MoC Forthcoming, Wishlist, and Random Speculation

[stepps]

Since this is just a pure and simple wishlist area, I'm just going to toss out a few: Gremillon's Guele d'amour, Rivette's Duelle, Okamoto's Nikudan (or Age of Assassins, which is a Toho title, I believe), and a collection of Kawamoto Kihachiro's animated films (there's an english subtitled release in Japan, and it's fine, but prohibitively priced with no contextual material.) Any L'Herbier silent would be great as well (don't know about the logistics of this.)

there must be some sort of telepathy going on here, I'm looking for all of these as well (though I haven't heard of Kihachiro). Duelle, and L'herbier's L'argent are my top 2 most wanted (Round-up was no.1 but 2nd run are releasing this some time). Also: (imdb rankings posted afterwards)

Maman et la putain, La (1973 - Jean Eustache) 8.2/10
Le Soldatesse (1965 - Valerio Zurlini) 8.5/10
l'amour fou (1969 - Jacques Rivette) 8.1/10
Immortelle, L' (1963 - Alain Robbe Grillet) 7.2/10
Kung-Fu master (1987 - Agnes Varda) 6.6/10
Diables, Les (2002 - Christophe Ruggia) 7.4/10
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927 - Ernst Lubitsch) 7.7/10
The Silences of the Palace (1994 - Moufida Tlatli) 7.8/10
Les Visiteurs du soir (1942 - Marcel Carne) 7.9/10
Belles de nuit, Les (1952 - Rene Clair) 6.9/10
Devi (1960 - Satyajit Ray) 7.9/10
Limite (1931 - Mario Peixoto) 8.7/10
Prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV, La (1966 - Roberto Rossellini) 7.4/10
Remorques (1941 - Jean Gremillon)
Un Carnet de Bal (1937 - Julien Duvivier) 8.1/10
Andaz (1949 - Mehboob Khan) 8.5/10
Desyat negrityat (1987 - Stanislav Govorukhin) 7.9/10
Signora di tutti, La (1934 - Max Ophuls) 7.1/10

[feckless boy]

From the BFI thread:

Three Naruse titles are planned for DVD release: Floating Clouds, Late Chrysanthemums and When a Woman Ascends the Stairs. The reason for the delay in release is both matters of scheduling (there will be a Naruse season at BFI Southbank) as well as materials - suitable master material for Late Chrysanthemums in particular is proving difficult to access.

I assume these titles now are out of the question, since BFI has the rights for region 2. So what can we expect? I hope vol.2 wil include Scattered Clouds (very good score by Takemitsu).

[Michael Kerpan]

Three Naruse titles are planned for DVD release: Floating Clouds, Late Chrysanthemums and When a Woman Ascends the Stairs. The reason for the delay in release is both matters of scheduling (there will be a Naruse season at BFI Southbank) as well as materials - suitable master material for Late Chrysanthemums in particular is proving difficult to access.

I assume these titles now are out of the question, since BFI has the rights for region 2. So what can we expect? I hope vol.2 wil include Scattered Clouds (very good score by Takemitsu).

I don't believe MOC expected to be able to release any of these three films.

"Scattered Clouds" would be a nice release -- but I'd rather see a Fumiko Hayashi completer set -- with "Lightning", "Wife" and "Wanderer's Notebook" -- maybe with Chiba's interesting-sounding "Shitmachi" (Downtown) as a bonus (starring Mifune, Isuzu Yamada and Keiko Awaji)

An early films box set -- with the silents "Apart from You", "Every Night Dreams", and the talkies "Wife! Be Like a Rose!" and "Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts" would also be very nice.

A late films set with (in addition to "Scattered Clouds") "Yearning" and "As a Wife, As a Woman" -- would be another good possibility.

[Awesome Welles]

Given that Eureka are about to release 'Classics of German Cinema Boxset' does this mean that it is unlikely that we will now see a reissue of 'Der Blaue Engel', will Josef von Sternberg's name be removed from the back of the next MoC catalogue or do we have more Sternberg in store? Personally I would love to see Morocco or The Devil is a Woman.

As far as other wishing goes. I would LOVE to see Il Caso Mattei, but have alread emailed Nick about this and he has said that Paramount have it, but I'd love to see the MoC treatment.

Make Way for Tomorrow
Human Condition Trilogy
Strategia del Ragno (I think this might be with Artificial Eye)
L'Avventura, L'Eclisse, La Notte Boxset (I'm sure someone else, if not different studios own these, but this is a *wish* list right?)
Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto (Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion)
La Classe operaia va in paradiso (The Working Class Goes to Heaven)
More Melville
More Teshigahara
Zangiku Monogatari (Story of the Late Chrysanthemums)
The rest of Matsumoto's features (I really enjoyed Shura, I hope to see more)
The Other Side of the Wind (I really am wishing now!)
Memorias del subdesarrollo (Memories of underdevlopment)
Hora de los Hornos (Hour of the Furnaces) Does the full cut exist?
Paisa and Germania Anno Zero will be showing at the NFT this month does this bode well for DVD releases, I don't know what state the prints are in or if they have been restored (I doubt it)

[Awesome Welles]

Are we going to be treated to a Lubitsch boxset at some point...? I think I may have read this somewhere else also but cannot remember.

The news comes from the Murnau-Stiftung website.

German readers needed to clarify! Please look under the heading Neue DVDs, bitte.

[Der Müde Tod]

Are we going to be treated to a Lubitsch boxset at some point...? I think I may have read this somewhere else also but cannot remember.

The news comes from the Murnau-Stiftung website.

German readers needed to clarify! Please look under the heading Neue DVDs, bitte.

What clarification do you want?

