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'nother vote for any and all Alan Rudolph from me. more ideas: Jean Delannoy: God Needs Men, Les jeux sont faits
Zurlini: Family Diary esp.
more Lina Wertmuller
Zampa's To Live in Peace and Anni difficili
Germi's In the Name of the Law, The Path of Hope, Jealousy, Un maledetto imbroglio
Franco Piavoli
RIthy Panh
Olmi's Long Live la Signora, "Camminacammina", In the Summertime, One Fine Day
Jonathan Demme's Citizens Band, of course
Troell's Flight of the Eagle, Ole dole doff
Terayama
Kumar Shahani
Ettore Scola
Petri's I ciascuno il suo (or whatever the name is - 1967), Todo modo, Buone notizie, His Days Are Numbered
Claude Goretta
Tanner
Arne Sucksdorff's The Great Adventure and perhaps other films i guess
This World, then the Fireworks
Enemies, a Love Story
Life Upside Down

Randall Maysin Again wrote: Tue May 31, 2022 10:52 pm 'nother vote for any and all Alan Rudolph from me. more ideas: Jean Delannoy: God Needs Men, Les jeux sont faits
Zurlini: Family Diary esp.
more Lina Wertmuller
Zampa's To Live in Peace and Anni difficili
Germi's In the Name of the Law, The Path of Hope, Jealousy, Un maledetto imbroglio
Franco Piavoli
RIthy Panh
Olmi's Long Live la Signora, "Camminacammina", In the Summertime, One Fine Day
Jonathan Demme's Citizens Band, of course
Troell's Flight of the Eagle, Ole dole doff
Terayama
Kumar Shahani
Ettore Scola
Petri's I ciascuno il suo (or whatever the name is - 1967), Todo modo, Buone notizie, His Days Are Numbered
Claude Goretta
Tanner
Arne Sucksdorff's The Great Adventure and perhaps other films i guess
This World, then the Fireworks
Enemies, a Love Story
Life Upside Down

Enemies: A Love Story is still WB, but I hope it does get a Blu soon. I have fond memories of my late father getting into an argument with Paul Mazursky’s audio commentary, particularly over his assertion that Montreal in the 80’s could pass for New York in the 50’s

Citizen’s Band must have some major clearance issues

Randall Maysin Again wrote: Tue May 31, 2022 10:52 pm This World, then the Fireworks

Kino has spent what seems like more than a year almost giving their blu of this away (it's currently @ $5.99). Maybe Imprint will include it in a subsequent neo-noir box? But as a standalone, can't think a $6 price point looks attractive.

Radiance "just put a big offer in on a load of Italian titles that are totally uncommercial"

I think it would be more reassuring if Twitter responses used gifs from movies and TV shows that weren't so commercial.

Calvin wrote: Wed Jun 01, 2022 10:10 am Radiance "just put a big offer in on a load of Italian titles that are totally uncommercial"

I wonder if this is totally uncommercial as in "arthouse films" or totally uncommercial as in "mainstream Italian entertainment that isn't part of a saleable cult genre". Because I could go for a Marco Ferreri box as much as I could a Totò box.

All the films starring Totò that weren't directed by Pasolini.

(I would actually love a boxset or two of the Italian peplum movies)

In all seriousness a Toto box is something I’ve been desiring for a long while. Up there with a massive Tora San set for me.

It is a shame that AnimEigo only collected the first four Tora-san films together. The most depressing un-followed up on "Volume 1" release after MoC's Naruse box, and presumably for much the same reasons.

I also imagine it had to do with their overall financial situation.

Not sure how commercially viable any of these would be but here goes
Japan Art Theatre Guild films, particularly Terayama.
Pre revolutionary Iranian film eg The Cow, Chess of the Wind, The Deer.
Taiwanese films that arent by Hou, Yang or Tsai.
Filipino Cinema, Lino Brocka, Mike de Leon, Ishmael Bernal.
Moustapha Allassane
Henri Barakat
Any World Cinema Foundation films.
Pre 1989 Romanian and Bulgarian films, eg the Goat Horn, The Oak.
Helmut Kautner
Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
Eliseo Subiela
Leonardo Favio
Any Cinema Novo
Arturo Ripstein
Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
Kazakh New Wave
Yugoslav Black Wave films.
Luis Ospina esp Pure Blood
Hideo Gosha, Masahiro Shinoda, Tadashi Imai, Kenji Misumi.

My wish list (many of them already mentioned)

City Of Pirates (1983, Ruiz)
Les Miserables (1995, Lelouch)
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000, Tarr)
Landscape In The Mist (1988, Angelopoulos)
Eternity And A Day (1998, Angelopoulos)
The Travelling Players (1975, Angelopoulos)
The Unbearable Lightness Of Being (1988, Kaufman)
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... And Spring (2003, Ki-Duk)
Chunyang (2000, Im Kwon-Taek)
Lady Chatterley (2006, Ferran)
Il Posto (1961, Olmi)
I Fidanzati (1963, Olmi)
Le Notti Bianche (1957, Visconti)
La Terra Trema (1948, Visconti)
Ossessione (1943, Visconti)
The Tit And The Moon (1994, Luna)

Kind wishes & good luck with the new venture.

