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The Masters of Cinema Series London, England Founded in 2004, The Masters of Cinema Series is an independent, carefully curated, UK-based Blu-ray and DVD label consisting of over 150 films. From established cornerstones such as Murnau’s SUNRISE, Mizoguchi’s UGETSU MONOGATARI, Lang’s METROPOLIS, Welles’ TOUCH OF EVIL, and Antonioni’s LA NOTTE – to revelatory rediscoveries such as Epstein’s CŒUR FIDÈLE, Watkins’ EDVARD MUNCH, and McCarey’s MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW – we believe all are equally deserving of a larger audience. THE DISCS. Films are presented in their original aspect ratio (OAR), in meticulous transfers created from recent restorations and / or the most pristine film elements available to us. The feature presentations are frequently supplemented by short films, documentaries, commentary tracks, deleted scenes, trailers, plus new and vintage interview footage. In November 2008, we were one of the first labels to push more unusual titles onto Blu-ray, and this format is now our main focus. THE BOOKLETS. Each release is accompanied by a substantial booklet or book. Alongside rare imagery are newly commissioned essays and / or classic writings that take the reader further into the process of the films and the personalities of the filmmakers. THE CONTRIBUTORS. Our editions feature contributions from directors: p e d r o c o s t a , a l e x c o x , j o e d a n t e , g u i l l e r m o d e l t o r o , b r u n o d u m o n t , j e a n - p i e r r e g o r i n , g a r y g r a v e r , m o n t e h e l l m a n , j i a z h a n g k e , c l a u d e l a n z m a n n , a l b e r t m a y s l e s , l u c m o u l l e t , m a r t i n s c o r s e s e , j o h n n i e t o , d o u g l a s t r u m b u l l , p e t e r w a t k i n s , etc. and scholars: j a n e t b e r g s t r o m , d a v i d b o r d w e l l , d a v i d c a i r n s , f r e d c a m p e r , t h o m a s e l s a e s s e r , s c o t t e y m a n , t a g g a l l a g h e r , k e n t j o n e s , d a v i d k a l a t , b. k i t e , b i l l k r o h n , a d r i a n m a r t i n , k e i k o mcd o n a l d , j i m o ’ r o u r k e , t o n y r a y n s , j o n a t h a n r o s e n b a u m , d a n s a l l i t t , g i n e t t e v i n c e n d e a u , and many others. OUR TEAM. We lavish a lot of attention and energy on our editions, born from our enthusiasm for, our love of, and our allegiance to the cinema. We’re very lucky that many of our supporters confidently ‘blind buy’ our new releases safe in the knowledge that we care about each film’s presentation as much as they do. ON THE INTERNET. For full details about each title included in this catalogue, and the very latest MoC news, visit our website: www.mastersofcinema.org and follow us on Twitter: @mastersofcinema October 2011 The Masters of Cinema Series OPPOSITE: Orson Welles starring in, and directing, TOUCH OF EVIL (1958) SUNRISE F. W. Murnau 1927 MAD DETECTIVE Johnnie To / WAI Ka Fai 2007 TOKYO SONATA KUROSAWA Kiyoshi 2008 UNE FEMME MARIÉE