MoC Forthcoming, Wishlist, and Random Speculation
- Lino
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- 監督
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- Pinback
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It's got to be a likelihood, given MoC's introduction of Imamura into their canon, and the almost complete unavailability of all but his most recent work on DVD. Black Rain seems, in fact, especially likely, given its high reputation and the fact that the out of print R1 DVD is highly sought-after...Gregory wrote:One film that would make an outstanding MoC release is Imamura's Black Rain, and Takemitsu composed the score for that one.
- Michael Kerpan
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The Insect Woman is actually the Imamura I'd most like to see on DVD. A box set would be great...but I seem to recall perpee saying there were no MoC boxsets currently planned...Michael Kerpan wrote:> I'd rather have Insect Woman or Intentions of Murder
Make it a box set -- with these two PLUS "Pigs and Battleships".
;~}
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It's too hard to choose between those Imamura titles, but Insect woman is the one I would choose over Black Rain, Narayama and Pigs...Insect woman has masterfully suggestive mise-en-scene, imagistic associations that bind the characters into a cyclical narrative tracing the history of Japan as well as a fresh and innovative blend of editing, documentary footage, freeze frame punctuation, elision and metaphor. It's like a symphony, in a way. Playing with rythm and images.
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I have a totally unrelated question, but I may as well ask it in this thread: is MoC planning to devide its collection in 'lower and higher-tier' discs, Criterion-esque?
Oh, and is there a difference between the Dutch Eureka 2-disc Metropolis version and the MoC-version, imagewise? The extra's are the same, but the booklet is missing. Maybe some touching up or something? Not that I'm unhappy with it, but I'm just wondering.
Oh, and is there a difference between the Dutch Eureka 2-disc Metropolis version and the MoC-version, imagewise? The extra's are the same, but the booklet is missing. Maybe some touching up or something? Not that I'm unhappy with it, but I'm just wondering.
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- Lino
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(You knew it wouldn't be long...)
I thought this would be a nice little idea to get some things out of our system (that is, making impossible wishes public...) but also a place where we could give MoC some tips as to what extras we would like to see on future releases (for instance, I once mentioned a Toru Takemitsu docu by Zwerin as a possible extra and they seem to have appreciated that).
Anyway, here are my first recommendations:
- Zigeunerweisen, by Seijun Suzuki (who is ripe for an english subtitled edition and falls into the non-silent/japanese category of late )
- any Satyajit Ray or Mrinal Sen that you can lay your hands on!
I thought this would be a nice little idea to get some things out of our system (that is, making impossible wishes public...) but also a place where we could give MoC some tips as to what extras we would like to see on future releases (for instance, I once mentioned a Toru Takemitsu docu by Zwerin as a possible extra and they seem to have appreciated that).
Anyway, here are my first recommendations:
- Zigeunerweisen, by Seijun Suzuki (who is ripe for an english subtitled edition and falls into the non-silent/japanese category of late )
- any Satyajit Ray or Mrinal Sen that you can lay your hands on!
- Pinback
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1. The Insect Woman [Nippon Konchuki] (Shohei Imamura, 1963)
2. Mother [Okasan] (Mikio Naruse, 1951)
3. A Cat, Two Women, and One Man [Neko to shozo to futari no onna] (Shirô Toyoda, 1956)
4. Mothra [Mosura] (Ishirô Honda, 1956)
5. The Human Condition Trilogy [Ningen no joken I-III] (Masaki Kobayashi, 1959-61)
2. Mother [Okasan] (Mikio Naruse, 1951)
3. A Cat, Two Women, and One Man [Neko to shozo to futari no onna] (Shirô Toyoda, 1956)
4. Mothra [Mosura] (Ishirô Honda, 1956)
5. The Human Condition Trilogy [Ningen no joken I-III] (Masaki Kobayashi, 1959-61)
- What A Disgrace
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You asked for it.
Any of Luis García Berlanga's great films (Bienvenido Mr. Marshall, El Verdugo, Plácido) would be great. Commentary or interview with the director would also be fine.
J'Accuse (Abel Gance...both 1919 and 1938 versions preferred)
He Who Must Die (Jules Dassin, with a Dassin interview)
Little Norse Prince (Isao Takahata...with The Story of Yanagawa's Canals as a supplement?)
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Rex Ingram)
Ordet (Gustaf Molander's version, starring Victor Sjöström. Some sort of comparison to the Dreyer version would be splendid, as would a commentary by Tybjerg, if its suitable)
Any of Luis García Berlanga's great films (Bienvenido Mr. Marshall, El Verdugo, Plácido) would be great. Commentary or interview with the director would also be fine.
J'Accuse (Abel Gance...both 1919 and 1938 versions preferred)
He Who Must Die (Jules Dassin, with a Dassin interview)
Little Norse Prince (Isao Takahata...with The Story of Yanagawa's Canals as a supplement?)
