MoC Forthcoming, Wishlist, and Random Speculation

[Drucker]

Birth of a Nation and Tabu are still forthcoming, and could certainly be up there.

[Kay Hoog]

Muriel is also a possibility

[mostly asia]

from facebook 5 month ago....
"Eureka Entertainment
16. Juli
Morning everyone! We are gearing up for today's announcement of our forthcoming MASTERS OF CINEMA releases. It would appear that your 'desired' line up would include Sleuth, Die Nibelungen, Le Samourai, The Birth of a Nation, Duck Soup, Paths of Glory, The Best Years Of Our Lives, The Passion of Joan of Arc & Black Rain amongst others, or titles from Billy Wilder, Shinoda, Epstein, Resnais, Visconti, Sirk & Imamura."

maybe Imamura's Black Rain or Shinoda's Double Suicide on blu-ray?......

[TMDaines]

Give us some firsts and Tabu and I'll be all smiles.

[Calvin]

I'm hoping that one of those double bills consists of A Page of Madness and Crossroads. Probably just wishful thinking.

[swo17]

Well they said it was eight films

They said a month ago that it was "looking like eight films." It's entirely possible that one or more of those has been delayed.

Also, FWIW, none of those BD banners match the bright purple of the Tabu DVD or the black of Muriel.

[triodelover]

Also, FWIW, none of those BD banners match the bright purple of the Tabu DVD or the black of Muriel.

Don't forget Onibaba.

[neilist]

Well they said it was eight films, so we can assume two of the blu-rays are dual features

Alternatively there could be three films in one, if they were to put out a package comprising the three early Fritz Lang films that Kino released recently.

[Calvin]

Well they said it was eight films, so we can assume two of the blu-rays are dual features

Alternatively there could be three films in one, if they were to put out a package comprising the three early Fritz Lang films that Kino released recently.

Or indeed a Sadao Yamanaka collection. I believe the Humanity and Paper Balloons DVD is still unavailable and The Million Ryo Pot was mentioned last year.

[triodelover]

The Lang could be the DVD only release. I have the Kino set, and based on what I've been able to watch so far, I doubt the elements are available to justify a Blu-ray. Or it could be the two films comprising Die Spinnen, which Kino released last year. Either would add to their catalog of Lang's German work, which judging from what they've released so far, is a goal.

[TMDaines]

I'd kill for the Lang's but I've posted what they tweeted me several times about it not being forthcoming this year or last.

[triodelover]

I'd kill for the Lang's but I've posted what they tweeted me several times about it not being forthcoming this year or last.

That's right, you did. Sorry, got caught up in all the guessing fervor.

[TMDaines]

I hope I'm wrong: anything for more silent German cinema.

[Finch]

As much as I liked Niebelungen, I sincerely hope that just this once we can have a slate of releases for the year without any Lang in it, or Murnau for that matter, so that other directors get their due (Ruiz, pretty please? or more Sternberg, or Hou-Hsien's The Puppetmaster, or Johnnie To's The Mission which currently only has one sort of decent release in a non-English friendly French disc)?

[swo17]

I wonder who, if anyone, might end up being this year's Pialat/Imamura/Pasolini.

[acf171072]

Please let's see Kawashima's The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era, The Sign of the Cross to go with Cleopatra, some Masumura not out in English friendly editions (The Hot Little Girl, Play it Cool, The Wife of Seishu Hanaokai, Two Wives, The Most Valuable Wife), any other Ayako Wakao classics (Niigata Bamboo Doll, for example), Yoshimura's The Ball at the Anjo House or some French classics like Leenhardt's Les Dernières Vacances. Or heck, ANY YOSHIDA in an English friendly edition. Any of those would be heaven.

[Nobby]

Johnnie To's The Mission

That would be too awesome, although not impossible I think. I just found that another 1999 HK classic - Bullets Over Summer - was recently released in Italy (no english subs though), while there is no sign of Hong Kong release of this film so far.

[Film Reel]

That would be too awesome, although not impossible I think. I just found that another 1999 HK classic - Bullets Over Summer - was recently released in Italy (no english subs though), while there is no sign of Hong Kong release of this film so far.

