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PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 8:53 am 

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Pigsty and Hawks and Sparrows are DVD-only


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PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 8:54 am 
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MoC are now announcing on Twitter too, so the horse has bolted by this point!


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PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 8:55 am 
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eerik wrote:
DeMille's Cleopatra and Pasolini's Oedipus Rex are also coming. ;)

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!


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PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 8:56 am 
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TMDaines wrote:
Uccellacci e uccellini and Porcile are both listed as DVD only though, with only a trailer as extras. Could be erroneous again but perhaps not?

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.


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PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 8:59 am 
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Moroder's Metropolis release upcoming too. Seems to be DVD only though: steelbook and vanilla version.


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PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 8:59 am 

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TMDaines wrote:
Moroder's Metropolis Dual release upcoming too! Steelbook and vanilla version.

DVD only.


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PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:00 am 
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I got a bit excited. :(


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PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:03 am 
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Uccellacci e uccellini @ MoC
Porcile @ MoC
#109 is presumably Edipo re


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PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:06 am 

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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"


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PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:08 am 
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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.


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PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:09 am 
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TMDaines wrote:
#109 is presumably Edipo re

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


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PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:28 am 
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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.


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PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:35 am 
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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.


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PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 11:15 am 
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MichaelB wrote:
Calvin wrote:
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.

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.


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PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 11:25 am 

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Adam Grikepelis wrote:
MichaelB wrote:
Calvin wrote:
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.

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.


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PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 11:34 am 
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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.


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PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 11:56 am 

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evillights wrote:
I agree too that Visage deserves a release.


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.


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PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 12:15 pm 
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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.

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


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PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 3:02 pm 
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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.

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

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 8-[ )


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PostPosted: Wed May 02, 2012 1:11 pm 

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re: THE GENERAL. We've been trying to pull it together for a year, but can't get the right mix of materials that we want to make the best edition there is, due to the Carl Davis score already being licenced to a company in the UK (who aren't a DVD label) and who believe they own the rights to the film as well.

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


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PostPosted: Thu May 03, 2012 10:08 am 
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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.


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PostPosted: Thu May 03, 2012 10:30 am 

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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!


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PostPosted: Thu May 03, 2012 10:33 am 
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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.


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PostPosted: Fri May 04, 2012 4:08 am 
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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.


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PostPosted: Sat May 05, 2012 2:43 pm 

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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.


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