DVD WISHLIST

The list contains the classic, foreign, and independent movies that we feel that should be on DVD but are neglected by either studio or distributer, and it is meant to aid the DVDphiles to locate the studio or distributer who possibly owns the rights to the films that they are looking for.
PLEASE NOTE THAT MANY OF INFORMATION HERE ARE JUST HUNCHES AND GUESSES BASED ON THE VHS OR LASERDISC RIGHTS. NONE OF THESE ARE CONFIRMED AND MANY ARE FROM UNCHECKED SOURCES. THIS LIST SHOULD BE VIEWED AS AN ATTEMPT TO GATHER SOME INFORMATION, NOT AS THE ACCURATE SOURCE OF INFORMATION.
The company in parentheses indicates the owner of VHS or Laserdisc rights. The titles whose owner are uncertain or unknown are marked by question mark. If you know the owners of DVD rights to any of these movies, please drop a note at ilian73@yahoo.com

Many Thanks to the members of Home Theater Forum, who contributed to the compilation of this list.


Title (Director) - Distributer (VHS)
Accatone (Pasolini) - Criterion
L'Age d'Or (Bunuel) - ?
After Hours (Scorsese) - Warner
Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (Kurosawa)- Warner
Ali:Fear Eats the Soul (Fassbinder) - ? (New Yorker used to have a lot of Fassbinder movies, but now it lists only The Stationmaster's Wife in its catalog.
The Apple (Makhmalbaf) - ?
Apu Trilogy (Ray) - Columbia
L'Argent (Bresson) - New Yorker
L'Atalante (Vigo) - New Yorker
Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson) - ? (Nouveau Film in UK)
Avanti (Wilder) - MGM
The Ballad of Narayama (Imamura) - Criterion (Home Vision)
Barcelona (Stillman) - Warner
Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo) - Rhino
Becket (Glenville) - Paramount
Before the Rain (Manchevski) - MGM (Polygram)
Belle de jour (Bunuel) - Disney
La Belle Histoire (Lelouch) - ?
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder) - ? (Teleculture)
Black Cat White Cat - ? (USA Films)
Black Rain (Imamura) - Image (was on DVD but OOP)
Blame It on Rio (Donen) - MGM (MGM/UA)
Blow Up (Antonioni) - Warner
The Blue Kite (Zhuangzhuang Tian)- Kino
The Blue Angel (von Sternberg) - Image/Kino? (Kino)
Boxing Helena (J. Lynch) - MGM (Orion)
Boudu saved from drowning (Renoir) - ? (Interama)
Breathless (Godard) - Fox Lorber?
Bringing Up Baby (Hawks) - Warner (Turner)
The Burmese Harp (Ichikawa) - Criterion (Home Vision)
Burn (Pontecorvo) - MGM (MGM/UA)
Calendar (Egoyan) - Kino
Career Girls- Fox (Leigh)
To Catch a Thief (Hitchcock) - Paramount
Celine and Julie Go Boating - New Yorker
Charulata - Columbia
Un Chien Andalou (Bunuel) - ? (Video Yesteryear)
Chimes at Midnight (Welles) - ?
Close-up (Kiarostami) - ? (BFI in UK)
Un Coeur en Hiver (Sautet) - Artisan (Republic)
Confidential Report (Arkadian)- Criterion (Home Vision)
The Conformist (Bertolucci) - Paramount
The Contempt (Le Mepris) - Criterion?
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (Bunuel) - ? (Water Bearer Films)
Crimson Pig (Miyazaki)- Disney
The Crowd - Warner/MGM (MGM)
Curse of the Demon (or Night of the Demon) (Tourneur) - Columbia
Day for Night (Truffaut) - Warner
A Day in the Country (Renoir) - ? (Kino)
Day of Wrath (Dreyer) - Criterion (Home Vision)
Days and Nights in the Forest, Distant Thunder (Ray) - ? (Pathe)
Death in Venice (Visconti) - Warner
Death of a Salesman (Benedek, 1951) - Columbia
Delicatessen (Caro, Jeunet) - Disney
The Devils (Russell) - Warner
Diary of a Chambermaid (Bunuel) - ? (Castle Hill)
Diary of a Chambermaid (Renoir) - Artisan? (Republic)
Diary of A Country Priest (Bresson) - Image?
Distant Voices, Still Lives (Davies) - ?
La Dolce Vita - Artisan (Republic)
Don't Look Now (Roeg) - Paramount
Dr. Akagi (Imamura) - New Yorker
Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde - Warner
The Double Life of Veronique (Kieslowski)- Paramount
Dreamchild (Millar) - MGM/UA
The Duelists - ?
L'Ecclise (Antonioni) - ? (Criterion)
Earth (Dovzhenko) - Kino
Eat, Drink, Man, Woman (Lee) - MGM
The Eel (Imamura) - (New Yorker)
Effi Briest (Fassbinder) - New Yorker? not listed in their video catalog
El (Bunuel) - ? (Hen's Tooth Video)
Europa, Europa (Holland) - MGM
The Exterminating Angel (Bunuel) - ? (Hen's Tooth)
Family Viewing (Egoyan) - Fox Lorber
Fanny and Alexander - MGM
Fast Cheap and Out of Control - Columbia
Satyricon (Fellini) - MGM
A Fine Madness (Kershner) - Warner
