Transmission, Raro, Arbelos UK and other sublabels

[Peacock]

Definitely one of the best Transmission titles so far!

[CSM126]

Bit of a stretch to imply Jackie Brown as a NY crime film when it takes place in Southern California, innit?

[BoltzmannBrain]

I don't see any reason why films like Across 110th Street, Nadja and Joe should be Transmission releases instead of Radiance releases. This sublabel is as unnecessary as some Vinegar Syndrome sublabels or Toy Robot Video and I don't want to support all this pointless sub/partner label nonsense.

[TechnicolorAcid]

I don't see any reason why films like Across 110th Street, Nadja and Joe should be Transmission releases instead of Radiance releases. This sublabel is as unnecessary as some Vinegar Syndrome sublabels or Toy Robot Video and I don't want to support all this pointless sub/partner label nonsense.

It’s not a sublabel, it’s just a label that Radiance hosts on their site and that operates completely independently from Radiance like Raro UK or Mawi Films (RIP).

[BoltzmannBrain]

It’s not a sublabel, it’s just a label that Radiance hosts on their site and that operates completely independently from Radiance like Raro UK or Mawi Films (RIP).

My understanding was that all the other ones are independent labels like the VS partner labels but Transmission is operated by Radiance.

[TechnicolorAcid]

It’s not a sublabel, it’s just a label that Radiance hosts on their site and that operates completely independently from Radiance like Raro UK or Mawi Films (RIP).

My understanding was that all the other ones are independent labels like the VS partner labels but Transmission is operated by Radiance.

I think it’s operated by one of their collaborators but to my knowledge Fran, who is the person that decides what gets released by Radiance, has nothing to do with licensing or the release itself except for distribution

[BoltzmannBrain]

My understanding was that all the other ones are independent labels like the VS partner labels but Transmission is operated by Radiance.

I think it’s operated by one of their collaborators but to my knowledge Fran, who is the person that decides what gets released by Radiance, has nothing to do with licensing or the release itself except for distribution

Transmission's MGM titles are coming from Radiance's MGM deal like Cinematographe's MGM titles are coming from Vinegar Syndrome's MGM deal, no?

[therewillbeblus]

It is interesting that Fran originally said that Radiance would also focus on American indie cinema from the 70s(?) onwards and those titles seem to have been allocated to Transmission

[swo17]

Reminder from the first page of this thread:

For those wondering why we needed another label my position on this was that I didn't want to see a repeat of my experience with Arrow Video/Academy. It's very easy to become influenced by positive feedback and sales so that something that starts as one thing turns into another. Yes we've done genre and controversial cinema on Radiance but these have been specific choices within a line of curation while Tranmission may overlap with that it's a line of curation I am much less involved in and it will not reflect my overall tastes, indeed of the 7/8 titles we have lined up I've only seen 2. I may later watch those titles and love them and wish they were Radiance titles but you can't do all the titles all the time and I can't watch everything that gets mentioned as a possible title. In attempting to do more it can be very easy for a label to become watered down by many curators all putting their voice in and the influence of that causing the label to change over time. In 5 years I want Radiance to be doing what it was doing on day 1. And hopefully the same will be true for Transmission.

[Finch]

I don't get the fretting about whether something gets released by Radiance/Arrow or Transmission/Toy Robot. These are run by colleagues of people from the "main label" who get to curate their own titles and we all get more to choose from. If you like a particular film just buy it.

[BoltzmannBrain]

Radiance already puts out plenty of crime films but I guess the problem with Across 110th Street is, based on swo's quote, that its success might lead Radiance to do more films with an African-American focus and that's not desired for Fran's label.