Rialto's Upcoming Releases

Recent updates include Melville's Un Flic, Godard's Breathless and his Les Petit soldat and Les Carabiniers.

What to make of this in terms of DVD releases?
Un Flic already has a DVD from Lionsgate, and I doubt it would get a new Criterion release after the Rialto run. Breathless on the other hand is tricky. It's a StudioCanal title, and those in Criterion's library have slowly become out of print (look at Contempt, Ran, and The Third Man). It's unclear what StudioCanal titles are now owned by Lionsgate (perhaps Criterion keeps them until given expiration dates) but it is very possible that the Criterion Breathless will go out of print at some point... leaving Lionsgate to NOT release it.

As for the two lesser Godard titles? Hopefully this means a restored DVD release from either studio is near, but don't get your hopes up.

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The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow

Breaking News: Masters of Cinema to release Douglas Sirk's There's Always Tomorrow!

A New Rivette Book!

In February of next year, Manchester University Press is releasing a new career overview for Jacques Rivette, perhaps the first full-length overview in English.

While worth your time to read, the narrative constructed by Douglas Morrey and Alison Smith will most likely be a safe one, against which academics and other scholars will argue in the years to come. The hope is that someday Mary Wiles will see her 2002 dissertation on Rivette published, and perhaps after the Morrey and Smith book makes the rounds, the chances of this happening will be even greater.