MoC Forthcoming, Wishlist, and Random Speculation

[Tommaso]

Hang on... the more I think of it I find it unlikely that it is OUT1. Imdb lists it as lasting 773 min. Split onto nine dvds, this is only about 85 min. per disc. Pretty short, isn't it? I don't know about extras, of course, but still I'd say you'd require a maximum of six or seven discs for it...which leaves me baffled again, cause I cannot think of any longer film than that Rivette, unless it was - like Berlin Alexanderplatz - a TV series originally....

[DDillaman]

read more carefully. He didn't say the number of discs in the fourth box set. The nine disc box is the multi-film box. (Or the four and five film boxes of the same director, more pointedly.)

I'm guessing ALEXANDERPLATZ, fwiw. (Which is not very much.)

[Michael Kerpan]

Hang on... the more I think of it I find it unlikely that it is OUT1. Imdb lists it as lasting 773 min. Split onto nine dvds, this is only about 85 min. per disc. Pretty short, isn't it? I don't know about extras, of course, but still I'd say you'd require a maximum of six or seven discs for it...which leaves me baffled again, cause I cannot think of any longer film than that Rivette, unless it was - like Berlin Alexanderplatz - a TV series originally....

If I recall correctly "Out 1" has 8 "episodes" -- so it would need either 4 or 8 discs probably.

[sevenarts]

Hang on... the more I think of it I find it unlikely that it is OUT1. Imdb lists it as lasting 773 min. Split onto nine dvds, this is only about 85 min. per disc. Pretty short, isn't it? I don't know about extras, of course, but still I'd say you'd require a maximum of six or seven discs for it...which leaves me baffled again, cause I cannot think of any longer film than that Rivette, unless it was - like Berlin Alexanderplatz - a TV series originally....

yea, they didn't say how many discs, just that it's multidisc and for one film. so unless that just means a normal-length film with a lot of extras, i'd say it's gotta be OUT1. and to that i say WOO-HOO. especially if both versions are included. (!!)

[Scharphedin2]

yea, they didn't say how many discs, just that it's multidisc and for one film. so unless that just means a normal-length film with a lot of extras...

Another possibility would be several different versions of the same film a la Criterion's Mr. Arkadin (if that counts as a box set).

However, Out One feels right. It recenty had a revival in London (I believe it was London), and several people have voiced their interest in seeing it included in the MoC collection in the Forum's suggestions thread.

[sevenarts]

However, Out One feels right. It recenty had a revival in London (I believe it was London), and several people have voiced their interest in seeing it included in the MoC collection in the Forum's suggestions thread.

yea, let's hope we're right. with that and the two films from BFI in september, it'll be a nice step towards FINALLY seeing some pre-90s rivette on DVD.

[Arn777]

I'd love MoC to release Out One, but are there any evidences that it has been restored and mastered. The BFI is likely to use the same master that was done in france for Céline and Julie. But i haven't heard anything about Out One, and i doubt MoC would undertake such a task on their own. I missed Out One when it showed at the NFT, but i don't recall any mention that the NFT showed a new print.

I really would love it, but somehow I doubt it.

[Michael Kerpan]

I'd love MoC to release Out One, but are there any evidences that it has been restored and mastered.

I don't believe the print that was shown was based on any sort of restored sourcel.

This was also broadcast on Italian TV relatively recently -- so an Italian subbed version might be floating about the Internet somewhere.

[Tommaso]

Okay, so if it has eight episodes, that would make eight discs all or some of which could contain extras. Disc nine would be "Out 1: Spectre" then (the shortened version, but as this still runs over four hours, it would not fit on a single disc).

[toiletduck!]

It doesn't have to be nine discs -- that's a separate one director multi-film box set. The single film multidisc set is an unspecified number of discs.

-Toilet Dcuk

[peerpee]

Toilet Duck is correct, and the film in question has five letters.

[Scharphedin2]

Greed!?

(Sorry -- having caused so much raucous in here last night, I had actually promised to absence myself from further comments )

[backstreetsbackalright]

Oh good grief.

[Ishmael]

Toilet Duck is correct, and the film in question has five letters.

Shoah?

[backstreetsbackalright]

Juice?

[redbill]

Following in the footsteps of the Shoeshine cover "The First Foreign Film to win an Oscar". They're obviously releasing the 2005 Oscar Winning Best Film...

[godardslave]

Toilet Duck is correct, and the film in question has five letters.

Oh good grief.

lets play hangman.

_ _ e _ _

#-o

[denti alligator]

Judex?

or they manhandled Ray Carney and got the long version of Faces.

or peerpee can't count and it's really six letters and we'll be getting the three versions of Vampyr. n

[FilmFanSea]

Other possibilities:

Wanda (Loden)
India (Rosselini)
Moana (Flaherty)
Kafka (Soderbergh)
Crash (Cronenberg)
Earth (Dovzhenko)
Ariel (Kaurismaki)
Senso (Visconti)
Naked (Leigh)
Shoah (Lanzmann)--already mentioned, but worth a second look

I just pray to god it's not GUMMO!

[toiletduck!]

Dumbo?

I'll be going now...

-Toilet Dcuk

[indiannamednobody]

La Haine, probibally not considering the recently released 3disc set.

GUMMO would be an interesting pick, but unlikely.

[Glass]

Greed!?

(Sorry -- having caused so much raucous in here last night, I had actually promised to absence myself from further comments )

The 2 hour, the 4 hour (with stills) and.. the 9 hour cut =P~
That would round up nine discs.

Edit: oh, and of course Stroheim's 5 hour shortened director's version.

[denti alligator]

Other possibilities:

Wanda (Loden)
India (Rosselini)
Moana (Flaherty)
Kafka (Soderbergh)
Crash (Cronenberg)
Earth (Dovzhenko)
Ariel (Kaurismaki)
Senso (Visconti)
Naked (Leigh)
Shoah (Lanzmann)--already mentioned, but worth a second look

I just pray to god it's not GUMMO!

I don't think these are possibilities (except for Shoah), since this is to be a multi-disc single film box set. Most likely it's Greed.

(The 9-hour version is lost, I believe. The 4-hour version with stills is a bore, but maybe MoC can improve on it somehow.)

[Lino]

Maybe this one?

http://imdb.com/title/tt0095979/
http://www.mnsi.net/~pwatkins/journey.htm

Nick, do you mean 5 letters, original title or english title? Or both?

[FilmFanSea]

Other possibilities:

Wanda (Loden)
India (Rosselini)
Moana (Flaherty)
Kafka (Soderbergh)
Crash (Cronenberg)
Earth (Dovzhenko)
Ariel (Kaurismaki)
Senso (Visconti)
Naked (Leigh)
Shoah (Lanzmann)--already mentioned, but worth a second look

I just pray to god it's not GUMMO!

I don't think these are possibilities (except for Shoah), since this is to be a multi-disc single film box set. Most likely it's Greed.

I think Greed is a complete impossibility. First, it was made for MGM. Second, based on some quick research at Amazon UK, Warner is releasing the early MGM-produced films in the UK just as they are in the US. Examples: Freaks, The Thin Man, The Wizard of Oz, The Postman Always Rings Twice. Third, Warner Home Video does not license the films they control to third parties.
Ergo, there's no possiblity that Eureka MoC will be releasing Greed (although I would LOVE it if they could).

Any other candidates?