Jean-Luc Godard 1963 FOR ALL MANKIND Al Reinert 1988 LA PLANETE SAUVAGE René Laloux 1973 SOUL POWER Jeffrey Levy-Hinte 2009 CITY GIRL F. W. Murnau 1930 M Fritz Lang 1931 PROFOUND DESIRES OF THE GODS IMAMURA Shôhei 1968 VENGEANCE IS MINE IMAMURA Shôhei 1979 THE WORLD JIA Zhangke 2004 THE BURMESE HARP ICHIKAWA Kon 1956 WILL SUCCESS SPOIL ROCK HUNTER? Frank Tashlin 1957 MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW Leo McCarey 1937 METROPOLIS Fritz Lang 1927 LA SIGNORA SENZA CAMELIE Michelangelo Antonioni 1953 LE AMICHE Michelangelo Antonioni 1955 CŒUR FIDÈLE Jean Epstein 1923 HARAKIRI KOBAYASHI Masaki 1962 PIGS & BATTLESHIPS / STOLEN DESIRE IMAMURA 1962 / 1958 THE INSECT WOMAN / NISHI GINZA STATION IMAMURA 1963 / 1958 SILENT RUNNING Douglas Trumbull 1971 THE BALLAD OF NARAYAMA IMAMURA Shohei 1983 #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 #13 #14 #15 #16 #17 #18 #19 #20 #21 #22 #23 #24 Blu-ray and DVD Catalogue Green = Dual Format (Blu-ray + DVD) / Blue = Blu-ray / Black = DVD / Films in a yellow box = one item / Red = Out-of-print TOUCH OF EVIL Orson Welles 1958 TWO-LANE BLACKTOP Monte Hellman 1971 REPO MAN Alex Cox 1984 LE SILENCE DE LA MER Jean-Pierre Melville 1949 PUNISHMENT PARK Peter Watkins 1971 RUGGLES OF RED GAP Leo McCarey 1935 ACCATTONE Pier Paolo Pasolini 1961 RO.GO.PA.G. Rossellini, Godard, Pasolini, Gregoretti 1963 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW Pier Paolo Pasolini 1964 SUNRISE F. W. Murnau 1927 NOW DUAL FORMAT THE HOLY MOUNTAIN Arnold Fanck 1926 MICHAEL Carl Th. Dreyer 1924 TARTUFFE F. W. Murnau 1926 PITFALL TESHIGAHARA Hiroshi 1962 THE FACE OF ANOTHER TESHIGAHARA Hiroshi 1966 ASPHALT Joe May 1929 METROPOLIS Fritz Lang 1927 SPIONE Fritz Lang 1928 FRANCESCO GIULLARE DI DIO Roberto Rossellini 1950 HUMANITY AND PAPER BALLOONS YAMANAKA Sadao 1937 THE NAKED ISLAND SHINDO Kaneto 1960 ONIBABA SHINDO Kaneto 1964 KURONEKO SHINDO Kaneto 1968 #25 #26 #27 #28 #29 #30 #31 #32 #33 #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 #13 #14 SCANDAL KUROSAWA Akira 1950 THE IDIOT KUROSAWA Akira 1951 VENGEANCE IS MINE IMAMURA Shôhei 1979 NOW DUAL TWENTY-FOUR EYES KINOSHITA Keisuke 1954 NIGHTMARE ALLEY Edmund Goulding 1947 ASSASSINATION SHINODA Masahiro 1964 PUNISHMENT PARK Peter Watkins 1971 NOW DUAL THE PRISONER OF SHARK ISLAND John Ford 1936 DER LETZTE MANN F. W. Murnau 1924 FAUST: A GERMAN FOLK TALE. F. W. Murnau 1926 VAMPYR Carl Th. Dreyer 1932 THE SAVAGE INNOCENTS Nicholas Ray 1959 ABHIJAN Satyajit Ray 1964 TONI Jean Renoir 1934 KWAIDAN KOBAYASHI Masaki 1965 THE COMPLETE BUSTER KEATON SHORT FILMS 1917-1923 F FOR FAKE Orson Welles 1974 FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES MATSUMOTO Toshio 1969 SHOESHINE Vittorio De Sica 1946 FANTASTIC PLANET René Laloux 1973 NOW DUAL REPAST NARUSE Mikio 1951 SOUND OF THE MOUNTAIN NARUSE Mikio 1954 FLOWING NARUSE Mikio 1956 SHOAH Claude Lanzmann 1985 DIARY OF A LOST GIRL G. W. Pabst 1929 #15 #16 #17 #18 #19 #20 #21 #22 #23 #24 #25 #26 #27 #28 #29 #30 #31 #32 #33 #34 #35 #36 #37 #38 #39 L’ARGENT