MoC Forthcoming, Wishlist, and Random Speculation

[Michael Kerpan]

Blows kiss in direction of MOC....

[Bürgermeister]

I'd love to see MoC release This Sporting Life.

[peerpee]

Network released it in the UK, and the Criterion edition is rather fine?

I put up an interim catalogue yesterday, but no-one's spotted it yet.

[Gaddis]

Can't seem to get more than 500kb of it. Anyone else having trouble?

[Doctor Sunshine]

It was a little tricky - the blu-ray and discovery pages still link to the old catalogue--but I found it.

[swo17]

The only new information I can see is official confirmation that certain titles have gone OOP, like Les maitres du temps, Toni, and the Naruse box.

[Minkin]

Also General Idi Amin and the DVD of Soul Power (which hasn't been dual formatted yet) are OOP

[ellipsis7]

Only 15 or so OOP... Although TONI is especially mourned here...I know it didn't sell well, but it is a great presentation of an essential Renoir, decent commentary etc.... MoC also has yet to mark up those DVD titles to be bumped up to Dual Format (such as TABU), as opposed to where existing separate DVD & Blu editions are combined into one dual format edition...

[TMDaines]

Cool booklet. However, can I suggest you change the wording of the yellow "Single Edition" to something along the lines of "Box-Set" as it's a little confusing in relation to the "Dual Editions"?

Toni will be worth big bucks in a few weeks/months time, I'm very sure.

[MichaelB]

However, can I suggest you change the wording of the yellow "Single Edition" to something along the lines of "Box-Set" as it's a little confusing in relation to the "Dual Editions"?

How about 'Single Format Edition'?

[jbaart]

However, can I suggest you change the wording of the yellow "Single Edition" to something along the lines of "Box-Set" as it's a little confusing in relation to the "Dual Editions"?

How about 'Single Format Edition'?

No, that's exactly the wrong interpretation and what TMDaines was hinting at. The yellow markings are supposed to group the release numbers that are actually one combined release and not available seperately. But they do a very poor job at that.

[HJackson]

The only thing that really threw me about that was the fact that all of the Mizoguchi titles were banded together as opposed to being in sets of twos, until I remembered that they are only available in the box now. I don't really see anything else confusing about that choice of labelling.

[TMDaines]

I don't really see anything else confusing about that choice of labelling.

It's just not logical, that's all. "Dual Format" is referring to Blu & DVD combined releases, while "Single Edition" is referring to films that are combined with others in a set and are all one release - instead of being just specifically a DVD-only or Blu-only release. As a couple of people here are already getting confused (and we all know MoC's catalogue better than most), I'm just suggesting changing the terminology to make it clearer.

[peerpee]

In the forthcoming, larger catalogue, we changed this terminology last night to: "Films in a Yellow box are one item". Is that clearer?

[Opdef]

So according to the catalogue, Soul Power DVD is OOP, and the Blu-ray is staying as Blu-ray only? I've been selling my old single-edition Blu-rays so I can eventually replace them with the dual-formats, and they'll look amazing on my shelf. Except for Soul Power. This is not good for my OCD, not good at all.

[swo17]

If they never put it out as a dual, you could always just buy an empty clear case for it somewhere. The Blu-ray sleeve should basically fit (though a dual format sleeve would be ever so slightly wider).

[ImportFanatic]

So according to the catalogue, Soul Power DVD is OOP, and the Blu-ray is staying as Blu-ray only? I've been selling my old single-edition Blu-rays so I can eventually replace them with the dual-formats, and they'll look amazing on my shelf. Except for Soul Power. This is not good for my OCD, not good at all.

If the artwork fit in the new clear cases it wouldn't be a problem. But Soul Power as-is uses the blue slim cases. Only thing I can think of that would work is to try to re-create the MoC artwork but in the proper dimensions. Then get your hands on one of their new clear cases.

[peerpee]

We don't know what's going on with SOUL POWER yet. It's a complicated one, and we might not know for months. All stock is gone -- but it *might* get either reissued as is, or upgraded to a Dual Format edition in the next year or so. At the moment, we don't know.

[Film Reel]

You could do this:

"Yellow=box set" and you also add that outline around the titles. I think this is the clearest way.

[peerpee]

JUDEX and the INDIAN EPIC and PHANTOM aren't really "box sets" though?

[knives]

I typically call them boxsets even if it's a misnomer. I don't think anyone would be upset at you if you used the term. Packages might also work.

[Calvin]

I just saw Teinosuke Kinugasa's A Page of Madness featured in the More4 series The Story of Film: An Odyssey. Are there any high quality releases on the market? It looks like a great film for MoC to release.

[Film Reel]

JUDEX and the INDIAN EPIC and PHANTOM aren't really "box sets" though?

Right, they are not REALLY box sets after all (though "box set" still sounds good in my opinion). Probably the only expression that could fit all is "packaged together" or "in the same package" or just "together". I give up.

[htshell]

I agree with knives that box set, though at times a misnomer, is an easier term to use. I wouldn't be opposed to that for those releases.

In October 2010, a new score by composer Gene Coleman for A Page of Madness premiered in Philadelphia and then was performed at MoMA. It was a commission by the theater where I work, the Ibrahim Theater @ International House. We got the print from the George Eastman House and the film/performance was superb! It's such a masterful piece of early Japanese cinema (and a fairly popular one at that) that it's hard to believe it's not made it onto DVD/Blu-ray yet. Would love for MoC to do a disc of this title.

Here's more info on the premiere.

[rwaits]

Ditto on Page of Madness. Probably the highest on my wishlist.