I was wondering if anyone knew because If Radiance aren't upgrading I'd like to grab the Cinématographe Limited Edition before it goes out-of-print but if an update is planned I'd prefer to just get the Radiance and not double dip
I just finished the set: watched all the films and special features. Going to start on the booklet after work today, though I’ve flipped through it some.
I was really blown away by the whole set, not just Oshima’s work that I hadn’t seen (which was a ton), but how Radiance put this all together. I was already looking forward to RJ2, but now it’s probably my most anticipated release of the year.
I had only seen Cruel Story of Youth, In The Realm of the Senses, Mr. Lawrence & Death by Hanging prior to getting this set, so I had a ton of new experiences. I’d also never seen any of the special features, and some of them really enhanced the films beyond the scope of what I’m personally used to with special features.
“Boy” and “The Man Who Left His Will on Film” ended up being my favorites of the set with “Boy” narrowly taking my favorite spot… I’m just a sucker for a knockout child actor who can put an entire film on their back and carry from start to finish. The film was great in general, from story to technique and composition, but that performance just stopped me in my tracks similarly to the first time I saw “Florida Project,” only I enjoyed “Boy” far more as a film/narrative and because Tetsuo Abe is pre-adolescent there’s a bit more of a deeply tragic shattered innocence effect in his performance.
It’s a really nice faith rewarded to half-blind invest in a pretty sizable box set and come out feeling like that director is one of your favorites. I didn’t love every film in the set, but I loved the journey, especially chronologically. Watching Oshima’s evolution as a filmmaker in that order was really, really rewarding.
But anyway, really just came to shout out the wonderful job Radiance did with this. The whole breadth of the box set felt a lot like a museum exhibit.
Can’t wait to see subject of volume two!
A key early work in the career of Brian De Palma, madcap satire Hi, Mom! still retains its power to shock nearly fifty years later. Aspiring adult film-maker Jon Rubin (Robert De Niro) attempts to find meaning and inspiration in 1970s NYC counter-culture, going from secretly filming his neighbours to joining a militant black experimental theatre group. This outrageous work is presented on UHD for the first time ever, and is shipping from our site now.
Order in the UK [out 18th May]
Order in the US/CA [out 26th May]
Even more excited now!!!!
Despite still having the US license, MVD have shown zero interest in upgrading it to 4K, and as shown by the 4K releases of AT CLOSE RANGE (Cinématographe; coincidentally also an MGM title) and DRIVE (1997) (88 Films US), other labels have had success in licensing the 4K rights for MVD BDs still in print. Therefore, it could easily fit into the whole UK/US dual territory description.
Seemingly sold quite well for Radiance despite it being sourced from the same ancient MGM studio master as the MVD and Shout BDs.
Bruno is almost always quite responsive in a reasonably quick fashion to my emails—which says a lot given how often I've emailed over title suggestions generally—so in our recent back and forth when he reached out to me yesterday to confirm THE HOT SPOT 4K will include a remastered BD after all, the last email he sent me was saying he "can tease that our currently planned UHD Upgrades also include titles that will utilise new 4K masters not previously on their Blu-ray releases" but can't promise all of them will have remastered BDs like THE HOT SPOT will in the end due to "a variety of factors." And despite personally not being all too fond of MIAMI BLUES having just watched it last week, I decided to put in the good word for those fond of the film given how clearly aged the current MGM studio master is, while obviously mentioning I know he cannot confirm nor deny whether or not a 4K upgrade is in the cards to begin with. Sure enough, nearly 24 hours later, Bruno still has yet to respond to my most recent reply at all. Make of that whatever you will! ;)
Are the special features on the Region B blu rays only, or do they also appear on the 4k discs?