Marcel L’Herbier 1928 FRAU IM MOND Fritz Lang 1929 SALESMAN A. Maysles, D. Maysles, C. Zwerin 1969 GREY GARDENS Hovde, A. Maysles, D. Maysles, M. Meyer 1975 SILENCE SHINODA Masahiro 1971 GENERAL IDI AMIN DADA Barbet Schroeder 1974 LE SILENCE DE LA MER Jean-Pierre Melville 1949 NOW DUAL BELLISSIMA Luchino Visconti 1951 ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS Luchino Visconti 1960 JUDEX Georges Franju 1963 NUITS ROUGES Georges Franju 1974 EDVARD MUNCH Peter Watkins 1974 OYÛ-SAMA MIZOGUCHI Kenji 1951 UGETSU MONOGATARI MIZOGUCHI Kenji 1953 GION BAYASHI MIZOGUCHI Kenji 1953 SANSHÔ DAYÛ MIZOGUCHI Kenji 1954 UWASA NO ONNA MIZOGUCHI Kenji 1954 CHIKAMATSU MONOGATARI MIZOGUCHI Kenji 1954 YÔKIHI MIZOGUCHI Kenji 1955 AKASEN CHITAI MIZOGUCHI Kenji 1956 LA VIE DE JÉSUS Bruno Dumont 1997 LA NOTTE Michelangelo Antonioni 1960 LES MAÎTRES DU TEMPS René Laloux 1982 GANDAHAR René Laloux 1987 NOSFERATU: A SYMPHONY OF HORROR. F. W. Murnau 1922 #40 #41 #42 #43 #44 #45 #46 #47 #48 #49 #50 #51 #52 #53 #54 #55 #56 #57 #58 #59 #60 #61 #62 #63 #64 DVD #15 – #64 Black = DVD / Films in a yellow box = one item / Red = Out-of-print A TIME TO LOVE AND A TIME TO DIE Douglas Sirk 1956 TABU: A STORY OF THE SOUTH SEAS F. W. Murnau 1931 DUAL SOON KOKORO ICHIKAWA Kon 1955 LE GRAND JEU Jacques Feyder 1934 ALONE ACROSS THE PACIFIC ICHIKAWA Kon 1964 THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER William Dieterle 1941 MAD DETECTIVE Johnnie To / WAI Ka Fai 2007 NOW DUAL L’ENFANCE-NUE Maurice Pialat 1968 NOUS NE VIEILLIRONS PAS ENSEMBLE Maurice Pialat 1972 LA GUEULE OUVERTE Maurice Pialat 1974 PASSE TON BAC D’ABORD Maurice Pialat 1979 A NOS AMOURS. Maurice Pialat 1983 POLICE Maurice Pialat 1985 SOUS LE SOLEIL DE SATAN Maurice Pialat 1987 MURIEL, OU LE TEMPS D’UN RETOUR Alain Resnais 1964 DUAL SOON UNE FEMME MARIÉE Jean-Luc Godard 1963 NOW DUAL TOKYO SONATA KUROSAWA Kiyoshi 2008 NOW DUAL IL GRIDO Michelangelo Antonioni 1957 LA TÊTE CONTRE LES MURS Georges Franju 1959 PHANTOM F. W. Murnau 1922 DIE FINANZEN DES GROßHERZOGS F. W. Murnau 1924 THERE’S ALWAYS TOMORROW Douglas Sirk 1956 SOUL POWER Jeffrey Levy-Hinte 2009 FOR ALL MANKIND Al Reinert 1988 NOW DUAL #65 #66 #67 #68 #69 #70 #71 #72 #73 #74 #75 #76 #77 #78 #79 #80 #81 #82 #83 #84 #85 #86 #87 #88 DR. MABUSE, DER SPIELER. Fritz Lang 1922 DAS TESTAMENT DES DR. MABUSE Fritz Lang 1933 DIE 1000 AUGEN DES DR. MABUSE Fritz Lang 1960 M Fritz Lang 1931 NOW DUAL HOUSE Nobuhiko Obayashi 1977 ICH MÖCHTE KEIN MANN SEIN Ernst Lubitsch 1918 DIE PUPPE. Ernst Lubitsch 1918 DIE AUSTERNPRINZESSIN. Ernst Lubitsch 1919 SUMURUN Ernst Lubitsch 1920 ANNA BOLEYN Ernst Lubitsch 1920 DIE BERGKATZE Ernst Lubitsch 1921 LA SIGNORA DI TUTTI Max Ophuls 1934 CITY GIRL F. W. Murnau 1930 NOW DUAL PROFOUND DESIRES OF THE GODS IMAMURA 1968 NOW DUAL THE BURMESE HARP ICHIKAWA Kon 1956 NOW DUAL WILL SUCCESS SPOIL ROCK HUNTER? Tashlin 1957 NOW DUAL MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW Leo McCarey 1937 NOW DUAL DER TIGER VON ESCHNAPUR Fritz Lang 1959 DAS INDISCHE GRABMAL Fritz Lang 1959 SCHLOß