Radiance Films General Discussion & Wishlist

[The Fanciful Norwegian]

Interesting that they call out both "FilmS from the Taiwanese New Wave", and Tsai-Ming Liang. Any guesses?

Without anything else to go on, I feel you might as well draw guesses out of a hat. There's lots of New Cinema films with HD-or-better masters, and off the top of my head the only one with a UK BD is The Boys from Fengkuei. Hou or Yang are the obvious guesses (though the new 4K of That Day, on the Beach would be with Arrow unless they chose to pass), but it could be something more left field like Ah Fei, Strawman, Osmanthus Alley, The Woman of Wrath (which might pose BBFC issues), This Love of Mine, etc. If it's Hou I would very much like to see A Summer at Grandpa's, which got a Japanese restoration awhile back that Carlotta just put out in France but is still MIA with English subtitles.

[Lowry_Sam]

What Time Is It There? hasn't been released on blu-ray anywhere & is my favorite Tsai. Hopefully that's in the works.

[Calvin]

The CMPC restorations of The Terrorizers, Dust in the Wind, A Time to Live A Time to Die, etc. are nearing 20 years old now - even if they became available to licence now, I do wonder if Radiance would put them out without a newer master.

Perhaps Radiance got UK rights to the new A City of Sadness restoration? I know Film Movement got it for the US. The restoration of Millennium Mambo is also still to get a UK release, though I'd be surprised if that were still labelled New Wave.

I also learned earlier that there's a HD broadcast of Wu Nien-jen's A Borrowed Life on the back channels that looks significantly better than the 15 year old VCD bootleg I own. That's a holy grail for me, I would love to see it on disc.