Discland
edited by Jonathan Doyle
Classe tous risques (The Criterion Collection, 6.17.2008) Claude Sautet is best known for subtle interpretations of French bourgeois life in such films as Un coeur en hiver and Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud. Yet the director began his career with genre films. Classe Tous Risques, released in 1960, is considered the best of his early work and it's a fascinating companion to similar crime movies made around the same time by Jean-Pierre Melville. (continued)

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When Cinderella Man opens theatrically

When Cinderella Man opens theatrically in England and Europe in early September, will local distribs be using a different title? I ask because a lot of people stateside felt that the vaguely pansy-ish Cinderella Man title may have been one of the reasons the '30s boxing saga didn't perform up to expectations, and because the title being used in Germany (where the Ron Howard film is opening September 8) is Das Comeback. It's routine for films to be retitled for European audiences in the local vernacular, of course. Finding Neverland was retitled for Germany as Wenn Traume fliegen lernen (i.e., When Dreams Learn to Fly) and Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou was renamed in Germany as Die Tiefseetaucher (The Deep Divers). In France Cinderella Man will be getting a typically native translation -- it's going to be called De l'ombre a la lumiere, which translates as From the Shadows to the Light. A director friend from Argentina tells me it's going to be called El Luchador ("The Fighter") when it opens there in September.

Posted by Jeffrey Wells on June 22, 2005 at 03:49 AM

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