According to a post on the El Franconomicon FACEBOOK page by Tim Lucas,
Alain Petit's landmark, comprehensive study of the films and career of
Jess Franco will be republished. It will reportedly include the original texts and illustrations, along with other new elements, in upgraded, updated, corrected
editions. The Artus publication is slated for April, 2015. The post states that it will be published in two
different editions, one of which will include a DVD of a rarely seen
Jess Franco film. The publisher is Artus, the French DVD company who has
released several digital restorations of Franco films (THE OBSCENE MIRROR).
THE MANACOA FILES was published as a series of zines starting in 1994
and is probably still the primary text on the films of the late, prolific Jess
Franco, reviewing all of his films, with detailed credits, presenting
related illustrations, interviews, sidebars, data and comments by Petit, who is a
noted film historian and was also a collaborator with the director,
both as a writer (PLAISIR A TROIS, THE CRAZY NUNS) and actor, (THE
MIDNIGHT PARTY, JULIETTE DE SADE, TENDER FLESH).
This is very welcome news indeed. Petit's intimate working knowledge of
the director and his career are invaluable, and though I have attempted
to read the texts in French, it will be a revelation to have them in
English also.
I will post more details as soon as possible. RM
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