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I've recently been in touch with "major pepper", who was lucky enough to attend the Cinémathèque Française's screening of the work print of THE DEEP July 18th, 2015. He was very happy to provide a detailed description of film and the event, but didn't feel confident he could do so in Engli...

Thanks mido505 for the recap. Now having re-watched the Franco cut a few weeks after the Cinémathèque Française's work print, a few things have become more clear to me: - Jess Franco's editors had access to at least some of the Paris work print's footage. In fact, the scenes that looked the most pol...

Thoughts on Orson Welles’s DON QUIXOTE work print - Screened at the Cinémathèque Française in Paris June 29th, 2015 The fact that I flew to Paris for a week almost exclusively to screen this print says something about my long standing fascination with Welles’s work, completed or not. The existence o...

Also of note - they are showing a 2-hour work print of THE DEEP on July 18th - from a video copy.

http://www.cinematheque.fr/fr/dans-sall ... 18100.html

The Cinématheque française in Paris is showing Don Quichotte - Copie de travail (work print) on June 29, 2015. It is listed as running 80 minutes, in 35mm with French subtitles. http://www.cinematheque.fr/fr/dans-salles/hommages-retrospectives/fiche-manifestation/don-quichotte,18147.html In my Welle...