DVD Talk Forum - Forthcoming Foreign/Art/Independent Films on DVD

The idea for this list was originally conceived by the polymath Acquarello, who maintained it for a period of years and then passed it on to Donald Brown, who has recently passed it on to me. It has traditionally been posted at the Home Theater Forum and the Criterion Forum, but if DVD Talk members find it helpful, I'm happy to post it here as well.

The list is confined to upcoming DVD releases of Classic, Foreign (i.e., non-English language films released on discs WITH English subtitles), Independent, Art, Experimental, and Silent Film from the US and abroad. The list is not exhaustive by any means, but attempts to highlight major releases that might otherwise escape notice.

I am extremely grateful for suggestions about how I can make the list more useful, legible, etc; corrections of my inevitable errors; and especially for information about upcoming releases from around the world that I may have overlooked.

Note to readers in the US and Canada: Most DVD releases from other countries will contain restrictive region encoding and/or may utilize a different video standard (PAL) than that used in the US (NTSC). Such discs may require special or modified playback equipment. More information on this topic can be found here: http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html#1.10 and here: http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html#1.19

I will attempt to update the list weekly.

The list is organized in three categories:

A. Upcoming DVDs by Release Date

USA/Canada
Rest of World

B. Future & Past Six Months Releases by Director
C. Expected or Announced Future Releases without Official Release Dates (by director)
D: Other Helpful Information

New Additions to the release calendar are in RED.
Listings with updated release dates are in BLUE.

Brian
filmfansea

Last Update: 18 May 2006

[My first post is incomplete, as I'm still battling my MS Access database to get the output that I want. Hope to have the rest up by this weekend.]

A. UPCOMING DVD RELEASES BY RELEASE DATE:

1. USA and Canada

4/25/2006
Match Point (Allen, Woody / 2005) [Dreamworks / R1 NTSC / USA]
Robert Altman Collection: M*A*S*H / A Perfect Couple / Quintet / A Wedding (Altman, Robert / NA) [Fox / R1 NTSC / USA]
The Passenger (Antonioni, Michelangelo / 1975) [Sony / R1 NTSC / USA]
Fists in the Pocket / I Pugni in tasca (Bellochio, Marco / 1965) [Criterion / R1 NTSC / USA]
Videograms of a Revolution / Videogramme einer Revolution (Farocki, Harun / 1992) [Facets / R1 NTSC / USA]
Where Green Ants Dream / Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen (Herzog, Werner / 1984) [Tango Entertainment / R1 NTSC / USA]
Mother Joan of Angels / Matka Joanna od aniolów (Kawalerowicz, Jerzy / 1961) [Polart / R1 NTSC / USA]
The Guard from Underground / Jigoku no keibîn (Kurosawa Kiyoshi / 1992) [Arts Magic / R1 NTSC / USA]
Elevator to the Gallows / Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (Malle, Louis / 1958) [Criterion / R1 NTSC / USA]
Lovers of the Arctic Circle / Los Amantes del Círculo Polar (Medem, Julio / 1999) [HVE / R1 NTSC / USA]
Damnation / Kárhozat (Tarr, Béla / 1988) [Facets / R1 NTSC / USA]

5/2/2006
Nathalie… (Fontaine, Anne / 2003) [Koch Lorber / R1 NTSC / USA]
Escape From Recsk / Szökés (Gyarmathy, Lívia / 1996) [21st Century DreamQuest / R1 NTSC / Canada]
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof [also in Tennessee Williams Film Collection] (Brooks, Richard / 1958) [Warner / R1 NTSC / USA]
Delicatessen (Jeunet, Jean-Pierre & Marc Caro / 1991) [Buena Vista / R1 NTSC / USA]
A Streetcar Named Desire [also in Tennessee Williams Film Collection] (Kazan, Elia / 1951) [Warner / R1 NTSC / USA]
Baby Doll [also in Tennessee Williams Film Collection] (Kazan, Elia / 1956) [Warner / R1 NTSC / USA]
Tennessee Williams Film Collection: A Streetcar Named Desire / Cat on a Hot Tin Roof / Sweet Bird of Youth / The Night of the Iguana / Baby Doll / The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (Various / NA) [Warner / R1 NTSC / USA]

