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For those who havent seen anything from the film, here is the opening with the sublime Debussy orchestral reworking of eric satie. It sets up the rest of the movie: introducing us to the three castaways adrift in despair... and ends just around telling the story of the first woman (and her prison escape, and sewing factory job).

Sanjuro wrote:G + 1997 + 1998 = Histoire Du Cinema. Does anyone really believe the AE version is coming soon?

How awesome would that be? I already own the French version but I really wouldn`t mind buying the MoC version.

TheGodfather wrote:

Sanjuro wrote:G + 1997 + 1998 = Histoire Du Cinema. Does anyone really believe the AE version is coming soon?

How awesome would that be? I already own the French version but I really wouldn`t mind buying the MoC version.

I maybe completely wrong but isn't this Gaumont in France? Toni and Le Silence de la Mer were both Gaumont licences right?

You mention AE for UK rights though? Could the licence have expired or is that not possible?

How exciting!

sdk83 wrote:

TheGodfather wrote:

Sanjuro wrote:G + 1997 + 1998 = Histoire Du Cinema. Does anyone really believe the AE version is coming soon?

How awesome would that be? I already own the French version but I really wouldn`t mind buying the MoC version.

I maybe completely wrong but isn't this Gaumont in France?

yes it is

Cinetwist wrote:I think La Vie de Jesus is a safe bet too.

This is typical of my inattentiveness but have just been casually looking through the latest Sight and Sound (about the fourth or fifth time of doing so) and noticed the "This summer" section at the bottom of the MoC advert on page 4 of the May issue talks of Vampyr, Mad Detective in cinemas and...La Vie de Jesus!

So it has been confirmed even if I didn't see it for a while! Thank you very, very much peerpee/Nick and all the MoC people - I've wanted to see this for a very long time but didn't want to order the region 1 again after getting burned the last time (I got a film on the life of some famous religious person or other )! I suppose it was a natural, as cinetwist says, because of the Masters of Cinema article on the polarising, magnificent cinema of Dumont?

Anyway, was this one of the teaser titles? (D, 1997?)

I wonder how the hell that went under my radar too....

The ads tend to be the first thing I look at!

Even more typical of my slowness - just noticed that Zazou and foggy eyes mentioned it on page 4 of the thread! #-o

Whenabouts is MoC going to announce new titles? I'm relatively new to the line, but it seems like they don't have any sort of reliable pattern for announcements. Of course I could be dreadfully wrong.

There's no "release pattern" as far as I know but Nick did mention when this batch of films will be released:

peerpee wrote: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).

sidehacker wrote:There's no "release pattern" as far as I know but Nick did mention when this batch of films will be released:

peerpee wrote: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).

Hey! It's May. Howzabout it?

I thought my request on the last page wasn't too outrageous, but I will add "with a cherry on top" if we can get just one title announced.

Yeah it'd be so cute if we could get an announcement.

A flood of titles though. Sounds delicious.

So I guess La Vie rules out that Historie(s) du Cinema guess. I'm just going to spring for the french dvd.

La Vie de Jésus certainly doesn't rule out the Histoire(s) du Cinéma guess, since Nick mentioned the year 1997 twice.

Well Histoire(s) would actually take the years 1988, 1989, 1997 and 1998, yet this is going by IMDB which may be wrong, Nick hasn't mentioned 1988 but Toutes les histoires may have premiered in 1989. It would be great if MoC released this I would definitely buy it, I really liked nearly all the episodes but found the Gaumont discs' subtitles lacking and had to rely on my meagre French to make some stuff out. The problem of course with such a project is that the films are so layered that the subtitles would be a nightmare. Of course the accompanying booklet, I'm sure, would be amazing and really exactly what is needed with such a release. Here's hoping.

FSimeoni wrote:Well Histoire(s) would actually take the years 1988, 1989, 1997 and 1998, yet this is going by IMDB which may be wrong, Nick hasn't mentioned 1988 but Toutes les histoires may have premiered in 1989.

I think each section was revised for the final release, so presumably there would only be one date for this final cut. The earlier releases were of the work-in-progress. I don't think those versions exist anymore, but maybe I'm misremembering.

The current Eureka Blue Angel looks pretty good, though MoC would create a nicer box, I'm sure

Now that Judex and Nuits Rouge have taken spine 49/50 does this mean it is looking less likely that Sandra will be included, surely it would have been saved for spine 49 to make a Visconti trilogy a la Shindo?

filmghost wrote:Georges Franju: Judex (1963) & Nuits rouges (1974)

Maybe it's just wishful thinking, but they were recently released together in France, so there is a chance. I would love to see Thomas l'imposteur too, but I guess that's more unlikely...

Let's hear it for filmghost, back on March 2! =D>

So what's the deal with The Blue Angel - if Vampyr is spine 25 now has Blue Angel been cancelled altogether, or is it still coming later this year?

Any news about Caligari?

Sorry - nothing. It's up to Murnau-Stiftung/Transit Films really --- ie. whether they give it the full NOSFERATU treatment. We've expressed a desire for such work to take place, but we have no further information on whether a decision has been made.

