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Given the sales of the Naruse set, I'd say we can expect these around the same time that MoC releases the original cut of Star Wars on Blu.RobertB wrote:BFI have about three inches more room on my dvd shelves than MoC. I guess that will change soon. After this I would like an upgrade of one or two of the Naruse films, rather than more Mizoguchi, if that was a choice.
So if the individual releases for CHIKAMATSU and AKASEN are OOP, what are the options going to be for those who want to own all eight films, each in the best format available? Will you have to buy the box and the dual formats and try to sell off the duplicates? Will the other two DVD onlies go back in print? Will anyone ever buy the boxset again? Or will it perhaps be replaced with an awkwardly shaped, multi-purpose box as per below? So many questions.peerpee wrote:We thought of lots of variants. We were going to do straight Blu-rays at one point. To be honest, we're not expecting to get to CHIKAMATSU and AKASEN, so we figured this would be it. Would love to be proved wrong!
I'll probably have been the last one then. Knew I should have waited three days for announcements to be made. Sigh.swo17 wrote:Will anyone ever buy the boxset again?
I wanted to echo the desire to see more Sirk, for future releases if there are not already some in development. I don't know if dual-format rights would be available, though perhaps not for the Universal ones, since that didn't happen when MoC did There's Always Tomorrow a couple years ago. Whatever the reason in Region B, it now appears that most of Sirk's peers among major directors in the 1940s and '50s now have a few titles available on Blu on one side of the pond or the other, while Sirk is starting to seem overlooked.manicsounds wrote:I'm still hoping for some Douglas Sirk releases, but are the annoucements done? (As they said "one more thing..." for "Jean de Arc")
You're doing amazing things at the current rate, man. Don't worry too much!peerpee wrote:At the moment, we're booked up well into 2013 and we're not in acquisitions mode. It's frustrating that can't release 7 or 8 a month!
This is probably impossible for a UK label, thanks to the Cinematograph Films (Animals) Act. From what I hear, the hotel room scene almost certainly infringes it, which makes the uncut version legally unreleasable in Britain.Gaddis wrote:Now hurry up and give Cockfighter the release it deserves.
Just to thank Eureka for the Mizoguchi's. I have them all in DVD, but will double dip whatever you release. Chikamatsu would look wonderful. I hope everybody buys the first two titles and you keep on 'Mizogushing'. Thanks anyway.peerpee wrote:I'm afraid DF upgrades of CHIKAMATSU and AKASEN CHITAI would rely very heavily on these new UGETSU and SANSHO DFs performing well. We would, of course, love to do them in 1080p.
Criterion is likely releasing this in 2012.MB17 wrote:PS: What about Oharu which has only had mediocre DVDs at best?
Great! Thanksswo17 wrote:Criterion is likely releasing this in 2012.MB17 wrote:PS: What about Oharu which has only had mediocre DVDs at best?
Unfortunately, I feel the same way. Apart from "A man vanishes" and "Coeur fidele", I really can't remember what was the last film that MoC released which wasn't already available, even in an English friendly release. Of course I'm looking forward to some of the upgrades, particularly the Pasolinis, but still I'm looking back yearningly to those days when MoC blew my socks with first time releases like the Mizos, Ichikawas or Franjus, not to speak of "Asphalt" or "Michael"...Perkins Cobb wrote:I wish I could get more excited about this batch of Hollywood studio licenses and inevitable Criterion Blu-ray upgrade overlap. Without an Eclipse or Flipside equivalent, MOC is kind of leaving me behind, or vice versa.
Four out of the five versions of Touch of Evil included in the MoC package?Tommaso wrote:Apart from "A man vanishes" and "Coeur fidele", I really can't remember what was the last film that MoC released which wasn't already available, even in an English friendly release.
Not that I disapprove of MOC's Touch of Evil package in any way, but that's hardly the same thing as debuting an obscure film on home video, which is what Tommaso is getting at.MichaelB wrote:Two out of the five versions, then?
