News Archive September 2007

The nights close in….

September sees two releases in The Masters of Cinema Series. Luchino Visconti’s incredible Bellissima starring Anna Magnani, and our second film by Masahiro Shinoda – Silence / Chinmoku which is based on a story so intriguing that Martin Scorsese’s next film is also based on it.

The Masters of Cinema Series has three releases in October: Gandahar and Les Maîtres du temps, two mindmelting adult animations from René Laloux (the director of Fantastic Planet); and from the director of Punishment Park, Peter Watkins’ ridiculously good Edvard Munch— a revolutionary study of the famous Norwegian painter’s early life. The film was a particular favourite of the late Ingmar Bergman who deemed it to be “a work of genius”.

We’ve been working like crazy to bring out a strong November line-up in time for Xmas. First up we have the new restoration of Murnau’s Nosferatu in a deluxe 2 x disc set complete with a new commentary track by Brad Stevens and R. Dixon Smith, and a fantastic hour-long German documentary on the film by Luciano Berriatúa. Secondly, also in November, Murnau’s tragic last film Tabu; and finally, for all cinephiles’ Xmas stockings, our first Kenji Mizoguchi twinpack – Sansho Dayu / Gion Bayashi. All three November releases will come with 80-page books (as will Edvard Munch).

Posted 22 September 2007, 7:24 AM

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