5/9/2006
The New World (Malick, Terrence / 2005) [New Line / R1 NTSC / USA]
Late Spring / Banshun (Ozu Yasujiro / 1949) [Criterion / R1 NTSC / USA]
The 400 Blows / Les Quatre cents coups (solo release) (Truffaut, François / 1959) [Criterion / R1 NTSC / USA]

5/16/2006
My Mother's Smile / L'Ora di religione (Il sorriso di mia madre) (Bellochio, Marco / 2002) [New Yorker / R1 NTSC / USA]
Waiting for Godot [Mostel/Meredith] (Scheider, Alan / 1961) [Foxrock Video / R1 NTSC / USA]
The Seventh Continent / Der Siebente Kontinent (Haneke, Michael / 1989) [Kino / R1 NTSC / USA]
Benny's Video (Haneke, Michael / 1992) [Kino / R1 NTSC / USA]
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance / 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls (Haneke, Michael / 1994) [Kino / R1 NTSC / USA]
Funny Games (Haneke, Michael / 1997) [Kino / R1 NTSC / USA]

5/23/2006
The Last Wagon (Daves, Delmer / 1956) [Fox / R1 NTSC / USA]
Yellow Sky (Wellman, William / 1948) [Fox / R1 NTSC / USA]
Viridiana (Buñuel, Luis / 1961) [Criterion / R1 NTSC / USA]
Harlan County, USA (Kopple, Barbara / 1976) [Criterion / R1 NTSC / USA]

5/30/2006
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (Fassbinder, Rainer Werner / 1970) [Fantoma / R1 NTSC / USA]
Winter Soldier (Winterfilm Collective / 1971) [New Yorker / R1 NTSC / USA]

6/6/2006
Track of the Cat (Wellman, William / 1954) [Paramount / R1 NTSC / USA]
Chaplin Mutuals, 90th Anniversary Edition (Chaplin, Charlie / NA) [Image / R1 NTSC / USA]
The Lost Patrol [also in John Ford Film Collection boxset] (Ford, John / 1934) [Warner / R1 NTSC / USA]
The Informer [also in John Ford Film Collection boxset] (Ford, John / 1935) [Warner / R1 NTSC / USA]
Mary of Scotland [only in John Ford Film Collection boxset] (Ford, John / 1936) [Warner / R1 NTSC / USA]
Stagecoach (SE) [also in John Wayne John Ford Collection boxset] (Ford, John / 1939) [Warner / R1 NTSC / USA]
The Long Voyage Home [also in John Wayne John Ford Collection boxset] (Ford, John / 1940) [Warner / R1 NTSC / USA]
They Were Expendable [also in John Wayne John Ford Collection boxset] (Ford, John / 1945) [Warner / R1 NTSC / USA]
3 Godfathers [also in John Wayne John Ford Collection boxset] (Ford, John / 1948) [Warner / R1 NTSC / USA]
Fort Apache [also in John Wayne John Ford Collection boxset] (Ford, John / 1948) [Warner / R1 NTSC / USA]
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon [also in John Wayne John Ford Collection boxset] (Ford, John / 1949) [Warner / R1 NTSC / USA]
The Searchers (SE) (Ford, John / 1956) [Warner / R1 NTSC / USA]
The Searchers (UCE) [also in John Wayne John Ford Collection boxset] (Ford, John / 1956) [Warner / R1 NTSC / USA]
The Wings of Eagles [also in John Wayne John Ford Collection boxset] (Ford, John / 1957) [Warner / R1 NTSC / USA]
Sergeant Rutledge [only in John Ford Film Collection boxset] (Ford, John / 1960) [Warner / R1 NTSC / USA]
Cheyenne Autumn [also in John Ford Film Collection boxset] (Ford, John / 1964) [Warner / R1 NTSC / USA]
John Wayne - John Ford Collection (Ford, John / NA) [Warner / R1 NTSC / USA]
The John Ford Film Collection (Ford, John / NA) [Warner / R1 NTSC / USA]
Devarim / Zihron Devarim (Gitai, Amos / 1995) [Kino / R1 NTSC / USA]
Yom Yom (Day After Day) (Gitai, Amos / 1998) [Kino / R1 NTSC / USA]
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Jones, Tommy Lee / 2005) [Sony / R1 NTSC / USA]
Boomerang! (Kazan, Elia / 1947) [Fox / R1 NTSC / USA]
House of Strangers (Mankiewicz, Joseph L. / 1949) [Fox / R1 NTSC / USA]
You Are Not Alone / Du er ikke alene (Nielsen, Lasse & Ernst Johansen / 1978) [TLA Releasing / R1 NTSC / USA]
Sir Arne's Treasure / Herr Arnes pengar (Stiller, Mauritz / 1919) [Kino / R1 NTSC / USA]
Erotikon (Stiller, Mauritz / 1920) [Kino / R1 NTSC / USA]
The Saga of Gosta Berling / Gösta Berlings saga (Stiller, Mauritz / 1924) [Kino / R1 NTSC / USA]

