MoC Forthcoming, Wishlist, and Random Speculation

[Tommaso]

On mine, too. Ideally this should come with more than one soundtrack. The new one by Gene Coleman sounds interesting enough, but In The Nursery's is perfection.

[tenia]

JUDEX and the INDIAN EPIC and PHANTOM aren't really "box sets" though?

You could state "Not available separately", but I agree that the use of "boxsets" in anyway clearer than what's used in the interim catalog.

[TheSilence]

I just saw Teinosuke Kinugasa's A Page of Madness featured in the More4 series The Story of Film: An Odyssey. Are there any high quality releases on the market? It looks like a great film for MoC to release.

It was fascinating to see the tragic story of Ruan Lingyu profiled in this series, as she is someone I previously knew almost nothing about.
How many of her films have survived, and have any had a release?

[Opdef]

With Griffith's Birth of a Nation and Way Down West being released on Blu-ray in November in the US by Kino, is there any chance of a future Blu-ray MoC release for these films? I know Eureka released the DVDs of them years ago, so I was hoping there's a chance here...

[Wu.Qinghua]

It was fascinating to see the tragic story of Ruan Lingyu profiled in this series, as she is someone I previously knew almost nothing about. How many of her films have survived, and have any had a release?

I'll be short, as this isn't the place to discuss Ruan. Quite a few of her films have survived, which you may be able to find with the help of search engines or in the thread on 'Chinese films on DVD' in the 'International DVD News and Discussions' section. Some of them have been released on DVD in the US (Goddess, Peach Girl, Spray of Plum Blossoms etc). 'Goddess', the most famous of her films, can also be found on archive.org with English intertitles. On archive.org, there's also the very interesting, but unsubtitled 'New Women', of which there is no subtitled release available - but there's a very helpful English transcript of its intertitles etc., which you can find here.

[eerik]

Argh! I have to buy Make Way for Tomorrow again. Apparently the mother of my 18-month-old niece thought it would be a great idea if a child plays with uncle's Blu-rays... Metropolis steelbook is also quite scratched.

[Calvin]

It would be great if MoC could release the great Brazilian film Limite. It's recently been restored by the World Cinema Foundation.

[perkizitore]

Couldn't agree more.

[Bürgermeister]

How about a film from Norway called Ni liv (1957) this could do well on MoC

[Film Reel]

I know there was an important restoration work for Cabiria (Italy, 1914) few years ago, they also screened the restored version during the 2006 Cannes film festival, but they never managed to release it on dvd. Wouldn't be great to finally see it through Moc?

[imhotep]

How about some Swedish stuff on BD? Roy Andersson's films for example.

[zedz]

How about some Swedish stuff on BD? Roy Andersson's films for example.

You mean the ones that are already available in the UK from Artificial Eye? I'm sure they'd be delighted to be bootlegged by MoC!

[Zot!]

How about some Swedish stuff on BD? Roy Andersson's films for example.

You mean the ones that are already available in the UK from Artificial Eye? I'm sure they'd be delighted to be bootlegged by MoC!

In all fairness Giliap is unavailable and none of them are on Blu...but yes, unlikely.

[imhotep]

How about some Swedish stuff on BD? Roy Andersson's films for example.

You mean the ones that are already available in the UK from Artificial Eye? I'm sure they'd be delighted to be bootlegged by MoC!

There are no BDs out though. I didn't know who had the rights. Sorry!

[knives]

The easiest way to figure out is to go to the regional Amazon which always mentions the publisher in the information box.

[TMDaines]

I know there was an important restoration work for Cabiria (Italy, 1914) few years ago, they also screened the restored version during the 2006 Cannes film festival, but they never managed to release it on dvd. Wouldn't be great to finally see it through Moc?

Silent Italian cinema is very hard to find on the whole so this would be welcome.

[swo17]

Pastrone's Il fuoco would also be a wonderful addition.

[htshell]

I know there was an important restoration work for Cabiria (Italy, 1914) few years ago, they also screened the restored version during the 2006 Cannes film festival, but they never managed to release it on dvd. Wouldn't be great to finally see it through Moc?

Who are you referring to when you say "they"?

Cabiria is on DVD from Kino.

[Timec]

They did a major restoration of it a few years ago (à la the recent "Metropolis" reconstruction) and restored nearly an hour of footage that isn't in any of the home video releases.

[marnum]

How about a film from Norway called Ni liv (1957) this could do well on MoC

There is two rather good DVD editions with English subtitles.

[TMDaines]

I know there was an important restoration work for Cabiria (Italy, 1914) few years ago, they also screened the restored version during the 2006 Cannes film festival, but they never managed to release it on dvd. Wouldn't be great to finally see it through Moc?

Who are you referring to when you say "they"?

Cabiria is on DVD from Kino.

English intertitles.

[YnEoS]

It also appears the Kino DVD is 123 minutes, while the new restoration is 180 minutes.

[Film Reel]

@htshell: Cabiria was restored in 2006 by the Museo Nazionale del Cinema (National museum of cinema).

They restored two versions of the film: the original 1914 silent version and the 1931 sonorized version made by Pastrone himself. The movie has been screened during festivals (including 2006 Cannes). Martin Scorsese provided an introduction at the premiere. These restored versions hasn't been released on dvd yet and it seems no one is planning to release them.
The KINO version was released in 2000, it probably contains some previous restoration.

You can read something about the 2006 restoration here (just scroll a bit and you will find an english translation)

[htshell]

Sorry for the confusion. In 2010, we screened a 35mm print at my work of what must have been the new restoration (as it was 180 minutes) and I assumed the DVD was the same, was not aware of a previous version.

[davibar]

Official upcoming dual format releases:

#22 THE INSECT WOMAN (SHÔHEI IMAMURA, 1963)
#26 TWO-LANE BLACKTOP (MONTE HELLMAN, 1971)
#27 REPO MAN (ALEX COX, 1984)
#28 LE SILENCE DE LA MER (JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE, 1949)
#29 PUNISHMENT PARK (PETER WATKINS, 1971)
#31 ACCATTONE (PIER PAOLO PASOLINI, 1961)
#32 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW (PIER PAOLO PASOLINI, 1964)