[Scharphedin2]

Are we going to be treated to a Lubitsch boxset at some point...? I think I may have read this somewhere else also but cannot remember.

The news comes from the Murnau-Stiftung website.

German readers needed to clarify! Please look under the heading Neue DVDs, bitte.

The German box actually came out last year. The same films were released by Kino in the States early this year, and Peerpee has hinted that some kind of early Lubitsch release(s) are forthcoming from MoC.

[Lino]

oh, it will be a very dear giftset. Practically the same price as buying separately!

Don't believe him! He just wants you to buy them all individually! Jokes apart, Nick, do consider putting them all in a box. I can't believe the collector in you is putting that option aside!

Nick, is the Murnau giftset still on track? I have been masochistically avoiding buying the individual editions basically because I am a boxset whore and the thought of having 7 Murnaus as a DVD set (Tartuffe, Faust, Sunrise, Nosferatu, The Last Laugh, Phantom and Tabu) is just too good for me to pass on.

Besides, your recent boxset designs for the Fritz Lang and Classics of German Cinema made my waiting much more bittersweet than it already is. Masochism, that's what it is, really.

[peerpee]

The Murnau giftset idea is on ice. We've been moving a little too slowly on the Murnau releases (because we've been busy with other releases), and now it's time to turn our attention to Murnau and Mizoguchi. We'll be releasing the Murnau films singly at least a year before we do a Murnau giftset.

[NABOB OF NOWHERE]

Noted in an advert in this month's Sight and Sound two new titles from Rene Laloux (Les Maître du Temps and Gandahar) and one from Peter Watkins (Munch).

Let speculation begin on whether the Laloux includes the Harvey Weinstein remix of Les Maitres du Temps and the length of Munch .

[Scharphedin2]

Does the ad mention, when we can expect these releases? I thought Peerpee had given an overview in a different thread of the titles to appear the rest of the year from MoC with a clear statement that after Silence de Mer, no more titles until after the summer...

[Awesome Welles]

Nick said that MoC would release nothing in August as he's going on a well deserved holiday and then two unannounced titles would be released in September or October (I can't remember which) and then all eight Mizoguchi's in November/December. At least his post went something like that but I can't remember where it is now.

[Tommaso]

I think the September titles were "Bellissima" and "Silence". Later this year several Murnaus and the Mizos. No word about Watkins and Laloux, for sure.

[colinr0380]

Great news, whenever they appear! I wonder if Edvard Munch will be the longer version?

[Awesome Welles]

I think the September titles were "Bellissima" and "Silence". Later this year several Murnaus and the Mizos. No word about Watkins and Laloux, for sure.

I think Bellissima was an earlier release, I think Nick said some time over the summer and he mentioned two previously unannounced titles, well we got three now! I don't know when they'll be released but I hope Eureka will put out the Laloux titles in a box, that would be great. I really look forward to seeing Gandahar.

I hope that Edvard Munch is the full version too.

EDIT: I thought Nick said that the Murnau's would be a wait due to technical problems?

[Tommaso]

EDIT: I thought Nick said that the Murnau's would be a wait due to technical problems?

Just one of them, but he didn't say which one. Let's wait and see. I guess I'm not into Laloux, but the "Munch" film sounds highly interesting to me, according to what they write at imdb.

[NABOB OF NOWHERE]

Does the ad mention, when we can expect these releases? I thought Peerpee had given an overview in a different thread of the titles to appear the rest of the year from MoC with a clear statement that after Silence de Mer, no more titles until after the summer...

Nope . It's a full page ad for Silence with a release date of 25th.June and then a strip at the bottom for these three coming later.

[Steven H]

Time Masters has this really bizarre long hippy music scene, in an odd O, Lucky Man! sorta way. There's a multitude of overly goofy "trippy" characters (here's an example). I'm kind of surprised MoC went with it as a title, but hey, it was definitely entertaining, minus the previously mentioned eyerolling moments, and extremely "french" (whatever that means). I haven't seen Gandahar.

[colinr0380]

and extremely "french" (whatever that means).

Worryingly I turned out to be the Parisian Seductress!

[Awesome Welles]

and extremely "french" (whatever that means).

I am The Snooty Waiter!

[tryavna]

but the "Munch" film sounds highly interesting to me, according to what they write at imdb.

Edvard Munch is a brilliant film -- perhaps my favorite Watkins, and surely one of the finest studies of an artist ever committed to film. For me, this is the culmination/apotheosis of everything Watkins was aiming for during the first half of his career (though with slightly less political content than usual, which is perhaps why it stands out for me).

Since MoC allied itself with Project X before (for Punishment Park), I imagine that it will be the same cut as the R1.

[Cinephrenic]

Rene Laloux (Les Maître du Temps and Gandahar

Why isn't Laloux's films on R1? Who has the rights in the US market? I would love to see Light Years (Gandahar) get a release. Great memories.

[zedz]

Since MoC allied itself with Project X before (for Punishment Park), I imagine that it will be the same cut as the R1.

We know that both versions are being (or have been) prepared for DVD release, so it would be great if MoC made this their first "two versions" release. It's a great film - an utterly original approach to a historical subject that doesn't just depict the life of the artist, but his entire social milieu.

[patrick]

I assume Les Maître du Temps will have the original French audio? The English dubbed VHS I have is beyond irritating, especially the hippie songs.

[What A Disgrace]

Rene Laloux (Les Maître du Temps and Gandahar

Why isn't Laloux's films on R1? Who has the rights in the US market? I would love to see Light Years (Gandahar) get a release. Great memories.

You said it. I grew up on this film, and sometimes I feel as if I hadn't grown up on it enough (I wore the tape out ages ago). I'm not sure if this is great cinema or not, nor do I care...the moment Nick confirms this, I'm going to be the happiest man alive.