6/13/2006
An Empty Bed (Gasper, Mark / 1990) [First Run / R1 NTSC / USA]
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Meyer, Russ / 1970) [Fox / R1 NTSC / USA]

6/20/2006
Petulia (Lester, Richard / 1968) [Warner / R1 NTSC / USA]
Dazed & Confused (Linklater, Richard / 1993) [Criterion / R1 NTSC / USA]
Equinox (Woods, Jack / 1970) [Criterion / R1 NTSC / USA]
À nos amours (Pialat, Maurice / 1983) [Criterion / R1 NTSC / USA]
The Loved One (Richardson, Tony / 1965) [Warner / R1 NTSC / USA]

6/27/2006
Hidden / Caché (Haneke, Michael / 2005) [Sony / R1 NTSC / USA]
Guarded Secrets / Mélyen örzött titkok (Böszörményi, Zsuzsa / 2004) [21st Century DreamQuest / R1 NTSC / Canada]
That Day / Ce jour-là (Ruiz, Raoul / 2003) [Facets? / R1 NTSC / USA]
Almanac of Fall / Öszi almanach (Tarr, Béla / 1985) [Facets / R1 NTSC / USA]

7/11/2006
Koko: A Talking Gorilla (Schroeder, Barbet / 1978) [Criterion / R1 NTSC / USA]
Yi Yi (A One & a Two) (Yang, Edward / 2000) [Criterion / R1 NTSC / USA]

7/18/2006
An Early Frost (Erman, John / 1985) [Wolfe Video / R1 NTSC / USA]
Lady in the Lake (Montgomery, Robert / 1947) [Warner / R1 NTSC / USA]
On Dangerous Ground (Ray, Nicholas / 1951) [Warner / R1 NTSC / USA]

7/25/2006
Listen to Britain (Jennings, Humphrey / 1942) [Criterion / R1 NTSC / USA]
A Canterbury Tale (Powell, Michael & Emeric Pressburger / 1944) [Criterion / R1 NTSC / USA]

8/1/2006
A Fish Called Wanda (SE) (Crichton, Charles / 1988) [Sony / R1 NTSC / USA]
Putney Swope (Downey Sr., Robert / 1969) [Home Vision / R1 NTSC / USA]

8/8/2006
The Girl Can't Help It [Jayne Mansfield Collection] (Tashlin, Frank / 1956) [Fox / R1 NTSC / USA]
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? [Jayne Mansfield Collection] (Tashlin, Frank / 1957) [Fox / R1 NTSC / USA]
Jayne Mansfield Collection (Various / NA) [Fox / R1 NTSC / USA]
Sheriff of Fractured Jaw [Jayne Mansfield Collection] (Walsh, Raoul / 1958) [Fox / R1 NTSC / USA]

