Pigsty and Hawks and Sparrows are DVD-only

MoC are now announcing on Twitter too, so the horse has bolted by this point!

I hope so because I want to have a Pasolini marathon and that's his sole feature length narrative work that'll be missing a great in print release!

HAWKS AND SPARROWS is DVD-only (they're tweeting as I type). Shame, because I thought MoC and BFI would get all of Pasolini's oeuvre out in HD (except MAMMA ROMA which is tied up with Bongo), but I guess the materials weren't up to it.

Moroder's Metropolis release upcoming too. Seems to be DVD only though: steelbook and vanilla version.

DVD only.

I got a bit excited.

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I'm sure it'll be explained but it's odd that two DVD-only titles are from "new HD masters"

Not when you factor in the still outrageous extra cost of producing Blu-rays compared with DVDs. If the discs aren't likely to sell well, this is likely to be a major stumbling block.

Oops...Edipo re is a Dual in September!

Who cares if the Moroder Metropolis is DVD-only, if you want it in HD you can import the Kino.

Crazy how many people want each company to release the same films on the same format.

If that was aimed at me it was more disappointment at my mistake, not at Eureka's decision. I don't think it's an MoC release anyway.

It could well be that it's for the same stated reason for releasing 'A Man Vanishes' on DVD-only: that there wasn't significant enough a difference in picture quality to justify releasing it on Blu Ray.

Perhaps. They could have made a double or triple feature with Oedipus Rex but they obviously didn't want to go down that route either.

It's been pretty well established by now that if MoC releases something DVD-only at this point, it's down to the quality of the available materials. I'm sure these Pasolinis will look about as good as they can, though it remains to be seen how much (if any) improvement there will be over the Tartans.

I never understood the critical reception of this film. When I looked at the reviews before seeing it I was disappointed, but I loved it. It was just like a Tsai Ming-liang film so I thought the critics' reception was strange. Now I wonder when I'll ever get to see it again. His profile has certainly seemed to slip since then.

Well, they're both from "a new HD master" as their product pages proudly boast.

Great news about Rumble Fish - this flurry of Francis Ford Coppola Blu-ray releases is making me hope that perhaps Tucker: The Man and His Dream also might get the same treatment one day.


I did just that, ending up spending last Christmas dancing around my room to the strains of Adam Ant and Bonnie Tyler! (I sincerely believe that it is what Fritz Lang would have wanted )

Is it still on the table or should I just go with the Kino BD?

So we're getting to the stage where early silent films can be re-released as part of their 100th anniversary, and I wonder whether or not MoC have any plans to release any films because of these occassions? Next year, in 2013, I'd love to see Der Student von Prag - perhaps along with it's remakes - and Der Andere come out somewhere: two important, notable German films that have never had a proper release anywhere. Needless to say, films like this will never get a release if they aren't in fit state to be released, but it's almost impossible to guess the state of film archives, especially the German ones.

I kind of get the sense that for many films from this period, it'll be a case of now or never for their restorations and re-emergance into circulation.

The Arte TV channel seem to be picking up the centenary idea and have in fact scheduled the 1913 Der Student von Prag for a "Stummfilm live" broadcast in July 2013. Presumably this will be an improvement on the previous German TV print. They have also scheduled Fantomas and Richard Wagner for next year - in the latter case no doubt due as much to the composer's bi-centenary as the film's single one!

That's great news, thanks for sharing. It's such a pity that these restorations for TV screenings only rather inconsistantly make their way to DVD. At least it means there will likely be restored prints available for certain films though.

Not the right thread, but just for info: arte TV this year will show Feyder's "Les nouveaux messieurs" (1929), Zelnik's "Die Weber" (1927), and most importantly, Jutzi's "Mutter Krausens Fahrt ins Glück" (1929). Pretty spectacular schedule, if you ask me.

Talking about silent releases, I would greatly appreciate some kind of follow-up to "Coeur fidele". Any other of Jean Epstein's films, but especially "Finis terrae" (which I've seen restored on Arte and really loved) would be very nice. Von Gerlach's "Vanina", which, as far as I know, was recently restored, would also be nice.

And as far as other films are concerned, I wonder if there is any chance that after films by Teshigahara, Shinoda and Imamura MoC could release any of Susumu Hani's movies. Maybe "He and She" or "A Full Life" would be fantastic, even if they were to come in a couple of years.