The next MoC?

With Une femme mariée now OOP, there's no Godard in print from MoC. I'd love to see releases of La chinoise, King Lear, Sauve Qui Peut (la vie), Nouvelle Vague and Germany Year 90 Nine Zero. A truly definitive relesse of Histoire(s) du cinéma would also be incredible.

Given the amount of Fellini that MoC have been releasing lately, I hope that his final film, The Voice of the Moon (La voce della luna) is also in the pipeline. I don't think it has ever been released with English subtitles and ali ugh I haven't read too many good things about it, I'd at least like the opportunity to make up my own mind and have a complete Fellini collection. 

I see Edward Yang mentioned above and I agree that it would be great to see MoC release his work, however I already have Yi Yi so I would much prefer any of those other films. I've read there's rights issues with A Brighter Summer Day (one of my favourite films of all time) but any of his other films would be a godsend, I'd especially love to see Taipei Story, which stars Hou Hsiao-Hsien - another giant of the Taiwanese New Wave. His work would also be perfect for MoC and I'd pay top dollar for good Blu-Rays. I'd single out A Time to Live, A Time to Die  and A City of Sadness as being the Hou films I'm most desperate for. 

Keeping in Asia, MoC has released a lot of Japanese films but that's still fertile ground for relatively unknown masterpieces. I'd love to see releases of Yoshishige Yoshida's Eros Plus Massacre and the works of Shuji Terayama. Given the amount of Japanese films and silent films in the MoC catalog, it's surprising that those two categories wouldn't intersect in a Venn diagram - this should be rectified with Teinosuke Kinugasa's remarkable A Page of Madness and Jujiro. 

Billy Budd - By Peter Ustinov would be nice addition,

Laughton's Night of the Hunter deserves to be under this label

Alain Resnais - La Guerre est finie

Alain Corneau - Police Python 357, Le Choix des Armes, La Menace in one box

Vittorio De la Sica - Il Generale Della Rovere

Masaki Kobayashi - Samurai Rebellion

Zoltan Fabri - A Pál-utcai fiúk

I feel like I beat a dead horse on this one, posting it as a reply to all social media posts, but is there a chance MOC could be the company that brings us the definitive copy of Ambersons? A beautiful presentation of the main feature with copious extras?

I think Mamma Roma is one of the movies that hasn't got a bluray release yet. And I saw that you coupled the two Chabrols with shorts by the same director, taken from episode movies. This was something awesome of course, and you could replicate this with Pasolini, as two very powerful shorts from him are still in need of a release: "La sequenza del fiore di carta" and "Cosa sono le nuvole".

Bottom line: I can't have enough of Pasolini on bluray! :)

I was thinking of having boxsets catogorised by time, theme and style. Two a year.

Japanese Cinema Vol 1: Samurai

Samurai Rebellion

Sword of Doom

A Bloody Spear at Mt Fuji

Japanese Cinema Vol 2: Silents

A Page of Madness

I Was Born But...

Apart From You

Japanese Cinema Vol 3: New Wave

Pastoral: To Die in the Country

Nanami: The Inferno of First Love

Eros Plus Massacre

Japanese Cinema Vol 4: High School

The Girl who Lept Through Time (1983)

Love Letter

Linda Linda Linda

Japanese Cinema Vol 5: Family

A Distant Cry From Spring

The Family Game

The Inugami Family

Japanese Cinema Vol 6: Crime

The Castle of Sand

A Fugitive from the Past

Death by Hanging

Japanese Cinema Vol 7: Yakuzza

Yakuzza Papers

Why Don't you Play in Hell?

Pale Flower

Japanese Cinema Vol 8: Youth

Muddy River

The Kids Return

Kikujiro

Japanese Cinema Vol 9: Forgotten Classics from the Golden Age

Immortal Love

Yearning

The Rickshaw Man

Japanese Cinema Vol 10: Documentary

Emporer's Naked Army Marches On

Tokyo Olympiad

White Light & Black Rain

etc etc. It's all I could think of, off the top of my head. You could do it for Italian of French cinema as well.

Robert Altman's McCabe And Mrs Miller

Victor Sjöstrom's The Wind

Nicholas Ray's The Lusty Men

Would love to see films directed by Ida Lupino: Outrage, The Bigamist and The Hitch-Hiker, although I think they would make an even better boxset. The same goes for Alexei German's films Trial On The Road, Twenty Days Without War and My Friend Ivan Lapshin.

