Love and Duty (WCL Exclusive Limited Edition)

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Disk Kino just announced 13 new films in their future releasing plan. Among them, one excites me the most is Love and Duty, a 1931 Chinese silent film directed by Bu Wancang and starring Ruan Lingyu.

Here's an introduction on how this film was rediscovered from Wikipedia:

For many years the film was believed lost, until a complete print was discovered in Uruguay in the 1990s. The rediscovered print was shipped over to Taiwan in 1993 and is now housed at the Taipei Film Archive. Since its rediscovery, the film has made its rounds in film festivals and Chinese cinema retrospectives around the world. In 2014, Love and Duty underwent a 2K digital restoration under Italy's L'Immagine Ritrovata, after which it was screened at the Shanghai Film Festival that same year.

Update: Full details just revealed, this two-disc set is coming on March 31st.

Disc 1:

• Feature film presented in 1080p with original Chinese and English intertitles
  2K restoration from the only surviving 35mm copy, done by L'Immagine Ritrovata in 2014.
• Brand new score presented in LPCM 2.0
  A beautiful and touching score by Maud Nelissen, commissioned by Disk Kino exclusively for this release.

Disc 2:

• Star, Genre, Image: Re-examine Love and Duty (HD, 26 minutes)
  A brand new video essay on the history and style of Love and Duty. (in Mandarin, no subtitles)
• The Rediscovery of a Significant Part in Film History (HD, 79 minutes)
  New interview with Tony Rayns on the history of early Chinese cinema and Love and Duty. (in English, with Chinese subtitles)
• The Rediscovery of a Lost Film: Restoring Love and Duty (HD, 22 minutes)
  New interview with Jerry Chiu, head of the digital restoration department at TFAI, on the rediscovery and restoration process of Love and Duty. (in Mandarin, with Chinese and English subtitles)
• Stanly Kwan on Ruan Ling-yu (HD, 11 minutes)
  A new interview with Stanly Kwan, he shares his thoughts on Ruan Ling-yu and his experiences on making Center Stage. (in Mandarin, with Chinese and English subtitles)
• Scoring Love and Duty (HD, 7 minutes)
  A short documentary on how Maud Nelissen creating the new score for Love and Duty. (in English, with Chinese subtitles)
• Before and after the Restoration (HD, 3 minutes)
  A short comparison between the original scan and the restored image.

Cover art:

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