New Australian DVD and BD Releases

[soma]

I wonder if 2nd May can possibly still be the R4 release date then, I doubt it.

[Solaris]

Not exactly DVD news, but for those who are interested, World Movies will be showing '25 Documentaries To See Before You Die' over the next few months. Highlights include I Was a Fireman, In the Year of the Pig, Best Boy and Silverlake Life: The View From Here.

[devlinnn]

Updates on upcoming...for Umbrella

June
City of Women
Mamma Roma
Querelle

July
* The Adventures of Antoine Doniel Collection
* Two Lane Blacktop
* Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train
* Eyes Without a Face
* Heatwave
* L'Avventura
* Lonely Hearts
* The Palm Beach Story

August
* Stalker (Distinction)
* Emerald City
* Ground Zero
* The Killers ('46) / The Killers ('64)
* Pee Wee's Playhouse
* Un Chien Andalou
* The Visconti Collection
* Sam Fuller Collection

October
* John Cassavettes Collection (Distinction)
* Breezy

November
* Andrei Rublev (Distinction)
* The Sorrow and the Pity (Distinction)
* Slaughterhouse Five
* Dogs in Space

[Solaris]

Do you know what films are included in the Visconti collection?

Anybody know anything about the documentary film Excellent Cadavers?
This is the only film on with that name - imdb, it seems to be a fictional film of the same story.

[Solaris]

Warner will be releasing Looney Tunes All Stars volume 4 on July 4; Buena will be releasing more Walt Disney Treasures on the same day.

[kinjitsu]

Anybody know anything about the documentary film Excellent Cadavers?
This is the only film on with that name - imdb, it seems to be a fictional film of the same story.

Here is the film you are looking for, but it hasn't a listing on IMDb.

[soma]

Madman Director's Suite to add 4 new Haneke titles to the collection in May and June: Funny Games (which I've already mentioned), Benny's Video, The Seventh Continent, and 71 Fragments Of A Chronology Of Chance.

[Solaris]

Anybody know anything about the documentary film Excellent Cadavers?
This is the only film on with that name - imdb, it seems to be a fictional film of the same story.

Here is the film you are looking for, but it hasn't a listing on IMDb.

Thanks for that, seems like an interesting little film.

[kinjitsu]

Here is the film you are looking for

Thanks for that, seems like an interesting little film.

Couldn't say, but would like to having read Stille's book.

[devlinnn]

Just a heads up for those of us who worship Ms. Doris Day down here (and down there) - the local Warner release of Lucky Me is not in scope, but rather 1:33:1. That's $10 that could have been better spent...

Possibly news of the year....

Wim Wenders: Road Movies - Madman, June 6th (rrp$59.95)
* Alice in the Cities
* Wrong Move - Wenders commentary; on set super 8 footage
* Kings of the Road - deleted scenes

[solent]

This is a surprise. I expected the US & UK [via Anchor Bay] to do this first. My research has shown that ALICE isn't even available in Germany but KINGS has been out for a while [replete with German commentary by Wenders]. I was hoping for a commentary + deleted scenes package like his other releases but I'd be happy with bare bones so long as KINGS is in 1.66:1. [The recently released Anchor Bay WRONG MOVE is in 16:9 but it was originally shot for TV & cinema and my 4:3 VHS does not look cropped.]

[Darth Lavender]

Just realised the R4 Ingmar Bergman Faith Trilogy has been released.
Any word on how it compares to the Criterion? (Same HD masters? NTSC>PAL transfers? Same Extras?)

[devlinnn]

As I've noted elsewhere, the new All That Jazz looks to have kept the old transfer with the added bonus material. Nice.

(If anyone is interested in The Gang's All Here R4 caps being posted just let me know.)

[Lino]

Please do!

[devlinnn]

Sorry Lino, sadly no point. It's just as dark and dull as the R1 Gang's. Fox VHS titles looked better 15 years ago!

[SHOCKMASTER]

Any release date info for that Wim Wenders box set?

[Solaris]

June 06

[Tommaso]

Sorry if this has been asked and answered elsewhere before: has anyone seen the new R4 of Kurosawa's "Madadayo"? Is it finally an acceptable transfer, or the same mess as the R1?

[Solaris]

Directors Suite will release Dr Mabuse the Gambler on July 18 and Umbrella will release La Bete late July.

[Solaris]

Special Features for The Graduate Special Edition:

* Meeting With an Author - Charles Webb
* 25th Anniversary
* Looking Back
* Photo Gallery
* International Posters
* Trailer
* Filmographies
* Awards
Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
2.35:1 16:9 Enhanced

[PhilipS]

Directors Suite will release Dr Mabuse the Gambler on July 18 and Umbrella will release La Bete late July.

Also coming from AV Channel are Samurai Pirate (w/Mifune), Suzuki's Youth of the Beast, and this: The Experimental Films of Osamu Tezuka. Never heard of this guy. Anyone seen any of his work and can comment?

EDIT: Oh, ok he's an animator, no wonder I never heard of him.

[Darth Lavender]

Tezuka is the fellow who created "Astro Boy" (and a lot of other manga and anime, including the remake of Metropolis. Sort of a Japanese Walt Disney)

Now, does *anybody* here know about the quality of the new R4 Bergman Trilogy? There don't seem to be any online reviews at all.

[amnesiac]

Eastern Eye are releasing Suzuki's Tokyo Drifter in June.

[Solaris]

Now, does *anybody* here know about the quality of the new R4 Bergman Trilogy? There don't seem to be any online reviews at all.

I don't know about this new set, but I bought Hopscotch's release of Autumn Sonata and Cries and Whispers and compared them to Criterion's releases.
The prints are taken directly from Criterion, however the subtitles are yellow.
According to ezydvd, this new box set contains all of the extras from the four disc Criterion set on only three discs.

[Darth Lavender]

Thanks for the reply.
I've just remembered, also, my R4 copy of Det Sjunde Inseglet is released by the same people and that's a progressive scan, native PAL, Criterion-quality transfer. I just never thought to look at other Hopscotch releases to get an idea of quality, so you've been very helpful here.