8/15/2006
Apocalypse Now: The Complete Dossier (Coppola, Francis Ford / 1979) [Paramount / R1 NTSC / USA]
Border Incident (Mann, Anthony / 1949) [Warner / R1 NTSC / USA]
Suzanne's Career / La Carrière de Suzanne [Six Moral Tales boxset] (Rohmer, Eric / 1963) [Criterion / R1 NTSC / USA]
The Bakery Girl of Monceau / La Boulangère de Monceau [Six Moral Tales boxset] (Rohmer, Eric / 1963) [Criterion / R1 NTSC / USA]
La Collectionneuse [Six Moral Tales boxset] (Rohmer, Eric / 1967) [Criterion / R1 NTSC / USA]
My Night at Maud's / Ma nuit chez Maud [Six Moral Tales boxset] (Rohmer, Eric / 1969) [Criterion / R1 NTSC / USA]
Claire's Knee / Le Genou de Claire [Six Moral Tales boxset] (Rohmer, Eric / 1970) [Criterion / R1 NTSC / USA]
Love in the Afternoon / L'Amour l'après-midi [Six Moral Tales boxset] (Rohmer, Eric / 1972) [Criterion / R1 NTSC / USA]
Six Moral Tales (boxset) (Rohmer, Eric / NA) [Criterion / R1 NTSC / USA]

8/22/2006
Kicking and Screaming (Baumbach, Noah / 1995) [Criterion / R1 NTSC / USA]
Seduced and Abandoned / Sedotta e abbandonata (Germi, Pietro / 1964) [Criterion / R1 NTSC / USA]

8/29/2006
Recsk 1950-1953: The Story Of A Secret Concentration Camp In Communist Hungary (Böszörményi, Géza & Lívia Gyarmathy / 1989) [21st Century DreamQuest / R1 NTSC / Canada]
Double Indemnity (Wilder, Billy / 1944) [Universal / R1 NTSC / USA]

9/5/2006
Angry Harvest / Bittere Ernte (Holland, Agnieszka / 1986) [Home Vision / R1 NTSC / USA]
Godzilla / Gojira (Honda Ishirô / 1954) [Classic Media / R1 NTSC / USA]

Rest of the World

4/20/2006
The Child / L'Enfant (Dardenne, Jean-Pierre & Luc / 2005) [Blaq Out / R2 PAL / France]

4/24/2006
Hôtel du Nord (Carné, Marcel / 1938) [Soda Pictures / R2 PAL / UK]
Where the Truth Lies (Egoyan, Atom / 2005) [Momentum / R2 PAL / UK]
The Double Life of Veronique / La Double vie de Véronique (Kieslowski, Krzysztof / 1991) [Artificial Eye / R2 PAL / UK]
Come and See / Idi i smotri (Klimov, Elem / 1985) [Nouveaux / R2 PAL / UK]
Tokyo Twilight / Tokyo boshoku (Ozu Yasujiro / 1957) [Tartan / R2 PAL / UK]
Equinox Flower / Higanbana (Ozu Yasujiro / 1958) [Tartan / R2 PAL / UK]
Good Morning / Ohayô (Ozu Yasujiro / 1959) [Tartan / R2 PAL / UK]
Ozu Box 3: Tokyo Twilight/Equinox Flower/Good Morning (Ozu Yasujiro / NA) [Tartan / R2 PAL / UK]
Tickets [Abbas Kiarostami/Ken Loach/Ermanno Olmi] (Various / 2005) [Artificial Eye / R2 PAL / UK]

4/27/2006
Yûkoku (The Rite of Love and Death) (Mishima Yukio / 1966) [Toho / R2 NTSC / Japan]

5/1/2006
Grizzly Man (Herzog, Werner / 2005) [Revolver / R2 PAL / UK]

5/8/2006
Blissfully Yours / Sud sanaeha (Weerasethakul, Apichatpong / 2002) [Second Run / R2 PAL / UK]
Kafka (Soderbergh, Steven / 1991) [Pathe / R2 PAL / UK]
Unknown Chaplin (Brownlow, Kevin / 1983) [Network / R2 PAL / UK]
Every Little Thing / La Moindre des choses (Philibert, Nicolas / 1997) [Second Run / R2 PAL / UK]

5/13/2006
Three Times / Zui hao de shi guang (Hou Hsiao-hsien / 2005) [TF1 Video / R2 PAL / France]

