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Stefan Andersson · Mon Apr 07, 2014 2:05 pm

Lovin´ Molly, Lumet

Rampage, Friedkin

Reincarnation of Peter Proud, 1975

Images, Altman

EddieLarkin · #127 Post by **EddieLarkin** » Mon Apr 07, 2014 6:31 pm

I'd seriously like to see a comprehensive Fu Manchu Collection. I can already see the luscious box and booklet design in my head.

For starters there are two British silent serials, which BFI Screenonline suggests were rather good. Then the Warner Oland starring sound trilogy from Paramount, and of course the Boris Karloff classic. Later came the 4.5 hour Drums of Fu Manchu, which appears to be held in very high regard, and then of course the 5 films with Christopher Lee. Fu's other cameo appearances could maybe come as supplements.

Okay, a complete pipe dream I know, but any Fu from Arrow would be welcome.

WATP · #128 Post by **WATP** » Sun Apr 13, 2014 7:39 pm

Love Arrows horror releases.

Would like to see Burnt Offerings and the TV movie of Buried Alive directed by Frank Darabont on blu ray.

No idea who owns the rights to these but

Aberdeen (2000, Hans Peter Moland)
Heavy (1995, Liv Tyler)
Heartbreak Kid (1972, Charles Grodin)
Last Summer (1969, Barbara Hershey)
Tomorrow (1972, Robert Duvall)

Pretty sure those last 3 are all well out of print and extortionate to get on DVD.

Noticed Arrow released The Last American Virgin. Love a good 80s teen film. So how about Valley Girl and One Crazy Summer.

But most of all the Blu Ray special edition dream is

Best of the Best 1 and 2, complete with audio commentary from director Robert Radler and cast, interviews with Eric Roberts, Philip and Simon Rhee, Ralf Moeller and Sonny Landham. Deleted Scenes and Out takes.

One day....one day.

#129 Post by **domino harvey** » Mon Apr 14, 2014 1:32 am

Valley Girl is MGM, so maybe, One Crazy Summer and Last Summer are Warners. No idea who, if anyone, owns Heartbreak Kid in the UK (has it ever even made it to home video there?). Buried Alive ain't exactly the most dynamic looking TV movie, so I'm not clamoring for an upgrade, but my DVD was from the UK, so it may still already have distro there.

GaryC · #130 Post by **GaryC** » Mon Apr 14, 2014 6:40 am

domino harvey wrote:Valley Girl is MGM, so maybe, One Crazy Summer and Last Summer are Warners. No idea who, if anyone, owns Heartbreak Kid in the UK (has it ever even made it to home video there?). Buried Alive ain't exactly the most dynamic looking TV movie, so I'm not clamoring for an upgrade, but my DVD was from the UK, so it may still already have distro there.

The Heartbreak Kid had a couple of VHS releases (1987 and 1993) from minor labels, assuming the BBFC database has the correct film, but no DVD to date.

Stefan Andersson · Tue Apr 15, 2014 9:28 am

WATP wrote:Love Arrows horror releases.

Would like to see Burnt Offerings and the TV movie of Buried Alive directed by Frank Darabont on blu ray.

No idea who owns the rights to these but

Aberdeen (2000, Hans Peter Moland)
Heavy (1995, Liv Tyler)
Heartbreak Kid (1972, Charles Grodin)
Last Summer (1969, Barbara Hershey)
Tomorrow (1972, Robert Duvall)

Pretty sure those last 3 are all well out of print and extortionate to get on DVD.

Noticed Arrow released The Last American Virgin. Love a good 80s teen film. So how about Valley Girl and One Crazy Summer.

But most of all the Blu Ray special edition dream is

Best of the Best 1 and 2, complete with audio commentary from director Robert Radler and cast, interviews with Eric Roberts, Philip and Simon Rhee, Ralf Moeller and Sonny Landham. Deleted Scenes and Out takes.

One day....one day.

Tomorrow is now announced for DVD and Blu in the US through B2MP / Inception Media Group:

http://b2mp.net/home/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Don´t know if the Blu will be region free.

Anthony Thorne · Tue Apr 15, 2014 11:36 am

Looking forward to future Arrow releases and announcements. That noted, I'd love it if Arrow could license the relevant Komeda track to HD remaster this all-time classic YouTube mash-up for their upcoming Blu-Ray of NIGHTMARE CITY. It's really something.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_BbHeRIbDU" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

doc mccoy · #133 Post by **doc mccoy** » Tue Apr 22, 2014 8:07 am

As a nice addition to Arrow's European television line, how about a newly remastered version of La Piovra (The Octopus)? There is room for improvement, after the R1 dvd.

