Olive Films

[EddieLarkin]

Coming in 2013 and 2014 from Olive Films

Betty Boop Volume 3 - Betty Boop Volume 4 - The Pawnbroker - The Bells of St. Mary - Stranger on the Prowl - Sleep My Love - Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid - That's My Man - I've Always Loved You - Magnificent Doll - Forever Female - Up the Junction - Home of the Brave - Johnny Come Lately - Flying Tigers - The North Star and the alternate shorter version Armored Attack - Operation Petticoat - Distant Drums - Good Sam - High School Confidential - Love Happy - Sands of Iwo Jima - South of St. Louis - Try and Get Me (aka The Sound of Fury) - So This is New York - Arch of Triumph - Caught - The Lost Moment - Men in War - The Other Love - Cauldron of Blood - Beware, My Lovely - Outrage - Dr. Terror's House of Horrors - Man on the Roof - The Adalen Riots - Elvira Madigan - Raven's End - Fedora - The Stationmaster's Wife (Uncut Version) - Dead Heat on Beethoven Street (Uncut never-before-seen version) - J'Accuse (1938) - Ophelia (Chabrol) - The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers - Guilty of Romance - Himizu - and more Blu-ray releases of the previously released DVDs

More Upcoming Titles - To Be Announced...

[Michael Kerpan]

The only Himizu I find in IMDB is the recent film by Shion Sono, would Olive be releasing a current film of this sort?

[Mathew2468]

Is it Dead Heat or Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street?

[med]

The only Himizu I find in IMDB is the recent film by Shion Sono, would Olive be releasing a current film of this sort?

They've previously released his Love Exposure, so yes, they would.

[swo17]

The only Himizu I find in IMDB is the recent film by Shion Sono, would Olive be releasing a current film of this sort?

Note that they're also releasing his Guilty of Romance.

[Finch]

Does Outrage refer to the Takeshi Kitano film possibly? I also notice they've got Terry Zwigoff's High School Confidential.

[swo17]

Does Outrage refer to the Takeshi Kitano film possibly?

It's already out from Magnolia.

[Askew]

Outrage refers to the Ida Lupino film and High School Confidential is the Jack Arnold one.

[Mathew2468]

Terry Zwigoff made Art School Confidential. It must be Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street.

[colinr0380]

The only Himizu I find in IMDB is the recent film by Shion Sono, would Olive be releasing a current film of this sort?

Note that they're also releasing his Guilty of Romance.

It might be worth keeping an eye on whether Guilty of Romance turns out to be the 112 minute 'international' version (the one released on DVD and Blu by Eureka! in the UK), or whether it could possibly be the 144 minute version as mentioned on imdb.

[doc mccoy]

The only Himizu I find in IMDB is the recent film by Shion Sono, would Olive be releasing a current film of this sort?

Note that they're also releasing his Guilty of Romance.

It might be worth keeping an eye on whether Guilty of Romance turns out to be the 112 minute 'international' version (the one released on DVD and Blu by Eureka! in the UK), or whether it could possibly be the 144 minute version as mentioned on imdb.

Even if they do release the longer cut, I'm not sure how much difference it will make - the international version is not exactly a masterpiece.

[boywonder]

If Olive has Ophüls' "Caught", who has the more interesting "The Reckless Moment"?

[Zot!]

37. Man on the Roof (Bo Widerberg, 1976)
38. Adalen 31 a.k.a The Adalen Riots (Bo Widerberg, 1969)
39. Elvira Madigan (Bo Widerberg, 1967)
40. Raven's End (Bo Widerberg, 1963)

A real wealth of Bo Widerbergs coming down the pike. I've always wanted to see Adalen 31.

[Matt]

If Olive has Ophüls' "Caught", who has the more interesting "The Reckless Moment"?

It's always been a Columbia (Sony) picture in the US.

[BillWatkins]

37. Man on the Roof (Bo Widerberg, 1976)
38. Adalen 31 a.k.a The Adalen Riots (Bo Widerberg, 1969)
39. Elvira Madigan (Bo Widerberg, 1967)
40. Raven's End (Bo Widerberg, 1963)

A real wealth of Bo Widerbergs coming down the pike. I've always wanted to see Adalen 31.

I'm excited too. Noticeably absent is JOE HILL (1971), which belongs to Paramount, so I'm curious as to why it's not included.

[repeat]

Glad to see the Widerbergs are still slated - as well as the Fuller, Fassbinder and Chabrol's wonderful Ophelia... I hope some of these at least will be Blu-rays, especially the Widerbergs.

So - did anyone catch The Man on the Roof and The Man from Mallorca at AFI, or is there no one from the DC area here? Wondering if they were restored prints and how they might have looked.

[RobertB]

37. Man on the Roof (Bo Widerberg, 1976)
38. Adalen 31 a.k.a The Adalen Riots (Bo Widerberg, 1969)
39. Elvira Madigan (Bo Widerberg, 1967)
40. Raven's End (Bo Widerberg, 1963)

A real wealth of Bo Widerbergs coming down the pike. I've always wanted to see Adalen 31.

I'm excited too. Noticeably absent is JOE HILL (1971), which belongs to Paramount, so I'm curious as to why it's not included.

These are four out of seven films from a DVD-box released in Sweden last year. The box claims they are restored, but I haven't bought the box as it is DVD only, so I don't know how good they all look. Joe Hill was not part of the box, so it might not have any good restoration available. I emailed Olive Films a couple of months ago asking if they would do Widerberg with removable subs, but they never replied. If these are blu ray and have removable subs I'm sure I won't be the only person in Sweden buying them.

Also in the Swedish box are Barnvagnen (1963), Mannen från Mallorca (1984) and The Serpent's Way (1986).

[repeat]

Also note that at least according to this review, they've managed to botch the transfer of Man on the Roof in that box somehow. Mallorca is still available separately, and Pram is out from Malavida, so even in Sweden that box is soon only good for Serpent's Way, especially if most of these have removable subs. I do hope that Olive will manage port at least some of the contextualizing extras for Man on the Roof. I asked them about these too a while ago but never got a reply.

[Zot!]

If these are blu ray and have removable subs I'm sure I won't be the only person in Sweden buying them.

My understanding is that these are all BDs. No idea about subs, I don't own any Olives, is this a problem with them?

[swo17]

Most Olive releases of foreign films have burned-in subs. 1900 is an exception.

[repeat]

Ouch... Like seriously burned-in, not merely forced? That's just outrageously inexcusable.

[swo17]

Yes, burned in.

[Orlac]

Are the subtitles part of the film source used?

[knives]

No.

[Matt]

If the subtitles are not part of the original film image (literally burned into the film print), then they are not "burned-in." If they are merely digitally generated but cannot be turned off, they are "forced."