Fires on the Plain (Ichikawa) - Criterion
Florida - Columbia
For Ever Mozart (Godard) - New Yorker
Forbidden Games (Clement) - Criterion
Force of Evil (Polonsky)- Artisan (Republic)
Four Nights of a Dreamer (Bresson) - ?
Fox and His Friends (Fassbinder) - ?
Fun with Dick and Jane (Kotcheff) - Columbia
Gabbeh (Makhmalbaf) - New Yorker
The Gambler (1974, Reisz)- Paramount
Gates of Heaven (Morris) - Columbia? New Yorker?
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Hawks) - Warner/MGM
Germany, Year Zero (Rossellini) - ?
Gertrude (Dreyer) - Criterion
I Girasoli (de Sica) - ?
The Grapes of Wrath (1940, Ford) - Fox
Greed (von Stroheim) - Warner/Turner
Grey Gardens (Hovde) - ? (Portrait Films)
Gunga Din (Stevens) - Warner/Turner
The Hairdresser's Husband (Leconte) - Paramount
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Miller) - Warner
Heavenly Creatures - Disney
Henry Fool (Hartley) - Columbia
Hiroshima, mon amour (Resnais) - Criterion (Home Vision)
The Holy Mountain - Jodorowsky
Homework (Kiarostami) - ? (Global Video)
Hoop Dreams - Warner/New Line
Horse Thief (Zhuangzhuang Tian) - Kino
Hotel Terminus (Marcel Ophuls) - MGM/UA
Hour of the Woof (Bergman) - MGM
I Stand Alone (Noe) - ? (Strand Releasing)
I was born... but (Ozu) - New Yorker
Ice Cold in Alex (Thompson) - Fox
Ice Storm - Fox
The Sheltering Sky (Bertoulucci)- Warner
Icicle Thief - Fox Lorber
If.... (Anderson) - Paramount
Ikiru (Kurosawa) - Criterion
Imitation of Life (Sirk) - Universal
The Insect Woman (Imamura) - Image ? (Toho)
Jeanne Dielman - ?
Ju Dou (Yimou Zhang) - Pioneer (reissue)
Kafka (Soderbergh) - Paramount
Kagemusha - Fox
Kes (Loach) - MGM/UA
Kiki's Delivery Service (Miyazaki) - Disney
The Kindgom, The Kingdom II (von Trier) - ? (October Films)
The King of Comedy (Scorsese) - Warner
Kings of the Road (Wenders) - ?
Kiss Me Deadly (Aldrich) - MGM (MGM)
Kiss of Death (1947, Hathaway)- Fox
The Ladies of the Bois de Bologne (Bresson) - Hen's Tooth
Laputa: Castle in the Sky (Miyazaki) - Disney
The Last American Virgin (Davidson) - ? (Canon)
The Last Wave- Rhino
Laura (Preminger) - Fox
Late Spring (Ozu) - New Yorker
Leolo (Lauzon) - New Line
The Leopard (Visconti) - Fox
Letters from Unknown Woman (Ophuls) - Artisan
Life is Sweet (Leigh) - Artisan (Republic)
Life of Oharu (Mizoguchi) - Criterion
Life on a String (Chen Kaige)- Kino
Lifeboat (Hitchcock) - Fox
Listen to Britain - ?
Live Flesh (Almodovar) - MGM
Lola, the Young Ladies of Rochefort - Disney
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Richardson) - Warner
Luna (Bertolucci) - Fox
Madame de (, Earrings of) (Ophuls) - ? (Connoisseur)
Magnificent Ambersons - Warner/Turner
Mala Noche (Van Sant) - New Line
A Man and a Woman (Lelouch) - Warner
A Man Escaped (Bresson) - New Yorker
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - Paramount
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Fassbinder) - ?
Masculin-feminin (Godard) - New Yorker
A Matter of Life and Death (Stairway to Heaven) (Powell, Pressburger) - Columbia
Medium Cool (Wexler) - Paramount
Meet Me in St. Louis (Minnelli) - Warner/MGM (MGM)
Memories of Underdevelopment (Alea) - New Yorker
Merry Christmas Mr.Lawrence (Oshima) - Artisan
Meshes of Afternoon (Deren) - ?
Metropolis (Lang) - public domain (Moroder version - ? )
Metropolitan (Stillman) - New Line
Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Sturges) - Universal
The Milky Way (Bunuel) - ? (UMC)
Modesty Blaise (Losey) - Fox
Monsieur Hire (Leconte) - MGM
A Moment of Innocence (Makhmalbaf) - New Yorker
Mona Lisa (Jordan) - Anchor Bay
Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (Fassbinder) - ?
Mouchette (Bresson) - ? (Hen's Tooth)
Music Room (Ray) - Columbia
Murderers Among Us (Staudte) - Kino
Muriel (Resnais) - ? (Hen's Tooth)
Mutiny on the Bounty (Lloyd) - Warner
My Darling Clementine - Fox
My Neighbors the Yamadas - Disney
My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki) - Fox
My Own Private Idaho (Van Sant) - New Line
Naked - New Line
Napoleon (Gance) - Universal
The Nasty Girl (Verhoeven) - Warner/HBO
Nausica of the Valley of the Wind (Miyazaki) - Disney?
Next of Kin (Egoyan) - ? (Connoisseur/Meridian)
Die Nibelungen - Artisan? (Republic)
1900 (Bertolucci) - Paramount
No Regrets for Our Youth (Kurosawa)- Criterion
La Notte (Antonioni) - ? (Connoisseur)
