MoC Forthcoming, Wishlist, and Random Speculation

[bad future]

Love Singing, Ringing Tree... got the blu-ray released a few years ago by Network, shortly before they folded. Glad someone else has picked it up since that release didn't have a very long window, and even more exciting that it's part of a whole MoC DEFA set! Looking forward to more info.

[ianthemovie]

On last month's Deaf Crocodile podcast Dennis mentioned that two of the DEFA films are directed by Gottfried Kolditz, so I'm guessing these might be Frau Holle and Snow White, both based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tales. Something Weird released a VHS rip of the latter film back in the day and I remember it being pretty schlocky, but I'd be curious to see it again in a proper presentation.

Dennis also mentioned on the podcast that they may or may not release a Volume II of these depending on how this first set does.

[What A Disgrace]

I suspect Wolfgang Staudte's The Story of Little Mook is a high likelihood for the Eureka! set, considering it is early in the cycle, was a massive box office hit, and they already released a Staudte film in a previous DEFA set.

[Finch]

July tease: "two fools, a book of old spells and a pair of beasts awaken soon"

The silent film font pretty much confirms the final Laurel & Hardy silent set (the 6 month exclusivity for Flicker Alley is expiring).

[Finch]

Eureka have a 25% off sale.

[Finch]

Standard editions coming in August for the Fantomas 1964-67 and Zen & Sword sets

[tenia]

I'm very surprised the Zen & Sword set sold out so quickly (though it's obviously good for Eureka).

[dwk]

I wonder if Eureka regrets passing on releasing the Zen & Sword set in the US?

[dwk]

Speaking of Eureka US, another set of announcement and nothing in the US. They haven't released a title in the US since April. DukeTogo over at the Blu-ray.com forum said that Eureka told him that they have some US releases on tap for next year, but it really looks like they are planning to exit the US market. (MVD's webstore is currently running a 50% off sale on nearly all of Eureka's US releases.)

[Lowry_Sam]

With Scarlet Street announcement, could The Strange Love Of Martha Ivers come soon too?

[The Fanciful Norwegian]

Only if Eureka is able to access the Paramount library again—The Strange Love of Martha Ivers is one of the handful of their pre-August 1949 releases they didn't sell to MCA and hence isn't with Universal.

EDIT: Forgot this was a public domain title. But Paramount probably has the best available elements and the Kino Lorber release used a Paramount restoration, so I doubt MoC would do an unlicensed edition.

[hearthesilence]

I honestly forgot Eureka had U.S. releases.