MoC Forthcoming, Wishlist, and Random Speculation

[Tommaso]

Nick, when will you be able to confirm what these titles are?
my next few months buying patterns partially depend on them!

Mine as well.
Would it be possible at least to confirm that it is NOT Mizuguchi? I plan to buy the French releases from alapage, but of course would rather have them from MoC. But I won't buy them twice.

[peerpee]

I feel my arm being twisted!

Our new catalogue will be out shortly and that will confirm lots of things.

However, I can say that Lanzmann and Mizoguchi will be entering the MoC Series in early 2007.

[FilmFanSea]

However, I can say that Lanzmann and Mizoguchi will be entering the MoC Series in early 2007.

Brilliant news about the Mizoguchi, Nick. Artificial Eye certainly didn't wow me with either of their barebones releases (The Life of O-Haru and The Lady of Musashino, from 2004), so it'll be nice to see MoC get a crack. While you'll face the same limitations with respect to less-than-ideal elements, MoC has shown a real dedication to providing context, scholarship, and added value that most of us treasure. Can't wait.

Re: Shoah: New Yorker famously priced its 2003 (barebones) release at $150 (£80), which had to severely limit its sales. I hope MoC can find a more consumer-friendly price point. And a full 9-hour commentary track will be expected. <kidding>

[What A Disgrace]

Rock on, Nick.

[Lino]

Do I get a prize for guessing the Mizoguchis?

[peerpee]

DAS TAGEBUCH EINER VERLORENEN [DIARY OF A LOST GIRL] (Pabst, 1929) is coming in early 2007. If anyone has any wishes for extras, please let us know.

[Ashirg]

I guess, early version is out of the question.

[the dancing kid]

DAS TAGEBUCH EINER VERLORENEN [DIARY OF A LOST GIRL] (Pabst, 1929) is coming in early 2007. If anyone has any wishes for extras, please let us know.

Maybe an interview/commentary with Paolo Cherchi Usai? He was curator at the Eastman House when Brooks lived in Rochester, and as I understand it he was something of a confidant to her. I think he's the head of the National Film Archive in Australia now, but he's still involved with Pordenone and other silent film related institutions.

[denti alligator]

DAS TAGEBUCH EINER VERLORENEN [DIARY OF A LOST GIRL] (Pabst, 1929) is coming in early 2007. If anyone has any wishes for extras, please let us know.

Endlich!

Superb news. Such a fine film.

How about a commentary or introduction by Eric Rentschler, editor of a fine volume of criticism on Pabst.

[Brian Oblivious]

I have no idea what the world of superstar silent film accompanists is like and how difficult it is to get them to record their scores on DVD for posterity, but last weekend I heard Clark Wilson play for the Pabst on a Wurlitzer organ in a packed 1600-seat theatre and was mightily impressed. That would be a sweet extra.

[Michael Kerpan]

Do I get a prize for guessing the Mizoguchis?

Perhaps a clue as to the 5+4 Mizoguchi films we all want to see arrive:

http://adg.invisionzone.com/index.php?s ... st&p=10631

[Eric]

So those are the 5+4 you aren't releasing, then? Meaning you're putting out a single disc for Story of the Late Chrysanthemums?

[ltfontaine]

DAS TAGEBUCH EINER VERLORENEN [DIARY OF A LOST GIRL] (Pabst, 1929) is coming in early 2007. If anyone has any wishes for extras, please let us know.

Richard Leacock's documentary interview with Brooks, Lulu in Berlin, would be a great addition to this release.

[TheWatcher]

Hmmm...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_cinema

[denti alligator]

Wait a second! Can this be real?

So it'll be Nosferatu and Tabu, eh? And Woman in the Moon is coming, too. Glad I didn't order the Divisa Red edition.

[tryavna]

Hmmm...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_cinema

Since the Wikipedia page in question has been contested (for what reason?) and may be deleted soon, here is what it says:

Masters of Cinema ( www.mastersofcinema.org ) is an organic initiative, founded in 2001. The members of MoC are spread around the world (Canada, USA, and the UK) and together they contribute to their popular website — a touchstone for the worldwide cinephile community containing The News Fountain, an international DVD release calendar, and director-related links.

In early 2004, Masters of Cinema began collaborating with Eureka Entertainment on the Masters of Cinema Series, a highly-respected UK-based boutique DVD label, influenced by New York's The Criterion Collection.

