DVD WISHLIST

arranged according to the company that owns video rights

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 jeanwoo@koreatimes.com

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


ARTISAN
Un Coeur en Hiver (Sautet) - Artisan (Republic)
Diary of a Chambermaid (Renoir) - Artisan? (Republic)
La Dolce Vita - Artisan (Republic)
Force of Evil (Polonsky)- Artisan (Republic)
Letters from Unknown Woman (Ophuls) - Artisan
Life is Sweet (Leigh) - Artisan (Republic)
Merry Christmas Mr.Lawrence (Oshima) - Artisan
Die Nibelungen - Artisan? (Republic)
Ruby In Paradise (Nunez) - Artisan (Republic)
Trust (Hartley) - Artisan (Republic)


COLUMBIA
Apu Trilogy (Ray) - Columbia
Charulata - Columbia
Curse of the Demon (or Night of the Demon) (Tourneur) - Columbia
Death of a Salesman (Benedek, 1951) - Columbia
Fast Cheap and Out of Control - Columbia
Florida - Columbia
Fun with Dick and Jane (Kotcheff) - Columbia
Gates of Heaven (Morris) - Columbia? New Yorker?
Henry Fool (Hartley) - Columbia
A Matter of Life and Death (Stairway to Heaven) (Powell, Pressburger) - Columbia
Music Room (Ray) - Columbia
Olivier Olivier - Columbia
Providence (Resnais) - Columbia
Repulsion (Polanski) - Columbia
Safe (Haynes) - Columbia
32 Short Films about Glenn Gould (Girard)- Columbia
Vanya on 42nd Street (Malle) - Columbia
Vernon - Columbia


CRITERION
Accatone (Pasolini) - Criterion
The Ballad of Narayama (Imamura) - Criterion (Home Vision)
Breathless (Godard) - Criterion? j(Connoisseur)
The Burmese Harp (Ichikawa) - Criterion (Home Vision)
Confidential Report (Arkadian)- Criterion (Home Vision)
The Contempt (Le Mepris) - Criterion?
Day of Wrath (Dreyer) - Criterion (Home Vision)
L'Ecclise (Antonioni) - ? (Criterion)
Fires on the Plain (Ichikawa) - Criterion
Forbidden Games (Clement) - Criterion
Gertrude (Dreyer) - Criterion
Hiroshima, mon amour (Resnais) - Criterion (Home Vision)
Ikiru (Kurosawa) - Criterion
Life of Oharu (Mizoguchi) - Criterion
No Regrets for Our Youth (Kurosawa)- Criterion
Ordet (Dreyer) - Criterion
Pandora's Box (Pabst) - Criterion
Rashomon (Kurosawa) - Criterion
Red Beard (Kurosawa) - Criterion
Sansho Dayu (Mizoguhi) - Criterion
Seance on a Wet Afternoon (Forbes) - Criterion? (Home Vision)
That Obscure Object of Desire (Bunuel) - Criterion?
Ugetsu (monogatari) (Mizoguchi)- Criterion
Umberto D (de Sica) - Criterion (Home Vision)
I Vitelloni (Fellini) - Criterion (Janus films)
Z - Criterion


DISNEY
Belle de jour (Bunuel) - Disney
Crimson Pig (Miyazaki)- Disney
Delicatessen (Caro, Jeunet) - Disney
Heavenly Creatures - Disney
Kiki's Delivery Service (Miyazaki) - Disney
Laputa: Castle in the Sky (Miyazaki) - Disney
Lola, the Young Ladies of Rochefort - Disney
My Neighbors the Yamadas - Disney
Nausica of the Valley of the Wind (Miyazaki) - Disney?
Only Yesterday - Disney
Pom Poko (Miyazaki) - Disney
La Reine Margot (1994) - Disney
Temptress Moon (Chen Kaige) - Disney
Through the Olive Trees (Kiarostami) - Disney (Miramax)
Whisper of the Heart - Disney
The Young Ladies of Rochefort (Demy) - Disney
Zentropa (von Trier) - Disney


