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Image is putting out a DVD of Derek Jarman's "Edward II" on June 14th. Extras include a behind-the-scenes featurette and the trailer. No idea if it's the same featurette that was included on the Criterion LD, but it's possible.

They're also putting out a DVD of "All Over Me" on the same day, so it looks like Image's relationship with New Line is still going strong.

-BJ

No idea if it's the same featurette that was included on the Criterion LD, but it's possible.

I have the Criterion LD and there is no behind-the-scenes featurette, even though it's listed on the archived Criterion laserdisc site. Very strange. I asked on the old board if anyone had actually seen a copy of the LD that did have the featurette, but I don't recall ever getting an answer. The LD does have a video for Annie Lennox's cover of "Ev'rytime We Say Goodbye" which isn't mentioned in the specs on Image's site. I had kinda hoped Criterion would release this, it's one of Jarman's better films IMO and certainly a lot more accessible than Jubilee.

Does anyone know if Dreyer's Leaves From Satan's Book has been delayed?

Tribe

It's available, with a review, on Amazon....

Strange since Criterion just released it, but Image will be releasing "I Vitelloni" (1953) in August, according to Digitalbits. http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/ ... 51605.html

Wouldn't be the first time Image has done this, as they released the single-disc, bare bones edition of "8 1/2" following the Criterion. If the new "I Vitelloni" is anything like that, it will have the same transfer but none of the extras.

-BJ

Here's the link:

http://www.image-entertainment.com/imag ... ontrol.jsp

Two horror releases later in September that I find interesting at first glance, but know nothing about: Buddy Boy (Mark Hanlon, 1999) and Ice From the Sun (Eric Stanze, 1999). Anyone familiar with these? Recommendations?

Tribe

I compared the contents of Kino's 2-disc Avant-Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and '30s with Image's upcoming 7-disc Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1894-1941 to document the overlap.

In BOTH collections
Anémic cinéma (1931/Duchamp)
Autumn Fire (1931/Weinberg)
Ballet mécanique (1924/Léger)
Even -- As You and I (1937/Barlow, Hay, Robbins)
H2O (1929/Steiner)
The Hearts of Age (1934/Welles, Vance)
The Life and Death of 9413 a Hollywood Extra (1928/Vorkapich, Florey)
Manhatta (1921/Strand, Sheeler)
Le Retour à la raison (1923/Ray)


In Kino but not in Image
La Coquille et le clergyman (1926/Dulac)
Emak-Bakia (1926/Ray)
L'Étoile de mer (1928/Ray)
La Glace à trois faces (1927/Epstein)
Lot in Sodom (1933/Watson, Webber)
Ménilmontant (1926/Kirsanoff)
Les Mystères du château du Dé (1929/Ray)
Regen/Rain (1929/Ivens)
Rhythmus 21 (1921/Richter)
Romance sentimentale (1930/Eisenstein, Alexandrov)
Symphonie diagonale (1924/Eggeling)
Le Tempestaire (1947/Epstein)
Ãœberfall (1928/Metzner)
Le Vampire (1939/Painlevé)
Vormittagsspuk/Ghosts Before Breakfast (1928/Richter)


In Image but not in Kino
146 films---too many to list. See full list: http://www.unseen-cinema.com/


Note:

* The films in the Kino set do not appear to have undergone any significant restoration or clean-up.

* The Image set is produced by David Shepard, who searched for the best available elements and completed varying degrees of restoration for each film.

Thanks for the lists and link, FilmFanSea. Looks like the Unseen Cinema DVD set will omit some films that were part of the travelling retrospective, such as (not a complete list) Lot in Sodom, Cornell's Rose Hobart, Griffith's Musketeers of Pig Alley and the Nazimova feature Salomé. Those four are available on DVD elsewhere, of course, and it's still an incredibly mouth-watering set.

The Films of Charles and Ray Eames boxset recently caught my eye, and, with nary a review of the set to be found, can anyone here vouch for the quality of the transfers contained within?

Lions Gate wants to buy Image apparently:

http://www.homemediaretailing.com/index ... ewsid=7991

I, too would love to order the Films of Charles and Ray Eames set,
but I am too scared. I doubt that many people will have bought it.
Each DVD was available seperately, but only Volume 1 was in print
until this box and OOP titles went for between $50-130 on Amazon's
marketplace, Ebay, etc, which prevented from buying them. But I'd
buy this set if my mind was put a ease - not an easy task, of course!

Thanks, Kinji, but why does info regarding Lions Gate's interest in Image go in a thread entitled "Image purchases HVE?" This is my question.

Spanking the Monkey



Writer-director David O. Russell's 1994 debut Spanking the Monkey will be released on DVD on December 6th from Image Entertainment. The Oedipal tale starring Jeremy Davies will include a 1.85 anamorphic transfer, Dolby Digital 5.1, an audio commentary track with Russell and the trailer. Retail is $14.99.

from davisdvd.com

I love this film! I was hoping for a Criterion, but I'm happy enough about this.

emcflat wrote:Thanks, Kinji, but why does info regarding Lions Gate's interest in Image go in a thread entitled "Image purchases HVE?" This is my question.

