MoC Forthcoming, Wishlist, and Random Speculation

[Finch]

Since MoC have licenced the Bernards from Pathe and they've got one Renoir with Toni in the series, we might get Boudu Saved From Drowning in a month or two. Criterion have been dragging their heels on upgrading this film..

[FrauBlucher]

Since MoC have licenced the Bernards from Pathe and they've got one Renoir with Toni in the series, we might get Boudu Saved From Drowning in a month or two. Criterion have been dragging their heels on upgrading this film..

...but isn't this out with Park Circus in the UK?

[rapta]

Since MoC have licenced the Bernards from Pathe and they've got one Renoir with Toni in the series, we might get Boudu Saved From Drowning in a month or two. Criterion have been dragging their heels on upgrading this film..

...but isn't this out with Park Circus in the UK?

Yeah Park Circus already released it on Blu-ray in the UK back in April 2011! Been meaning to pick it up since hearing about it. Good transfer, reportedly.

As for Pathé licensing, I wonder if Eureka (or a similar UK label) could get one of their other catalogue titles...Robert Altman's The Player, Steve McQueen's Hunger, Valerio Zurlini's The Desert of the Tartars, Steven Soderbergh's Kafka, Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samouraï, Marcel Carné's Gates of the Night, Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher, or Luis Buñuel's Fever Mounts at El Pao?

[Finch]

..but isn't this out with Park Circus in the UK?

Aye my mind went completely blank on this one. All the more embarrassing since I actually have the Park Circus BD on my Amazon wishlist!

They still haven't announced their May replacement for the Fuller - hopefully tomorrow.

[rapta]

..but isn't this out with Park Circus in the UK?

Aye my mind went completely blank on this one. All the more embarrassing since I actually have the Park Circus BD on my Amazon wishlist!

They still haven't announced their May replacement for the Fuller - hopefully tomorrow.

Yeah they seem to generally announce things randomly now...when they said a 'few days' I assumed Friday but sometimes it can mean the next week. We'll get an announcement soon I'm sure.

As for why they've ditched the quarterly announcements for the time being, they gave this response on Facebook:

We are taking a break from quarterly announcements at the moment, to try and ensure release dates don't slip. Instead we'll be drip feeding them one by one.

I thought that might be the case...was a bit strange after they did a big Q1 announcement (didn't they used to do 2 monthly ones?) which I had assumed would continue like that, and since then have randomly announced things, or in some cases they've been leaked due to Amazon listing them and then they've formally announced them quickly afterwards.

It's a shame we won't have big announcement days like they used to - I used to mark them on my calendar and set aside an hour. They haven't said they're going to scrap them completely...maybe when they've caught up on some titles where the release date had to move (such as Pickup On South Street). I'm sure they'll be back towards the end of the year, or at least I hope! Anyway, excited to find out what this next May title will be...it could be a Fox/Cohen/Pathé licensed title considering some of the recent output (though I would love them to do a few more Paramount and MGM ones too one day...Serpico and Harold & Maude announced on the same day was a huge deal for me).

[FrauBlucher]

Paper Moon (1973) coming to MoC

[rapta]

Paper Moon (1973) coming to MoC

I can't wait. I kept requesting this (along with Bogdanovich's Targets), including on their own forums, but didn't think they would actually release it! Best news for me personally since Serpico or Harold and Maude (two other films that were high on my wantlist).

[Drucker]

Arrow is high profile these days, and deservedly so, but I still find myself a larger percentage of MOC releases than any other company. I don't think I've ever bought an MOC title and regretted it. All the blind-buys turn out to be very happy surprises.

[rapta]

Arrow is high profile these days, and deservedly so, but I still find myself a larger percentage of MOC releases than any other company. I don't think I've ever bought an MOC title and regretted it. All the blind-buys turn out to be very happy surprises.

Agreed, I'm more careful with Arrow releases but MoC I'll happily blind-buy things. Of course, it helps they're constantly releasing films by directors I'm interested in...for example I watched MoC's Wild River the other day and absolutely loved it! Now one of my favourite American classics, just like that! They always pick the best stuff.

