It’s days like these that make me wish I was living back in the UK. The brilliant Masters of Cinema label have just announced their first three Blu-ray titles of 2010 – Fritz Lang’s M, F.W. Murnau‘s City Girl and Jean-Luc Godard‘s Une Femme Mariée. We’ve got package art for all three and details for two of the titles. Still waiting to find out what’s going to be on the M disc. If the incredible MOC edition of Murnau’s Sunrise is any indication, we’re in for a real treat with this next batch of releases. Guess I better put my ordering finger to work on Amazon.co.uk. I’ve got me some importing to do!
UNE FEMME MARIÉE
(January 25, 2010 – MSRP £24.99)
Video: 1.37:1 1080p
Audio: TBA
Special Features:
- New 1080p/24fps transfer of the film in its original 1.37:1 aspect ratio
- New and improved English subtitle translations
- The original trailer for the film (presented in 1080p/24fps), created and edited by Jean-Luc Godard at the time of the film’s original French release
80-page book containing:
- A new “overture” by legendary French critic and filmmaker Luc Moullet
- A lengthy roundtable discussion between Luc Moullet; writer/critic and American correspondent for Cahiers du cinéma Bill Krohn; writer/critic Andy Rector; and MOC’s Craig Keller – on the film, and its relationship to Godard’s oeuvre from the 1950s through the 2000s
- A concentrated investigation into the film by Bill Krohn
- An image-essay by Andy Rector
- A new statement about the film by star Macha Méril
- A transcript of Godard’s late-‘70s lecture on Une femme mariée, Bergman’s Persona, Flaherty’s Nanook of the North, and Rossellini’s Francesco giullare di Dio, originally presented in Introduction à une véritable histoire du cinéma, translated here into English for the first time
- Relevant excerpts from Jean Racine’s Bérénice, in the original French, accompanied by a new parallel English translation
- An editorial preface on the role of Blu-ray and DVD booklets in the modern film-viewing era
- A short aside on the nature of ‘production stills’ reproduced in Blu-ray and DVD booklets, film books, and film magazines
- The reproduction sof a late-‘70s collage by Godard on the subject of Alfred Hitchcock
- A lengthy conversational afterword by Craig Keller and Andy Rector
CITY GIRL
(February, 2010 – MSRP £24.99)
Video: 1.19:1 1080p
Audio: TBA
Special Features:
- Restored high-definition transfer of the silent version by 20th Century Fox
- A new score, composed and arranged in 2008 by Christopher Caliendo
- Full-length audio commentary by film scholar David Kalat
- 40-page illustrated booklet with new writing and reprints
M
(February, 2010 – MSRP £24.99)
Video: TBA
Audio: TBA
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