FOX
Career Girls- Fox (Leigh)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940, Ford) - Fox
Ice Cold in Alex (Thompson) - Fox
Ice Storm - Fox
Kagemusha - Fox
Kiss of Death (1947, Hathaway)- Fox
Laura (Preminger) - Fox
The Leopard (Visconti) - Fox
Lifeboat (Hitchcock) - Fox
Luna (Bertolucci) - Fox
Modesty Blaise (Losey) - Fox
My Darling Clementine - Fox
My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki) - Fox
The Ox-Bow Incident - Fox
The Phantom of Liberty (Bunuel) - Fox?
Secrets & Lies - Fox
Smilla's Sense of Snow (August) - Fox
Sunrise (Murnau) - Fox
3 Women (Altman) - FOX
Wedding Banquet - Fox


FOX LORBER
Family Viewing (Egoyan) - Fox Lorber
Icicle Thief - Fox Lorber
Passion (Godard) - Fox Lorber
Pauline at the Beach (Rohmer) - Fox Lorber
Schizopolis (Soderbergh) - Fox Lorber
Speaking Parts (Egoyan) - Fox Lorber
Solaris (Tarkovsky) - Fox Lorber
Stalker (Tarkovsky) - Fox Lorber
Surviving Desire (Hartley) - Fox Lorber
Yellow Earth - Fox Lorber


HEN'S TOOTH
El (Bunuel) - ? (Hen's Tooth Video)
The Exterminating Angel (Bunuel) - ? (Hen's Tooth)
The Ladies of the Bois de Bologne (Bresson) - (Hen's Tooth)
Mouchette (Bresson) - ? (Hen's Tooth)
Muriel (Resnais) - ? (Hen's Tooth)
Paisan (Rossellini) - ? (Hen's Tooth)
Simon of the Desert (Bunuel) - ? (Hen's Tooth)
Viridiana (Bunuel) - ? (Hen's Tooth)


IMAGE
Black Rain (Imamura) - Image (was on DVD but OOP)
Diary of A Country Priest (Bresson) - Image?
The Insect Woman (Imamura) - Image ? (Toho)
Los Olvidados (Bunuel) - Image? (Mirada)


KINO
The Blue Angel (von Sternberg) - Image/Kino? (Kino)
The Blue Kite (Zhuangzhuang Tian)- Kino Calendar (Egoyan) - Kino
Earth (Dovzhenko) - Kino
A Day in the Country (Renoir) - ? (Kino)
Horse Thief (Zhuangzhuang Tian) - Kino
Life on a String (Chen Kaige)- Kino
Murderers Among Us (Staudte) - Kino


MGM
Avanti (Wilder) - MGM
Before the Rain (Manchevski) - MGM (Polygram)
Blame It on Rio (Donen) - MGM (MGM/UA)
Boxing Helena (J. Lynch) - MGM (Orion)
The Crowd - Warner/MGM (MGM)
Burn (Pontecorvo) - MGM (MGM/UA)
Dreamchild (Millar) - MGM/UA
Eat, Drink, Man, Woman (Lee) - MGM
Europa, Europa (Holland) - MGM
Fanny and Alexander - MGM
Satyricon (Fellini) - MGM
Hotel Terminus (Marcel Ophuls) - MGM/UA
Hour of the Woof (Bergman) - MGM
Kes (Loach) - MGM/UA
Kiss Me Deadly (Aldrich) - MGM (MGM)
Live Flesh (Almodovar) - MGM
Monsieur Hire (Leconte) - MGM
The Passion of Anna (Bergman) - MGM
Persona (Bergman) - MGM
Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou) - MGM
Rock & Rule - MGM
Shop Around the Corner (Lubitsch) - MGM/UA
Small Change (Truffaut) - MGM
Sweet Smell of Success (Mackendrick)- MGM/UA
To Live (Zhang Yimou) - MGM
12 Angry Men (1957, Lumet) - MGM/UA
Vincent and Theo - MGM
Wake in Fright(aka Outback) (Kotcheff)- MGM/UA
The Wind (Sjostrom)- MGM/UA
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown - MGM
Zabriskie Point - MGM


