According to the webpage:“PLEASE NOTE THIS ITEM IS TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK AND NOT SOLD OUT. MORE STOCK IS DUE AT THE END OF APRIL.”dadaistnun wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 2:26 pmI was going to bemoan the fact that A Story Written With Water is not selling well enough to make the "Availability Watch" but I see on their site that its single pressing has sold out.
Radiance Films General Discussion & Wishlist
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- dadaistnun
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Clearly I should have clicked through to the actual product page. Good news for those who haven't picked it up yet then! Great, great film and an beautiful disc as well.
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I reckon the silent is likely to be either something with some sort of genre appeal (e.g. horror) and/or a particular director that chimes with Fran's outlook for the label. Therefore, A Page of Madness seems like a suitable candidate, but so does L'inferno, Les vampires, Häxan or The Phantom Carriage (maybe not those last two purely due to Criterion having the US rights). Maybe even Epstein's The Fall of the House of Usher?
Even better if it turns out to be some early Shimizu, Uchida or Naruse (feels unlikely though).
PS: Hadn't heard of Fernando Arrabal before but looked him up and he wrote Jodorowsky's Fando y Lis. From what I can tell, it's most likely to be Viva la muerte (1971) more than anything else (though 1973's I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse has sold me on title alone).
Even better if it turns out to be some early Shimizu, Uchida or Naruse (feels unlikely though).
PS: Hadn't heard of Fernando Arrabal before but looked him up and he wrote Jodorowsky's Fando y Lis. From what I can tell, it's most likely to be Viva la muerte (1971) more than anything else (though 1973's I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse has sold me on title alone).
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A Page of Madness with a commentary by Radiance contributor Aaron Gerow? Bring it on.
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A boxed set of Arrabal's first three films would be ideal, as they're generally considered a collective in the same way as Jodorowsky's first three films are considered.
- rapta
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Just saw the Cannes Classics 2024 lineup and noticed the 'SMPO' clue was almost certainly for Belocchio's Slap the Monster on Page One, which already has me sold as it's a 4K restoration and stars one Gian Maria Volonté.
Scanning through the rest of the lineup and wondering if any of the others are possible...Johnny Got His Gun (from Gaumont), Tsui Hark's Shanghai Blues (could be one for labels to fight over) and perhaps the 'RB' clue might be for Robert Bresson; Four Nights of a Dreamer (from MK2) has been restored.
Scanning through the rest of the lineup and wondering if any of the others are possible...Johnny Got His Gun (from Gaumont), Tsui Hark's Shanghai Blues (could be one for labels to fight over) and perhaps the 'RB' clue might be for Robert Bresson; Four Nights of a Dreamer (from MK2) has been restored.
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rapta wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 8:43 pmJust saw the Cannes Classics 2024 lineup and noticed the 'SMPO' clue was almost certainly for Belocchio's Slap the Monster on Page One, which already has me sold as it's a 4K restoration and stars one Gian Maria Volonté.
Scanning through the rest of the lineup and wondering if any of the others are possible...Johnny Got His Gun (from Gaumont), Tsui Hark's Shanghai Blues (could be one for labels to fight over) and perhaps the 'RB' clue might be for Robert Bresson; Four Nights of a Dreamer (from MK2) has been restored.
Does Metallica still hold the rights to Johnny Got His Gun in some territories? It’s a long, weird saga involving their video for the song “One.”
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Received the Raro / Radiance release of The Boss, starring Henry Silva. I was quite excited for this considering it’s a 2020 4K restoration instead of one of these ancient masters Raro tend to use often. However the end result is severely disappointing. The film has been heavily (!) grain managed throughout with opticals looking the worst as they tried to match them with the DNR’d OCN footage. Also, the master is plagued by stabilization issues. It seems Raro and / or the restoration party didn’t do any of that. I’m honestly surprised that Fran / Radiance partners with Raro as they clearly don’t care about the films they release. This is readily apparent if you put in any Radiance BD afterwards for comparison, such as Suzhou River which looks and sounds exceptional.
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Ugh, I quite like the movie but stayed clear of Raro's release so far because their pedigree is what it is and the existing BD is quite rubbish, but hoped this being a new restoration would alleviate this. What a shame.
I too don't understand why Raro of all labels is one of Radiance's partners, as their level of quality clashes so much with what Radiance strive to do.
I too don't understand why Raro of all labels is one of Radiance's partners, as their level of quality clashes so much with what Radiance strive to do.