5/15/2006
Secret Ceremony (Losey, Joseph / 1968) [Universal / R2 PAL / UK]
Monsieur Hire (Leconte, Patrice / 1990) [Second Sight / R2 PAL / UK]
Christ Stopped at Eboli / Cristo si è fermato a Eboli (Rosi, Francesco / 1979) [Infinity Arthouse / R2 PAL / UK]
Toto the Hero / Toto le héros (Van Dormael, Jaco / 1991) [Second Sight / R2 PAL / UK]

5/17/2006
Time of the Wolf / Le Temps du loup (Haneke, Michael / 2003) [AV Channel / R4 PAL / Australia]
Dolls (Kitano Takeshi / 2003) [AV Channel / R4 PAL / Australia]
The Idiot / Hakuchi (Kurosawa Akira / 1951) [AV Channel / R4 PAL / Australia]
Zazie dans le métro (Malle, Louis / 1960) [AV Channel / R4 PAL / Australia]
Le Feu follet (Malle, Louis / 1963) [AV Channel / R4 PAL / Australia]

5/22/2006
Hidden / Caché (Haneke, Michael / 2005) [Artificial Eye / R2 PAL / UK]
L'Humanité (Dumont, Bruno / 1999) [Artificial Eye / R2 PAL / UK]
She's Gotta Have It (Lee, Spike / 1986) [Sony / R2 PAL / UK]
The New World (Malick, Terrence / 2005) [Entertainment in Video / R2 PAL / UK]
Pleasant Days / Szép napok (Mundruczó, Kornél / 2002) [Tartan / R0 PAL / UK]
Music in Darkness (Bergman, Ingmar / 1948) [Tartan / R2 PAL / UK]
Prison (Bergman, Ingmar / 1949) [Tartan / R2 PAL / UK]
Black Cat, White Cat / Crna macka, beli macor (Kusturica, Emir / 1998) [Artificial Eye / R2 PAL / UK]
Blind Beast / Môjuu (Masumura Yasuzo / 1969) [Yume Pictures / R2 PAL / UK]

5/23/2006
Histoire(s) du cinéma (4 DVD set; ? English subs) (Godard, Jean-Luc / 1998) [Gaumont Columbia Tristar (GCTHV) / R2 PAL / France]

5/29/2006
Kwaidan / Kaidan (Kobayashi Masaki / 1964) [Eureka/MoC / R2 PAL / UK]
The Expedition / Abhijan (Ray, Satyajit / 1962) [Eureka/MOC / R2 PAL / UK]
The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles, Orson / 1942) [Universal / R2 PAL / UK]

6/5/2006
Seance On A Wet Afternoon (Forbes, Bryan / 1964) [Network / R2 PAL / UK]
La Haine (SE) (Kassovitz, Mathieu / 1995) [Optimum / R2 PAL / UK]
Cinema 16: American Short Films (Various / NA) [Warp Films / R2 PAL / UK]
Cinema 16: British Short Films (Various / NA) [Warp Films / R2 PAL / UK]
Cinema 16: European Short Films (Various / NA) [Warp Films / R2 PAL / UK]
Dark Command (Walsh, Raoul / 1940) [Universal / R2 PAL / UK]
Almodóvar Collection Vol. 2: Matador/Law of Desire/Kika/The Flower of My Secret (Almodóvar, Pedro / NA) [Optimum / R2 PAL / UK]
Sympathy for the Devil / One Plus One (Godard, Jean-Luc / 1968) [Fremantle / R2 PAL / UK]
Louis Malle Collection Vol. 1: Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud, Les Amants, Zazie Dans Le Metro, Le Feu Follet (Malle, Louis / NA) [Optimum / R2 PAL / UK]

6/8/2006
Coffret Jean-Paul Civeyrac: La Vie selon Luc/Ni d'Eve ni d'Adam/Les Solitaires/Fantômes/Le Doux amour des hommes/Toutes ces belles promesses/Tristesse beau visage, A travers la forêt/ Jean-Paul Civeyrac: interstices (Civeyrac, Jean-Paul / NA) [Blaq Out / R2 PAL / France]

