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domino harvey wrote: Mon Dec 15, 2025 2:23 pm DOU - A double tour?

Could be Double Agents, the Houssein film or possibly Double Labyrinthe (although the former seems more likely than the latter).

domino harvey wrote: Mon Dec 15, 2025 2:16 pm ROZ… are we sure Criterion has UK rights to Rozier’s retrospective?

Having a hard time thinking about what else it could be and if it is Rozier then I think I might burst with joy (Near Orouet was my 3rd favorite discovery of the year behind L'Avventura and Marketa Lazarova and has reached the status of being an all-time favorite).

WN5 - World Noir 5
HAS2
ROM
TW
HM
MAR - March of Fools?
AOB - The Incredible Army of Brancaleone (Monicelli)?
CON - Confessions of a Police Captain (Damiani) or, less likely, The Conformist
SOL
JNB
HAS
LEP
POR -
IMP - L'important c'est d'aimer (Zulawski)
HIS - Histoire(s) du Cinema
WW
NEA
JLP - Jeanne la Pucelle (French epic)
HAW - The Dancing Hawk
MAT - Matador
BOX - Boxer (Terayama)? The Box (Oliveria)?
DOU - The Double (1971, unreleased giallo)
RJ2 - Radical Japan 2
MV - A Man Vanishes?
ROZ - Rozier. Previously a failed licence owing to be outbid but perhaps sublicensing has become available? There is an article on Rozier in the booklet.
NAD - Nadja (newly restored vampire film)
FAN
WRB - Warm Water Under A Red Bridge (Imamura)?

FAN - Could be either the highly beloved Dutch film, Fanfare or Marcel L'Herbier's Fantastic Night.
SOL - I'm betting on either Solo (Jean-Pierre Mocky) or Solo Sunny.
CON - Could very well be The Confession by Costa Gavras given that the Criterion is now OOP.

FAN could also be Fanfan la Tulipe.

Yes Michael just beat me to it. I assumed the two HAS entries were Has’ The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober and Memoirs of a Sinner.

CON - could also be A Wife Confesses. Normally Radiance put out a lot of Japanese titles and so far the list above is a bit lacking in numbers (please let RJ2 by Terayama!). So I wonder what Japanese titles fit with the remaining clues?

I’m very disappointed that I can’t see a way to fit Sombre or Grandrieux into any of these…

Peacock wrote: Mon Dec 15, 2025 4:13 pm CON - could also be A Wife Confesses. Normally Radiance put out a lot of Japanese titles and so far the list above is a bit lacking in numbers (please let RJ2 by Terayama!). So I wonder what Japanese titles fit with the remaining clues?

I did guess this title when the clue was first shown with the latest announcement. Speaking of Japanese films, DOU could also mean Double Suicide, no?

Re: Fan. Couldn't it be Lady Windermere's Fan? It would have been the second oldest film that they release.

More Visconti has been teased for 2026, so the CON could very well be Conversation Piece

Normally Radiance put out a lot of Japanese titles and so far the list above is a bit lacking in numbers (please let RJ2 by Terayama!). So I wonder what Japanese titles fit with the remaining clues?

RJ2 could be another Oshima set as there's more than enough films from his sixties output to create another
box set (including all the titles from Criterion's own Eclipse set).

CON might also be Marco Ferreri's The Conjugal Bed since early sixties Italian comedies have been previously released.

JSC wrote: Mon Dec 15, 2025 3:29 pm FAN could also be Fanfan la Tulipe.

If it is, likely to be cut for animal cruelty (illegal horsefalls), as it was on DVD back in 2004.

Dream of Light is so tragic, something has meant to have been released since 2019 or something - I remember seeing a press release or something to that effect. Last year "this summer" was listed as a BR release date (I believe it was on Antonio Lopez's website), yet here we still are 8.5 years after the restoration premiered at Cannes.

Rozier would be amazing; The Castaways of Turtle Island, Maine-Ocean Express and Near Orouet are blindingly good.

TVC15 wrote: Mon Dec 15, 2025 4:25 pm More Visconti has been teased for 2026, so the CON could very well be Conversation Piece

Wasn't this released by MoC a few years ago? If so, Fran might want to prioritize other films.

Finch wrote: Mon Dec 15, 2025 9:31 pm

TVC15 wrote: Mon Dec 15, 2025 4:25 pm More Visconti has been teased for 2026, so the CON could very well be Conversation Piece

Wasn't this released by MoC a few years ago? If so, Fran might want to prioritize other films.

That would have been almost 10 years ago and it's out of print I believe.

I think CON is more likely to be, in order:

1. Confessions of a Police Captain - the newsletter teased this kinda, Radiance and it's buyer base love Daimani, and this really does fit

2. A Wife Confesses - Radiance has so far stayed clear of Yasuzo Masumura, who has only seen western boutique releases from Arrow, but if they do dip in, this is a good place to start. I'd love this, The Blue Sky Maiden, or especially Kisses

3. The Conformist 4K - yeah sure why not. feels more likely to me as a big home run release

I just don't see Conversation Piece being as big a priority as Oseesione, Bellissima, or Sandra, personally, but what do I know

Peacock wrote: Mon Dec 15, 2025 4:13 pm CON - could also be A Wife Confesses. Normally Radiance put out a lot of Japanese titles and so far the list above is a bit lacking in numbers (please let RJ2 by Terayama!). So I wonder what Japanese titles fit with the remaining clues?

oops I missed this. I do lean towards RJ2 being a Terayama focused set too

BOX - Boxcar Bertha?

TechnicolorAcid wrote: Mon Dec 15, 2025 3:00 pm

domino harvey wrote: Mon Dec 15, 2025 2:16 pm ROZ… are we sure Criterion has UK rights to Rozier’s retrospective?

Having a hard time thinking about what else it could be and if it is Rozier then I think I might burst with joy (Near Orouet was my 3rd favorite discovery of the year behind L'Avventura and Marketa Lazarova and has reached the status of being an all-time favorite).

Patricia Rozema is another possibility, as her films have recently been restored. Does anybody have those in the UK?

SOL - Top pick would be El sol del membrillo (Erice)!

I will bet the rest of my hair that WW is not Wildweschel!

zedz wrote: Mon Dec 15, 2025 11:04 pm
SOL - Top pick would be El sol del membrillo (Erice)!

Sadly this is mentioned as one of the licenses they failed to acquire this year.

I lean towards SOL being Big Deal on Madonna Street but I could see it being Under the Sun of Satan, which was of course a Palme d'Or winner and has a Cohen disc stateside

SOL = Tardes de soledad?

IMP - L'important c'est d'aimer (Zulawski)?

NEA - Neapolitan Diary?
POR - Port Arthur?

swo17 wrote: Tue Dec 16, 2025 12:03 am SOL = Tardes de soledad?

This would presumably get past the British censors on a technicality, but I would imagine it would nevertheless attract a lot of negative attention Radiance doesn't need. (That, and nobody wants to see bullfighting movies.)

I mean, Cahiers just named one the best film of the year

(That, and nobody wants to see bullfighting movies.)

Nobody wants to see Matador, then?

I'd assume a film like the The Moment of Truth wouldn't pass the BBFC without substantial cuts.

JSC wrote: Tue Dec 16, 2025 1:18 am

(That, and nobody wants to see bullfighting movies.)

Nobody wants to see Matador, then?

Well, they wouldn't if it were a bullfighting movie, but it's not.