Nouvelle Vague (Godard) - ? (Cinema Parallels)
Numero Deux (Godard) - ? (Facets)
Los Olvidados (Bunuel) - Image? (Mirada)
Olivier Olivier - Columbia
Once Upon a Time in America (Leone) - Warner
Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone) - Paramount
Once Were Warriors (Tamahori) - New Line
Only Yesterday - Disney
Ordet (Dreyer) - Criterion
Otello (Zefirelli) - ? (Canon)
Out of the Past (Tournier) - Warner/Turner (Turner)
The Ox-Bow Incident ( - Fox
Paisan (Rossellini) - ? (Hen's Tooth)
Pandora's Box (Pabst) - Criterion
Passion (Godard) - Fox Lorber
The Passion of Anna (Bergman) - MGM
Pauline at the Beach (Rohmer) - Fox-Lorber
Performance (Cammell) - Warner
Persona (Bergman) - MGM
The Phantom of Liberty (Bunuel) - Fox?
Playtime (Tati) - Criteron
Pom Poko (Miyazaki) - Disney
The President's Analyst (Flicker) - (Paramount)
Providence (Resnais) - Columbia
Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou) - MGM
The Rain People (Coppola) - Warner
Rashomon (Kurosawa) - Criterion
Red Beard (Kurosawa) - Criterion
Red Sorghum (Yimou Chang) - New Yorker
La Reine Margot (1994) - Disney
Repulsion (Polanski) - Columbia
Rock & Rule - MGM
Ruby In Paradise (Nunez) - Artisan (Republic)
Safe (Haynes) - Columbia
Salaam Cinema (Makhmalbaf) - ? (Green Film House, production)
Salesman (Maysles) - ? (Maysles Films production)
Le Samourai (Melville) - New Yorker
Sansho Dayu (Mizoguhi) - Criterion
The Scarlet Empress (von Sternberg) - Universal
Schizopolis (Soderbergh) - Fox Lorber
Seance on a Wet Afternoon (Forbes) - Criterion? (Home Vision)
Secrets & Lies - Fox
S7UP series (Apted) - ? (Granada TV, UK)
Shoah (Lanzmann) - New Yorker
Shop Around the Corner (Lubitsch) - MGM/UA
Short Cuts (Altman) - New Line
La signora di tutti (Ophuls) - ? (Connoisseur)
The Silence (Makhmalbaf) - New Yorker
Simon of the Desert (Bunuel) - ? (Hen's Tooth)
Simple Men (Hartley) - Turner
Small Change (Truffaut) - MGM
Smilla's Sense of Snow (August) - Fox
Solaris (Tarkovsky) - Fox Lorber
The Sorrow and Pity (Marcel Ophuls) - ?
Spanking the Monkey (Russell) - New Line
Speaking Parts (Egoyan) - Fox Lorber
Spider's Stratagem (Bertolucci) - New Yorker
Spotswood (Joffe) - Paramount
Spring in a Small Town (Mu) - ?
Stalker (Tarkovsky) - Fox Lorber
Starhaser: The Legend of Orin - ?(Atlantic Releasing)
Streamroller and Violin (Tarkovsky) - ? (Artkino pictures, theatrical)
Sunrise (Murnau) - Fox
Surviving Desire (Hartley) - Fox Lorber
Sweet Movie (Makavejev) - ? (Facets?)
Sweet Smell of Success (Mackendrick)- MGM/UA
That Obscure Object of Desire (Bunuel) - Criterion?
Temptress Moon (Chen Kaige) - Disney
The Tenant (Polanski) - Paramount
Teorema (Pasolini) - ? (Connoisseur, Xenon)
They Died with Their Boots On (Walsh) - Warner
The Thin Blue Line (Morris) - Disney? Anchor Bay? (Anchor Bay)
32 Short Films about Glenn Gould (Girard)- Columbia
3 Women (Altman) - FOX
Through the Olive Trees (Kiarostami) - Disney (Miramax)
To Be or Not to Be (Lubitsch) - Warner? (Warner)
To Live (Zhang Yimou) - MGM
Tokyo Story (Ozu) - New Yorker
El Topo (Jodorowsky) - ? (Unknown Video)
Travelling Player (Angelopoulos)- New Yorker
Treasures of Sierra Madre (John Huston) - Warner
Trouble in Paradise (Lubitsch) - ?
Trust (Hartley) - Artisan (Republic)
12 Angry Men (1957, Lumet) - MGM/UA
2 or 3 Things I Know about Her (Godard) - New Yorker
Ugetsu (monogatari) (Mizoguchi)- Criterion
Umberto D (de Sica) - Criterion (Home Vision)
Underground (1995, Kurstrica) - New Yorker
Vanya on 42nd Street (Malle) - Columbia
Vernon - Columbia
Vincent and Theo - MGM
Viridiana (Bunuel) - ? (Hen's Tooth)
I Vitelloni (Fellini) - Criterion (Janus films)
Voyage to Italy (Rossellini) - ? (Connoisseur)
Wake in Fright(aka Outback) (Kotcheff)- MGM/UA
Wedding Banquet - Fox
Week End (Godard) - New Yorker
Whisper of the Heart - Disney
White Heat (Walsh) - Warner
Who's That Knocking at My Door? (Scorsese) - Warner
The Wind (Sjostrom)- MGM/UA
A World Apart (Menges) - ? (Atantic)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown - MGM
WR-Mysteries of the Organism - ? (Facets)
Yankee Doodle Dandy - Warner
Yellow Earth - Fox Lorber
You were Judged and Found Wanting (Brocka) - ? (Cinemanila, production)
The Young Ladies of Rochefort (Demy) - Disney
Z - Criterion
Zabriskie Point - MGM
Zentropa (von Trier) - Disney
Zero de conduit (Vigo) - New Yorker




