Region 1 NTSC Home Video Release Schedule/Watch List: 08-14-08
Released
City of Men (Paulo Morelli)
Girl on the Bridge (Patrice Leconte)
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader)
Sunflower (Zhang Yang)
Chop Shop (Ramin Bahrani)
Trafic (Jacques Tati)
La Question Humaine (Heartbeat Detector) (Nicolas Klotz)
Help Me Eros (Lee Kang-sheng)
Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
Johan van der Keuken: Vol. 3 (Johan van der Keuken)
High and Low (Akira Kurosawa)
André Téchiné Boxset (André Téchiné)
* Dark City: Director's Cut (Alex Proyas)
* Privilege (Peter Watkins)
* Carmen (Vicente Aranda)
* The Counterfeiters (Stephan Ruzowitzky)
* Larisa Shepitko: Wings & The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko)
* Brand Upon the Brain (Guy Maddin)
August 19
Don Quixote (Orson Welles)
Twenty-Four Eyes (Keisuke Kinoshita)
The Small Back Room (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
The Sacred Family (Sebastian Campos)
August 26
Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Primo Levi's Journey (Davide Ferrario)
Under the Pavement Lies the Strand (Helma Sanders-Brahms)
Daratt/The Desert Ark (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun / Mohamed Chouikh)
Boats Out of Watermelon Rinds (Ahmet Ulucay)
September 2
Before I Forget (Jacques Nolot)
Workingman's Death (Michael Glawogger) [also available from Alive Mind]
Married Life (Ira Sachs)
Remembrance of Things to Come (Chris Marker and Yannick Bellon)
The Sixth Side of the Pentagon/The Embassy (Chris Marker)
The Case of the Grinning Cat (Chris Marker)
The Last Bolshevik/Happiness (Chris Marker / Alexander Medvedkin)
La Ilusión viaja en tranvía/Nazarín (Luis Buñuel)
* Forsaken Land (Vimukthi Jayasundara)
September 16
Earrings of Madame De... (Max Ophüls)
La Ronde (Max Ophüls)
Le Plaisir (Max Ophüls)
September 23
Liberia: An Uncivil War (Jonathan Stack and James Brabazon)
Aki Kaurismäki's Proletariat Trilogy (Aki Kaurismäki)
Bashing (Masahiro Kobayashi)
A Few Kilos of Dates for a Funeral (Saman Salur)
Shadow (Jerzy Kawalerowicz)
* The Unforeseen (Laura Dunn)
September 30
An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu)
The Collected Films of Takahiko Iimaru: Vol. 1 (Takahiko Iimaru)
La Femme Publique (Andrzej Zulawski)
October 7
Le Deuxieme Souffle (Jean-Pierre Melville)
Le Doulos (Jean-Pierre Melville)
October 14
Revenge of a Kabuki Actor (An Actor's Revenge) (Kon Ichikawa)
October 21
Kenji Mizoguchi's Fallen Women (Kenji Mizoguchi)
* Moses and Aaron (Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet)
October 28
Tuya's Marriage (Quan'an Wang)
* Camp De Thiaroye (Ousmane Sembene)
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Note: The list is not intended to represent all of the upcoming home video releases. Rather, it constitutes the films on my own home video preorder/watch list. All are Region 1 DVD (US), unless otherwise noted.