Yes, Bullets Over Summer was released this year in Italy on DVD (first time?) and Blu-ray through Cecchi Gori Home Video. They both contains the original audio track and the italian dub, subs in italian only. There's a making of included as well.

[eerik]

Our first release, in Blu-ray and DVD editions, is Claude Chabrol's debut feature in a gorgeous new restoration: LE BEAU SERGE
In a gorgeous new Gaumont restoration (in 1080p on the BD), with a 56-min doc about the film, including Chabrol's short L'AVARICE..
...and a lengthy booklet containing a new and exclusive essay about the film by Capricci head / ex-Cahiers editor-in-chief Emmanuel Burdeau.

Also in March: Chabrol's 2nd feature, LES COUSINS, in Blu-ray and DVD editions, featuring...
...a gorgeous new Gaumont restoration (in 1080p on the BD), w/ a 47-min doc about the film...
...Chabrol's 1964 short L'HOMME QUI VENDIT LA TOUR EIFFEL...
...and a lengthy booklet including another new and exclusive essay about the film by Emmanuel Burdeau...
...writing about the film by Godard from the time of release, and a never-published-in-English essay by the great filmmaker Luc Moullet...
...about the actress Françoise Vatel, plus much more.
(Moullet generously provided this essay exclusively for this release.)

Last March release, on Blu-ray + DVD: Henri-Georges Clouzot's debut feature, THE MURDERER LIVES AT 21 [L'ASSASSIN HABITE AU 21].
From the beautiful new Gaumont restoration of the film, with a lengthy booklet featuring rare and archival pieces + images. More soon.

In April, we'll be releasing a Blu-ray upgrade in stunning 1080p of Michelangelo Antonioni's 1961 masterpiece LA NOTTE.
(This release will include the same features/56-page-booklet as our previous DVD edition from a few years ago.)

The film voted one of the top 5 Japanese films of all-time by Kinema junpô magazine: BAKUMATSU TAIYÔ-DEN by Yûzô Kawashima.
[A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era] [aka, "Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate (?)] [aka "Shinagawa Path" (???)]
...in a gorgeous new restoration in 1080p (on the BD) from Nikkatsu (made as part of their 100th anniversary)
— also containing a lengthy booklet with a new and exclusive essay by Japanese cinema scholar/expert/critic Frederick Veith
(and more!!!)

Our final release for April is DVD only — and only that due to the conditions of the extant materials —
it is a two-disc set titled: THE COMPLETE (EXISTING) FILMS OF SADAO YAMANAKA.
It will include all of the extant features by Yamanaka, one of the greatest of all Japanese filmmakers, w/ Mizoguchi, Ozu, Naruse, Shimizu.
It contains: TANGE SAZEN: THE MILLION RYÔ POT; KÔICHIYAMA SÔSHUN; and HUMANITY AND PAPER BALLOONS — along with the surviving fragments...
...of the two other Yamanaka films that have not been destroyed. Also includes a lengthy booklet — and much more.

[Finch]

MoC have surely secured the DVD of the Year 2013 with that Yamanaka set. Bravo!

[neilist]

Concluding Twitter post:

'That's it! We'll be announcing May/June releases in 2 months' time, incl. some very rare/anticipated/longed-for works. Have a GREAT holiday!'

Talk about leaving us on edge for the next two months, although I guess I don't expect anything else from MoC other than 'very rare/anticipated/longed-for works' anyway...

[RossyG]

Brilliant!

Thrilled about the Chabrol and Clouzot films and very happy to upgrade my La Notte DVD.

[lubitsch]

Thrilling. That's what I want from MoC, great/interesting films without English friendly releases yet.

[TMDaines]

I like the look of the Clouzot but so frustrating to see another two Criterion double-ups. Good to see La notte on Blu-ray too, but this is going to be the sixth Italian film in a row without any extras? We were spoilt with Accattone and Gospel. Oh well, you can't have everything!

[acf171072]

The Yamanaka and the Clouzot would be miracle enough (finally get rid of my old DVDR of L'Assassin from an archaic BBC showing), but the Kawashima is the sangraal. That's 2013's release of the year guaranteed unless we get a full Blu of Napoleon or Greed before December, which is about as likely as finding a live dinosaur. \:D/ \:D/ \:D/