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Re: Boy. I know it has been a Janus Films title for some time, but for some reason it is no longer listed on their web site. I checked under “Boy”, “Shonen”, and “Oshima”. I could have sworn it was there some months back.

I'm pretty sure it was streaming on Filmstruck.

Boosmahn wrote: Thu Dec 13, 2018 7:43 pm

Roscoe wrote: Thu Dec 13, 2018 6:55 pm BOY -- Oshima. I can hope, right?

This looks good. Have there been any rumors of this or any other Oshima films getting the restoration rounds recently?

Someone talking about Oshima! Criterion has the rights to the Youth Trilogy Films, A Town of Love and Hope, Boy, The Man Who Left His Will on Film, Diary of a Shinjuku Thief, Dear Summer Sister and The Ceremony. Oshima was better known for his most transgressive films which is a shame because I've always felt his best films were not the best known ones. Boy is one of his best and is an exceptionally moving film. I cannot fathom why Criterion hasn't put it out yet. His best film for my money is The Ceremony which is sort of a perverse inversion of something Ozu would have made. Sort of like Imamura's The Profound Desire of the Gods but significantly smaller in scope. I am unsure about the rights to Taboo but I think that would make a good mid tier release. I don't think it's a masterpiece by any means but it's an important film as it dealt openly with gay relationships among samurai. It feels like almost like an apology at times, with shots that could have come straight from Mizoguchi (The film even refrences the book Ugetsu is based on.). Boy however remains the one I think that has the most marketing potential. It's an immensely moving film from a filmmaker who more often than not is overtly cynical.

You DO NOT however want to see Max, Mon Amour though which I can proudly state is one of the most bizarre misfires I've ever seen in my very short life. It's essentially a straight faced film about a woman falling in love with a chimp. Like without any surrealism.

Speaking of Oshima, Carlotta has issued a box set back in 2015 with Boy, The Ceremony and Death by Hanging in Blu. Those are genuine HD masters so I figured Criterion would get them out sooner than later. Yet more three years have passed and we still have only Death by Hanging, so Criterion might be waiting on some further restoration work.

DeprongMori wrote: Thu Dec 13, 2018 11:05 pm Re: Boy. I know it has been a Janus Films title for some time, but for some reason it is no longer listed on their web site. I checked under “Boy”, “Shonen”, and “Oshima”. I could have sworn it was there some months back.

THE CEREMONY isn't there either, and the titles in the Eclipse Box are missing too. Oh no. And yet they were all on the late FilmStruck.

The films from the Eclipse set are on the Janus site. Just search 'Oshima' and you will find everything they have put out on physical media by him.

So is the Janus site only devoted to films they put out on physical media, or is it the entirety of their holdings -- where's BOY and THE CEREMONY?

I'm pretty sure the Janus site only lists films for which they can provide screening materials. That doesn't mean their other holdings can't be booked, just that the exhibitor would have to make other arrangements for a print/DCP/whatever. An Oshima series held here earlier this year consisted entirely of titles held by Janus but the prints were mostly obtained from elsewhere (including a 16mm copy of Night and Fog in Japan).

The Magic Flute is listed for March now.

Wow, this has to be the first time in years they've actually posted announcements early

Come and See
King Lear
Klute
Koker Trilogy
My Brilliant Career
Written on the Wind upgrade

The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice
A Face in the Crowd
One Sings, and the other Doesn't
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Klute

One Sings, the Other Doesn't
My Brilliant Career
War and Peace
Until the End of the World
An Angel at My Table (upgrade)
Tunes of Glory (upgrade)

A face in the crowd
My brilliant career
Let the sunshine in
The heiress
An angel at my table
Diamonds in the New Years clue Czech new wave eclipse set

Let the Sunshine In
16 Candles
King Lear
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Koker Trilogy
Park Row

A Face in the Crowd
Koker Trilogy
My Brilliant Career
Salesman reissue

Koker Trilogy
My Brilliant Career
A King in New York
Diamonds of the Night
Floating Weeds upgrade

The Koker Trilogy
Un beau soleil intérieur
Shirkers
Ratcatcher upgrade
An Angel at My Table upgrade

I was wondering why everyone is guessing the New Year's Doodle clues, but noticed that all four April 2018 titles were hinted at in the drawing as well...

Diamonds of the Night (sooner rather than later due to that Second Run release)
An Angel at My Table upgrade
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Let the Sunshine In

Last we heard of Ratcatcher, didn't the director say she would work with Criterion on an upgrade but hadn't been contacted yet?

Missing
Star 80
A Face in the Crowd
Boy
Sixteen Candles

Godzilla: the Shōwa period
A Face in the Crowd
Come and See
Columbus

Let It Be
No Country for Old Men
Arsenic and Old Lace
It's a Wonderful Life
Mai Zetterling Eclipse Set

A Face in the Crowd
Europa, Europa
Let the Sunshine In
Koker Trilogy
Z upgrade

Come and See
Taste of Cherry
California Split
The Cranes Are Flying
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off