MoC Forthcoming, Wishlist, and Random Speculation

[Der Spieler]

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)

Where d'you get that?

[zedz]

Very nice selection, if it's true. And since I just today discovered that Sopralluoghi in Palestina is out on DVD in Italy, here's hoping that it gets attached to the Gospel release. (And here's hoping they find space for another early Imamura on Insect Woman.)

[swo17]

Humina humina humina. I'm guessing Italy is the other country then (besides the US).

[manicsounds]

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)

Where d'you get that?

on Eureka's site

[criterionsnob]

I think that sticker on The Insect Woman cover indicates a second feature, like on the Pigs and Battleships release.

[knives]

It's likely an other pre-Battleships film. I'd put my money on it being In Front of West Ginza Station.

[John Edmond]

I was going to go with Endless Desire - because it looks like there's only two words, the first slightly longer than the second. But it's also translation dependent.

[knives]

Given the previous one was also a desire you're probably right. I was just thinking chronologically.

[ola t]

It says "+Imamura's second film Nishi Ginza Station".

[John Edmond]

Knives on points. Station sounds like a more interesting movie anyway.

[matrixschmatrix]

Repo Man and Two Lane Blacktop are limited, blu-only editions (like Touch of Evil.) I'm assuming they're part of the Universal deal.

[otis]

Will Repo Man include the "Flip you, melon farmers!" TV edit?

[TMDaines]

The Italian Accattone DVD has been sitting in my Amazon.it basket all week... very happy to remove that and wait for this! Very much looking forward to Le silence and the two Pasolinis.

I wonder if title #32 will be another Pasolini also. Seems strange to have #31 and #33 be but not the one in-between.

[jbaart]

Guess I need to quickly sell my DVDs of Silence and Punishment Park Do we know yet whether or not they will contain the full booklets from the DVD release? I remember keeping the DVD of Vengeance is Mine due to differing booklet content.

[otis]

I wonder if title #32 will be another Pasolini also. Seems strange to have #31 and #33 be but not the one in-between.

As all the Tartan Pasolinis are OOP, it could be any one of them, I guess. Porcile on blu??

[Peacock]

I wonder if title #32 will be another Pasolini also. Seems strange to have #31 and #33 be but not the one in-between.

As all the Tartan Pasolinis are OOP, it could be any one of them, I guess. Porcile on blu??

That's my guess, the only other ones are RoGoPaG, Love Meetings, Hawks and Sparrows and Edipu Re (Actually that's another strong contender.. I'm alone in disliking this one though)

[eerik]

Kevin @ Blu-ray.com forum:

One that wasn't leaked. Leo McCarey's RUGGLES OF RED GAP coming to BD early next year.

[matrixschmatrix]

Yeah, they just announced it on Twitter- the cover's their page's background. That's exciting as hell, I'm glad I didn't buy Amazon's version now.

[antnield]

I wonder if title #32 will be another Pasolini also. Seems strange to have #31 and #33 be but not the one in-between.

As all the Tartan Pasolinis are OOP, it could be any one of them, I guess. Porcile on blu??

That's my guess, the only other ones are RoGoPaG, Love Meetings, Hawks and Sparrows and Edipu Re (Actually that's another strong contender.. I'm alone in disliking this one though)

Love Meetings to accompany Accatone - confirmed on MoC's Twitter.

[Ozu Teapot]

Will Repo Man include the "Flip you, melon farmers!" TV edit?

They said on Twitter

and also in February 2012, Alex Cox's directorial debut, a world première on Blu-ray, REPO MAN (1984) absolutely chock full of extras.

so fingers crossed!

[matrixschmatrix]

Apparently there's one more yet to come, that will be announced in the upcoming catalog.

Regardless, this is as exciting a slate of announcements as I've seen in a long time- I think the only one I'll be skipping out of these is Punishment Park.

[Duncan Hopper]

Will Repo Man include the "Flip you, melon farmers!" TV edit?

