Shout! Factory / Scream Factory

[Grand Wazoo]

Also a Herzog vol. 2 collection from Shout Select

He has taken his camera to parts of the world no other director would dare go and told stories in ways no one had ever considered. These eleven films illustrate why Werner Herzog is the most daring, visionary and dangerous filmmaker of our lifetime -- the director that both Milos Forman and François Truffaut have called "the greatest filmmaker alive today."

DISC ONE:

SIGNS OF LIFE

1968 / B&W / 1080p High Definition 1.37:1 / German, Greek DTS-HD Master Audio Mono / +/- 91 Minutes

THE GREAT ECSTASY OF WOODCARVER STEINER

1974 / Color / 1080p High Definition 1.33:1 / German, English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono / +/- 46 Minutes

DISC TWO:

HOW MUCH WOOD WOULD A WOODCHUCK CHUCK

1976 / Color / 1080p High Definition 1.33:1 / German, English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono / +/- 47 Minutes

LA SOUFRIÈRE

1977 / Color / 1080p High Definition 1.33:1 /German, English, French, Spanish, Italian DTS-HD Master Audio Mono / +/- 31 Minutes

GOD’S ANGRY MAN

1981 / Color / 1080p High Definition 1.37:1 / English, German DTS-HD Master Audio Mono / +/- 46 Minutes

DISC THREE:

HUIE'S SERMON

1981 / Color / 1080p High Definition 1.33:1 / English, German DTS-HD Master Audio Mono / +/- 42 Minutes

THE DARK GLOW OF THE MOUNTAINS

1985 / Color / 1080p High Definition 1.42:1 / German, English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono / +/- 47 Minutes

DISC FOUR:

HERDSMEN OF THE SUN

1989 / Color / 1080p High Definition 1.37:1 / English, German DTS-HD Master Audio Stereo / +/- 52 Minutes

ECHOES FROM A SOMBER EMPIRE

1990 / Color / 1080p High Definition 1.33:1 / French, German DTS-HD Master Audio Mono / +/- 90 Minutes

DISC FIVE:

WHEEL OF TIME

2003 / Color / 1080p High-Definition Widescreen 1.78:1 / English, German DTS-HD Master Audio Stereo / +/- 84 Minutes

THE WILD BLUE YONDER

2005 / Color / 1080p High-Definition Widescreen 1.78:1 / French, German DTS-HD Master Audio Stereo / +/- 81 Minutes

[swo17]

Awesome, I hope God's Angry Men has a strictly English audio option. To update this comparison from when the first set and the BFI edition first came out:

Common to Both Shout and BFI
Land of Silence and Darkness
Fata Morgana
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Heart of Glass
Stroszek
Woyzeck
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Fitzcarraldo
Cobra Verde

The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
God's Angry Man
Huie's Sermon

Exclusive to the BFI Set
The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz
Last Words
Precautions Against Fanatics
Handicapped Future
Burden of Dreams
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe

Exclusive to the Shout Sets
Even Dwarfs Started Small
Ballad of the Little Soldier
Where the Green Ants Dream
Lessons of Darkness
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
My Best Fiend
Portrait: Werner Herzog
Herzog in Africa

Signs of Life
La Soufrière
The Dark Glow of the Mountains
Herdsmen of the Sun
Echoes from a Somber Empire
Wheel of Time
The Wild Blue Yonder

[brundlefly]

Wish they weren't skipping past The White Diamond, which was distributed at the same time as Wheel of Time and felt a part of Herzog's history of portraits of obsessives. Maybe BFI will counter with a second set and include that there.

[swo17]

I have that in the "Encounters in the Natural World" BD set, whose other films are almost all exclusives:

Encounters at the End of the World
Grizzly Man
The White Diamond
La Soufrière
The Flying Doctors of East Africa

[brundlefly]

I'll look into that, thanks!

[dwk]

Glad I never got around to picking up The Funhouse and Cat People.

[Finch]

The Cat People 4k will be a new scan. I've not seen the film before but outside of the famous stalking and pool sequence, I thought the original to be not among Jacques Tourneur's best horror films, and I hear the 82 remake has some New Orleans location shooting so I'm intrigued now.

[yoloswegmaster]

Fargo will be getting a 4K release in June as well.

[dwk]

Kinda bummed that Criterion weren't able to poach those rights from Shout, as they are the only company that have been able to get the Coens involved in real special features.

[Glowingwabbit]

Kinda bummed that Criterion weren't able to poach those rights from Shout, as they are the only company that have been able to get the Coens involved in real special features.

