David Lynch to Produce Jodorowsky Comeback

Jeremy at Moon in the Gutter will surely be covering this in detail as more info surfaces.

Rivette is Making Another Film!

If a tree falls in the woods and no one at Criterion hears it...

Via Variety:

Birkin, Castellitto to star in Rivette film
Project to begin filming by year's end

Jane Birkin and Italo Cannes jury member Sergio Castellitto will topline French auteur Jacques Rivette's next pic.

Details of Rivette's latest are being kept under wraps beyond the fact that shooting will begin by year's end, plus the film by the most experimental of Gaul's New Wave helmers will be partly set in Italy.

Rivette's longtime producer Martine Marignac is producing with Italy's Roberto Cicutto and Luigi Musini's new On My Own shingle as minority co-producers.

Birkin, who starred in Michelangelo Antonioni's "Blow Up," is among France's biggest stars. Castellitto's credits include "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian," and Marco Bellocchio's "The Wedding Director."

Ken Russell At The BBC DVD Cover

Joe mentioned the details of this release a few days ago, and so here's the cover to go along with it:

The Debussy Film
Dante's Inferno
Always on Sunday
Isadora: The Biggest Dancer in the World
A Song of Summer
Dance of the Seven Veils

It streets 9/23.

Some Odds and Ends

A few updates during my busy season....

There has been quite a bit of Criterion news lately, whether it's their going to BR discs later this fall, their re-release of Pasolini's Salò for the summer, or the forthcoming Max Ophüls. And so let me just add a few more bits to the pot.

Two Jean-Pierre Melville titles will by out by the end of the year, Le Doulos and Second Breath...

Three Jean-Pierre Gorin titles will hopefully be out by the end of the year as well via Eclipse most-likely, including Poto and Cabengo and My Crasy Life...

Kenji Mizoguchi's Women of the Night and Shohei Imamura's Profound Desire of the Gods will be out by 2009...

And there are still two Jean-Luc Godard films on deck, My Life to Live and 2 or 3 Things I Know about Her

And unrelated, youtuber dibotis has uploaded almost every Burt Bacharach/Hal David/Dionne Warwick collaboration to a playlist, maybe some of the best songs ever written.

Koch Lorber in August

Both coming 8/5:

Joy House (Les Felins)
dir. René Clément

The Marco Ferreri Collection
El Cochicito
The Seed of Man
The Big Feast (Le Grande Bouffe)
Don't Touch the White Woman
Bye Bye Monkey
Seeking Asylum
Tales of Ordinary Madness
The House of Smiles
dir. Marco Ferreri

AFI Silver's Godard Retrospective: Full Listing

Films dates and times available here. Note that Contempt, A Married Woman, and Le Petit Soldat will not be showing.

Could Resnais's Je t'aime, je t'aime See a Limited Re-Release?

The Alain Resnais sci-fi flick will be reborn at this year's Cannes Film Festival, forty years after its May '68 debacle. Also note the other films on the list.

Speculate away about a Rialto or Criterion release.

Weinstein's Miriam Collection: Control?

After two sandle-epics comes a Joy Division DVD.... apparently.

My new predicion is that you'll see both of Weinstein's Godard titles (Le Petit soldat and Les Carabiniers) see the light of day via their new Miriam label.

New Yorker's Privilege DVD Cover

Same template as the other films in the Peter Watkins collection. It streets 7/29

Facets's Updated Satantango Cover