They said on Twitter

and also in February 2012, Alex Cox's directorial debut, a world première on Blu-ray, REPO MAN (1984) absolutely chock full of extras.

so fingers crossed!

SPECIAL DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY

• New high-definition master in the original aspect ratio – 1.85:1

• Original mono soundtrack and 5.1 remix, both in DTS-HD Master Audio

• English SDH subtitles on the main feature

• Isolated music and effects track

• Audio commentary with Cox and executive producer Michael Nesmith, casting director Victoria Thomas, and actors Sy Richardson, Zander Schloss, and Del Zamora

• All-new 2012 video piece by Cox offering further thoughts on the film

• Repo Man (entire TV version) – this legendary variant, prepared by Cox for network television, incorporates deleted material and surreal overdubs in place of profanity

• Repossessed – a retrospective video piece on the making of the film, featuring Cox, producers Peter McCarthy and Jonathan Wacks, and actors Del Zamora, Sy Richardson, and Dick Rude

• The Missing Scenes – a roundtable viewing of deleted scenes from the film with Cox, executive producer Michael Nesmith, real-life neutron bomb inventor Sam Cohen, and character “J. Frank Parnell”

• Harry Zen Stanton – an extended interview with the legendary actor Harry Dean Stanton

• Original theatrical trailer

• A 44-page full colour booklet specially created by Cox, entitled The Repo Code and incorporating all manner of Repo ephemera

[manicsounds]

The Insect Woman:
DUAL FORMAT RELEASE INCLUDING BLU-RAY AND DVD VERSIONS OF BOTH FILMS

• Newly restored high-definition master of The Insect Woman
• New progressive transfer of Nishi-Ginza Station, a 1958 feature by Imamura
• Newly translated optional English subtitles for both films
• A video conversation about The Insect Woman between Imamura and critic Tadao Satô
• A lavish booklet featuring essays by film scholar Tony Rayns on both films, rare archival imagery, and more!

Two Lane Blacktop
SPECIAL DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY
• New restored high-definition master, supervised and approved by Monte Hellman
• Original mono soundtrack and optional newly remastered 5.1 mix
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hearing-impaired
• Audio commentary by Monte Hellman and associate producer Gary Kurtz
• On The Road Again: Two-Lane Blacktop Revisited, a 43-minute video piece in which Monte Hellman revisits the film’s locations – directed by Monte Hellman, Gabriel Cowan, Brett Mann, and John Suits
• Somewhere Near Salinas, a 28-minute interview by Monte Hellman with singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson – directed by Monte Hellman
• Sure Did Talk to You, a 24-minute video piece featuring interviews with producer Michael Laughlin, production manager Walter Coblenz, and the director’s son Jared Hellman – directed by Monte Hellman
• Rare archival screen-test footage of James Taylor and Laurie Bird
• Original theatrical trailer
• Optional music and effects track
• A lavish 36-page booklet featuring rare production imagery, the words of Monte Hellman, and more!

Accattone
• New high-definition transfer of Accattone in the film’s original aspect ratio
• Pasolini’s 1965 feature-length documentary Comizi d’amore [Love Meetings], on the complementary theme of Italian attitudes towards sex, presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.66:1
• Original Italian theatrical trailers for both films
• Newly translated optional English subtitles for both films
• More extras to be announced nearer to release date
• Booklet featuring rare archival imagery, the words of Pasolini, and more!

The Gospel According To St. Matthew
• New high-definition transfer in the film’s original aspect ratio
• Original Italian theatrical trailer
• Newly translated optional English subtitles
• More extras to be announced nearer to release date
• Sumptuous booklet featuring rare archival imagery, the words of Pasolini, and more!

[Ozu Teapot]

This is all excellent news - but not for my bank balance!

[Forrest Taft]

The line-up is even more impressive this time than the one during the last Twitter announcement. I'm getting all of these. Those Repo Man extras looks fantastic. As both Alex Cox and Rudy Wurlitzer enters the collection early next year, can we also expect a MoC release of WALKER in the near future?