6/19/2006
Faust (Murnau, F.W. / 1926) [Eureka/MoC / R2 PAL / UK]
The Thief of Bagdad (Various / 1940) [Network / R2 PAL / UK]
Ludwig (Visconti, Luchino / 1972) [Infinity Arthouse / R2 PAL / UK]

6/21/2006
Vivre sa vie (Godard, Jean-Luc / 1962) [AV Channel / R4 PAL / Australia]
Monte Hellman's Westerns: The Shooting and Ride in the Whirlwind (Hellman, Monte / 1965) [AV Channel / R4 PAL / Australia]
Ride in the Whirlwind (Hellman, Monte / 1965) [AV Channel / R4 PAL / Australia]
The Shooting (Hellman, Monte / 1965) [AV Channel / R4 PAL / Australia]
The World / Shijie (Jia Zhang Ke / 2004) [AV Channel / R4 PAL / Australia]
Drunken Angel / Yoidore tenshi (Kurosawa Akira / 1948) [AV Channel / R4 PAL / Australia]
High and Low / Tengoku to jigoku (Kurosawa Akira / 1963) [AV Channel / R4 PAL / Australia]

6/26/2006
Loulou (Pialat, Maurice / 1980) [Artificial Eye / R2 PAL / UK]
3 Women (Altman, Robert / 1977) [Cinema Club / R2 PAL / UK]
Red Angel / Akai tenshi (Masumura Yasuzo / 1966) [Yume Pictures / R2 PAL / UK]
Strayed / Les Égarés (Téchiné, André / 2003) [Soda Pictures / R2 PAL / UK]

6/29/2006
Knights of the Teutonic Order / Krzyzacy (Ford, Aleksander / 1960) [Second Run / R2 PAL / UK]
Passenger / Pasazerka (Munk, Andrzej / 1963) [Second Run / R2 PAL / UK]

7/3/2006
The Passenger (Antonioni, Michelangelo / 1975) [Sony / R2 PAL / UK]
La Grande bouffe (Ferreri, Marco / 1973) [Nouveaux / R2 PAL / UK]
Manderlay (von Trier, Lars / 2005) [Metrodome / R2 PAL / UK]

7/10/2006
The Merchant of Four Seasons / Händler der vier Jahreszeiten (Fassbinder, Rainer Werner / 1971) [Arrow / R2 PAL / UK]
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant / Die Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant (Fassbinder, Rainer Werner / 1972) [Arrow / R2 PAL / UK]
Fear Eats the Soul / Angst essen Seele auf (Fassbinder, Rainer Werner / 1973) [Arrow / R2 PAL / UK]
The Marriage of Maria Braun / Die Ehe der Maria Braun (Fassbinder, Rainer Werner / 1978) [Arrow / R2 PAL / UK]

7/17/2006
Clean (Assayas, Olivier / 2004) [Momentum / R2 PAL / UK]
The Proposition (Hillcoat, John / 2005) [Tartan / R2 PAL / UK]

7/24/2006
The Child / L'Enfant (Dardenne, Jean-Pierre & Luc / 2005) [Artificial Eye / R2 PAL / UK]
Tony Takitani (Ichikawa Jun / 2004) [Axiom / R2 PAL / UK]
Fantastic Planet / La Planète sauvage (Laloux, René / 1973) [Eureka/MoC / R2 PAL / UK]
Funeral Procession of Roses / Bara no soretsu (Matsumoto Toshio / 1969) [Eureka/MoC / R2 PAL / UK]

7/26/2006
I Live in Fear (Record of a Living Being) / Ikimono no kiroku (Kurosawa Akira / 1955) [AV Channel / R4 PAL / Australia]
Black Moon (Malle, Louis / 1975) [AV Channel / R4 PAL / Australia]
Crimson Gold / Talaye sorkh (Panahi, Jafar / 2003) [AV Channel / R4 PAL / Australia]

8/7/2006
Hollywood (Brownlow, Kevin / 1980) [Network / R2 PAL / UK]
The Black Swan (King, Henry / 1942) [Cinema Club / R2 PAL / UK]
The Sun Also Rises (King, Henry / 1957) [Cinema Club / R2 PAL / UK]
The Tall Men (Walsh, Raoul / 1955) [Cinema Club / R2 PAL / UK]