What A Disgrace wrote: ↑Wed Sep 07, 2022 1:24 pm
Four-and-a-half of Second Run's releases this year have been upgrades (the half being Desire + All My Good Countrymen). I certainly appreciate these films getting HD releases, especially such wonderful films as Dragon's Return and All My Good Countrymen, but I'm eagerly awaiting The Fifth Seal, the Paulo Rocha doouble feature, and other surprises, and hoping that at least one of those two named items manifest before the year is up.
it's a tough balance for them I think, as there's just countless new 4K restorations from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary for them to work with, so I'm sure the desire to get their older DVD titles upgraded is big. I will note that
every Second Run upgrade has also featured an upgrade in the supplements department - they've added at least one thing every single time, if not expanded on the existing features on the disc. so I value it, as it does make the upgrades feel like all new releases. but I'm with you, I enjoy the feeling of getting to 'discover'
The Devil's Trap or
Coach to Vienna, as much as I also love getting to see
The Party and the Guests and
All My Good Countrymen in HD.
I'm also torn because I'd love to see Second Run do the Tsai Ming-Liang films that got lacklustre BDs here in the states (
Rebels of the Neon God and
Vive L'amour) right, but I also want them to get to other new releases. it's all around a win-win situation, but the one-title-per-month thing really does make you wait and anticipate, doesn't it?
I wonder what their gameplan is for Jancso. the Kino set is obviously incredible but I find it hard to believe Second Run wouldn't want flagship titles like
The Roundup or
The Red and the White out on their own BDs. plus the Kino set isn't region free, so UK/EU watchers would probably pick up Jancso in some decent numbers..
ianthemovie wrote: ↑Fri Sep 16, 2022 10:49 am
I noticed that the DVDs of
Three Wishes for Cinderella,
Morgiana, and
Tropical Malady are sold out on the Second Run website. What are the odds that this means that Blu-ray upgrades to these are coming? (In poking around the website I see that the DVD versions of other recently upgraded titles like
All My Good Countrymen and
Love are similarly listed as "sold out.") Is it normal for titles to go in and out of stock on Second Run unrelated to their upgrade status?
it is worth nothing that
All My Good Countrymen was definitely sold out before the upgrade was announced. I believe once they upgrade a DVD, if the DVD wasn't already "sold out" they don't do another pressing. I would assume
Cinderella and
Morgiana are good candidates, but I will say
Tropical Malady and
Blissfully Yours probably aren't in the next few months. i believe it was confirmed elsewhere both were still in the process of being restored, and I figure they'll play some festivals before they see a disc release. I'm sure Second Run is keen to get them out whenever they are - these are other titles where its very likely they'll get a lot of US importers due to the kinda..disorganized nature of Apichatpong's films over here, much like Tsai.
I don't know if anyone has shared the list of restored films from
Czech Republic or
Hungary yet, where you can exhaustively view all the movies they've restored. the catch is just knowing the native titles, but the directors should be an easy enough match. this label could easily coast off these two countries alone, but they luckily choose to branch beyond too!