NABOB OF NOWHERE · Tue Apr 22, 2014 9:35 am

Any chance of Arrow revisiting their Chabrol stock for HD , corrected AR and extras?

#135 Post by **zedz** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 1:51 am

Since Arrow seems to have good access to the Cannon Films / Golan-Globus library, it would be great to see Raul Ruiz's crazy 'adaptation' of Treasure Island. Godard's King Lear is also a possibility, but at least that's currently available.

Calvin · #136 Post by **Calvin** » Sun Apr 27, 2014 11:39 am

zedz wrote:Since Arrow seems to have good access to the Cannon Films / Golan-Globus library, it would be great to see Raul Ruiz's crazy 'adaptation' of Treasure Island.

I couldn't agree more! Really, any Ruiz would be great - I'd also love City of Pirates or his Corman-produced The Territory.

#137 Post by **zedz** » Sun Apr 27, 2014 8:09 pm

Calvin wrote:
zedz wrote:Since Arrow seems to have good access to the Cannon Films / Golan-Globus library, it would be great to see Raul Ruiz's crazy 'adaptation' of Treasure Island.
I couldn't agree more! Really, any Ruiz would be great - I'd also love City of Pirates or his Corman-produced The Territory.

Me too, but I'd rather see films that aren't currently available in English-friendly editions. There's so much unreleased Ruiz that I'd hate to duplicate resources and end up with the same 15% of his films accessible.

Stefan Andersson · Mon Apr 28, 2014 9:04 am

Arrow doing Ruiz is a good idea.

The French DVDs of Three Crowns of the Sailor and Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (BlaqOut) are English-subbed, right?
Both films have received restoration money from the French Centre National de Cinematographie, as a part of a big project of digitalization of French films, so I´m guessing HD masters are forthcoming:

http://www.cnc.fr/web/fr/resultats-du-groupe-experts" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Open the Nov. 2013 list or search for "Ruiz" in the "Liste globale des longs metrages" (Full list of feature-length films, a 38-p. PDF),
also available under "télécharger" (download), upper screen right, along with the full list of short films).

I wonder if Cannon still has the outtakes from Treasure Island... I seem to remember a rumour about the film being a cut-down version of a proposed TV series or longer film.

#139 Post by **zedz** » Tue Apr 29, 2014 1:33 am

Stefan Andersson wrote:I wonder if Cannon still has the outtakes from Treasure Island... I seem to remember a rumour about the film being a cut-down version of a proposed TV series or longer film.

I haven't heard that about Treasure Island, and it doesn't sound a lot like Golan-Globus' modus operandi. Are you thinking of Manoel and the Island of Marvels from one year and seven or eight films earlier? I believe that exists in at least three different versions: two television cuts of different lengths (the Portugese version has an extra episode, I think?) plus a cut-down theatrical version. It would be incredible to get the integral cut of that released, but lord knows where you'd find it.

Stefan Andersson · Tue Apr 29, 2014 5:44 am

It might be that I´m confusing Treasure Island with Manoel and the Island of Marvels. Not sure. My source about Treasure Island is a brief news note in an old issue of Sight & Sound.

I Googled around and came up with this:
https://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/12/0 ... s-islands/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; - David Cairns and others (in the Comments section) describes a VHSrip with hardcoded Spanish subs, approx. 128 mins (115 on PAL VHS).

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/tr ... id=1149631" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; - Jonathan Rosenbaum on a four-hour cut, and a version edited by Chris Marker (?!)

Valeria Sarmiento and/or Paulo Branco could probably shed light on this.

ImdB lists BFI, Cannon and Les Films du Passage as production companies, Cannon as US distributor and Argos Films as French distributor. Maybe Argos Films holds video and audio material. Perhaps Cannon was more of a sleeping partner.

repeat · #141 Post by **repeat** » Tue Apr 29, 2014 5:27 pm

+1 for Ruiz, Balabanov, Ferreri, Pola X, Rampage, The Keep, The Heartbreak Kid (Elaine May)...

