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I'm embarrassed to admit that I initially read the November line-up as three box sets.

Finch wrote: Wed May 10, 2023 9:08 pm I'm embarrassed to admit that I initially read the November line-up as three box sets.

Don't be embarrassed, so did I. The only thing that clarified it for me was that Fran used this same format to separately list multiple titles within the Cosa Nostra box set (part of the same discord post, but not included in yoloswegmaster's edited version from the previous page), which initially made it look like five releases were coming in June:

Jun
- UK: The Hot Spot
- UK/US: Red Sun
- UK/US: The Day of the Owl (Cosa Nostra)
- UK/US: The Case is Closed: Forget It (Cosa Nostra)
- UK/US: How to Kill a Judge (Cosa Nostra)

hearthesilence wrote: Fri Jul 29, 2022 12:19 am Does Roemer have the rights? I think he'd like to put it out - he pops up occasionally to do Q&A's for all of his films, so I can't see why he'd be against re-issuing them. He also teaches at Yale IIRC - I actually had lunch with him because I was hanging out in a coffee shop with my employers in New Haven and by some crazy coincidence, Roemer walked in and recognized one of them so we all wound up eating lunch together. I didn't know who he was at the time - great guy.

FWIW Film Desk now seems to be distributing his films and have even struck a new 35mm print of THE PLOT AGAINST HARRY.

Tweet from the official account:

The Cannes Film Festival is on so offered on plus discussing

No idea if the emojis will show up for some but they are basically saying that they have made offers for 5 Japanese and 2 Italian films, while discussing making offers for 4 French, 1 Italian, 1 Spanish, and 1 South Korean films.

I really hope one of those French flags is L’amour fou

I'm hoping that the South Korean films isn't 'The Housemaid' or anything else that's already had a release. I would love for it to be 'Christmas in August', 'Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring', or 'The Last Witness'.

Please let the Korean film be Bae Yong-kyun’s The People in White (1995)

Hope the South Korean film is 3-Iron or as yoloswegmaster, said “Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter,…and Spring”

SeizureMilk wrote: Sat May 20, 2023 12:31 am Hope the South Korean film is 3-Iron or as yoloswegmaster, said “Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter,…and Spring”

Virtually any of Kim Ki-duk’s films would make me happy

I know they were trying for Aimless Bullet so hopefully this is a sign of some movement on that. Mandala or The Road to the Racetrack would also be great as they've not had any Blu-Ray release yet.

There's so many possible titles for the French and Italian flags that I feel that any attempt at guessing would be pointless, but the Spanish flag is interesting. A 4K restoration of Carlos Saura's Carmen is, I think, the only Spanish film showing as part of Cannes Classics but there's some other relatively recent restorations that haven't appeared anywhere (outside Spain at least) like Erice's Dream of Light and Guerin's Train of Shadows

yoloswegmaster wrote: Sat May 20, 2023 12:00 am I'm hoping that the South Korean films isn't 'The Housemaid' or anything else that's already had a release. I would love for it to be 'Christmas in August', 'Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring', or 'The Last Witness'.

I think the Korean Film Archive Blu-Ray of The Last Witness is still available

Would that be their first or second Spanish title (as in, acquisitioned)?

FIrst, by my count. Could that be the Bunuel? Though it being listed as Spanish limits those options...

Maybe, just maybe, it'll be Agustín Díaz Yanes' Nadie hablará de nosotras cuando hayamos muerto with Victoria Abril, which Fran seemed to be interested in when I recommended it. Virtually unknown in the english language world, but in line with their releases.

It probably depends if you consider Arrebato to be a Radiance acquisition

The Cosa Nostra set (The Day of the Owl, The Case is Closed: Forget It, and How to Kill a Judge), Fill 'Er Up with Super, and The Sunday Woman are all being added to the Arrow Player in June. Really happy these two have partnered up.

Calvin wrote: Tue May 23, 2023 5:48 pm It probably depends if you consider Arrebato to be a Radiance acquisition

Yeah to be fair, when discussing licensing titles for Radiance, at least a couple of the Fun City Editions were titles he was planning to do for Radiance, but ended up asking FCE if he could essentially directly port over their titles to the UK instead. So technically Arrebato was the same, as it was a title he had wanted to release for ages, and likely did the same as he did with FCE with Altered Innocence.

I personally hope for some Erice (The Spirit of the Beehive, The Quince Tree Sun) or Saura (La Caza), but it's probably less obvious. I suggested last year that they could've picked up either Nine Letters to Berta or Cut-Throats Nine from the Lumière Film Market as both were being shopped around...and at the time they said that Spanish title they were teasing was for both the US and UK (so wasn't Arrebato).

per the newsletter, Fran has revealed a World Noir boxset series and confirmed the Piotr Szulkin boxset. also the two Altman releases may be delayed, for further restoration on Thieves Like Us and including the doc on OC and Stiggs

availability watch:

The Sunday Woman 80% sold out
The Sunday Woman US 80% sold out
Miami Blues 80% sold out
Fill 'Er Up with Super US 80% sold out
A Woman Kills 65% sold out
A Woman Kills US 65% sold out
She Dies Tomorrow 60% sold out
Fill 'Er Up with Super 50% sold out
The Bride Wore Black 50% sold out
Yakuza Graveyard 50% sold out
Yakuza Graveyard US 50% sold out

Of the director names on the spine of the World Noir box, I can make out Kurahara and Germi.

The film on the cover of the world noir set is Germi's The Facts of Murder. If Kurahara is indeed the name on the set, then I could see I Am Waiting being added to the set.

EDIT: The listing for the French and Italian crime films in the members section of the website disappeared and was replaced by the World Noir listing, so I would assume that Witness in the City is also going to be added to the set.

Per complete accident I found this list by maybe Radiance Films:
https://letterboxd.com/radiancefilms/li ... nce-films/
And the key thing to note is that in it there are 3 Italian films (I Am the Law, The Facts of Murder, and Le Combat dans L'Ile) before it's followed by Yakuza Graveyard which may indicate that those are the initial box set titles then it has 2 other Italian films Goodbye & Men/Witness in the City. Now whether or not it's going to be split into 2 sets or this separation is just a simple mistake (the poster mentions things got a little hazy because they weren't announced yet.

I Am The Law is The Iron Prefect, which has already been announced as an individual release for July. The Facts of Murder and Witness In The City are likely to be in the World Noir box based on the tiny indistinct spine lettering, along with a so far unknown Kurahara title.

The Kurahara title is almost certainly I Am Waiting, although it's entirely possible Radiance will unearth some super obscure 50s noir for the package (I Am Waiting is the only one that seems relatively well known).

Oh I forgot about The Iron Perfect being called I Am the Law thanks, also if it's a Kurahara that's gonna be included, what are the chances it's The Warped Ones?

That's a 60s film, so highly unlikely. The set is explicitly centered around the 50s.

Got it, thanks

Amazing. Was planning to pre-order both Molinaro's Witness in the City and Germi's The Facts of Murder when they were announced, but now they're bundled with a Kurahara (looks like it could only really be I Am Waiting) that's arguably the most exciting set this year so far for me. Can't wait!

Also this seems to confirm a Nikkatsu deal which opens up lots of possibilities including Imamura, Kawashima, Nakahira and maybe even Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Charisma, anyone?). And it was already teased a while back in the handwritten note, but this deal is probably where more Suzuki will likely come from too!

PS: Nice to see the Szulkin set confirmed, and using original artwork too! I'm guessing this is the December TBC title mentioned before?