The only thing that really threw me about that was the fact that all of the Mizoguchi titles were banded together as opposed to being in sets of twos, until I remembered that they are only available in the box now. I don't really see anything else confusing about that choice of labelling.

It's just not logical, that's all. "Dual Format" is referring to Blu & DVD combined releases, while "Single Edition" is referring to films that are combined with others in a set and are all one release - instead of being just specifically a DVD-only or Blu-only release. As a couple of people here are already getting confused (and we all know MoC's catalogue better than most), I'm just suggesting changing the terminology to make it clearer.

In the forthcoming, larger catalogue, we changed this terminology last night to: "Films in a Yellow box are one item". Is that clearer?

So according to the catalogue, Soul Power DVD is OOP, and the Blu-ray is staying as Blu-ray only? I've been selling my old single-edition Blu-rays so I can eventually replace them with the dual-formats, and they'll look amazing on my shelf. Except for Soul Power. This is not good for my OCD, not good at all.

If they never put it out as a dual, you could always just buy an empty clear case for it somewhere. The Blu-ray sleeve should basically fit (though a dual format sleeve would be ever so slightly wider).

If the artwork fit in the new clear cases it wouldn't be a problem. But Soul Power as-is uses the blue slim cases. Only thing I can think of that would work is to try to re-create the MoC artwork but in the proper dimensions. Then get your hands on one of their new clear cases.

We don't know what's going on with SOUL POWER yet. It's a complicated one, and we might not know for months. All stock is gone -- but it *might* get either reissued as is, or upgraded to a Dual Format edition in the next year or so. At the moment, we don't know.

You could do this:

"Yellow=box set" and you also add that outline around the titles. I think this is the clearest way.

JUDEX and the INDIAN EPIC and PHANTOM aren't really "box sets" though?

I typically call them boxsets even if it's a misnomer. I don't think anyone would be upset at you if you used the term. Packages might also work.

I just saw Teinosuke Kinugasa's A Page of Madness featured in the More4 series The Story of Film: An Odyssey. Are there any high quality releases on the market? It looks like a great film for MoC to release.

Right, they are not REALLY box sets after all (though "box set" still sounds good in my opinion). Probably the only expression that could fit all is "packaged together" or "in the same package" or just "together". I give up.

I agree with knives that box set, though at times a misnomer, is an easier term to use. I wouldn't be opposed to that for those releases.

In October 2010, a new score by composer Gene Coleman for A Page of Madness premiered in Philadelphia and then was performed at MoMA. It was a commission by the theater where I work, the Ibrahim Theater @ International House. We got the print from the George Eastman House and the film/performance was superb! It's such a masterful piece of early Japanese cinema (and a fairly popular one at that) that it's hard to believe it's not made it onto DVD/Blu-ray yet. Would love for MoC to do a disc of this title.

Here's more info on the premiere.

Ditto on Page of Madness. Probably the highest on my wishlist.

On mine, too. Ideally this should come with more than one soundtrack. The new one by Gene Coleman sounds interesting enough, but In The Nursery's is perfection.

You could state "Not available separately", but I agree that the use of "boxsets" in anyway clearer than what's used in the interim catalog.

It was fascinating to see the tragic story of Ruan Lingyu profiled in this series, as she is someone I previously knew almost nothing about.
How many of her films have survived, and have any had a release?

With Griffith's Birth of a Nation and Way Down West being released on Blu-ray in November in the US by Kino, is there any chance of a future Blu-ray MoC release for these films? I know Eureka released the DVDs of them years ago, so I was hoping there's a chance here...

I'll be short, as this isn't the place to discuss Ruan. Quite a few of her films have survived, which you may be able to find with the help of search engines or in the thread on 'Chinese films on DVD' in the 'International DVD News and Discussions' section. Some of them have been released on DVD in the US (Goddess, Peach Girl, Spray of Plum Blossoms etc). 'Goddess', the most famous of her films, can also be found on archive.org with English intertitles. On archive.org, there's also the very interesting, but unsubtitled 'New Women', of which there is no subtitled release available - but there's a very helpful English transcript of its intertitles etc., which you can find here.

Argh! I have to buy Make Way for Tomorrow again. Apparently the mother of my 18-month-old niece thought it would be a great idea if a child plays with uncle's Blu-rays... Metropolis steelbook is also quite scratched.

It would be great if MoC could release the great Brazilian film Limite. It's recently been restored by the World Cinema Foundation.

Couldn't agree more.

How about a film from Norway called Ni liv (1957) this could do well on MoC

I know there was an important restoration work for Cabiria (Italy, 1914) few years ago, they also screened the restored version during the 2006 Cannes film festival, but they never managed to release it on dvd. Wouldn't be great to finally see it through Moc?

How about some Swedish stuff on BD? Roy Andersson's films for example.