Masters of Cinema Series DVD releases are numbered, typically have very fine specially-made extra features, and all come with sumptuous booklets. Their releases to date (July 2006) are approaching the 50-mark and consist of:

- Sunrise (F. W. Murnau, 1927)
- The Holy Mountain (Arnold Fanck, 1926) - 2 x DVD
- Michael (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1924) - 2 x DVD
- Tartuffe (F. W. Murnau, 1926)
- Pitfall (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1962)
- The Face of Another (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1966)
- Asphalt (Joe May, 1929)
- Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927) - 2 x DVD
- Spione [Spies] (Fritz Lang, 1928)
- Francesco giullare di Dio [Francis, God's Jester] (Roberto Rossellini, 1950)
- Humanity and Paper Balloons (Sadao Yamanaka, 1937)
- The Naked Island (Kaneto Shindo, 1960)
- Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo, 1964)
- Kuroneko (Kaneto Shindo, 1968)
- Scandal (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
- The Idiot (Akira Kurosawa, 1951)
- Vengeance is Mine (Shohei Imamura, 1979)
- Twenty-Four Eyes (Keisuke Kinoshita, 1954)
- Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding, 1947)
- Assassination (Masahiro Shinoda, 1964)
- Punishment Park (Peter Watkins, 1971)
- The Prisoner of Shark Island (John Ford, 1936)
- Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (F. W. Murnau, 1922) - 2 x DVD
- Faust: A German Folk Tale (F. W. Murnau, 1926) - 2 x DVD
- Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (F. W. Murnau, 1931) - 2 x DVD
- The Savage Innocents (Nicholas Ray, 1959)
- Abhijan [The Expedition] (Satyajit Ray, 1964)
- Toni (Jean Renoir, 1934)
- Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi, 1965)
- The Complete Buster Keaton Short Films 1917-1923 (Buster Keaton) - 4 x DVD
- F For Fake (Orson Welles, 1973)
- Funeral Parade of Roses (Toshio Matsumoto, 1969)
- Shoeshine (Vittorio De Sica, 1946)
- Fantastic Planet (René Laloux, 1973)
- Repast [Meshi] (Mikio Naruse, 1951)
- Sound of the Mountain [Yama no oto] (Mikio Naruse, 1954)
- Flowing [Nagareru] (Mikio Naruse, 1956)
- Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985) - 4 x DVD
- Diary of a Lost Girl [Das Tagebuch Einer Verlorenen] (G. W. Pabst, 1929)
- Woman in the Moon [Frau im Mond] (Fritz Lang, 1929)
- Die Nibelungen (Fritz Lang, 1924) - 2 x DVD
- Salesman (Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, 1969)
- Grey Gardens (Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Muffie Meyer, 1975) - 2 x DVD
- Silence [Chinmoku] (Masahiro Shinoda, 1971)

[peerpee]

If any of you are Wikipedia-experienced, and can help to save that page, we'd be most grateful.

[Michael Kerpan]

If any of you are Wikipedia-experienced, and can help to save that page, we'd be most grateful.

Generally, one can walk one's way back through changes made to an entry, step by step. I guess if something is actually totally deleted due to legal issues, this might not work.

[Cold Bishop]

Silence they say??? That is one Shinoda I am not familiar with...

[Gregory]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067755/

[kinjitsu]

If any of you are Wikipedia-experienced, and can help to save that page, we'd be most grateful.

If this exists then why would they contest the MoC page?

Silence they say??? That is one Shinoda I am not familiar with...

Silence / Chinmoku, based on the Endo book. Maybe a Scorsese tie-in, if he ever gets around to making it...

[Michael Kerpan]

Shinoda's "Silence" features yet more superb color cinematography by Kazuo Miyagawa. While it has (IMO) a few awkward patches, taken as a whole it is very worth seeing.

BTW -- It's cast icluded just-deceased Mako (Iwamatsu).

[godardslave]

well the wikipedia provides a nice list of forthcoming titles if nothing else.

And, the deletion issue, (if i understand it correctly), seems to be basically about whether MOC is "important" enough to justify its own entry in wikipedia, which of course it is. Somewhat absurd, but i guess thats wikipedia in summary.

[Jun-Dai]

Well, I did my best to make the article salvageable. The original version read like an ad, which usually fails the Wikipedia smell test and gets articles listed for deletion quite quickly. I wish I had more to fill the article with--perhaps if someone could provide more history on the organization?

[Michael Kerpan]

I really hope that MOC can do an "Introduction to Hiroshi Shimizu" -- a tremendously creative director whose work hasn't even made it to DVD in Japan yet. "Japanese Girls at the Harbor", Ornamental Hairpin", "Arigato-San" and "Memoirs of an Itinerant Performer" would make an absolutely must-buy set. ;~}

And Yasujiro ShimAzu's "Our Neighbor, Miss Yae" (finally seen -- albeit in unsubbed form) would also be another gem.