- Fascinating article in the Times about how some art from Disney ended up in a janitorial closet in a university in Japan. A long, strange trip indeed.
- A new box set that culls together 13 hours of shorts from the pioneering director Georges Méliès has just hit. This sounds like something to put into any film school library, to be sure, but I'm inclined to rent one disc every could of weeks and work through the whole oeuvre.
- Disney/BV announced Lion/Witch/Wardrobe for Blu-ray -- but in classic "double-dip" style, it isn't the extended version, just the bog-standard theatrical version. Thanks, guys. Way to make a bunch of people cancel their orders in disgust. (And if history is any guide, an extended cut on BD will not be forthcoming because of "lack of sales".)
AND LOOK WHAT CRITERION JUST DRAGGED IN!
- Yukio Mishima's long-believed-to-be-lost short film Patriotism (from his short story, also known as The Rite of Love and Death) is getting its own Criterion release. It's coming out independently of Criterion's release of ...
- ... Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (I'll be reposting my review of that at some point), which will be a 2-disc set with tons of urgently-needed extras; the original Warner Brothers disc was not bad, but was rather bare.
- Claude Sautet's Classe Tous Risques is coming out as spine #434.
- Anthony Mann's The Furies. Two words: Barbara Stanwyck.
- From the Republic of Macedonia, 1994: Before the Rain. Rade Šerbedžija (Snatch) also stars.
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