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doc mccoy wrote:Didn't Arrow over a year ago or so write that, while the Academy line was on hiatus, it was working on 7 HD French restorations? In any case, are there any French releases in the pipeline?

This, for starters.

The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak (Just Jaeckin, 1984) would be very nice.

Joe Dante's Matinee.

swo17 wrote:

doc mccoy wrote:Didn't Arrow over a year ago or so write that, while the Academy line was on hiatus, it was working on 7 HD French restorations? In any case, are there any French releases in the pipeline?

This, for starters.

I already read that - if that's what they meant, then great.

But anyway, I'd love to see them put out blus of The Sorrow and the Pity, Le Samourai and La maman et la putain.

Also, as they license masters from Universal, Day of the Jackal please.

What A Disgrace wrote:Joe Dante's Matinee.

They won't announce this til I finally order the French Blu-ray

Any Aleksei German film would make a great future Academy release but, considering his low output, a box set would be even better. Also, some Québécois cinema - I don't think even Mon oncle Antoine has a UK release.

Calvin wrote:Any Aleksei German film would make a great future Academy release but, considering his low output, a box set would be even better.

In terms of neglected Russian masters, I'd like to add in German Jr (Paper Soldier and The Last Train are films that richly deserve a higher profile), Alexey Balabanov (Morphia!), Lidia Bobrova (In That Country is an incredible film) and Kira Bloody Muratova.

Some Masumura would be nice, especially Blind Beast and Red Angel.

zedz wrote:In terms of neglected Russian masters, I'd like to add in German Jr (Paper Soldier and The Last Train are films that richly deserve a higher profile), Alexey Balabanov (Morphia!), Lidia Bobrova (In That Country is an incredible film) and Kira Bloody Muratova.

Aleksei Balabanov would be an interesting one, as he straddles both the arthouse and cult/trash worlds in a similar way to Walerian Borowczyk. I'd dearly love to see Of Freaks and Men in HD - the old Tartan DVD was a sad disappointment after two 35mm screenings.

In fact, double bills of that and Morphia and Cargo 200/The Stoker would go very well together, although I think we're (even more) in the realms of wild fantasy here!

(I really fancied watching The Stoker again the other night, tried to find my DVD screener, and then realised I'd reviewed it off a password-protected and now deactivated Vimeo stream. Oh well.)

There are two great Fred Schepisi films The Devil's Playground and The Chant of Jimmie Bllacksmith which have never had a UK DVD release. It would be nice if Arrow considered them their sort of thing. It would make a lot of people happy to see them in top quality Blu-rays.

tojoed wrote:There are two great Fred Schepisi films The Devil's Playground and The Chant of Jimmie Bllacksmith which have never had a UK DVD release. It would be nice if Arrow considered them their sort of thing. It would make a lot of people happy to see them in top quality Blu-rays.

It certainly would me! The UK VHS releases of Jimmie Blacksmith were pan-and-scan and a shortened version.

Paul Verhoeven's Flesh+Blood (1985). [-o<

I can recommend the German release from Koch Media.

Miracle Mile (1988)

RobertAltman wrote:I can recommend the German release from Koch Media.

I didn't know there was a German Blu-ray. Thanks for the tip.

I really wish for more HandMade Films, they are desperately in need of a proper release.

Je t´aime je t´aime

Ludwig, Visconti

Complete Films of André Delvaux

Complete Films of Alexei German Sr.

Alexei German Jr: Last Train, Paper Soldier, Garpastum

Complete Films of Victor Erice incl. his segment of Centro Histórico (2013), plus featurette about the unshot parts of El Sur

Eva, Losey – Netherlands Film Institute resto, longer than existing DVDs

The Disputation, 1985 - well-written TV drama. Christopher Lee in an excellent portrayal of a medieval king (Toyah Willcox plays the wife I think). Deserves more attention.

Death Line, 1972

City of the Dead, 1959

Classic J-Horror - basically a selection of those 40s-60s titles with "Yotsuya" in the title, listed in the Phil Hardy encyclopedia. The Greek DVDs are long OOP.