Skimming through my general wishlist/watchlist/favorites, a bunch of titles that wouldn't be out of place on Arrow (no idea on the rights/prints on any of these, thus purely on the level of fantasy):

Britannia Hospital (Lindsay Anderson)
Little Murders (Alan Arkin)
8 Million Ways to Die (Hal Ashby)
Devil in the Flesh (Marco Bellocchio)
Brainstorm (William Conrad)
France, Inc. (Alain Corneau)
Die Sieger (Dominik Graf)
Die Katze (Dominik Graf)
Strange Affair (Pierre Granier-Deferre)
Some Call It Loving (James B. Harris)
The Man Who Stole The Sun (Kazuhiko Hasegawa)
Paranoia (Umberto Lenzi)
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (Sam Peckinpah)
anything by Frank Perry
The American Way (Maurice Phillips)
Max et les Ferrailleurs (Claude Sautet)
Moonlighting (Jerzy Skolimowski)
Love Massacre (Patrick Tam)
The Plumber (Peter Weir)
Man on the Roof (Bo Widerberg)
The Man from Mallorca (Bo Widerberg)

EddieLarkin · #142 Post by **EddieLarkin** » Tue Apr 29, 2014 5:50 pm

The visual essay on The Uninvited Criterion disc mentions Corman's X: The Man With X-Ray Eyes, which I'd never heard of before, but am now dying to see. It's available from Hollywood Classics via MGM, so c'mon Arrow!

MichaelB · #143 Post by **MichaelB** » Tue Apr 29, 2014 9:14 pm

EddieLarkin wrote:The visual essay on The Uninvited Criterion disc mentions Corman's X: The Man With X-Ray Eyes, which I'd never heard of before

Seriously? I always thought it was one of Corman's better-known films.

Anyway, it is most definitely worth tracking down - in fact, I think I first saw it in a triple bill of "films with schlocky titles that are actually really good by any critical yardstick", the others being Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Incredible Shrinking Man.

EddieLarkin · #144 Post by **EddieLarkin** » Tue Apr 29, 2014 9:44 pm

Well I'm no Corman aficionado, so it very well might be.

The same visual essay also brings up Ray Milland in The Thing with Two Heads, which looks decidedly less impressive, though I remain morbidly curious. Arrow are already releasing one terrible film on the basis it features spectacular early Rick Baker special effects, so maybe they'll do another.

#145 Post by **zedz** » Wed Apr 30, 2014 2:16 am

Stefan Andersson wrote:http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/tr ... id=1149631 - Jonathan Rosenbaum on a four-hour cut, and a version edited by Chris Marker (?!)

Nice to know that not having seen a film doesn't stop Rosenbaum reviewing it!

This all sounds rather bizarre. The credited editors of the film are, as you'd expect, Ruiz veterans Valeria Sarmiento and Rudolfo Wedeles - no mention of Marker (on imdb, at least). I can certainly believe that the film had a four-hour rough cut (it's stuffed full and quite bonkers at two hours), but is there any evidence that a finished cut of that length ever screened anywhere? Call me crazy, but if I were a producer at odds with a willful auteur who wouldn't or couldn't cut his film down to two hours, the last thing I'd do would be to hand it over to a different willful auteur (and I find it even harder to believe that Ruiz's wife would butcher the film against his wishes). But Ruiz's backstage career seems to be nearly as weird and wonderful as what he put up onscreen, so anything's possible!

Stefan Andersson · Wed Apr 30, 2014 8:41 am

repeat wrote:+1 for Ruiz, Balabanov, Ferreri, Pola X, Rampage, The Keep, The Heartbreak Kid (Elaine May)...

Skimming through my general wishlist/watchlist/favorites, a bunch of titles that wouldn't be out of place on Arrow (no idea on the rights/prints on any of these, thus purely on the level of fantasy):

Britannia Hospital (Lindsay Anderson)
Little Murders (Alan Arkin)
8 Million Ways to Die (Hal Ashby)
Devil in the Flesh (Marco Bellocchio)
Brainstorm (William Conrad)
France, Inc. (Alain Corneau)
Die Sieger (Dominik Graf)
Die Katze (Dominik Graf)
Strange Affair (Pierre Granier-Deferre)
Some Call It Loving (James B. Harris)
The Man Who Stole The Sun (Kazuhiko Hasegawa)
Paranoia (Umberto Lenzi)
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (Sam Peckinpah)
anything by Frank Perry
The American Way (Maurice Phillips)
Max et les Ferrailleurs (Claude Sautet)
Moonlighting (Jerzy Skolimowski)
Love Massacre (Patrick Tam)
The Plumber (Peter Weir)
Man on the Roof (Bo Widerberg)
The Man from Mallorca (Bo Widerberg)

+1 for The Heartbreak Kid, The Man on the Roof, The Man from Mallorca, Some Call It Loving, Little Murders, Max et les ferrailleurs, Strange Affair, Dominik Graf

Other ideas, in no particular order of preference:
Sleuth, 1972
They Might Be Giants
Play It As it Lays
Fire Sale in a double feature w/ Little Murders
Where´s Poppa
Dreileben, Graf and others

The Amicus anthologies on Blu

Battles Without Honor or Humanity, on Blu

A selection of 1940s-70s Asian horror films, from the various versions of Yotsuya Kaidan (the Greek OOP DVDs are really hard to find), to The Butterfly Murders. Experts could probably pick the most interesting titles from Phil Hardy´s encyclopedia.

