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Thank you both. I'm assuming that these are from the same source that I've been watching from so it should be good, but not great. If anyone wants a taste before biting here's the whole of Fuego en Castilla.

Yes to Lonesome! I would love to see it get some more love and I'd really like to see a nicely restored, sound version. I've only seen a couple silent versions in not so hot shape and I already adore the movie, so a nice MoC-ized release would probably knock it into the stratosphere!

I'll join the Fejös crowd here! Lonesome would be great!

An MOC release of Lonesome would easily rank as one of my favorite DVD releases of the year if it could happen (or next year if it would take that long). Add me to list of supporters for this title.

We hear you, and we agree. We've been after it for a few years now. Fingers crossed.

As this seems to be the most active thread for general MoC blether can I ask what the status of the Costa stuff is and whether there are any surprises still in store there?
I've held off on the Criterion box for so long now my credit card is in danger of atrophying.

Peerpee, any news about the release of any silent german film, including Die Nibelungen or Caligari ?

By the way, the Caligary dvd on sale by Eureka right now (with the Timothy Brock music), does it have the original german intertitles or translated one in english ?

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monks19 wrote: By the way, the Caligary dvd on sale by Eureka right now (with the Timothy Brock music), does it have the original german intertitles or translated one in english?

It has English titles only.

peerpee wrote:We're overseeing two Eureka releases for May, and have two MoC titles planned for June.

Any news?

They should put some Borzage in their exquisite collection. The uncut versions of A farewell to arms and Man's casttle; or his German trilogy.

Just to say the 2 Antonioni Blus are simply superb - crisp, clear images, with lots of detail, and great gray scales... CAMELIE is a revelation in this transfer, while AMICHE - the recent resto having produced fantastic picture and the audio - is so aesthetically beautiful and balanced... The tangible textures of the images of both films are wonderfully accentuated in HD...

Any chance now that MoC might bump up IL GRIDO (& LA NOTTE) to Blu?... It really would be worth it!...

Another vote for more Antonioni blus, especially La Notte.

Count me in for more Antonioni on Blu-ray!

Is MOC going to be tackling any more Pialat films, namely Le garcu and La maison des bois? Neither of those is available in any English-friendly edition, and they'd be great additions to MOC's phenomenal effort with his work.

We'd love to release them, but right now there are no further Pialat films on our griddle.

We're busy working on around 20 titles right now for release over the next year.

Good to hear. I'll be sure to ask again after these films receive their eventual Blu upgrade from Gaumont - particularly La maison des bois, a stone-cold masterpiece that I can't imagine any other company tackling in English. Frankly, it's even a stretch imagining an MoC edition, though at least BluRay would presumably allow for a reduction in the number of discs required.

Gaumont have signalled their intent to bring Pialat to blu with Loulou, Van Gogh and A Nos Amours by the end of the year and possibly Sous le Soleil amongst the following batch, where we might eventually get the day for night issue finally cleared up. Despite peerpee's assertion of no further Pialat wouldn't this Van Gogh release be a good reason to rope it in to the MoC blu catalogue? I would think Criterion will be after it seeing as they have already made inroads with Gaumont on the Chabrol blus coming in September.
On the french language dvdklassik site the ongoing discussion re Gaumont's Jérôme Soulet's 'ten year plan' to reissue everything in their catalogue , rights issues withstanding, in one form or another depending upon source materials makes for a very welcome manifesto.

Have Artificial Eye really lost the rights to Loulou and Van Gogh, or have they just let them run out of print (presumably in preparation for their blu-ray re-release)?

Wait, what Chabrol blus?

domino harvey wrote:Wait, what Chabrol blus?

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eerik wrote:

domino harvey wrote:Wait, what Chabrol blus?

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Pendant nous y sommes - Gaumont have also mentioned they are working on Antonioni's Identification of a Woman for next year. Mr Bongo upgrade anyone?

NABOB OF NOWHERE wrote:

eerik wrote:

domino harvey wrote:Wait, what Chabrol blus?

http://www.criterionforum.org/forum/vie ... 12#p318212" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Pendant nous y sommes - Gaumont have also mentioned they are working on Antonioni's Identification of a Woman for next year. Mr Bongo upgrade anyone?

Identification of a Woman to Gaumont Blu - a definite upgrade!...

ellipsis7 wrote: Identification of a Woman to Gaumont Blu - a definite upgrade!...

Thought that might wet your whistle Lips!

Tossing a couple pennies into the wishing well for more Watkins and some von Stroheim. Has there been any Stroheim released in the UK? A quick search on Amazon didn't come up with anything.

Cinéslob wrote:It's been talked about elsewhere on the forum so I'm sure that Nick and co. are already aware of the very real interest in just such a hypothetical release, but I'm going to ask the question directly anyway: is there any chance at all that MoC would be able to put out the three Sternberg silents that Paramount holds? I've no idea whether that company is open to licensing their properties to parties outside of the US, but it's sad to think that Criterion's masters aren't going to be represented to their best effect on BRs. Even a DVD release sans pictureboxing would be very welcome.

I notice that Arrow have snagged The Conformist from Paramount; will Eureka now consider approaching them for the Sternbergs?