Because Image bought HVE to obtain sole distribution rights to the Criterion Collection. The assumption is that Lions Gate now wants to buy Image for the same reason.

It appears that Image's release of Walther Ruttmann's 1927 classic, Berlin: Symphony of a Great City/Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt, is now back in print. Unclear whether it's still housed in a snapper case, or whether they've upgraded it to a keep case.

It's listed on the Image website, and Amazon lists it as shipping within 24 hours. While it was OOP, it was fetching $100+ on Amazon Marketplace, where it's now priced at under 30 bucks.

Personally, I was disappointed in this film, probably because I saw Dziga Vertov's 1929 The Man with the Movie Camera first, and it blew me away. Ruttmann's film had a much less visceral impact on me. Though it may be a very accomplished film in its own right, my brain couldn't help comparing & contrasting it with Vertov's masterpiece, and finding Berlin to be inferior.

I wonder if this is going to be a trend with former Home Vision releases. Day of the Dolphin is due from Image in February. This new version appears to have the same specs as the original version, but different cover art and an MSRP of $14.95.

I just noticed that Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 has gone OOP. Does anyone have any infomation if this is going to be re-released or did someone else pick up the rights?

http://www.fangoria.com/news_article.php?id=5473


"Fango got the scoop from Image Entertainment about a bunch of notable genre titles coming up on the company's DVD slate. One of the most notable is the U.S. disc release of Shinya Tsukamoto's GEMINI, a 1999 psychothriller based on Ranpo Edogawa's novel about a doctor whose life is overtaken by his malevolent doppelganger. The DVD will include a making-of documentary, interviews, behind-the-scenes footage and the trailer, and will retail for $19.99. Other Asian fare on the Image schedule includes 1998's TOKYO PSYCHO (no relation to the same-titled 2004 film coming February 28 from Panik House) on April 18, and BLACK MAGIC, the first of the company's Shaw Brothers horror titles, arriving August 8."

"On the U.S. side, Image has set a July 18 date for Nick Quested's 7 MUMMIES, with a genre-heavy cast including Cerina (CABIN FEVER) Vincent, Danny (FROM DUSK TILL DAWN) Trejo, Billy (IMPRINT) Drago and Andrew (TEXAS CHAINSAW) Bryniarski tangling with evil forces protecting an ancient Mexican treasure. This disc will have a making-of featurette, trailers and other extras to be announced. Coming June 27 is GHOST GAME, directed by Joe Knee and centering on a group of friends who go for a weekend at a cabin in the woods, where they make the mistake of playing the titular game and unleash evil forces. This one will also have a documentary and other extras; you can see the film's official site here."

"SOUL'S MIDNIGHT, the evil-cult horror film starring Armand Assante that we told you about here, arrives September 19. Finally, Sept. 12 sees the DVDebut of MURDER A LA MOD, the rarely seen feature debut of writer/director Brian De Palma. The comic thriller stars Margo Norton, Andra Akers, Jared Martin and PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE's William Finley, and will be paired on disc with THE MOVING FINGER, with extras to be announced."

Jeff wrote:I wonder if this is going to be a trend with former Home Vision releases. Day of the Dolphin is due from Image in February. This new version appears to have the same specs as the original version, but different cover art and an MSRP of $14.95.

According to a friend formerly employed by HVE, expect many titles to re-appear with re-designed artwork. If you're in love with a particular graphic, you might want to buy now rather than later.

Could a re-release of the now-OOP Koji Wakamatsu film GO, GO SECOND TIME VIRGIN be one of these upcoming genre releases?

Other Asian fare on the Image schedule includes 1998's TOKYO PSYCHO (no relation to the same-titled 2004 film coming February 28 from Panik House) on April 18

I don't know why they changed the English title, but this is actually PORNO STAR by Toshiaki Toyoda (whose films BLUE SPRING and 9 SOULS are already available from ArtsMagic). I've been wanting to check out this film for quite a while.

I can understand (but don't agree with) why they would want to avoid the term "porno" in the title. My guess is that many videostore owners would be unfamiliar with the film and are not willing to take the chance that any film called Porno Star is not actually pornography.

From Davis DVD

The Chaplin Mutuals

Celebrating their 90th anniversary, Charlie Chaplin's twelve two-reel comedies made for the Mutual Film Corporation will be re-released by Image Entertainment on June 6th. Restored from the finest surviving 35mm film elements, with newly discovered additions and improvements since Image's previous edition, this release of The Chaplin Mutual Comedies includes the shorts The Immigrant, The Adventurer, The Cure, Easy Street, The Count, The Vagabond, The Fireman, Behind the Screen, One A.M., The Pawnshop, The Floorwalker, and The Rink.

Extras include new orchestral scores composed and conducted by Carl Davis, The Gentleman Tramp--a 1975 documentary narrated by Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, and Laurence Olivier, Chaplin's Goliath--a 1996 documentary on Chaplin "heavy" Eric Campbell, The Mutual-Chaplin Specials, a reminiscence by Richard Patterson, and a DVD-ROM stills galery with over ninety superb, rare images from the collection of Jeffrey Vance, many never before published! Retail is $59.99.