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I'm going to hope for 1932 with D:

Dovzhenko's Ivan

Make me weep with joy! Please!

Sorry! No to those three too.

I'm going to leave it at that now re: confirming or not confirming. Each of these titles will be first announced just 2 months before they hit the street and we're not releasing anything in June --- so July will be the start of the flood (hence, May will be the first announcement).

What i would like to see:

Chantal Akerman - 1080 Bruxelles
Jacques Demy - Lola
Robert Flaherty - Louisiana Story
Abel Gance - La Roue
Miklós Jancsó - Még Kér a Nép
Fritz Lang - Nibelugen ( street dat finally known? )
Jean Renoir - La chienne

Thanks, peerpee, but can you at least confirm that L for Lang's 1924 Nibelungen does not count as a "previously unannounced title"?

I wasn't counting DIE NIBELUNGEN in the tease because that appeared already in our last catalogue.

I'm thinking 1964 is Red Desert by Antonioni

R & 1972 = Out 1: Spectre

This is impossibly vague, but what the heck. . .

MoC seem to have 'adopted' Visconti, so I'm betting that he's the V, and one of the two returning auteurs, maybe for Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa (1965).

A could be for a second Antonioni (Red Desert (1964)?), but I'd like to think it's Akerman, Jeanne Dielman (1976).

Pasolini is also overdue the MoC treatment, and the fabulous transfer of Medea (1969) has yet to get a UK release, while much of the rest is spoken for.

My hopes for more major Japanese New Wave material seems to have been dashed, given the absence of H, I, O, S and Y from the letter clues (and with Mujo (1970) ruled out by the numbers), but I'm very happy to see so many 80s and later films on the books. This area is purely random speculation since MoC don't have much form in this respect.

Claire Denis could be the D, but the only significant date match seems to be I Can't Sleep (1994). I was hoping for a K for Kiarostami, but maybe we can make do with an M for Makhmalbaf (maybe Once Upon a Time, Cinema (1992) or The Silence (1998)).

My biggest hope is that one of the Ms will match up with 1989 and give us Kira Muratova's The Asthenic Syndrome, one of the greatest, crankiest films of the last 30 years.

The other decent clue is that we've got 20 films and only 12 directors, so there should be plenty of multiple titles, but I haven't had much inspiration in that regard.

So, what's the bet that I'm 100% wrong?

Given that MoC have thrown a real curveball with Mad Detective, I'm very interested to see what the more recent films will turn out to be - and will speculate that J & 2004 could be The World. Also, it would be amazing if 1931, 1932 & R turned out to be La Chienne and La Nuit du carrefour. Medea seems like a good bet too.

2004 and T has got to be Betty Thomas' Doctor Doolittle (the one with Eddie Murphy.) And I'm hoping that 1989 combines with V to give us a decent version of Chuck Vincent's Party Girls.
=P~

I guess in going for Murnau-completism, M and 1924 might be Murnau's

Die Finanzen des Grossherzogs

which was restored in 1995. But if Tartuffe was a low seller, I doubt MoC would risk even lower sales with such a title.

Has MOC ever released a French-language film?

TONI, LE SILENCE DE LA MER, and three René Laloux films.

Seven more French films on the way this year.

peerpee wrote:TONI, LE SILENCE DE LA MER, and three René Laloux films.

Seven more French films on the way this year.

#-o of course
but good tip for those of us deducing

2004 could be Godard's Notre Musique

peerpee wrote:TONI, LE SILENCE DE LA MER, and three René Laloux films.

Seven more French films on the way this year.

In which case I'll add my dubious wishing power to foggyeyes' Renoir picks. Shame that Renoir and Rivette are either/or options in this game.

No "N" = No "Naruse Vol. 2," at least not in 2008.

Nuts.

1963 could be Melville's L'Aîné des Ferchaux, which would be quite the coup

domino harvey wrote:2004 could be Godard's Notre Musique

I guess not, unless the Optimum DVD goes out of print. (I'm also crossing my fingers for The World!)

Could 'L' and 1994 go together to form Claude Lanzmann's Tsahal?

colinr0380 wrote:

domino harvey wrote:2004 could be Godard's Notre Musique

I guess not, unless the Optimum DVD goes out of print. (I'm also crossing my fingers for The World!)

oops, at least I think my other guesses are better

domino harvey wrote:2004 could be Godard's Notre Musique

Optimum have already released this in the UK, and there's no sign of it going OOP.

EDIT: Never mind....

Please let the 1931 film be Mario Peixote's Limite.

The 1931 title might be Manoel de Oliveira's first film "Douro, Faina Fluvial." It's a short but it could easily be included with one of his later masterpieces, perhaps Doomed Love (from 1978). After all, 2008 is his 100th birthday and it's an ideal time to bring him into the MoC collection.

Let '89 be Teshigahara's Rikyu.

fiddlesticks wrote:No "N" = No "Naruse Vol. 2," at least not in 2008. Nuts.

Yup, this one cuts deep. Hopefully, one of these films is some other Japanese humanist that NO ONE has ever heard of and is equally great. Not getting my hopes up again, though. It's nice to MoC going after some new stuff, though.

1998 + "T" = Tsai's The Hole. A two-disc set with a CD of Grace Chang songs! ....wishful thinking, again.