+ 1 vote for:
Lady Chatterley (Ferran; I believe there is a longer TV cut also of this film)

Also:
Petits arrangements avec les morts, Ferran´s debut feature

Caligula wrote: Thu Jun 02, 2022 12:53 pm
The Unbearable Lightness Of Being (1988, Kaufman)
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... And Spring (2003, Ki-Duk)

The Tit And The Moon (1994, Luna)

Kind wishes & good luck with the new venture.

Unbearable Lightness was restored by the Academy, and I assume it will be handled by WB or Criterion.

I’d love to see all of Ki-Duk’s films get nice HD releases. I’m a big fan of Bigas Luna’s Tit and the Moon as well. Crazy how I don’t think it ever even got a commercial release in North America

Speaking of films that didn’t get properly released, Paul Bartel’s Shelf Life would be an incredible rediscovery. I think it’s possibly better than Eating Raoul. UFOria, too, although I think Universal might own it.

Totally behind the ideas of Cox, Shinoda and Rudolph but above all else I would sell vital organs if it helped procure the early Gremillon silents and also particularly 'La Petite Lise' which was mooted as being subject to renovation during the Grem retro in the UK in 2013 but has subsequently failed to surface.

NABOB OF NOWHERE wrote: Thu Jun 02, 2022 7:33 pm early Gremillon silents

I've only seen Gardiens de phare and Maldone--are there other possibilities? Even just on the strength of those and La Petite Lise, we could probably come up with enough organs between the two of us to salvage a whole man out of them

I'd like to see more regional American films. Walter Ungerer's The Animal, Servando González's The Fool Killer, and anything by Eagle Pennel.

beamish14 wrote: Thu Jun 02, 2022 7:17 pm Unbearable Lightness was restored by the Academy, and I assume it will be handled by WB or Criterion.

George Feltenstein said on a poscast last year that Kaufman wanted Criterion to release this again and Criterion wanted to do it but it was held up because WB's deal with the Saul Zaents Company had expired. I think they have finally renewed their deal, so I'd expect Criterion to be releasing this in the near future.

dwk wrote: Thu Jun 02, 2022 9:15 pm

beamish14 wrote: Thu Jun 02, 2022 7:17 pm Unbearable Lightness was restored by the Academy, and I assume it will be handled by WB or Criterion.

George Feltenstein said on a poscast last year that Kaufman wanted Criterion to release this again and Criterion wanted to do it but it was held up because WB's deal with the Saul Zaents Company had expired. I think they have finally renewed their deal, so I'd expect Criterion to be releasing this in the near future.

Nice. I do hope Criterion is the eventual home of this, the Amadeus 4K, and At Play in the Fields of the Lord

swo17 wrote: Thu Jun 02, 2022 7:48 pm

NABOB OF NOWHERE wrote: Thu Jun 02, 2022 7:33 pm early Gremillon silents

I've only seen Gardiens de phare and Maldone--are there other possibilities? Even just on the strength of those and La Petite Lise, we could probably come up with enough organs between the two of us to salvage a whole man out of them

Those are the only two silent features he directed, as far as I know. I'd also sell at least a kidney for a decent release of Gardiens de phare (although the flickery, sepia-toned file that I watched may have added to the mystique).

Lobster Films got a grant from the CNC to restore Gardiens de phare back in 2020 but I don't think there's been any screenings yet.

Calvin wrote: Fri Jun 03, 2022 11:58 am Lobster Films got a grant from the CNC to restore Gardiens de phare back in 2020 but I don't think there's been any screenings yet.

Why Pathé are diddling around with La Petite Lise for so long (if at all) is also a mystery as they withheld a copy for all showings back in 2013 giving as a reason the forthcoming restoration!
I wonder what version Lobster have acquired of Gardiens. Hopefully it is the 35 ml print I saw which was brought over from Japan and looked more than reasonable.

At the Edinburgh 2013 festival curated by Chris Fujiwara there was strong talk about a shorts collection being planned by Montparnasse but again nothing has materialised.

Older members might also remember an intriguing thread on these pages regarding the finding of the Paper roll for Player Piano composed by Gremillon to accompany 'Un tour au large' from 1926 which unfortunately is gone forever. The finder, a British musician , did actually play the composition publicly including a film festival (in the US I think) footage of which was available on line at some stage.

My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days (1989) please.

luxta wrote: Sun Jun 05, 2022 12:50 pm My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days (1989) please.

I second that! And a lot more Andrzej Żuławski would be wonderful.

mhofmann wrote: Mon Jun 06, 2022 10:32 am

luxta wrote: Sun Jun 05, 2022 12:50 pm My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days (1989) please.

I second that! And a lot more Andrzej Żuławski would be wonderful.

Yep. Still waiting to buy those beautiful Polish Film Institute restorations on Blu-Ray. I’d love to get La Fidelite, too