Foreign/Art/Independent Film DVD Preorder List II (1 Viewer)

[Rod]

DonaldB - are there any more details about the 5/25 release of A Matter of Life and Death (aka Stairway to Heaven)? Is this a Region 1 release? Thanks.

-Rod

 

[DonaldB]

Rod, this is a Region 1 DVD, but I haven't found anything about it other than a release date and studio.

 

[Brian PB]

RE: A Matter of Life and Death
Barrie Maxwell first reported this release was on its way from Columbia nearly a year ago, in his Digital Bits column:
I have the R2 Carlton release (a good transfer of elements which have seen better days), so I'm anxious to see if CTHE has topped it. Some extras would be nice, but Columbia hasn't been very generous with many of their older films (e.g. The Awful Truth, Only Angels Have Wings, In a Lonely Place ...), so I'm not optimistic.

 

[Pascal A]

Kim Ki Duk's Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring has just been listed at Yeon DVD as being out now [R3 Korea] from Bitwin.

 

[Jay E]

New Yorker is releasing these on 5/25:
Lancelot Of The Lake (1974)
Man Escaped, A (1956)
La Belle Noiseuse (1991)
Lamerica (1995)

 

[Ted Todorov]

Kim Ki Duk's Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring has just been listed at Yeon DVD as being out now [R3 Korea] from Bitwin.

For any New Yorkers, it is playing as part of the New Directors/New Films Festival.

Ted

 

[DonaldB]

4/13
The Aviator's Wife (Eric Rohmer, France) Arrow Film Distributors
4/27
Osama (Siddiq Barmak, Afghanistan) MGM
5/18
Ill Met by Moonlight (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, UK) Carlton [R2-UK]
5/25
Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler (Fritz Lang, Germany) Eureka [R2-UK]
Junk Food (Masashi Yamamoto, Japan)
The Marquis of O (Eric Rohmer, France) Arrow Film Distributors [R2-UK]
6/15
The Belly of an Architect (Peter Greenaway, UK) MGM/UA
Journey to the Western Xia Empire (Lu Wei, China) Facets
Lea (Ivan Fila, Germany) Facets
Sienkiewicz Trilogy: Colonel Wolodyjowski; The Deluge; With Fire and Sword (Jerzy Hoffman, Poland) Facets
A Soul Haunted by Painting (aka Soul of a Painter) (Huang Shuqin, China/Taiwan) Facets
8/31
My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, Japan) Disney
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki, Japan) Disney
Porco Rosso (Hayao Miyazaki, Japan) Disney

 

[DonaldB]

Available now:
Goodbye Dragon Inn/The Missing (Tsai Ming-liang/Lee Kang-sheng, Taiwan) [R0-Taiwan]
4/20
The Ingmar Bergman Collection: Persona/Shame/The Passion of Anna/Hour of
the Wolf/The Serpent's Egg (Bergman, Sweden) MGM (also available separately)
5/4
The Marx Brothers Collection: A Night at The Opera/A Day at The Races/A
Night in Casablanca/Room Service/At the Circus/Go West/The Big Store (various, US) Warner (also available separately)
5/11
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, US) Paramount 16:9
6/1
Judex (Louis Feuillade, France) Flicker Alley
Pelle the Conqueror (Bille August, Denmark/Sweden) Fox
Small Back Room (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, UK) Warner [R2-UK]
6/8
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, US) Paramount [R2-UK] 16:9
6/15
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen (Claude Lelouch, France) Paramount [R2-UK]
Fanny Trilogy: Marius, Fanny, Cesar (Marcel Pagnol, France) Kino
6/22
The Lower Depths (Akira Kurosawa, Japan) Criterion
Mamma Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolino, Italy) Criterion
A Woman is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard, France) Criterion
7/6
My Voyage to Italy (Martin Scorsese, Italy) Buena Vista
7/13
Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan) First Look

 

[DonaldB]

The documentary Krzysztof Kieslowski: I'm So-So... will now be included on a fourth disc in the upcoming UK Three Colours box set. It's not presently slated to be released on its own, which is unfortunate, as I'm sure most of us who are interested in the trilogy already bought the individual discs when they came out a couple of years ago.
Please write to [email protected] with your encouragement to have it made available separately.

