filmmusicfan

It is releases like these that should get a person excited and get a multi-region player ! Outside of the forced French subtitles...which I have to check out yet, as I have yet to break the shrink wrap on both of them.

A PAL Region 2 release on the "Wildside" imprint...

WHAT'S A NICE GIRL LIKE YOU DOING IN A PLACE LIKE THIS (1963)
IT'S NOT JUST YOU, MURRAY! (1964)
THE BIG SHAVE (1967)
ITALIANAMERICAN (1974)
AMERICAN BOY: A PROFILE OF: STEVEN PRINCE (1978)

DVD FEATURES (Applies to all films)

Fullframe Version
English audio
Forced French subtitles
Introductions by Michael Henry Wilson (in French only)

In addition I picked up this, which an aquaintance recommended...release via Studio Canal, from France, and a Region 2 PAL release !

CHACUN SON CINEMA (TO EACH HIS OWN CINEMA) is a compilation of 33 three-minute films made by leading international auteurs on the occasion of the Cannes Film Festival's 60th birthday. Each director was totally free to make his own three-minute film on the theme of the movie theatre, a place sacred to the world's film buffs.

Directors include:
Theodoros Angelopoulos
Olivier Assayas
Bille August
Jane Campion
Youssef Chahine
Kaige Chen
Michael Cimino
David Cronenberg
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Luc Dardenne
Manoel de Oliveira
Raymond Depardon
Atom Egoyan
Amos Gitai
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Aki Kaurismäki
Abbas Kiarostami
Takeshi Kitano
Andrei Konchalovsky
Claude Lelouch
Ken Loach
Nanni Moretti
Roman Polanski
Raoul Ruiz
Walter Salles
Elia Suleiman
Tsai Ming-liang
Gus Van Sant
Lars von Trier
Wim Wenders
Yimou Zhang
Kar Wai Wong

DVD FEATURES

Anamorphic (16:9) Widescreen
5.1 and 2.0 Audio Options (Various languages)
Optional English (for non-English segments) and French subtitles
Alternate version of "The Electric Princess Picture House" (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Long Version of "Anna" (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
Long Version of "No Translation Needed" (Michael Cimino)

chaos2046

TO EACH HIS OWN CINEMA!! Since I live in Asia, what's the cheapest way to pick up a copy?? I'm a Roman Polanski fan...

Jah-Wren Ryel

FWIW, if you use a PC to playback your DVDs you can easily disable 'forced' subtitles.

filmmusicfan

If you have an eclectic retail outlet near you, probably there, but also xploited cinema.com and the usual online sellers should have this.

tsetse27

Thanks for good news! definately going to get CHACUN SON CINEMA!