Wong Kar-wai) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
• My Childhood, My Ain Folk, My Way Home (Bill Douglas) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
• Rat Trap (Adoor Gopalakrishnan) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
Hiroshi Shimizu Boxset: Volume 2: Children (Hiroshi Shimizu) [DVD-R2 (Japan)/NTSC]
• The Cars That Ate Paris (Peter Weir) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
• Juste avant la nuit (Claude Chabrol) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
*• José Luis Guerín boxset: Innisfree, Tren de sombras, Unas Fotos en la ciudad de Sylvia (José Luis Guerín) [DVD-R2 (Spain)/PAL]
*• Frontiers (Xavier Gens) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
*• Water Lilies (Céline Sciamma) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
*• I'm Not There (Todd Haynes) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
*• Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
*• The American Friend (Wim Wenders) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
*• Wrong Move (Wim Wenders) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
*• You, the Living (Roy Andersson) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]


July 21
• La Vie de Jésus (Bruno Dumont) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
• The Orphanage (Juan Antonio Bayona) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]


July 28
• Mister Lonely (Harmony Korine) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
• Private Property (Joachim Lafosse) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
• Leolo (Jeane-Claude Lauzon) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
• Days of Glory (Rachid Bouchareb) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
• Violence at High Noon (Nagisa Oshima) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
• A Comedy of Power (Claude Chabrol) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
• Four Minutes (Chris Kraus) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
• Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (Jacques Demy) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
• Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
• In the Course of Time (Kings of the Road) (Wim Wenders) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
• Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
• Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
• Under the Bombs (Philippe Aractingi) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
• The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
• Terence Davies Trilogy: Children, Madonna and Child, Death and Transfiguration (Terence Davies) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
*• Uniform (Yinan Diao) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
*• Half Moon (Bahman Ghobadi) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]


August 4
• Rhapsody in August (Akira Kurosawa) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
• Atlantic City (Louis Malle) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
• Head On (Ana Kokkinos) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
• Tales from the Earthsea (Goro Miyazaki) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]


August 18
• Still Life (Jia Zhang-ke) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
• Naked (Mike Leigh) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
• La Antena (Esteban Sapir) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]


August 25
• The Last Mistress (Catherine Breillat) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
• Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
*• Them (Xavier Palud and David Moreau) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
*• Satyajit Ray Collection 2: Kapurush, Mahapurush, Joi Baba Felunath (Satyajit Ray) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
*• Judex/Nuits Rouges (Georges Franju) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
*• La León (Santiago Otheguy) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
*• Terror's Advocate (Barbet Schroeder) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
*• Pleasures of the Flesh (Nagisa Oshima) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]


September 8
*• Our Daily Bread (Nikolaus Geyrhalter) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
*• Caught (Max Ophüls) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]
*• La Ronde (Max Ophüls) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]


September 15
• Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa) [DVD-R2 (UK)/PAL]


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