Milestone

[Jonathan S]

Was Regeneration Milestone?

No, that was a David Shepard discovery and release. Unfortunately, Image let a lot of DVDs go out of print....

As I reported in the OOP thread a month or two ago:

Image Entertainment has worked out an MOD scheme with amazon along the lines of Warner Archive to bring back 46 (!) Film Preservation Associates titles which they allowed to go out of print.

[videozor]

If you have rights to Taboo it makes sense (at least to me) to issue a better edition tan the current one.
As I understand there are 2 cuts - Paramount (used in old Milestone) and pre-Paramount (used in MoC DVD)
DVD with both cuts and keeping the commentary and other extras from old Milestone could be a definitive edition of this movie (which MoC edition never became)...

[drdoros]

If you have rights to Taboo it makes sense (at least to me) to issue a better edition tan the current one.
As I understand there are 2 cuts - Paramount (used in old Milestone) and pre-Paramount (used in MoC DVD)
DVD with both cuts and keeping the commentary and other extras from old Milestone could be a definitive edition of this movie (which MoC edition never became)...

We no longer own the rights, but our version of TABU was indeed the original release by Paramount in 1931 and was cut by Murnau, two hired women (I never found their names) and with the advice of Hilliker and Caldwell who telegrammed that they didn't like the shark scene but Murnau wrote in a telegram back that he spent too much money to take it out. The German/MOC material was found in the German archives -- I believe by Enno Patalas -- and I suspect it was done after the American cut. I wouldn't say one was more authentic than the other -- I just hope one day that the 10+ hours of Austrian negative outtakes will prove that the original camera neg is in there somewhere.

[videozor]

Thanks for clarifying this

[drdoros]

Dear friends,

Amy wanted me to email and let everyone know some exciting news about the collection of great DVDs from Milestone Film & Video.

Previously, many of our titles were released by Image Entertainment under the banner "The Milestone Collection." As of January, Milestone has ended that business association and has taken possession of our DVD inventory. Milestone has lowered the retail prices and will now be the sole distributor for many of these titles. And if you order from the Milestone website (http://www.milestonefilms.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;) or directly by email, phone or fax, you can an additional 20% off each title!

The "Milestone Collection" DVDs now only available directly from Milestone are:

Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley...................$24.95
Back to God’s Country............................$24.95
The Blot.........................................$19.95
Chac.............................................$24.95
The Chess Player.................................$19.95
Cut Up: The Films of Grant Munro.................$19.95
Daddy-Long-Legs..................................$24.95
Eternal Love.....................................$24.95
The Gay Desparado................................$24.95
Heart O’ The Hills...............................$24.95
Hindle Wakes.....................................$24.95
John Canemaker: Marching to a Different Toon.....$19.95
The Love Light...................................$24.95
My Best Girl ....................................$24.95
People of the Wind...............................$24.95
Silent Shakespeare...............................$24.95
Stella Maris.....................................$24.95
Suds.............................................$19.95
Tess of the Storm Country........................$24.95
Through the Back Door............................$19.95
West is West.....................................$19.95
White Thunder....................................$19.95

[drdoros]

Titles that are coming back to Milestone and can be ordered directly from our website are the following films. They will also be subdistributed by Oscilloscope so they can also be ordered through the normal outlets as well:

The Adventures of Prince Achmed (a new Milestone Cinematheque reissue, available soon)
Chang
Edge of the World
Grass
I’m Going Home
It Happened Here (a new Milestone Cinematheque reissue, available soon)
The Mystery of Picasso (a new Milestone Cinematheque reissue, available now)
Siddhartha (a new Milestone Cinematheque reissue, available soon)
The Sorrow and the Pity (a new Milestone Cinematheque reissue, available now)
Two Friends
Village of Dreams
Winstanley (a new Milestone Cinematheque reissue, available soon)
Winsor McCay: The Master Edition (a new Milestone Cinematheque reissue, available soon)

[drdoros]

In adddition, Milestone is also offering a collection of On-Demand DVD-Rs of some of our most-requested titles:

And Now Miguel...................................$29.95
A Day on the Grand Canal.........................$29.95
Dziga and His Brothers...........................$29.95
Early Russian Cinema (Vols. 1 & 2)...............$24.95
Early Russian Cinema (Vol. 3)....................$24.95
Early Russian Cinema (Vol. 4)....................$24.95
Early Russian Cinema (Vol. 5)....................$24.95
Early Russian Cinema (Vol. 6)....................$24.95
Early Russian Cinema (Vol. 7)....................$24.95
Early Russian Cinema (Vol. 8)....................$24.95
Early Russian Cinema (Vol. 9)....................$24.95
Early Russian Cinema (Vol. 10)...................$24.95
Early Russian Cinema (Vols. 1-10)...............$200.00
From the Archives of Modern Art..................$39.95
The Giant Woman and the Lightning Man............$39.95
Kings of the Water...............................$39.95
The Last Night of Rasputin.......................$39.95
Let There Be Light...............................$75.00
The Man Without a World..........................$39.95
Money Man........................................$39.95
Scenes and Songs from Boyd Webb..................$39.95
Seni’s Children..................................$39.95
The Singing Sculpture............................$39.95
Stones and Flies.................................$39.95
The World of Gilbert and George..................$39.95
A Young Man’s Dream and A Woman’s Secret.........$39.95

You can read more about these and all our films at: http://www.milestonefilms.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[perkizitore]

$30 for a DVD-R???

