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Zot! wrote: Wed Oct 07, 2026 11:47 am Interesting that they call out both "FilmS from the Taiwanese New Wave", and Tsai-Ming Liang. Any guesses?

Without anything else to go on, I feel you might as well draw guesses out of a hat. There's lots of New Cinema films with HD-or-better masters, and off the top of my head the only one with a UK BD is The Boys from Fengkuei. Hou or Yang are the obvious guesses (though the new 4K of That Day, on the Beach would be with Arrow unless they chose to pass), but it could be something more left field like Ah Fei, Strawman, Osmanthus Alley, The Woman of Wrath (which might pose BBFC issues), This Love of Mine, etc. If it's Hou I would very much like to see A Summer at Grandpa's, which got a Japanese restoration awhile back that Carlotta just put out in France but is still MIA with English subtitles.

What Time Is It There? hasn't been released on blu-ray anywhere & is my favorite Tsai. Hopefully that's in the works.

The CMPC restorations of The Terrorizers, Dust in the Wind, A Time to Live A Time to Die, etc. are nearing 20 years old now - even if they became available to licence now, I do wonder if Radiance would put them out without a newer master.

Perhaps Radiance got UK rights to the new A City of Sadness restoration? I know Film Movement got it for the US. The restoration of Millennium Mambo is also still to get a UK release, though I'd be surprised if that were still labelled New Wave.

I also learned earlier that there's a HD broadcast of Wu Nien-jen's A Borrowed Life on the back channels that looks significantly better than the 15 year old VCD bootleg I own. That's a holy grail for me, I would love to see it on disc.

Dust in the Wind is one of the films that I want most on Blu-ray. I didn’t buy it when it was released on Blu-ray more than 10 years ago because the colors of the film looked so different from the DVD. I wonder whether it was because of the choice made for the restoration or the encoding.

The CMPC actually did two restorations of Dust in the Wind: one for the original standalone release from 2010 and another that came out in a 2014 box set with The Time to Live and the Time to Die. The colors in the second restoration were much more natural than in the first, which had the pronounced blue cast that the CMPC was apparently in love with at the time. The boxed reissue was also 1080p instead of the 1080i of the standalone edition(s). I don't have it at hand, but based on the DVDBeaver comparison between the original Blu-ray and the DVD, I'm certain the second restoration was far closer to the DVD. (It's possible the re-release was just a regrade of the existing master, but as I recall there were enough differences to suggest it wasn't.)

The CMPC may have also done a second restoration of The Terrorizers around the same time, but every BD edition for which I can find info (including Carlotta's Yang box from last year) uses the same master as the old CMPC Blu-rays. This trailer for a Japanese theatrical re-release in August looks identical as well. So I have no idea if the second restoration has ever actually been released, or if it even exists at all.

I had assumed that Dust in the Wind in the two-film box set was the same version on the standalone Blu-ray. Oh well … I like how the film looks (warm colors) on the DVD from the dark-colored box set. But it is a letter-boxed presentation. There was another DVD box set with the box in blue color. I wonder if the film is also presented in letter-boxed format in that blue box set.