VOGELÖD (aka THE HAUNTED CASTLE) F. W. Murnau 1921 COLOSSAL YOUTH Pedro Costa 2006 THE IRON HORSE John Ford 1924 A MAN VANISHES IMAMURA Shôhei 1968 #89 #90 #91 #92 #93 #94 #95 #96 #97 #98 #99 #100 #101 #102 #103 #104 #105 #106 #107 #108 #111 #112 #113 DVD #65 – #113 Black = DVD / Films in a yellow box = one item / Red = Out-of-print Pier Paolo Pasolini (seated) and crew, filming THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW (1962) Blu-ray 2011 Blu-ray Q1 2012 Why ? The above three factors result in Blu-ray being the most immersive and faithful representation of “the cinema experience” currently available in the home today (outside of a costly 35mm projector). Unfortunately, the industry has poorly explained and demonstrated the technology, sowing confusion and giving the impression that Blu-ray is not enough of a worthwhile upgrade from DVD. When compared with an actual 35mm frame, the DVD format – now well into its second decade as the world’s favourite film-holding receptacle – is akin to a Polaroid of an oil painting. Watchable, but capable of being far surpassed. Blu-ray is the first home format to adequately represent the depth and texture of celluloid – and we find it entrancing The quest for resolution The ongoing technology race has been about maximising resolution and minimising compression – whilst remaining affordable. 35mm film is widely regarded as being entirely captured by a 4k film scan (see opposite). As soon as uncompressed 4k masters are available for home screening, this race will noticeably plateau, because the majority of films in the world have been shot on 35mm and nothing better than 4k would be required (ignoring all the futuristic 5k–12k+, 3D, and holographic shenanigans). Until a few years ago, most films were telecined (that is, transferred from their native celluloid state to a video format) in SD to be displayed on SD TV or released on NTSC or PAL DVD (also SD). When HD arrived, these telecines had to be replaced by much higher resolution scans (2k or 4k). The scale diagrams opposite give the clearest sense of the relationships between all these formats, and the quest to attain optimal resolution. 1.) Five times more image resolution than standard definition DVD + bitrates much higher than commonly offered downloadable content = an image far closer to the quality and texture of 35mm in the cinema. 2.) Audio is uncompressed, rich, and dynamic (lossless 192kHz / 24bit). 3.) 24 frames per second progressive imagery, like most 35mm films. No PAL speedup to 25fps, interlacing, or NTSC video frame rates. NTSC 720 x 480 (American TV / NTSC DVD) PAL 768 x 576 (European TV / PAL DVD) 1080p 1920 x 1080 HD TV / Blu-ray 2k Digital cinema / Film scans 4k Holy grail! 35mm 1.37:1 Blu-ray #1–16 2008–2010 . and the very latest MoC news, visit our website: www.mastersofcinema.org and follow us on Twitter: @mastersofcinema October 2011 The Masters of Cinema . The Masters of Cinema Series London, England Founded in 2004, The Masters of Cinema Series is an independent, carefully