rapta wrote: Wed Oct 09, 2024 4:20 pm
yoloswegmaster wrote: Wed Oct 09, 2024 11:14 am
Hopefully HK classics include Nomad and a fixed version of Centre Stage
Someone on BR.com recently admitted Rouge was coming from a label that
wasn't Eureka, so I did immediately think Radiance (if not, then 88 Films have been releasing some good tasteful HK titles). Perhaps Centre Stage will follow, and maybe Nomad too but since Eureka just announced a Patrick Tam title (The Sword), I'm inclined to think they could have got that as well.
I think it's likely that we'll see
Rouge and/or
Centre Stage from Radiance if it seems pretty definitive that Eureka isn't releasing them. the only holdup I see is that since
Rouge does have a really good edition from Criterion, I feel like Fran is less likely to throw resources at it, whereas Eureka are (and usually add on their own unique extras), and potentially Arrow, but I don't see it being something they go for. but it
is a ghost story, and that is a clue!
Centre Stage seems very likely though, especially given the US disc has issues
rapta wrote: Wed Oct 09, 2024 4:20 pm
ex-cowboy wrote: Wed Oct 09, 2024 2:48 pm
I wonder if the Palme D'or winner could be Imamura's The Eel - the longer (Directors?) cut has never had a release here (think it came out on R4 in Australia) and would fit within the Radiance oeuvre. It's also one of the few winners of the last 40 years or so to not have been released on Blu in the UK
yoloswegmaster wrote: Wed Oct 09, 2024 2:59 pm
The have released Trenque Lauquen, She Dies Tomorrow, Suzhou River, and Visible Secret, all of which were released after The Eel.
I could see the Palme D'or title being When Father Was Away on Business, Man of Iron, or Chronicle of the Years of Fire.
I immediately though The Eel too, but I'd take Man of Iron as well (surprised Second Run didn't do it for their Wajda box). Might have suggested Un homme et une femme too, but I think Warner Bros own it.
Of course The Mattei Affair would be great but last we heard they couldn't secure the rights, despite trying for years...would be great if that had changed!
their Wajda box was the war films though, so
Man of Iron wouldn't have fit. Piotr Szulkin aside, I don't see Radiance releasing more central European cinema, though I may be wrong. I think
The Eel is likely, but it would surely have undergone a restoration we might've heard about by now
I think it's really likely the Palme d'or title is one of these:
O Pagador de Promessas (Duarte)
The Birds, the Bees, and the Italians (Germi)
The Mattei Affair (Rosi)
When Father Was Away on Business (Kusturica)
The Eel (Imamura)
Eternity and a Day (Angelopoulos)
and again I don't see
Miracle in Milan since Criterion have a solid edition of it. it's likely Germi or Imamura, but I obviously really want it to be Angelopoulos (I've admittedly never seen one of Kusturica's films), as unlikely as it is. Rosi would be a definitive answer, and could certainly be spine #100 (would be a nice full circle moment after
Working Class was spine #1), but I just don't know if he's pulled it off this soon.
TechnicolorAcid wrote: Wed Oct 09, 2024 10:50 am
Calling it now but the time travel movie is probably Alain Resnais’ Je T’Aime, Je T’Aime.
to me this seems incredibly likely. Resnais is actually pretty absent in the UK as others have noted, and I don't see any other time travel title that makes sense, unless something super obscure is what it is.
Bebo's Girl (undetermined rightsholder, but he's done others by Comencini) and
Girl with a Suitcase (Titanus, who just licensed the Olmi titles) both seem like Radiance titles to me, and would be welcomed - the more Cardinale, the better. I want the French extremity title to be
Trouble Every Day - I don't like that movement at all, but if I'm gonna own a movie from it, I want it to be from a director who's other films I like, and I
really hate Noe
Omensetter wrote: Wed Oct 09, 2024 9:55 pm
Doesn't "further volumes of our most well-liked box sets" just mean another World Noir set given that the Risi set hasn't gone through its initial run? (The Daiei is likely selling well, so that too.) If so, that would seem to eliminate a Germi version, so the Palme winner could go elsewhere. I think it's
The Mattei Affair. It was a failed license in 2023, but it's something "they regularly check on", and Simeoni seems like such a Rosi fan,
Salvatore Giuliano is deemed Radiance-core according to him, and he did co-produce that lovely Arrow edition. Maybe
Hands over the City, too.
The Sight and Sound clue is the most interesting as it seems likely to result in the best film. The Erices are my guess. One of the Weerasethakuls seem possible and would also fulfill the slow cinema clue.
Killer of Sheep seems destined for Criterion, and it doesn't seem worth it to compete with them directly. The Archers films would be a dream, but they seem too high-profile for Radiance? They seem very BFI-y. I suppose
The Mother and the Whore is a possibility, but I'm holding out hopes for a no-guarantee Criterion set (M&W would sell well-enough by itself outside a potential Criterion set, surely).
I think Commedia All'Italiana 2 will happen. sure, the first one hasn't sold out but it's at 85% according to its last email, and I don't see Fran passing up the chance to release Mario Monicelli in boxset form, or Germi or Ettore Scola. World Noir 3 is likely though I'll agree, a shoe in. and there seem to be quite a few more possibilities for Daiei Ghosts
I definitely vote for Erice and I'm really convinced it's going to be them - before the label even announced a release, Fran tweeted that they had a movie on the Sight and Sound list.
Viridiana was commonly guessed to be it, but now that we've seen it announced and we
still have a teaser for a S&S title, I'm convinced it's
Spirit of the Beehive, as it hasn't (knowingly) been restored, so the long holdup is likely its in-house restoration.
Quince Tree Sun is already restored, I either see them being a double bill or getting individual releases. plus Radiance has released quite a bit of Spanish cinema at this point, I think Erice fits right in. I don't see any reason Second Run would relinquish their rights to Apichatpong's movies, which are both in print from them. Archers stand no chance with ITV and sadly Criterion hold Eustache (hostage!!!) in the UK
rapta wrote: Thu Oct 10, 2024 5:59 pm
DJBillyMac wrote: Thu Oct 10, 2024 3:39 pm
Oh yeah, they never have done whatever PDC was in that list of hints - I wonder if they waited to do Pastoral: To Die In The Country on UHD? Or maybe that's the 1970s fantasy they mentioned?
I think at this point, both the "PDC" and the "1970s fantasy world debut on Blu-ray" clues are fairly likely to be Pastoral: To Die in the Country. It was one of Fran's dream titles, and I'd be surprised if neither of those clues were for it. I assume it's been a long time coming, hence why it has been pushed into 2025.
this is another hinted/often rumored title where I don't see any way it's anything but this. I'll be stunned if it isn't
now can
Landscape in the Mist be the slow cinema masterpiece, please???
