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Re: Il Cinema Ritrovato

#126 Post by Saimo » Fri Aug 20, 2021 9:23 am

Speaking as someone who (much to his own disbelief) won the main award in 2019, I feel that the DVD Awards palmares is often surprising, but I think this may have something to do with the splendidly heterogeneous background of the Jury members. While I can occasionally disagree with some of their choices, I always find the extended finalists list very stimulating, also because it is not entirely focused on U.S. and British labels.
MichaelB wrote:
Mon Jul 26, 2021 8:42 pm
As I understand the situation, labels have to proactively put themselves up for consideration.
Yes, but in my experience you just have to send a package with a few of your favorite releases. Really not a resource consuming effort.
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I notice a mistake for La classe opera(r)ia va in paradiso: Blu-ray was released by Cecchi Gori Entertainment not by Raro Video/Minerva Pictures.
I think this was actually a co-edition, with Cecchi Gori mainly handling distribution. They do that for several Italian labels, but the film's rights and materials are owned by Minerva.

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Re: Il Cinema Ritrovato

#127 Post by MichaelB » Fri Aug 20, 2021 9:34 am

Saimo wrote:
Fri Aug 20, 2021 9:23 am
Yes, but in my experience you just have to send a package with a few of your favorite releases. Really not a resource consuming effort.
It's still something that you have to proactively do, and many labels clearly don't bother. I think Powerhouse has only done it once, in the year that scored them two nominations - I know for a fact that they didn't do it before that year, and I didn't see any of my colleagues mention that it was being done this year either.

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Re: Il Cinema Ritrovato

#128 Post by brundlefly » Thu May 12, 2022 5:39 pm


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Re: Il Cinema Ritrovato

#129 Post by L.A. » Thu May 12, 2022 5:49 pm

MARIA DO MAR (Portugal, 1930) by Leitão de Barros – Cinemateca Portuguesa – Museu do Cinema (dvd)
Huh, is this available on DVD? 😳

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Re: Il Cinema Ritrovato

#130 Post by L.A. » Mon May 16, 2022 2:39 pm

L.A. wrote:
Thu May 12, 2022 5:49 pm
MARIA DO MAR (Portugal, 1930) by Leitão de Barros – Cinemateca Portuguesa – Museu do Cinema (dvd)
Huh, is this available on DVD? 😳
Emailed Cinemateca, it will be available next month.

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Re: Il Cinema Ritrovato

#131 Post by Calvin » Fri May 20, 2022 9:02 am

The strands and films in this year's festival have been announced

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Re: Il Cinema Ritrovato

#132 Post by Computer Raheem » Wed Jun 29, 2022 11:37 pm

Something that I believe will be of interest to the community here - a panel from this year's Ritrovato about HDR and Classic Films

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Re: Il Cinema Ritrovato

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Re: Il Cinema Ritrovato

#134 Post by colinr0380 » Fri Jul 01, 2022 12:01 pm

The Edward Everett Horton set was one of the projects that Ben Model did a Kickstarter campaign to do the scores for, so it is nice to see it getting some official recognition as well.

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Re: Il Cinema Ritrovato

#135 Post by JAP » Tue May 30, 2023 10:27 am


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Re: Il Cinema Ritrovato

#136 Post by tenia » Tue May 30, 2023 11:02 am

I often find that such Video Awards shortlists have odd inclusions, stuff that definitely aren't particularly of notice (except possibly the movies themselves - but that's not what these awards are for !), but this year, it looks pretty neat (except possibly a few odd choices that I wouldn't have selected, like Meurtre à Montmartre or actually most of Criterion's entries).

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Re: Il Cinema Ritrovato

#137 Post by Roscoe » Tue May 30, 2023 12:02 pm

tenia wrote:
Tue May 30, 2023 11:02 am
I often find that such Video Awards shortlists have odd inclusions, stuff that definitely aren't particularly of notice (except possibly the movies themselves - but that's not what these awards are for !), but this year, it looks pretty neat (except possibly a few odd choices that I wouldn't have selected, like Meurtre à Montmartre or actually most of Criterion's entries).
This is the first year that I've not purchased a single one of the nominees.

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Re: Il Cinema Ritrovato

#138 Post by jsteffe » Tue May 30, 2023 2:41 pm

I like this year's list--it's truly international and eclectic, and there are a few films I haven't heard of before. I'm glad that they included one of the Diskino/WCL restored Chinese films, even if they are extremely limited editions and difficult to track down.

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Re: Il Cinema Ritrovato

#139 Post by yoloswegmaster » Tue May 30, 2023 2:47 pm

I'm more interested in seeing the full lineup for this year's Ritrovato festival. The announced last year's films more than a month before the festival started, so I'm hoping we see something this week.

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Re: Il Cinema Ritrovato

#140 Post by tenia » Tue May 30, 2023 3:48 pm

Roscoe wrote:
Tue May 30, 2023 12:02 pm
This is the first year that I've not purchased a single one of the nominees.
There are a lot of things to like here, and which I'd deem being representative of all the good work these labels are doing : Get Carter, the 3 Carlotta sets, the WCP 4 set, El Vampiro Negro & the Juleen Compton double-bill, Cinema's First Nasty Women, the Mekas set, The Quiet Man, the Vojtech Jasný double bill, Una vita difficile (which comes with 6 Dino Risi shorts) and the Doctor Who and von Trotta sets.

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#141 Post by JAP » Wed Jul 12, 2023 3:38 pm


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