RUMORED TO BE PLANNED:
8 1/2 (Fellini) - Criterion
L'Avventura (Antonioni) - Criterion
The Big Heat- Columbia
Citizen Kane (Welles) - Warner
Color trilogy (Blue, White, Red) - Disney
Conversation (Coppola) - Paramount
Cries and Whispers (Bergman) - Criterion
The Devil, Porbably (Bresson) - New Yorker
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Bunuel) - Criterion
Ed Wood - ?
A Gentle Woman - New Yorker
Ivan's Childhood - ?
Lancelot of the Lake - New Yorker
Mon Oncle (Tati) - Criterion
M. Hulot's Holiday (Tati) - Criterion
Pickpocket (Bresson) - New Yorker
Rear Windonw (Hitchcock) - Universal?
Rope (Hitchcock) - Universal
The Rules of the Game - Criterion
Some Like It Hot (Wilder) - Warner? (MGM)
Sunset Boulevard (Wilder) - Paramount
La strada (Fellini) - Criterion
Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down (Almodovar) - Anchor Bay

Contact Information for Studios/Distributers

Criterion Collection (New York)
tel: (212)756-8822
e-mail: mulvaney@criterionco.com
website: www.criterionco.com

Fox Lorber, or Winstar (New York)
tel: (212) 686-6777
website: www.foxlorber.com/dvd.asp

New Yorker Films (New York)
tel: (212)247-6110
e-mail: info@newyorkerfilms.com
website: www.newyorkerfilms.com

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