Radiance Films General Discussion & Wishlist

[eerik]

It's not that I don't want to see them release films for thouse countries, but as a teaser for upcoming announcements, mentioning these three alone does not raise any excitement.

[TechnicolorAcid]

Films from the same three countries as pretty much every month. Not complaining, but a bit boring and predictable.

It is starting to get a tad stale, I agree. There are a number of restored Canadian films that I would love to see. Many neglected gems from the Netherlands, too

Canada has Canadian International Pictures although they’re Region A locked but I agree that there’s so many nations without excellent cinema that don’t have boutique releases. Speaking of which, does anyone know what happened to Mawu Films? They had a very strong start but just fizzled out without a third release, was hoping they’d at least release Glauber Rocha’s Entranced Earth but since their release of Black God, White Devil, it’s been just radio silence from them.

[eerik]

Here they are:
The Wild Child (François Truffaut, 1970)
Blood of Revenge (Tai Katô, 1965)
Illustrious Corpses (Francesco Rosi, 1976)

[ryannichols7]

2026 subscription hints....

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2026 promises premieres from the Years of Lead, World Noir, French and Japanese New Waves, from auteurs including Visconti, Godard, Miike, Almodóvar... plus a handful of 4K upgrades on top of our usual schedule of newly discovered and restored rarities.

UK bundle:

Spoiler

Approximately four films per month (adjusted for box-sets)

Upgrades of Radiance titles on UHD

Illustrious Corpses

Blood of Revenge

The Wild Child

An Epic Greek drama

A Japanese crime boxset

Giallo!

Daring Polish satire

Films from Takashi Miike

Italian police corruption

Further volumes of World Noir

A Sight & Sight top 100 film

An early work from Pedro Almodóvar

Classics from the Japanese New Wave

and more…

US/CA bundle (some exclusive hints)

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Approximately two releases per month

Re-releases of Radiance Titles on UHD

Illustrious Corpses

Blood of Revenge

An Epic Greek drama

A Japanese crime boxset

A Polish parable of social advancement

Films from the Japanese New Wave

Italian police corruption

An American satire

and more…

so....The Travelling Players?

[Finch]

Yay to the Japanese crime set and the early Almodovar. Would rather that they added new films to 4K instead of upgrading existing ones.

[eerik]

What do we consider early Almodovar, pre-Deseo? That would mean either Pepi, Luci, Bom; Labyrinth of Passion, or Matador.

[ellipsis7]

Premieres from the Years of Lead/Anni di Piombo...TODO MODO - Elio Petri (1976) hopefully may be one... There's a 2014 restoration by Cineteca di Bologna and the Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino, in collaboration with Surf Film...
The Visconti may be BELLISSIMA in the 2023 restoration by the CSC – Cineteca Nazionale in collaboration with Compass Film, who have released it on BR in Italy with mixed results, leaving room for improvement...

[domino harvey]

Wonder what French New Wave titles they’re rescuing. If it was a name director I suspect they’ve had said so, so hopefully we’re getting some of the more neglected titles (…in a box? )

[DJBillyMac]

the newsletter clue for next month is 'an offer you can't refuse'... finally, inAPPropriate Comedy and Underground Comedy Movie on glorious 4KUHD, hopefully including the ShamWow and Slap Chop short films...

...but on the off chance it ISN'T that, I wonder what it is

[ChunkyLover]

the newsletter clue for next month is 'an offer you can't refuse'... finally, inAPPropriate Comedy and Underground Comedy Movie on glorious 4KUHD, hopefully including the ShamWow and Slap Chop short films...

...but on the off chance it ISN'T that, I wonder what it is

Watch it be "The Sicilian".

[JSC]

Wonder what French New Wave titles they’re rescuing. If it was a name director I suspect they’ve had said so, so hopefully we’re getting some of the more neglected titles (…in a box? )

Well, they mention Godard. So, Les carabiniers might a possibility. They could also fill the blu-ray gaps in his 60s filmography by
getting out Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle and Made in USA. If it's any 60s Chabrol I'd be over the moon (though I
doubt it).

