Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment

[rapta]

Didn't know where else to post this. According to the LFF listing on the BFI site, Kaleidoscope have the UK rights to Na Hong-jin's THE WAILING, so hopefully we will get a Blu-ray of it in the new year! Think it's quite likely, seeing as they've released foreign language titles in the recent past (e.g. Suburra, Police Story: Lockdown, Ip Man 3). Can't wait to see this one...

[Le Grande Blu]

Originally Posted by rapta

Didn't know where else to post this. According to the LFF listing on the BFI site, Kaleidoscope have the UK rights to Na Hong-jin's THE WAILING, so hopefully we will get a Blu-ray of it in the new year! Think it's quite likely, seeing as they've released foreign language titles in the recent past (e.g. Suburra, Police Story: Lockdown, Ip Man 3). Can't wait to see this one...

My copy of The Wailing should be here for the weekend. Can't wait! Shame Eureka didn't pick it up though, as their Masters of Cinema series doesn't have any Korean directors in it.

[rapta]

Originally Posted by Le Grande Blu

My copy of The Wailing should be here for the weekend. Can't wait! Shame Eureka didn't pick it up though, as their Masters of Cinema series doesn't have any Korean directors in it.

Yeah, they released The Yellow Sea but as a Monster Pictures/Bounty Films release (so not even a regular Eureka title, let alone Masters of Cinema).

I too hope we do get some Korean stuff from MoC, but I guess it'd have to be something newly restored that they can acquire the rights to. I think I read an interview that Third Window once gave and they said Korea is even more difficult to navigate than Japan in terms of rights and quality of materials.

[Le Grande Blu]

Originally Posted by rapta

Yeah, they released The Yellow Sea but as a Monster Pictures/Bounty Films release (so not even a regular Eureka title, let alone Masters of Cinema).

I too hope we do get some Korean stuff from MoC, but I guess it'd have to be something newly restored that they can acquire the rights to. I think I read an interview that Third Window once gave and they said Korea is even more difficult to navigate than Japan in terms of rights and quality of materials.

Hong Sang Soo would be a good fit, although probably not commercially viable. To be honest, there have been so many classic Korean films from the last 16-odd years, that even if a fraction of them received a release here I'd be happy.