I wonder what is the situation with High Noon? It was sublicensed to Olive of all labels in US, and it looks like it's Universal title in UK, but they don't seem to be interested enough to release it themselves. 

Juzo Itami's Tampopo also would be nice ;)

Antonioni's wonderful three-parts documentary on China, Chung-Kuo would really need an Eureka treatment. I watched an italian dvd but I'm sure it could look much, much better!

Please release some more of Maurice Pialat's on BluRay. Van Gogh is amazing and since they have already been released in France why not pop out Sous le Soleil de Satan, Police, A nos amours, Loulou, Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble?

I know that it will never happen but how about releasing some of the late MGM silent on Blu-Ray (or even DVD), to my knowledge none of the following titles have ever been released on any home video format in the UK, and of the rest only three have made it to DVD anywhere else the world:

The Wind (1928), The Scarlet Letter (1926) both Victor Sjöström

La bohème (1926),  The Crowd (1928) both King Vidor

The Cameraman (1928), Spite Marriage (1929) both Buster Keaton /  Edward Sedgwick

I would love to see a Jan Švankmajer movie up next especially Faust (Lekce Faust) or Little Otik (Otesánek) 

is completely absent from MoC's catalogue, I believe? And since this label proudly champions silent movies, I think it should look into it.

I would happily pay for any of these. I'm no expert on rights and such, but so far I've failed to find these for the B-region from a reliable source. It would be sweet to find even one of them here one day.

Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara), and Pitfall.

Just about anything by Mizoguchi or Ozu

Häxan

A box set of The Human Condition 1-3

Rififi chez les hommes (Jules Dassin)

Flicka och Hyacinter (Hasse Ekman)

Kuroi Ame (Shohei Imamura)

Ballad of Narayama (1958)

Letter Never Sent (Mikhail Kalatozov)

Kanal (Andrzej Wajda)

Cat People (1942)

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (Elia Kazan)

More than anything in the world I would love Eureka/MoC to work their magic on some of my favourite films. Last time I checked they're either from studios they've worked with before (Paramount, Universal, MGM/Fox) or are otherwise attainable (though I obviously don't know the specifics - i.e. are the prints of worthy quality to be restored). Anyway, here are my 'wants':

Terrence Malick's Days Of Heaven (1978)

Werner Herzog's Where The Green Ants Dream (1984), Signs Of Life (1968), Invincible (2001) and Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)

Steven Soderbergh's Schizopolis (1996)

King Hu's Dragon Inn (1967)

David Gordon Green's George Washington (2000)

Peter Weir's Witness (1985), The Last Wave (1977) and Galippoli (1982)

Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets (1973)

Terry Zwigoff's Ghost World (2000)

Chris Marker's Sans Soleil (1983) and La Jetée (1962)

John Sayles' Lone Star (1996)

Apitchatpong Weerasethakul's Mysterious Object at Noon (2000)

Djibril Diop Mambety's Touki Bouki (1973)

Wu Yonggang's The Goddess (1934)

Andrew Dominik's Chopper (2000)

Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool (1969)

Luis Buñuel's Los Olvidados (1950)

Sidnet Lumet's Network (1976) and The Verdict (1982)

Shadi Abdel Salam's The Night of Counting the Years (1969)

Paul Thomas Anderson's Hard Eight (1998)

Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Wages Of Fear (1953)

Souleymane Cissé's Yeelen (1987)

Takeshi Kitano's Hana-Bi (1998)

Peter Bogdanovich's Targets (1968) and Paper Moon (1973)

Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête (1946)

Errol Morris' A Brief History Of Time (1991)

Mario Peixato's Limite (1931)

Richard Linklater's Waking Life (2002)

Saul Bass' Phase IV (1974)

Kim Ki-young's The Housemaid (1960)

Hal Ashby's Bound For Glory (1976) and Coming Home (1978)

Alexander Payne's Citizen Ruth (1996)

Fred Zinnemann and Emilio Gomez Muriel's Redes (1936)

Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samouraï (1967)

Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger's A Matter Of Life and Death (1946)

Gregory Nava's El Norte (1983)

Fei Mu's Spring In A Small Town (1948)

Takashi Koizumi's After The Rain (1999)

Forgot to mention...anything by Len Lye, Norman McLaren, Stan Brakhage, Oskar Fischinger, Lotte Reiniger, Jan Svankmajer, Jiri Trnka etc would be a blessing! That's if the BFI don't get there first :)