Matt wrote: ↑Fri Jul 15, 2022 9:13 pm
Thanks, everyone. I bought the in-stock stuff from Rarewaves (which had the best price on them) and placed a pre-order for everything else from Diabolik (with a 10% off code).
Kind of wish Second Run could expand to the US market like Arrow and Indicator, but I understand why that’s probably not feasible (including a certain label acquiring US rights for Central European films and then just sitting on them).
I certainly wish they would (so far, they're the only label I purchase every disc from), but I'm of course sure their prices would get higher or they'd get less access to films they normally would. Criterion does absolutely poach all the titles (they
still haven't put
Daisies on Bluray despite constantly promoting it on social media) but you're even guilty of US distributors putting out less than stellar editions of some of the contemporary titles too (the Pedro Costa and Tsai-Ming Liang entries, for example - the latter hasn't even come to disc yet and I don't see it topping the Second Run). they're such a wonderful niche and such nice people (every email I've ever written to them has gotten a loving response, even to the point they told me about the
All My Good Countrymen upgrade), and I can't help but support everything they do honestly. not all the films may be winners but I think the sheer opportunity to see the gems we do is fantastic.
hell, I foresee myself purchasing the upgrades for
The Round Up,
The Red and the White, and so on as they become available. I have fantastic Blurays right on my shelf (in what may be the best release of the year from any label) of them, but since Second Run was the label that really introduced me to Miklós Jancsó, it feels right to give back to them.
watching
A Jester's Tale for the 1964 project - does anyone know if this was restored already? this is my first time watching one of Zeman's films that hasn't been quite restored (though this copy is decent), and I quite enjoy it and would love to see it come to disc. I tried googling but haven't quite found anything