King Hu – the major works

Alan Rudolph – the major works

Early David Cronenberg – 60s shorts up to and including Fast Company. If possible, as extras, his TV work (see recent Sight & Sound story)

Fernando Solanas (”Hour of the Furnaces”)
El exilio de Gardel: Tangos, 1985 – Argentinians in Paris stage a tribute to tango star Carlos Gardel. Appearances by Marie Laforet and Marina Vlady. Dance sequences a bit like Carlos Saura. Excellent camerawork.
El Sur, 1988 – a man remembers the dictatorship in Argentina. Past, present, memory, imagination mingle. Excellent camerawork.
El Viaje, 1992 – A young South American searches for his father and discovers his Latin self

Repentance, / Monanieba, 1984, Tengiz Abuladze – anti-Stalinist satire with Wellesian stylistic flourishes, by a world-class Georgian director
Samkauli satrposatvis / A Necklace for My Beloved, 1971, Abuladze
The Entreaty / Vedreba, 1967, Abuladze – peasant drama in stunning b & w Cinemascope


A Well for the Thirsty, Yuri Ilyenko (Ukraine) – an old man, waiting for death, remembers his son dying in WWII
Sound of Straw Bell, Yuri Ilyenko, 1987 – harrowing story of Russian-Nazi collaboration
Swan Lake The Zone, Yuri Ilyenko

Kira Muratov
Brief Encounters (1967)
The Long Farewell (1971)
The Asthenic Syndrome (1989)
The Sentimental Policeman (1992)
Passions (1994)
Three Stories(1997)
Minor People (2001)
Chekhov's Motifs (2002)
The Tune (2004)


Marlen Khutsiev
Infinitas, 1992
I Was Twenty, 1965

Horrible Dr Hitchcock
The Ghost

Barbara Steele:
Amanti di Oltretomba
Cinque tombe per un medium
Angel per Satana

Django il bastardo w/ flashback in proper place

La Residencia

Providence, Blu

Leopard, 4 K as seen on OOP Australian Blu

Mystery of Oberwald, remaster. Recent French DVD has framing problems according to Positif magazine.

Rampage, Friedkin

Larry Cohen Collection:
Bone
Black Caesar
Hell up in Harlem
God Told Me To
Special Effects
Perfect Strangers
The Ambulance
Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover

Charge of the Light Brigade, 1968 – the uncut print released on VHS by the BFI. Unavailable in DVD. Current UK DVD cut for horse falls.

Restoration idea: Isadora, Reisz – dir. cut, 153 mins., original 168-min. cut. The 153-min. cut apparently exists as a faded one-inch master (shown on Bravo). Reputedly once issued on US VHS.

Hound of the Baskervilles, 1959
Flight of the Phoenix, 1965
Great Train Robbery, 1978
Duel at Diablo
Hour of the Gun
Bound for Glory
The Last Valley
How To Murder Your Wife - Blu
Exodus
Juggernaut
Cuba
Welcome to L.A.
Comes a Horseman
Junior Bonner
Who´ll Stop the Rain
Rancho Deluxe
Where´s Poppa
Equus
Audrey Rose
Carny
Eye of the Needle
Last Embrace
Lenny Bruce
The Night they Raided Minsky´s
King of Hearts
Play Dirty – on Blu in France
How I Won the War
Johnny Concho

perkizitore wrote:I really wish for more HandMade Films, they are desperately in need of a proper release.

I got a postcard for Withnail & I in my copy of squirm, so more are on the way.

I wish Arrow can get their hands on the some of Bela Tarr's films. I would love to see what James can do with Satantango and Damnation. I know this is probably wishful thinking because AE has these films. On this side of the pond there is no hope of upgrades being that these are with Facets.

Some Shaw Brothers films

Emperor of the North Pole, Aldrich

Crash, Cronenberg + Criterion laserdisc commentary, if it is possible to license

I know the Borowczyk project will remain the focus for some time, but I would gladly blow my life's savings if Edward Yang were the next pick for an Arrow Kickstarter...

I would love for Arrow to release this one:

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It seems very much up their alley.

I've banged the drum for them repeatedly, but James White restorations of Philip Ridley's The Reflecting Skin (available to license through The Works Media Group) and The Passion Of Darkly Noon (which still seems to be stuck with Entertainment, who co-produced it) would be absolutely drool-worthy - and very necessary given what's available for both of them at the moment! (i.e. not much)

Very much seconded on the Edward Yang and Philip Ridley (what other films feature images like frog popping or gigantic shoes floating down a river?) suggestions!

The Passion of Darkly Noon also has this actress called Ashley Judd in it, who I've been hearing a lot about recently.