But didn't that also result in Coens making a cut to Miller's Crossing which many weren't happy about apparently.

[dwk]

Eh, the Fox disc of Miller's Crossing is still readily available, so people were making a mountain out of a molehill. (Though Criterion should have been more open about it being a different cut.)

There is no indication that they are unhappy with Fargo, but that is a risk I'd be willing to take.

[Finch]

Mondo Digital on Captain Clegg

Looks promising!

If Scream are doing more Universal catalogue titles in 4k, I hope they can get a new master for Darkman.

[EddieLarkin]

When the titles for Indicator's Hammer Vol. 6 were revealed to all be Universal licenses, I was worried that Captain Clegg and Nightmare would soon be superseded picture quality wise, as it was obvious Shout Factory were working their way through the same titles, and consistently getting new transfers done for them (indeed, Phantom of the Opera in the Indicator box uses the transfer Shout Factory debuted a year earlier). It's too bad they didn't (couldn't?) opt for Brides of Dracula, Evil of Frankenstein, Curse of the Werewolf or Kiss of the Vampire for Vol 6 instead, as like Phantom they had already had new Shout Factory transfers, and left Captain Clegg and Nightmare for Vol 7 or later. Paranoiac has since also had a new transfer.

[colinr0380]

The Cat People 4k will be a new scan. I've not seen the film before but outside of the famous stalking and pool sequence, I thought the original to be not among Jacques Tourneur's best horror films, and I hear the 82 remake has some New Orleans location shooting so I'm intrigued now.

Here's the Moviedrome introduction from when it was shown in 1998. It is a fascinating film, and kind of fits in with that trend of the 1980s in remaking classic films in more explicit ways that throws all subtlety and implication out of the window for a more visceral experience (i.e. The Thing, The Fly, Invaders From Mars), but which make that over-explicitness into an opportunity to produce something different from the original, only in this case doing so in the sexuality department. It may be one of the only mainstream films of its era to climax (literally!) in a consensual bondage sequence! Which bookends with the opening sacrificial offering.

Though I should acknowledge that I have never been the biggest fan of the 1942 original as despite the great performance by Simone Simon it eventually feels a bit prudish towards the dilemma faced by its dangerously foreign heroine, the sympathy for whom is lost somewhat in the film's move towards a couple more suitable for each other (though of course The Curse of the Cat People, where the ghost of Irena returns to threaten the perfect nuclear family, or perhaps is just conjured up by the curious daughter in preference to her boring mother, is an absolute masterpiece!). The remake never really loses sight of the heroine's issues and in fact disturbingly heightens them with the upsetting addition that the only other member of her species that she could 'acceptably' mate with would be her brother, leaving no particularly good option for the main character, caught between forces of being yoked under familial demands and her desire to escape that and find a lover from outside of her somewhat limited gene pool, even if it could only be a tragic romance!

[Grand Wazoo]

Shout just announced a site exclusive edition of Cockfighter.

I did not see this one coming.

[Maltic]

Using "produced by Roger Corman" as a somewhat misleading selling point like they did back when it failed at the box office.

[dwk]

Thanks for the heads up.

Shout has had the rights to this for a while. It is a shame they are treating it like this.

[hearthesilence]

Shout just announced a site exclusive edition of Cockfighter.

I did not see this one coming.

I wouldn't know if 1,500 units is merely few or very very few...any educated guesses on how long that would last?

[Drucker]

I pre-ordered it today and it's already shipped.

[kekid]

Shout! Factory are releasing Herzog: The Collection Volume 2.

[black&huge]

what the hell? completely special feature-less basically. So I should wait for an international label to put this out then.

[Mark L.]

what the hell? completely special feature-less basically. So I should wait for an international label to put this out then.

Director of Arrow says don’t hold your breath for the UK at least

[black&huge]

what the hell? completely special feature-less basically. So I should wait for an international label to put this out then.

Director of Arrow says don’t hold your breath for the UK at least

okay so that's my mistake considering the content and surface subject of the film obviously the uk is a no go. Well shit..... Shout might just have to be it

[swo17]

Wasn't there already a Japanese Blu-ray of very poor quality? Hopefully this isn't just a port of that

[dwk]

Yes there is/was Japqnese Blu that, reported, was an upscale. Or looked no better than an upscale.

I ordered the Shout disc because I missed out on the Anchor Bay DVD. But I'm keeping the SF disc sealed until I read reviews of the disc's quality.