Cohen Media Film Collection

[easydreamer]

Now, King of Hearts is coming too? More de Broca is always nice. Hopefully they could get their hands on Cartouche one day.

[BobbyMcGee]

Just an FYI, DVD Planet has some of the newer Cohen titles at pretty decent prices right now.

Also, if you spend more than $60, you can use coupon code SPOCK, for an extra 10% off.

In their search bar, search for the term COHEN MEDIA GROUP and sort by Blu-ray and newest available.

[pro-bassoonist]

[pro-bassoonist]

Howards End 4K Restoration Trailer

NEWS/TRAILER
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=19327

Cohen Media has sent us the an official trailer for the recent 4K restoration of dierctor James Ivory's classic film Howards End (1992), starring Anthony Hopkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, Emma Thompson, and James Wilby.

A Blu-ray release of the 4K restoration is expected to be announced soon.

Restoration credits:

4K restoration from the original camera negative and magnetic soundtrack held at the archive of the George Eastman Museum
Digital restoration completed by Cineric Portugal
5.1 audio track restoration by Audio Mechanics (Burbank)
Color grading by Deluxe Restoration (London) under the supervision of cinematographer Tony Pierce-Roberts and director James Ivory

Synopsis: One of Merchant Ivory's undisputed masterpieces, this adaptation of E.M. Forster's classic 1910 novel is a saga of class relations and changing times in Edwardian England. Margaret Schlegel (Emma Thompson) and her sister Helen (Helena Bonham Carter) become involved with two couples: a wealthy, conservative industrialist (Anthony Hopkins) and his wife (Vanessa Redgrave), and a working-class man (Samuel West) and his mistress (Niccola Duffet). The interwoven fates and misfortunes of these three families and the diverging trajectories of the two sisters' lives are connected to the ownership of Howards End, a beloved country home. A compelling, brilliantly acted study of one woman's struggle to maintain her ideals and integrity in the face of Edwardian society's moribund conformist values.

Pro-B

[pro-bassoonist]

The People vs. Fritz Bauer

WINNER OF SIX GERMAN OSCAR AWARDS

Germany, 1957. Attorney General Fritz Bauer receives crucial evidence on the whereabouts of SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann. The lieutenant colonel, responsible for the mass deportation of the Jews, is allegedly hiding in Buenos Aires. Bauer, himself Jewish, has been trying to take crimes from the Third Reich to court ever since his return from Danish exile. However, with no success so far due to the fierce German determination to repress its sinister past. Because of his distrust in the German justice system, Fritz Bauer contacts the Israeli secret service Mossad, and, by doing so, commits treason. Bauer is not seeking revenge for the Holocaust -- he is concerned with the German future.

THE PEOPLE VS. FRITZ BAUER - Official Theatrical Trailer (HD) - YouTube

[Martin_31]

Has Cohen ever had a sale?

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by Martin_31

Has Cohen ever had a sale?

Don't think so, but they're reasonably priced at Deep Discount, especially with a coupon

[themp3000]

Originally Posted by Martin_31

Has Cohen ever had a sale?

DeepDiscount has them 50-60% off sometimes. Just keep tabs there. I don't see much better discounts than that.

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by BobbyMcGee

Received today from DVD Planet:

Hmm...blue case

Originally Posted by easydreamer

So, this is the norm now, unfortunately.
It's on my way, and hope to receive it today.

Yes, it does appear that they've gone to the dark side and switched to standard blue cases. I've got three of their four May releases -- City of Women, A Married Woman, and The Films of Maurice Pialat: Volume 1, and all are in blue cases.

[pro-bassoonist]

FROM DIRECTOR CHRISTIAN CARION: COME WHAT MAY

Winner Critics Award - COLCOA 2016

Nominated for Cesar Award for Best Original Music (Meilleure musique originale)
Ennio Morricone

May 1940. To escape the imminent German invasion, the inhabitants of a small village in northern France flee their homes, like so many millions of their compatriots. Max, a German boy, travels with them. His father, Hans, opposed the Nazi regime and was imprisoned in Arras for having lied about his nationality. Hans is eventually set free and sets off to find his son, accompanied by a Scottish soldier who is trying to get back home.

COME WHAT MAY - Official Theatrical Trailer (HD) - YouTube

[easydreamer]

Originally Posted by jayembee

Yes, it does appear that they've gone to the dark side and switched to standard blue cases. I've got three of their four May releases -- City of Women, A Married Woman, and The Films of Maurice Pialat: Volume 1, and all are in blue cases.

