> ...in the spirit of the current thread, what would folks like to see
> make it to DVD? Here's some of mine....
> "Contempt", "One Plus One", "Band of Outsiders", + early shorts (J L Godard)
And the strange thing is that, as far as I know, the Godard movies are not even
released on DVD in France... I'd add to this "Une femme est une femme" and
"Le weekend".
> "Solaris" & "Stalker" (Tarkovsky)
These are available from Ruscico, and at least their edition of "Solaris" is
definitive. There's much debate over their release of "Stalker", because they
decided to change the soundtrack.
Here's the DVDs I would like to see:
"El Topo", "The Holy Mountain" (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
"Viva la muerte" (Fernando Arrabal)
"The Horrible Dr. Hichcock", "The Ghost" (Riccardo Freda)
"The Long Hair of Death" (Antonio Margheriti)
"Four Flies on Grey Velvet" (Dario Argento)
"Dracula contra Frankenstein", "La comtesse perverse", "Maldicion de Frankenstein",
"Two Female Spies With Flowered Panties", etc. (all Jess Franco, even though there
will be no shortage of Jess Franco DVDs once Bill Lustig's Blue Underground label
gets started...)
"La vampire nue", "La rose de fer", "Les trottoirs de Bangkok", "Les echappees"
(Jean Rollin; I think "Les trottoirs..." might actually be released this year)
"Kill Baby Kill" (Mario Bava, but this is finally going to happen in the fall)
"Diabolik" (Mario Bava)
"The Night Evelyn Came Out Of The Grave" (Emilio Miraglia)
"The Black Belly of the Tarantula" (Paolo Cavara)
"Le moine" aka "The Monk" (Ado Kyrou)
"Brides of Blood" aka "The Island of Living Horror" (Eddie Romero/Gerardo de Leon)
"F for Fake", "Chimes at Midnight" (Orson Welles)
"Black Candles" (Jose Larraz)
any Alain Robbe-Grillet movie...
At a positive note, it seems that Jack Smith's "Flaming Creatures" will be
released on DVD in 2003. And, even with a list like the one above, I should not
be complaining, because this really is the Golden Age for DVD releases.
Frankco
np: The White Stripes "De Stijl"
nr: Boris Vian - Dutch translation of his "et on tuera tous les affreux"