Gaumont Announces First 25 Blu-ray Restorations As Studio Canal And Lionsgate Re-Up Distribution Deal

With over 270 films to their name, Gaumont is one of the world’s greatest home entertainment distributors. The French Criterion Collection, shall we say, the distributors are now set to feature out into the world of Blu-ray releases, and thanks to Blu-ray.com, we now know what 25 films will be making their way into HD from the distributor first.

Of the 25 films being restored, with the first wave coming in 2013, some huge titles include four five films from Maruice Pialat (Under The Sun Of Satan, The Mouth Agape, We Won’t Grow Old Together, Police and Get Your Diploma Ready), Henri-Georges Clouzot’s The Murderer Lives At Number 21 (a film currently available to watch on Criterion’s Hulu Plus page, and Criterion additions The Passion Of Joan Of Arc, L’Atalante, Fanny And Alexander, and The Earrings Of Madame de’¦

Here is the full list:

Under the Sun of Satan  (Maurice Pialat, 1987)
We Won’t Grow Old Together  (Maurice Pialat, 1972)
Police  (Maurice Pialat, 1985)
Get Your Diploma First  (Maurice Pialat, 1978)
The Mouth Agape  (Maurice Pialat, 1974)
Alexander  (Yves Robert, 1968)
The Murderer Lives at Number 21  (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1942)
Coup de tête  a.k.a  Hothead  (Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1979)
F comme Fairbanks  (Maurice Dugowson, 1976)
Risky Business  (André Cayatte, 1967)
My Uncle Benjamin  (Edouard Molinaro, 1969)
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin  (Edouard Molinaro, 1962)
Witness in the City  (Edouard Molinaro, 1958)
The Passion of Joan of Arc  (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)
Lady of the Camelias  (Mauro Bolognini, 1981)
L’Atalante  (Jean Vigo, 1934)
Still Water  (Michel Deville, 1981)
Death in a French Garden  (Michel Deville, 1985)
The Earrings of Madame de…  (Max Ophuls, 1953)
Love Story  (Claude Autant-Lara, 1943)
Fanny and Alexander  (Ingmar Bergman, 1982)
Héroïnes  a.k.a  Play-Back  (Gérard Krawczyk, 1997)
La Guerre des gosses  a.k.a  Generals Without Buttons  (Jacques Daroy, 1936)
Clara et les chics types  (Jacques Monnet, 1981)
Carambolages  a.k.a  Carom Shots  (Marcel Bluwal, 1963)

In other home entertainment news, Studio Canal and Lionsgate are re-upping their distribution deal, giving Lionsgate access to Canal’s library, including films like the pending Blu-ray La Grande Illusion. Sadly, this means that Criterion will not be grabbing the rights back to the films that Lionsgate took out of the midst of their collection, including the aforementioned spine number one. There goes that dream, despite the fact that frankly, it never look all that likely in the first place.

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