A line devoted to British B/cult/hardboiled movies:
The Singer, Not the Song (no 2.35 on existing DVDs)
City of the Dead, 1960
Corridors of Blood + deleted scenes from Criterion edition
Callan, 1974
Too Hot to Handle, 1958, colour version (German DVD has no English track)

Ideas for a future Arrow project, Borowczyk-style, though not necessarily of the same size (+ Kickstarter campaign if applicable):
Sam Peckinpah - Noon Wine and his other TV work, rights and materials permitting
Marco Ferreri
Karel Zeman
Bertrand Blier
Alex van Warmerdam, Dutch director of wonderfully deadpan absurdist comedy-dramas

Ludwig, Visconti - someone on the ImdB Message Board speculated that the non-release of the English version has to do with the Estate of the man who wrote the English dialogue. A rights issue. Nobody discusses restoring this film online AFAIK. Certainly worth investigating. Would look wonderful on Blu. The existing German DVD (Arthaus) looks much better than the UK DVD (Infinity Arthouse).

The Plumber will be included on the Criterion Blu of Picnic at Hanging Rock, if my memory doesn´t fail me.

repeat · #147 Post by **repeat** » Wed Apr 30, 2014 10:03 am

Stefan Andersson wrote:The Plumber will be included on the Criterion Blu of Picnic at Hanging Rock, if my memory doesn´t fail me.

Actually it would appear to include not The Plumber but Homesdale, an even rarer Weir (The Plumber is still available on R1 DVD, on HomeVision's disc of The Cars That Ate Paris).

The Man on the Roof was announced by Olive a while back already, but no idea if they're going to go Blu with it: if I'm not mistaken, HD elements exist for both that and The Man from Mallorca. In addition to being weird and wonderful works in themselves, they would provide a nice historical addition to Arrow's Nordic Noir series (and there's more where they came from - namely Sweden, 70's-80's)

I still find it unfathomable that DVD companies are not racing each other to get those two Graf thrillers. Two central works by a major European genre director currently being discovered outside of his homeland, but still totally unrepresented on English-language DVD - plus they can't be very expensive to acquire. I happened to see the first 15 minutes of Die Sieger recently, and they alone contained more energy and ideas than your average contemporary 100-minute action film. (A very good and thorough description of those first scenes here, btw)

Some Call It Loving was just re-released theatrically in France in January, apparently in a restored print: God only knows why this hasn't been reported outside of France, and if whoever brought that about will do a French video release as well, or if someone has plans to do an international one.

What's up with Little Murders? Is there a rights issue or why has it disappeared?

Stefan Andersson · Wed Apr 30, 2014 10:27 am

The R1 DVD of Little Murders is OOP. Quite expensive secondhand on Amazon. Could be a rights issue (Feiffer).

Sudden brainstorms:

-- what with AE announcing a lot of upcoming Truffaut, and Arrow delving into the MGM/UA catalogue -- how about The Bride Wore Black, Siren of Mississippi, Fahrenheit 451, Story of Adele H. and The Green Room? Either from Arrow or from Kino Lorber, on Region A Blu. They now license MGM/UA titles.

Berzeli · #149 Post by **Berzeli** » Wed Apr 30, 2014 6:28 pm

repeat wrote: The Man on the Roof was announced by Olive a while back already, but no idea if they're going to go Blu with it: if I'm not mistaken, HD elements exist for both that and The Man from Mallorca. In addition to being weird and wonderful works in themselves, they would provide a nice historical addition to Arrow's Nordic Noir series (and there's more where they came from - namely Sweden, 70's-80's)

HD elements should exist for at least the seven films included in the dvd boxset that was released a while back. And I definitely agree that it would be awesome to see some of Widerbergs oeuvre released on bluray with the care and respect he and his films deserve.

repeat · #150 Post by **repeat** » Wed Apr 30, 2014 6:41 pm

Berzeli wrote:HD elements should exist for at least the seven films included in the dvd boxset that was released a while back.

Yes, and I'm 99% sure that the online streaming version of Mannen från Mallorca that I watched recently (can't find it anymore so can't check) had a screen at the end saying it had been restored in HD from the original materials. Great double bill there just waiting to be released on Blu.

Those MGM/UA Truffaut's would make a nice box set indeed!

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