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beamish14 wrote: Fri Mar 31, 2023 2:59 pm I cannot recommend Lav Diaz’s Batang West Side highly enough. I don’t know how he has the stamina and creative energy to keep making these epics, and this is among the very best

JAP wrote: Tue Apr 11, 2023 10:45 am New title available, Fluchtweg nach Marseille (Edition Filmmuseum 123)
Perhaps a double-bill with Christian Petzold's Transit is in order?...

James Benning wrote:I realised I had 30 years’ worth of work that needed proper storage and archiving. And to be fair to the work it should be properly done: I just didn’t have the time or money to properly archive it. If I tried it would have pretty much consumed the rest of my life, and I’d stop making work and be a slave to what I had already done.

The Film Museum had always been a great supporter of my work. It’s a perfect place for me because I’ve never been categorised properly – I don’t know if I fit into categorising. I found an institution that loves film and doesn’t have a narrow vision of it; they care about what they think are good films. And luckily they think my films are good.

When Alex [Horwath, the museum’s director] offered to store it I said he could just have it all, with the idea that they would properly archive it over the years, because I knew it was a huge job. As part of that archiving process, they thought they should also make DVDs to make the films available. And at that point I thought it was a great idea, mainly because there seemed to be a demand to see those early films, and I couldn’t provide a solution by renting prints any more. The internet’s made my work talked about more; it’s actually found its place in the world, where before it was in little corners. I’ve been holding out for years not to make DVDs, but now the writing’s on the wall. And you get a sense of the films, anyways.

denti alligator wrote: Sun Mar 09, 2025 8:40 pm Wonderful, of course, to have these. But why not make the move to Blu-ray?

Stefan Andersson wrote: Mon May 12, 2025 4:48 pm Student von Prag (1926) and Alraune (1928) reviewed:
https://therealmofsilence.com/

eerik wrote: Mon May 12, 2025 5:23 pm

Stefan Andersson wrote: Mon May 12, 2025 4:48 pm Student von Prag (1926) and Alraune (1928) reviewed:
https://therealmofsilence.com/

For those who might have missed it, Deaf Crocodile is planning to release these in the USA, on Blu-ray I assume.

TMDaines wrote: Tue Nov 11, 2025 9:53 pm I’ll try to remember to try mine this week. My player is flashed with the custom firmware to make region free and allow external subs etc though.