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Re: Radiance Films
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2022 11:10 am
by yoloswegmaster
Radiance Film on Twitter wrote:
Next month we will look to have a kind of subscription package multi title offering (more soon) with basic info on 10 forthcoming releases. & the first 2 titles released in Jan (hopefully) avail for pre-order, with others just basic info listed until official announcements follow
Re: Radiance Films
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2022 3:13 pm
by criterionsnob
Radiance is looking for
short films to include on releases, per latest Tweet. They also seem to have leaked their logo in a URL link. Looks nice!
They want shorts to match with this list. Any guesses what films could be based on this list? I'm hoping for Moodysson's Together for "Commune lifestyle," and "Fucking Åmål" for "Girl high school coming of age."
LATEST BRIEFS:
- Murderous women
- Buddy movie / the open road
- Commune lifestyle / revolutionary feminism
- Sniper / police procedural
- Italian gothic
- Girl high school coming of age
- Murder mystery
- Corruption / mafia
- Neo noir/erotic thriller
Re: Radiance Films
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2022 3:27 pm
by swo17
Aren't we already expecting Arrow to release a Moodysson boxset?
Re: Radiance Films
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2022 4:03 pm
by senseabove
For reference, I surveyed their tweets so far and these are the countries that have had a definite "deal confirmed" tweet from Radiance:
2 x Italy
1 x Sweden
1 x Estonia
2 x France
1 x US
2 x Japan
There're also two tweets, one with a picture of a letter with a German stamp "hoping" it's a new acquisition, and one with US flags about "getting close to the final piece of the launch puzzle."
Re: Radiance Films
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2022 4:14 pm
by Radiance
senseabove wrote: Wed Aug 24, 2022 4:03 pm
For reference, I surveyed their tweets so far and these are the countries that have had a definite "deal confirmed" tweet from Radiance:
2 x Italy
1 x Sweden
1 x Estonia
2 x France
1 x US
2 x Japan
There're also two tweets, one with a picture of a letter with a German stamp "hoping" it's a new acquisition, and one with US flags about "getting close to the final piece of the launch puzzle."
You didn't count the flags...
(Each flag is one title)
Yes we did confirm that German deal.
Re: Radiance Films
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2022 6:24 pm
by Calvin
swo17 wrote: Wed Aug 24, 2022 3:27 pm
Aren't we already expecting Arrow to release a Moodysson boxset?
Yes, Arrow are confirmed to have Fucking Amal at least.
Murderous woman could be Obayashi's Sada? 'Sniper / police procedural' = Bo Widerberg's Man on the Roof?
Re: Radiance Films
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2022 7:39 pm
by dwk
Has it been confirmed if Radiance is going to do only dual region releases or will there be US and UK exclusives? (If they are only doing dual region releases then it can't be Sada as Janus/Criterion has that in the US. And given the success of House, I am surprised they haven't released it on Blu-ray)
Re: Radiance Films
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2022 7:41 pm
by yoloswegmaster
Radiance wrote: Wed Aug 24, 2022 4:14 pm
You didn't count the flags...
(Each flag is one title)
Yes we did confirm that German deal.
Would this be correct then?
16 Japanese films
4 French films
7 American films
5 Italian films
1 Estonian film
1 Swedish film
Is Radiance also interested in releasing films from India (whether it be Bollywood, Tollywood, etc.) or is it still difficult to deal with the Indian film corporations,
as described by Lee Kline back in 2017? I honestly just want someone to release Sholay on 4K or Blu.
Re: Radiance Films
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2022 7:46 pm
by domino harvey
If the French titles are just Jess Franco, I swear to God…
Re: Radiance Films
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2022 8:06 pm
by senseabove
yoloswegmaster wrote: Wed Aug 24, 2022 7:41 pmWould this be correct then?
16 Japanese films
4 French films
7 American films
5 Italian films
1 Estonian film
1 Swedish film
Was also just doing this and that matches my count, save for an additional single US flag I think I missed last count, and there's another tweet with 3 disc emoji and no country flags, so presumably that's three more releases. Plus at least 1 German film confirmed above.
Re: Radiance Films
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2022 8:25 pm
by Calvin
dwk wrote: Wed Aug 24, 2022 7:39 pm
Has it been confirmed if Radiance is going to do only dual region releases or will there be US and UK exclusives? (If they are only doing dual region releases then it can't be
Sada as Janus/Criterion has that in the US. And given the success of
House, I am surprised they haven't released it on Blu-ray)
I don't think it has been confirmed one way or the other but I didn't know that Criterion had Sada. Considering the popularity of House, I'm surprised that they haven't released any more Obayashi at all though thankfully Third Window are putting them out now in the UK at least. There are a few with Toho, primarily
Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast, that I'd love to see Radiance pick up.
yoloswegmaster wrote: Wed Aug 24, 2022 7:41 pm
Is Radiance also interested in releasing films from India (whether it be Bollywood, Tollywood, etc.) or is it still difficult to deal with the Indian film corporations,
as described by Lee Kline back in 2017? I honestly just want someone to release Sholay on 4K or Blu.