[Dr Amicus]

Probably a silly question, but have there not been DVDs with numbers 117 and 118 yet?

Undeniably trivial, but my MoC list has a gap...

[swo17]

It was much easier to see this on the old site, but it does look like there was a gap there. Here are all the DVD spine numbers since they hit 100:

101 City Girl
102 Profound Desires of the Gods
103 The Burmese Harp
104 Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
105 Make Way for Tomorrow
106 Der Tiger von Eschnapur
107 Das indische Grabmal
108 Schloss Vogelöd
109 Hawks and Sparrows
110 Pigsty
111 Colossal Youth
112 The Iron Horse
113 A Man Vanishes
114 Cleopatra
115 RoGoPaG
116 Oedipus Rex
117
118
119 Park Row
120 Die Nibelungen
121 Trouble in Paradise
122 The Complete (Existing) Films of Sadao Yamanaka
123 La Poison
124 The Murderer Lives at 21
125 The Passion of Joan of Arc
126 Fear and Desire
127 The Birth of a Nation
128 La città delle donne
129 Le Beau Serge
130 Les Cousins
131 Bakumatsu taiyō-den
132 Le Pont du Nord
133 Simon Killer
134 Les Misérables
135 Van Gogh
136 A Visitor from the Living
137 Sobibór, October 14, 1943, 4PM
138 The Karski Report
139 The Last of the Unjust

[neilist]

'Der Letzte Mann' seems to be out of stock in many places, so if you'll excuse some completely random speculation on my part, it's a possible indication that a Blu-ray may be on the way...

[Calvin]

A brand new restoration of Marcel L'Herbier's L'inhumaine will be premiering in Paris next week, followed by a showing on Arte on May 4th. It seems like it would be a natural fit for MoC.

[Finch]

The June announcement of A LETTER TO THREE WIVES gives me hope that MoC also got LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN from Fox for later this year.

[FrauBlucher]

The June announcement of A LETTER TO THREE WIVES gives me hope that MoC also got LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN from Fox for later this year.

.....and me hope for The Ox Bow Incident.

[eerik]

Samuel Fuller’s FORTY GUNS, starring Barbara Stanwyck, will join the MoC Series in a Dual Format edition on 22 June

[Finch]

More Anthony Mann would be welcome too. If they can't wrestle The Man From Laramie from Sony UK, maybe they can get The Tall T and the Black Book from whoever has the UK rights for those. Black Book in particular would be an immediate buy.

[joshua]

The Tall T is Boetticher but you probably mean The Tall Target.

[Calvin]

Eureka have strongly implied on Facebook that they have the new restoration of King Hu's A Touch of Zen, which is great news! I hope they picked up some other Taiwanese restorations while they were at it.

[Orlac]

What other Taiwanese films have been restored?

[Calvin]

What other Taiwanese films have been restored?

The past few years have seen these restored, among others:

Dust in the Wind (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
A Time to Live, a Time to Die (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
The Terrorizers (Edward Yang)
In Our Time (Edward Yang/Chang Yi/Ko I-Chen/Tao Te-Chen)
Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai Ming-liang)
Vive l'Amour (Tsai Ming-liang)
The River (Tsai Ming-liang)
Growing Up (Chen Kun-hou)

Most have been released on Blu-Ray with English subtitles in Taiwan, but I would love to see MoC release them nonetheless. However, they're restorations carried out by the Central Motion Pictures Corporation while these King Hu's were done by the new Taiwan Film Institute as part of the Taiwan Cinema Digital Restoration Project

[Orlac]

Damn, not one Jimmy Wang Yu film in the bunch!

[FrauBlucher]

Wow, Stalag 17 is coming in July!

[Drucker]

Where did you see that?

Really wish they'd been able to license The Apartment, as the sound on the US edition is really annoying/distracting.

[swo17]

There's an Amazon listing though it isn't specified whether it's Eureka or MoC.