[domino harvey]

There’s no way they bury a Godard film in a box (also I doubt they’d tease the same release twice in their teaser). Chabrol maybe (the label has been markedly absent of any talk of Chabrol, I wonder if the poor sales of the Arrow sets spooked him [though this was self-inflicted since almost all of those titles already had Blu-ray releases in the states and Arrow’s versions looked worse to boot])

[domino harvey]

Also, Fran is clearly a huge Lino Ventura fan (I still can’t believe they went with the Serrault/Ventura cover for the Claude Miller two pack when the Serrault/Adjani cover on the flip side is infinitely more arresting), we should probably start compiling possibilities that he starred in (though once we did that with Trintignant he stopped releasing them!)

[Calvin]

Maybe....Deville, at last?

[domino harvey]

Adorable menteuse with Luc Moullet introduction

[ryannichols7]

the newsletter clue for next month is 'an offer you can't refuse'... finally, inAPPropriate Comedy and Underground Comedy Movie on glorious 4KUHD, hopefully including the ShamWow and Slap Chop short films...

...but on the off chance it ISN'T that, I wonder what it is

Watch it be "The Sicilian".

my bets are on Mafioso or the Japanese Godfather trilogy. neither guess I can take credit for

There’s no way they bury a Godard film in a box (also I doubt they’d tease the same release twice in their teaser). Chabrol maybe (the label has been markedly absent of any talk of Chabrol, I wonder if the poor sales of the Arrow sets spooked him [though this was self-inflicted since almost all of those titles already had Blu-ray releases in the states and Arrow’s versions looked worse to boot])

it's basically all but confirmed that Histoire(s) du Cinema is coming for Godard, and would be its own box of sorts. if there's any other Godard titles I highly doubt they get boxed, especially considering we're getting all the MGM Truffaut titles as individual spines

[beamish14]

Giuseppe Tornatore’s The Professor with Ben Gazzara, please. I’d love to see its Italian television cut

[MichaelB]

Maybe....Deville, at last?

There's a tiny bit of Deville coming out in December, although I'm not sure clips from Benjamin intercut with Dominique Sanda looking impassive is quite what you meant.

[TechnicolorAcid]

the newsletter clue for next month is 'an offer you can't refuse'... finally, inAPPropriate Comedy and Underground Comedy Movie on glorious 4KUHD, hopefully including the ShamWow and Slap Chop short films...

...but on the off chance it ISN'T that, I wonder what it is

Watch it be "The Sicilian".

my bets are on Mafioso or the Japanese Godfather trilogy. neither guess I can take credit for
Hopefully it gets released in a second volume of Italian comedy films, especially because it allows the opportunity for Una Vita Difficile to finally be released.

[domino harvey]

I would be stunned if the second volume of Italian comedies ever surfaces, they only recently sold out of the first

[TechnicolorAcid]

I would be stunned if the second volume of Italian comedies ever surfaces, they only recently sold out of the first

Fran mentioned in an episode of the Radiance Films Podcast, I believe on from a year ago, that sales potential for a title doesn't really factor into making a second volume of a box because it already be in development before the first set's sales even go up iirc. So based on that, it's possible that we could another set, especially because I don't see how Il Sorpasso gets released in a box set but Mafioso gets released in a standard edition.

[DJBillyMac]

I wonder if it could be Hideo Gosha's "Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather"?

[ryannichols7]

I wonder if it could be Hideo Gosha's "Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather"?

that is also Toei and a good candidate, but I lean it to being the Godfather Trilogy since there's another hint for a Japanese crime boxset that got pushed off the 2025 schedule. that would be a good title for Radiance to release though!

[Yakushima]

A question for the Radiance 3 Year Gold Package subscribers: which films will conclude our subscription?
Thanks!

[criterionsnob]

December's three releases (Splendid Outing, Le notti bianche, Une femme douce, plus the Dirty Arthouse zine) will be the last for the Gold subscribers. It was nice while it lasted! Easily the best home video purchase of my life.