On the MoC website, there's a new row for releases. Perhaps the dorkiest thing to get excited about, but I think it is cool.

So I wasted my afternoon composing another list of possibilities...none of which I have actually seen. Some of these might not be eligible for MoC to obtain. I've compiled an alphabetic list of directors whose films interested me over the years, and I used it as a guide.

A
- A Wedding (Altman, 1978)
- Emperor of the North Pole (Aldrich, 1973)
- The Meetings of Anna (Akerman, 1978)
- Best Intentions (August, 1992)
- The Atlantic Swimmers (Herbert Achternbusch, 1976)
- The Wishing Tree (Tenghiz Abduladze, 1976)

G
- The End of the World (Gance, 1931)
- Subarnarekha (Ghattak, 1975)
- Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures (Gidai, 1965)
- Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future (Leonid Gidai, 1973)
- America (Griffith, 1924)
- Isn't Life Wonderful? (Griffith, 1924)
- The Struggle (Griffith, 1931)
- Berceau de Cristol (Philippe Garrel, 1976)
- Emergency Kisses (Garrel, 1989)
- El Gallo de oro (Roberto Gavaldon, 1964)
- Seduced and Abandoned (Germi, 1964)
- The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (Germi, 1965)
- Vidheyan (Gopalakrishnan, 1994)

J
- Berlin Alexanderplatz (Jutzi, 1931)
- Cantana (Jancso, 1963)
- Red Psalm (Jancso, 1972)
- Private Vices and Public Virtues (Jancso, 1976)
- I De gyni na fovitai ton andra (Yorgos Javellas, 1965)
- When the Heavens Fell (Risto Jarva, 1972)
- Sitting on a Branch, Enjoying Myself (Jakubisco, 1989)
- The World (Jia, 2004)

M
- Bawarchi (Hrisihikesh Muhkerjee, 1972)
- Abhimaan (Muhkerjee, 1973)
- Namak Haraam (Muhkerjee, 1973)
- I Compagni (Monicelli, 1963)
- Parenti Serpenti (Monicelli, 1992)
- Seclusion Near a Forest (Jiri Menzel, 1976)
- Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (Menzel, 1994)
- Riddance (Mezsaros, 1973)
- Just Like Home (Mezsaros, 1978)
- The Unburied Man (Mezsaros, 2004)
- The Asthenic Syndrome (Muratova, 1989)
- Three Stories (Muratova, 1997)
- The Tuner (Muratova, 2004)
- The Cycle (Dariush Mehrjui, 1978)
- Mehman-e maman (Mehrjui, 2004)
- Gavaznha (Masud Kimai, 1976)
- The Wolf's Trail (Kimai, 1994)
- Marriage of the Blessed (Mohsen Makmahlbaf, 1989)
- Once Upon a Time, Cinema... (Makmahlbaf, 1992)
- Silence (Makmahlbaf, 1998)
- Cat's Play (Makk, 1972)
- Magnet of Doom (Melville, 1963)
- Heitai Yakuza (Masumura, 1965)
- Seisaku's Wife (Masumura, 1965)
- Lullaby of the Earth (Masumura, 1976)
- Double Suicide of Sonezaki (Masumura, 1978)
- Man Is Not a Bird (Makajev, 1965)

R
- La Chienne (Renoir, 1931)
- Night at the Crossroads (Renoir, 1932)
- Percival (Rohmer, 1978)
- Muriel (Resnais, 1963)
- Joan the Maid (Resnais, 1994)
- Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia (Ryazanov, 1974)
- Blaise Pascal (Rosselini, 1972)
- Augustine of Hippo (Rosselini, 1972)
- The Age of Cosimo de' Medici (Rosselini, 1973)
- Bandini (Bimal Roy, 1963)
- White Dove (Ruiz, 1973)
- Black God, White Devil (Glauber Rocha, 1973)
- Hands Over the City (Rosi, 1963)
- The Moment of Truth (Rosi, 1965)
- The Mattei Affair (Rosi, 1972)
- Lucky Luciano (Rosi, 1973)
- Illustrious Corpses (Rosi, 1976)
- The Scenic Route (Mark Rappaport, 1978)
- Ordinary Fascism (Mikhail Romm, 1965)
- The Castle of Purity (Arturo Ripstein, 1973)
- Hell Without Limits (Ripstein, 1978)

T
- Summer Soldiers (Teshigahara, 1972)
- Rikyu (Teshigahara, 1989)
- The Princess Goh (Teshigahara, 1992)

V
- Street Scene (Vidor, 1931)
- Kino Eye (Dziga Vertov, 1924)
- Enthusiasm (Dziga Vertov, 1931)
- Sandra of a Thousand Delights (Visconti, 1965)
- Smoke on the Potato Fields (Vlacil, 1976)
- The Girl on the Broomstick (Vorlicek, 1972)
- Three Wishes for Cinderella (Vorlicek, 1973)
- Le Bonheur (Varda, 1965)

And since Pialat's debut was 1968 (not covered in the listed numbers), I wouldn't totally discount P's and 1969.