 

[DonaldB]

4/20
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (Lone Scherfig, Denmark) Warner [R2-UK]
4/27
Chihwaseon (Drunk On Women And Poetry) (Im Kwon-taek, South Korea) Pathé [R2-UK]
Trilogy (Lucas Belvaux, France/Belgium) Tartan [R0/PAL-UK] 16:9
5/4
Laurel and Hardy Box Set (various, US) Universal [R2-UK]
5/18
Brief Crossing (Brève Traversée) (Catherine Breillat, France) Wellspring
5/25
Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong) Artificial Eye [R2-UK]
Crumb (Terry Zwigoff, US) Optimum Home Entertainment [R2-UK]
6/8
Loin (André Téchiné, France/Spain) UGC Video [R2-France]
6/15
Short Cuts (Robert Altman, US) Wild Side [R2-France]
6/22
Pas sur la bouche (Alain Resnais, France) Pathé [R2-France] (English subs?)
You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang, US) Cinema Club [R2-UK]
6/29
The Shape of Things (Neil LaBute, US) Momentum Pictures [R2-UK]

 

[Ali B]

DonaldB - I've emailed AE suggesting they do some kind of mail in offer where you could get the disc in just a plastic wallet to save them printing sleeves, buying cases etc.
One more discs for the database too (it's already out):
The Basque Ball (La Pelota Vasca) (Julio Medem, Spain) [R2-Spain]
It's avaialble in a standard 1 disc edition (the theatrical version) and a 3 disc set which is actually a far large doumentary on the basque region.
Another thing to add is that the BFI's upcoming disc of Bunuel's Un Chien Andalou will be a double feature of the two Bunuel/Dali films, with L'Age d'Or featuring alongside it.

 

[Ali B]

Direct from Artificial Eye:

Dear Ali,
Many thanks for your email regarding The Three Colours Trilogy. We are planning on releasing I'm So So... as a separate, low cost disc later this year. I will contact you nearer the time. In the interim, please refer to our website at www.artificial-eye.com.
Best,

ali

 

[Jay E]

High Art & The Celebration are both coming out on 7/27 from Universal.

 

[DonaldB]

Ali and Jay, thank you.
5/18
Histoire de Marie et Julien (Jacques Rivette, France) Arte [R2-France]
5/25
Son frere (His Brother) (Patrice Chéreau, France) Pacific Media
To Sleep With Anger (Charles Burnett, US) bfi [R2-UK]
6/1
Das Boot: The Original Uncut Version (Wolfgang Peterson, West Germany) Columbia/TriStar 16:9
The Emigrant (Youssef Chahine, Egypt/France) Image
The Other (El Akhar) (Youssef Chahine, Egypt/France) Image
Winsor McCay: Master Edition (McCay, US) Image
6/22
Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges, US) Second Sight Films [R0/PAL-UK]
7/20
Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi, Iran) Wellspring

 

[DonaldB]

Available now:
Leningrad Cowboys Box Set (Aki Kaurismäki, Finland) Sandrew Metronome [R2-Sweden]
6/22
Smoking/No Smoking (Alain Resnais, France) Pathé [R2-France] 16:9 (English subs?)
6/29
Bleak Moments (Mike Leigh, UK) Water Bearer
Mike Leigh Collection Vol. 2 (Leigh, UK) Water Bearer
7/13
Tree of Wooden Clogs (Ermanno Olmi, Italy) Koch Lorber 16:9
9/7
La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, Italy) Koch Lorber

 

[Jay E]

YES!!!!

More Mike Leigh

You've made my day Donald.

 

[Prentice Cotham]

5 points to anyone who can figure out who owns the rights to Before the Rain either domestically or foreign. It was a Polygram title formerly, but I can't figure/find out who owns the rights now. Sadly, even the director couldn't help me out.

thanks!!

 

[Ted Todorov]

According to reviews at the time of its theatrical release Before The Rain was distributed in the US by Gramercy.
Ted

 

[Prentice Cotham]

Ted, thanks. So, did USA Films get all of Gramercy's stuff including Before the Rain? Does USA Films still exist? Or, is that Focus Features now and who can I contact there?

**I talked to someone in cust serv at Universal. They said the film was not in their database. They distribute Focus Features stuff.

 

[James Roberts]

MGM is another possibility for "Before the Rain". They acquired a number of Polygram/USA/Gramercy titles a few years ago. Lion's Gate/Artisan have a few former Polygram titles as well.
a few announcements:
The Son (Fils, Le) (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium/France) Seville Pictures (CAN) -May 25th, 2004
Kitchen Stories (Bent Hamer, Norway/Sweden) Seville Pictures (CAN) -June 8th, 2004
Le Déclin de l'empire américain (The Decline of the American Empire) (Denys Arcand, Canada) Seville Pictures (CAN) a new digital transfer in 16:9, Dolby Digital 5.1 French, English dub 2.0, English subtitles, Theatrical Trailers, Documentary- July 13th, 2004
and:
The Celebration (Festen) (Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark) Alliance-Atlantis (CAN) (fullscreen 1.33:1, Danish with English subtitles, French dub) -July 27th, 2004
The Idiots (Idioterne) (Lars Von Trier, Denmark) Alliance-Atlantis (CAN) -July 27th, 2004 (according to the home video department at Alliance Atlantis, "this will be the uncensored version.")