Second Run General Chitchat

[Langland]

I'll check it out. This came to mind because I ordered for a friend a dvd of the animated film Ra Path of the Sun God by Scottish artist Lesley Keen. I used to own a vhs obtained I think from the BFI, recalled it recently and tracked it down. A beautiful film. Any admirer of Son of the White Mare, released recently of course by MoC, would love this. You can get it on Vimeo I think and the artist has also posted a piece based on Greek mythology called Invocation on YouTube.

[ryannichols7]

impressively Second Run have only run one upgrade so far this year, sticking to new releases instead. wonder what the balance will be like the rest of the year?

January: El Mar La Mar
February: The Cassandra Cat
April: Laurin
May: Morgiana
June: Twilight
July: The Circus Tent

I have listed potential upgrades in this thread several times so don't feel the need to be redundant with it, and even same with new titles. even then, Laurin and The Circus Tent seemed like surprises. [b}The Cassandra Cat[/b] and Twilight were no brainers for SR. curious what we'll see going forward - I know some of the bigger holdouts are The Fifth Seal, the Paulo Rocha double, Kazuo Hara's films, and of course literally anything from Poland after the "floodgates have been opened", if you will. Golem may well be from Second Run and it was confirmed that Skolimowski's Walkover and Barrier will be coming from the label. should be an exciting second half of the year!

[rapta]

Ooh interesting, when was The Fifth Seal confirmed? I only heard of one Rocha title coming, and only one Hara too (Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974), and those were teased quite a while ago now...

Agreed that Golem does seem likely to come from Second Run of all the UK boutiques (if not, perhaps Eureka since they're doing Polish titles too), seeing as it's definitely not with Radiance. Excited for more Skolimowski, hoping that's a double-set of the two films so I can pick it up alongside the recent BFI releases and have a little marathon (and even Le départ is on Netflix)!

[Bikey]

Second Run Sale now on at BFI Filmstore - selected Blu-rays at £12.99, DVDs at £7.99

[hearthesilence]

FWIW, Glenn Kenny gave a pretty great endorsement of Second Run in general. It's virtually a gift to the advertising department:

"Second Run is almost unique among labels in that every single title it puts out is worth your time. Not just a cinephile’s time, not just a collector’s time; but your time as in you, a human being presumably invested in life on this earth. Taste doesn’t come into it. Okay, that’s an exaggeration, but I think a rhetorically useful one, as a challenge. Someone name me a title in the label’s catalog that doesn’t meet my exaggerated claim. Whether you’ve heard of the picture before or not, you’re going to get something good out of watching it."

[Langland]

I would like to endorse this comment. I have just returned from a tour of Armenia mainly based in Yerevan and partly to visit the Parajanov centre there (beautiful). I mentioned the film Mayak The Lighthouse by the late Mariya Saakyan to the tour guide and she wasn't aware of it even though they both were from Yerevan! Really we're spoilt with what we get from Second Run and nowhere else will you find the breadth and uniqueness of choice on offer.

[Bikey]

I would like to endorse this comment. I have just returned from a tour of Armenia mainly based in Yerevan and partly to visit the Parajanov centre there (beautiful). I mentioned the film Mayak The Lighthouse by the late Mariya Saakyan to the tour guide and she wasn't aware of it even though they both were from Yerevan! Really we're spoilt with what we get from Second Run and nowhere else will you find the breadth and uniqueness of choice on offer.

Thank you, Langland, for your very kind words. It means a lot to us to be so appreciated.

[Langland]

Before Second Run I was a moviegoer rather than a cinéaste but something I enjoy doing is following up wherever possible directors I wasn't aware of before and have made many great discoveries. But there's an exception to every rule and after her My C20th On Body and Soul by Ilkidu Enyedi was a disappointment for.me. But I have managed to track down her film Simon Magus with English subtitles on dvd and I am hoping for great things nonetheless. By the way re Hungarian cinema why is István Gáal (or Gáal István if you're being pedantic)'s film The Falcons called Magasiskola which means High School. I don't recall a high school. Did the Hungarian producers get it confused with Kes?

[balintantal]

Before Second Run I was a moviegoer rather than a cinéaste but something I enjoy doing is following up wherever possible directors I wasn't aware of before and have made many great discoveries. But there's an exception to every rule and after her My C20th On Body and Soul by Ilkidu Enyedi was a disappointment for.me. But I have managed to track down her film Simon Magus with English subtitles on dvd and I am hoping for great things nonetheless. By the way re Hungarian cinema why is István Gáal (or Gáal István if you're being pedantic)'s film The Falcons called Magasiskola which means High School. I don't recall a high school. Did the Hungarian producers get it confused with Kes?

Magasiskola doesn't mean high school in Hungarian - that would be kozepiskola. The title is a play on words: it means masterclass, but also a school up high (i.e. for the falcons).

[Langland]

Like Black Narcissus! Thanks.