New York-based Rialto Pictures is preparing to release Studiocanal's 4K restoration of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1961 musical comedy “A Woman Is a Woman.”
The film, Rialto’s first release of 2025, stars Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy and Jean-Paul Belmondo. The film will be released in select US theaters on February 7th.
The new restoration, which premiered at Locarno this year, was made from a 35mm original copy of the negative, digitized by Paris-based post-production company Hiventy, and produced by Studiocanal in collaboration with the French Cinema National Center (CNC). Realized.
Rialto’s biggest success this year was the 75th anniversary of the release of “The Third Man,” Rialto co-president Adrienne Halpern told Variety at the Lumière Film Festival’s International Classic Film Market (MIFC) in Lyon, France. spoke.
“The Third Man” Provided by: Studiocanal
The 4K restoration of Carol Reed’s 1949 classic starring Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles was performed by Deluxe Restoration on behalf of Studiocanal.
Halpern added that the 50th anniversary restoration of the 1974 thriller “The Conversation,” directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Gene Hackman, was another great accomplishment for the company.
Earlier this year, American Zoetrope worked with Roundabout Entertainment’s Studio Canal and American Zoetrope’s Research Institute to restore “The Conversation” in 4K from the original negative.
Rialto handles theatrical distribution in the U.S. and English-speaking Canada for Studiocanal’s entire catalog, which makes up the bulk of the company’s releases, but other big-name studios, among them American Zoetrope, TF1, TF1, and MK2.
Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1969 World War II drama “Army of Shadows” similarly wowed U.S. audiences this year. Scanned in 4K from the original negative by Image Retrouvée and supported by CNC, this Studiocanal title screened for seven weeks at New York’s Film Forum and is currently showing nationwide.
Halpern, a regular at Lyon’s Lumière Festival and MIFC, said French film noir is the company’s favorite genre.
This year, Rialto is releasing a 4K restoration of Claude Sautet’s acclaimed 1960 crime drama “Classe Tous Risques” (“Big Risk”) starring Lino Ventura, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Sandra Miró. was also released.
Next year marks the 70th anniversary of the release of Jules Dassin’s award-winning heist thriller Rififi, starring Jean Servais and Karl Mehner, and Halpern hints that something is in the works to celebrate. are.