Not only they started using the blue standard cases, they also raised the MSRP for some titles. For example, the MSRP for Under the Sun of Satan is $49.98 & the one for Van Gogh is $55.99. Granted, both of them are 2-disc releases, but the former appears to be 2 BD25s. While the latter looks like 2 BD50s, the MoC version of the same title is 1 disc with all the extras.

I wonder where they are heading now...

[javi92]

I could care less about the cases, but I do hope the habit of releasing premium priced titles with lossy sound is over.

[oildude]

Originally Posted by pro-bassoonist

FROM DIRECTOR CHRISTIAN CARION: COME WHAT MAY

Winner Critics Award - COLCOA 2016

Nominated for Cesar Award for Best Original Music (Meilleure musique originale)
Ennio Morricone



COME WHAT MAY - Official Theatrical Trailer (HD) - YouTube

Once again, Cohen puts together the best trailers, whether their own creations or a theatrical version like this. Never heard of Come What May, but the trailer - like so many others they have released - has me hooked.

[easydreamer]

Originally Posted by javi92

I could care less about the cases, but I do hope the habit of releasing premium priced titles with lossy sound is over.

I hope so, too. I wonder if including the lossless audio costs them extra money. I don't think so, as it's just the matter of encoding, but why on earth they dropped the lossless audio all of a sudden is beyond me...

[Brad1963]

Originally Posted by drat

Any idea when Hitchcock/Truffaut will be announced? Seems like it should have a release date by now.

I just saw a promo on HBO for this. They are airing it starting Aug 8. Not the same as having the disc, but I am going watch it and hold it hostage in my DVR until a disc is released.

[pro-bassoonist]

Diary of a Chambermaid Blu-ray PRE-ORDER



NEWS/TRAILER
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=19509

The Cohen Media Group will bring to Blu-ray acclaimed director Benoît Jacquot's latest film Diary of a Chambermaid (2015), starring Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lindon, and Clotilde Mollet. The release will be available for purchase on October 4.

Léa Seydoux follows in the footsteps of Paulette Goddard and Jeanne Moreau as Célestine, a resentful young Parisian chambermaid who finds herself exiled to a position in the provinces where she immediately chafes against the noxious iron rules and pettiness of her high-handed bourgeois mistress (Clotilde Mollet), must rebuff the groping advances of Monsieur (Hervé Pierre), and reckon with her fascination with the earthy, brooding gardener Joseph (Vincent Lindon).

Backtracking past the fetishism of Buñuel's version to Octave Mirbeau's original 1900 novel, Benoît Jacquot has one eye on contemporary France: the sense of social stiflement, Célestine's humiliating submission to Madame's onerous terms of employment, Joseph's virulent anti-Semitism. But the turn-of-the-century setting saw the rise of Freud ideas about the human unconscious and so Jacquot takes care to look past the characters' outward behavior and appearance to the repression and compulsions that lie behind.

[oildude]

It would be good if the OP were up to date. I use the OP to keep up with what I want to pick up, but I see the last update was in December. I know announcements have been posted in this thread since then, but how many have been released?

Sorry if this sounds like a nag....I don't mean it to. Just a friendly request to the thread keeper (is it now Pro-b??) that if you have time, could you please bring it up to date while the current Deep Discount sale is going on (ends on 7/28). I know keeping up the first post of a release thread is work, so you have my respect (and sympathies).

[pro-bassoonist]

Originally Posted by oildude

Just a friendly request to the thread keeper (is it now Pro-b??)...)

Hey Oildude

I will do it this week. We were actually waiting to see if we should move all Cohen titles under one name (there are two listings at the moment: Cohen Media and Cohen Film Collection), but we will take care of it this week.

Pro-B

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by pro-bassoonist

Hey Oildude

I will do it this week. We were actually waiting to see if we should move all Cohen titles under one name (there are two listings at the moment: Cohen Media and Cohen Film Collection), but we will take care of it this week.

Pro-B

I think it would be helpful to separate the Cohen Film Collection and Cohen Media Group titles. Be advised, though, that the database doesn't have these straight. Some titles are in the db as CFC when they are CMG, and vice versa. It doesn't help that sometimes the cover mock-up is wrong (I've mentioned this before, but the cover mock-up in the database for -- for example -- Timbuktu shows the CFC banner, when the actual released disc says CMG).

There may be an exception or two, but generally speaking, films that were released (theatrical release, not BD release) from 2010 on are bannered "Cohen Media Group" and those from earlier are bannered "Cohen Film Collection" (the most recent CFC title that I know of is Costa-Gavras's Amen, from 2002).

[pro-bassoonist]

The thread has been updated. See first post for Cohen's complete catalog/listings

Pro-B