I don't know the answer but the lack of any physical releases for S.S. Rajamouli films in the wake of RRR probably speaks volumes.
Re: Radiance Films
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2022 9:31 pm
by RobertB
Hasn't Mai Zetterling been suggested? "Commune lifestyle / revolutionary feminism" could be for Flickorna.
Re: Radiance Films
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2022 11:53 am
by Berzeli
RobertB wrote: Wed Aug 24, 2022 9:31 pm
Hasn't Mai Zetterling been suggested? "Commune lifestyle / revolutionary feminism" could be for Flickorna.
I did mention her as a good candidate, however I'm not sure that "commune lifestyle" fits Flickorna unless you consider an acting troupe a commune. Especially if the brief lists the theme in terms of importance, i.e. "commune lifestyle" taking precedent over "revolutionary feminism".
And well, "Sniper / police procedural" would be fairly dead on for Bo Widerberg's The Man on the Roof. So if we're getting a Swedish film my money would be on that based on those briefs.
Re: Radiance Films
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2022 1:57 pm
by therewillbeblus
The Widerberg already has a solid blu-ray release tho
Re: Radiance Films
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2022 11:42 am
by yoloswegmaster
From Twitter:
Unless a contract unexpectedly comes in, it's looking like the launch slate years are:
1. 1968
2. 1968
3. 1970
4. 1971
5. 1975
6. 1976
7. 1976
8. 1990
9. 1995
10. 2020
It looks like The Man on the Roof is one of the titles.
Re: Radiance Films
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2022 11:54 am
by Finch
And we know the first spine title is Italian. Run Man Run is supposed to be a forthcoming Eureka (or even MoC?) release. A Quiet Place In The Country has to be a strong contender given it's directed by Elio Petri of Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion and stars Franco Nero and Vanessa Redgrave. Danger Diabolik does not have a UK Blu-Ray and Paramount's UK DVD was released in 2007. Can anyone think of other contenders?
Re: Radiance Films
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2022 12:36 pm
by Calvin
Petri's Todo Modo or Bertolucci's The Spider's Stratagem?
Re: Radiance Films
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2022 4:13 pm
by Dr Amicus
OK - in an Instagram post showing the covers of magazines consulted / combed for reviews etc., the Sight and Sound from Feb 97 is shown. Looking through the review sections there are two films which stand out to me as possibles for the 1995 result: Like Grains of Sand (Nagisa no Sindbad) and Picture Bride.
Re: Radiance Films
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2022 5:33 pm
by Pavel
Like Grains of Sand, or anything by Hashiguchi, would be amazing. I’ve been meaning to watch some of his films for a while now
Re: Radiance Films
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2022 9:00 am
by Finch
I would love for the 1971 film to be Sympathy for the Underdog. The last release was HVE's 2005 DVD, and it's Kinji Fukasaku. But I have no idea if Toei ever did an HD master or how long ago that would have been.
Re: Radiance Films
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2022 4:26 pm
by yoloswegmaster
The countries for the first 10 releases have been revealed:
2 x Italian
1 x Japanese
3 x American
2 x French
1 x Swedish
1 x German
Re: Radiance Films
Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2022 3:57 pm
by beamish14
yoloswegmaster wrote: Fri Sep 02, 2022 4:26 pm
The countries for the first 10 releases have been revealed:
2 x Italian
1 x Japanese
3 x American
2 x French
1 x Swedish
1 x German
My dream of seeing more Dutch and Canadian films in HD is thwarted again.
Really curious to see if the American titles skew towards studio films that have never had home video releases
Re: Radiance Films
Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2022 3:58 pm
by domino harvey
Hannibal Lecter box set obv
Re: Radiance Films
Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2022 10:49 am
by Stefan Andersson
A few new ideas for future releases, from the "it just struck me" department:
- Lester James Peries - for example, Gamperaliya and Baddegama (Village in the Jungle). Nidhanaya is apparently with the WCF:
http://dungarpurfilms.com/nidhanaya.html
- Dong fu ren (The Arch, 1968), dir. Shu Shuen Tong, starring Lisa Lu and Roy Chiao, DoP Subrata Mitra, co-edited by Les Blank
- Bab el Chams/Gate of the Sun, Yousry Nasrallah
- Adoor Gopalakrishnan
- Wen Jiang - Devils on the Doorstep, In the Heat of the Sun
Tenia reviews a French blu of In the Heat of the Sun:
https://testsbluray.com/2022/09/04/test ... rs-shadow/
Re: Radiance Films
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2022 4:21 am
by mteller
Stefan Andersson wrote: Sun Sep 04, 2022 10:49 am
- Adoor Gopalakrishnan
- Wen Jiang - Devils on the Doorstep, In the Heat of the Sun
Yes please!