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Rex Ingram)
Ordet (Gustaf Molander's version, starring Victor Sjöström. Some sort of comparison to the Dreyer version would be splendid, as would a commentary by Tybjerg, if its suitable)
- swingo
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- NABOB OF NOWHERE
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- Gregory
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- Gregory
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Here's a review that summarizes some of the problems: http://www.dighkmovies.com/v2/127/127a.html. They're definitely worth renting, though.
- FilmFanSea
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Suggestions:
Jean Grémillon: Gueule d'amour/Lady Killer (1937) & Lumière d'été (1943)
Sacha Guitry: Le Roman d'un tricheur/The Story of a Cheat (1936) & Les Perles de la couronne/The Pearls of the Crown (1937)
Kon Ichikawa: Biruma no tategoto/The Burmese Harp (1956), Nobi/Fires on the Plain (1959), & Yukinojo henge/An Actor's Revenge (1963)
Shohei Imamura: Nippon konchuki/The Insect Woman (1963) & Narayama bushiko/Ballad of Narayama (1983)
Ernst Johansen: Du er ikke alene/You Are Not Alone (1978)
Teinosuke Kinugasa: Kurutta Ippeji/A Page of Madness (1926)
Dmitri Kirsanoff: Ménilmontant (1924)
Masaki Kobayashi: Seppuku/Harakiri (1962)
Marcel L'Herbier: L’Argent (1929)
Erik Løchen: Jakten/The Chasers (1959)
Yasuzo Masumura: Tsuma wa kokuhaku suru/A Wife Confesses (1961) & Akai tenshi/Red Angel (1966)
Mikio Naruse: Okasan/Mother (1952) & Ukigumo /Floating Clouds (1955)
Nagisa Oshima: Koshikei/Death by Hanging (1968) & Gishiki/The Ceremony (1971)
Slobodan Sijan: Maratonci trce pocasni krug/The Marathon Family (1982)
Aleksandr Sokurov: Dni zatmeniya/The Days of Eclipse (1988) & Kamen/The Stone (1992)
Seijun Suzuki: Tsigoineruwaizen/Zigeunerweisen (1980)
Dziga Vertov: Shestaya chast mira/The Sixth Part of the World (1926)
Edward Yang: Qingmei Zhuma/Taipei Story (1985), Guling jie shaonian sha ren shijian/A Brighter Summer Day (1991), & Mahjong (1996)
Jean Grémillon: Gueule d'amour/Lady Killer (1937) & Lumière d'été (1943)
Sacha Guitry: Le Roman d'un tricheur/The Story of a Cheat (1936) & Les Perles de la couronne/The Pearls of the Crown (1937)
Kon Ichikawa: Biruma no tategoto/The Burmese Harp (1956), Nobi/Fires on the Plain (1959), & Yukinojo henge/An Actor's Revenge (1963)
Shohei Imamura: Nippon konchuki/The Insect Woman (1963) & Narayama bushiko/Ballad of Narayama (1983)
Ernst Johansen: Du er ikke alene/You Are Not Alone (1978)
Teinosuke Kinugasa: Kurutta Ippeji/A Page of Madness (1926)
Dmitri Kirsanoff: Ménilmontant (1924)
Masaki Kobayashi: Seppuku/Harakiri (1962)
Marcel L'Herbier: L’Argent (1929)
Erik Løchen: Jakten/The Chasers (1959)
Yasuzo Masumura: Tsuma wa kokuhaku suru/A Wife Confesses (1961) & Akai tenshi/Red Angel (1966)
Mikio Naruse: Okasan/Mother (1952) & Ukigumo /Floating Clouds (1955)
Nagisa Oshima: Koshikei/Death by Hanging (1968) & Gishiki/The Ceremony (1971)
Slobodan Sijan: Maratonci trce pocasni krug/The Marathon Family (1982)
Aleksandr Sokurov: Dni zatmeniya/The Days of Eclipse (1988) & Kamen/The Stone (1992)
Seijun Suzuki: Tsigoineruwaizen/Zigeunerweisen (1980)
Dziga Vertov: Shestaya chast mira/The Sixth Part of the World (1926)
Edward Yang: Qingmei Zhuma/Taipei Story (1985), Guling jie shaonian sha ren shijian/A Brighter Summer Day (1991), & Mahjong (1996)
- the dancing kid
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I'm going to jump in on the Zigeunerweisen bandwagon. This film really needs an English version available. It actually hasn't had any real exposure outside of Japan, and if I recall correctly, the only time it's been shown out of the country is during the series of Suzuki retrospectives of the 1990s (which I believe Tony Rayns helped to organize). I have a copy of Branded to Thrill, which was something that was distributed at some of those events, and he had a great deal of input on that, so maybe he could contribute something if it were a possible release.