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Jean-Luc Garbo wrote:More Imamura!

Nick, any info yet on whether this will be Blu-ray?

Yes, Dual Format.

Do you plan to do an other pairing of an early obscurity?

These are scheduled for September, right?

Twitter: Not to go on all fours. That is the law.

Island of Lost Souls? \:D/

eerik wrote:Twitter: Not to go on all fours. That is the law.

Island of Lost Souls? \:D/

Are we not men?

To think that any release post-VHS was in doubt up until recently, and to now get two likely excellent editions of ISLAND OF LOST SOULS from MoC and Criterion just boggles the mind. Even a DVD only release will still be most welcome!

Sweet fancy Moses! Let's hope MoC get Guillermo Del Toro to do another commentary, following his excellent turn on VAMPYR.

May I suggest a double feature: the Imamura and the 1958 Narayama film. The stylization of the 1958 film could probably benefit from Blu.

Doesn´t Toei own the Miyamoto Musashi trilogy? I heard there is/will be a new resto. Would MoC like to release it?

The Kinoshita BALLAD OF NARAYAMA is still available from Tartan. We're pretty booked up now for a couple of years, there are lots of things we'd like to release that we're going to have to pass on for about a year, while we work on what we've got.

Wouldn't it be great if the surviving reel of Murnau's MARIZZA (screened last fall at Pordenone) could be included as an extra on the upcoming SCHLOSS VOGELÖD release?

~Roger

Stefan Andersson wrote:Doesn´t Toei own the Miyamoto Musashi trilogy? I heard there is/will be a new resto. Would MoC like to release it?

You mean the 5-movie series. Animeigo released the DVD boxset last year which was excellent.

There are many great Ichikawa titles that have never been released on home video in the west. Criterion gave us Fires on the Plain, and MoC has given us Kokoro, thankfully, but his best contemporary work is perhaps A Full Up Train, a study of the travails of a young salary man that, with barely a hint of violence, perfectly encapsulates Ichikawa's bleak world view.

Hi manicsounds --- sorry if I was unclear. I meant The Samurai Trilogy (Inagaki/Mifune), another version of the Musashi novel. Now I see on ImdB it´s a Toho property. Many reviews of the Criterion DVD of the trilogy say the image quality is a bit lacking, so I figure a new restoration might be interesting.

As much as I wasn't overwhelming by the films in the first Lubitsch box, is there any prospect of releasing another batch of his early German silents? There must be between a half-dozen to a dozen of them floating around.

I suppose it's a distant possibility, but certainly not on the griddle for the next 12 months. We're fully ramped.

My "Lubitsch in Berlin" feels so lonely on my shelf. I guess it desperately needs a "Lubitsch in Hollywood" companion box.

chrismagr wrote:My "Lubitsch in Berlin" feels so lonely on my shelf. I guess it desperately needs a "Lubitsch in Hollywood" companion box.

Agreed! The more Lubitsch the better! [-o<

peerpee wrote:I suppose it's a distant possibility, but certainly not on the griddle for the next 12 months. We're fully ramped.

Thanks for your response.

There's about 5 or 6 of his early German silents floating around, sourced from various locations, other than Das fidele Gefängnis and Madame DuBarry, that aren't available on DVD anyway yet.

From MoC's twitter:

I´d like to see Hawks´s A Girl in Every Port, Borzage´s Bad Girl and Rowland Brown´s gangster films (Quick Millions, Blood Money and one more I think). All Fox films if I´m not mistaken. The Hawks film recently ran at the NFT, the Borzage is recently restored.

Release dates for Harakiri and Narayama announced via Steve Hills' twitter:

Exclusive! HARAKIRI (1962) will screen at the @ICALondon from 16-22nd Sept prior to its @mastersofcinema DVD release on 26 Sept. 2011

Exclusive! BALLAD OF NARAYAMA will screen at the @ICALondon from 28-29th Sept prior to its @mastersofcinema DVD release on 24 Oct. 2011

Both are Dual Format (Blu-ray/DVD) releases.

Gaumont's releasing some juicy titles later this year, presumably without English subs, as noted here. Several of these seem like good MoC candidates. I'd particularly love to see an MoC release of the Grémillon film Daïnah la métisse (see some sweet screengrabs here), or any Grémillon film for that matter.

swo17 wrote:Gaumont's releasing some juicy titles later this year, presumably without English subs, as noted here. Several of these seem like good MoC candidates. I'd particularly love to see an MoC release of the Grémillon film Daïnah la métisse (see some sweet screengrabs here), or any Grémillon film for that matter.

I seem to remember Nick saying recently there were no plans for the Grem so we'll have to look elsewhere. On the MoC front there are two Imamuras coming from France in October- A Man Vanishes and The Pirates of Bubuan. Also the latest Sight and Sound mentions the November Uk release of A Man so perhaps we can safely assume a parallel release from the Masters,
Or has it been mentioned elsewhere that A Man vanishes is doubled with Naryama?