[drdoros]

$30 for a DVD-R???

$100 to see Spiderman Turn Off The Dark?
$150 to see the Washington Nationals?
$4.29 for a Big Mac?

The studios sell much of their back catalog films for $5.99 in super markets, so they're actually charging three times their usual price for a DVD-R.

But seriously, there's actually different economics here. Most of these titles were brought out by Milestone for educational/institutional use with prices at $75 to $400 each. And since we refuse to have a double-tier price system (charge more to a public library and less to an individual), we had to come up with something that is almost fair to Milestone, the institutions and the individuals. We also have to use a lab to produce the DVD-Rs so they cost us more money than a straight DVD. But most of all, remember that 50% of what we receive goes directly to a filmmaker or an archive.

[perkizitore]

I can't understand the reason for DVD-R if they are costing you more than factory pressed discs.

[drdoros]

I can't understand the reason for DVD-R if they are costing you more than factory pressed discs.

Per disc they are more expensive, but you only have to buy 100 of them instead of 1000. Also you don't have to pay for the authoring/compression costs.

[mfunk9786]

$4.29 for a Big Mac seems pretty worth it to me

[drdoros]

$4.29 for a Big Mac seems pretty worth it to me

Oh, man. That's fine if you like Transformers (the movie and the Happy Meal toy).

Go to 77th and Broadway, and get a Big Nick's Burger Joint burger for a couple dollars more. (There's a round table in the back of the Pizza Joint side that used to be "our" table when I was first dating my wife.) There's no comparison. For even more, you can get the Sumo Burger there. One pound of hamburger. Never tried it myself, but have in my dreams. Miles Davis used order delivery from there.

[knives]

Or a 5X5 at In and Out. Now that is what a hamburger is all about. I really should hang my head in shame for that one.

[Le Samouraï]

Good news! Does this mean Phantom of the Opera will be coming back in print?

Apparently Milestone is planning a release next year. In the meantime, this will be released:

I might as well tell the world that we are just completing production on a new edition of that old warhorse, POTO, for release through Image Entertainment in early October.

This will be Blu-Ray, mastered at Movietone aperture from much better 35mm material than we have ever used before. There will be two complete runs of the 1929 version: one at 24 fps with a new score by the Alloy Orchestra and an optional score on theatre pipe organ by Gaylord Carter, previously issued in monaural but now in stereo from the original master stereo recording; the second run at 20 fps with orchestra/soprano score by Gabriel Thibadeau and an optional new audio essay by Jon Mirsalis. Both runs will include the Technicolor sequence mastered from our 35mm YCM labs negative and hand colored scenes on the opera roof and in the scene of "intolerable heat." The program will also include a standard definition transfer of the original 1925 edit from a tinted 16mm print in the usual deplorable quality but with a superb new score by Frederick Hodges. Extras will include (as still images) set construction and production stills, publicity stills, original advertising art, frames from a stencil-colored French release, and the complete script.

[swo17]

#-o I had actually seen that news already but it didn't register that POTO stood for Phantom of the Opera. Without reading that closely I had assumed it was a film I had never heard of called Poto. Anyway, great news!

[masterofoneinchpunch]

We no longer own the rights, but our version of TABU was indeed the original release by Paramount

Who owns the rights now? On your website you state "DVDs of "TABU" will be back on sale by June 1, 2011".

Last month I was quite stoked to find a used copy of South: Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance Expedition (and several other Milestones). Too bad that is OOP as well.

[drdoros]

Who owns the rights now? On your website here: http://www.milestonefilms.com/movie.php/tabu/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; you state "DVDs of "TABU" will be back on sale by June 1, 2011".

Last month I was quite stoked to find a used copy of South: Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance Expedition (and several other Milestones). Too bad that is OOP as well.

We will be selling off our last inventory of TABU but the rights went back to Murnau Stiftung.

As for SOUTH, that too will be back.

[captveg]

The Phantom of the Opera news is fantastic! Can't wait to pick that set up.

[drdoros]

The Phantom of the Opera news is fantastic! Can't wait to pick that set up.

If we can pull off what we're attempting to do, the Milestone release will be very cool.

[captveg]

Indeed! \:D/

Aside from POTO, I'd also be interested in The Trial and It (1927).

[What A Disgrace]

I could make a long list of my Milestone Blu-ray wants, but the most pressing one for me would probably be Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?...

...though I haven't even seen The Bat Whispers, and it sounds like the perfect candidate.

[videozor]

I see both Prince Achmed and McCay are getting new editions... What about your early disc of Vladislav Starevich? That the one which could really be benefited by upgrade

[drdoros]

I see both Prince Achmed and McCay are getting new editions... What about your early disc of Vladislav Starevich? That the one which could really be benefited by upgrade

Do you mean THE CAMERAMAN'S REVENGE (which is now with Image and not us) or ERC, VOLUME 3. The latter can't be redone, I don't believe. Getting those prints were a one-shot deal.

[videozor]

I meant The Cameraman's Revenge...