NEW YORKER FILM
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.
L'Argent (Bresson) - New Yorker
L'Atalante (Vigo) - New Yorker
Celine and Julie Go Boating - New Yorker
The Eel (Imamura) - (New Yorker)
Effi Briest (Fassbinder) - New Yorker? not listed in their video catalog
Dr. Akagi (Imamura) - New Yorker
For Ever Mozart (Godard) - New Yorker
Gabbeh (Makhmalbaf) - New Yorker
I was born... but (Ozu) - New Yorker
Late Spring (Ozu) - New Yorker
A Man Escaped (Bresson) - New Yorker
Masculin-feminin (Godard) - New Yorker
Memories of Underdevelopment (Alea) - New Yorker
A Moment of Innocence (Makhmalbaf) - New Yorker
Red Sorghum (Yimou Chang) - New Yorker
Le Samourai (Melville) - New Yorker
Shoah (Lanzmann) - New Yorker. "may" come out on DVD in 2001.
The Silence (Makhmalbaf) - New Yorker
Spider's Stratagem (Bertolucci) - New Yorker
Tokyo Story (Ozu) - New Yorker
Travelling Player (Angelopoulos)- New Yorker
2 or 3 Things I Know about Her (Godard) - New Yorker
Underground (1995, Kurstrica) - New Yorker
Week End (Godard) - New Yorker
Zero de conduit (Vigo) - New Yorker


PARAMOUNT
Becket (Glenville) - Paramount
To Catch a Thief (Hitchcock) - Paramount
The Conformist (Bertolucci) - Paramount
Don't Look Now (Roeg) - Paramount
The Double Life of Veronique (Kieslowski)- Paramount
The Gambler (1974, Reisz)- Paramount
The Hairdresser's Husband (Leconte) - Paramount
If.... (Anderson) - Paramount
Kafka (Soderbergh) - Paramount
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - Paramount
Medium Cool (Wexler) - Paramount
1900 (Bertolucci) - Paramount
Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone) - Paramount
The President's Analyst (Flicker) - Paramount
Spotswood (Joffe) - Paramount
The Tenant (Polanski) - Paramount


UNIVERSAL
Imitation of Life (Sirk) - Universal
Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Sturges) - Universal
Napoleon (Gance) - Universal
The Scarlet Empress (von Sternberg) - Universal


WARNER
After Hours (Scorsese) - Warner
Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (Kurosawa)- Warner
Barcelona (Stillman) - Warner
Blow Up (Antonioni) - Warner
Bringing Up Baby (Hawks) - Warner (Turner)
Day for Night (Truffaut) - Warner
Death in Venice (Visconti) - Warner
The Devils (Russell) - Warner
Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde - Warner
A Fine Madness (Kershner) - Warner
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Hawks) - Warner/MGM
Greed (von Stroheim) - Warner/Turner
Gunga Din (Stevens) - Warner/Turner
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Miller) - Warner
Hoop Dreams - Warner/New Line
The Sheltering Sky (Bertoulucci)- Warner
The King of Comedy (Scorsese) - Warner
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Richardson) - Warner
Leolo (Lauzon) - New Line
Magnificent Ambersons - Warner/Turner
Mala Noche (Van Sant) - New Line
A Man and a Woman (Lelouch) - Warner
Meet Me in St. Louis (Minnelli) - Warner/MGM (MGM)
Metropolitan (Stillman) - New Line
Mutiny on the Bounty (Lloyd) - Warner
My Own Private Idaho (Van Sant) - New Line
Naked - New Line
The Nasty Girl (Verhoeven) - Warner/HBO
Once Upon a Time in America (Leone) - Warner
Once Were Warriors (Tamahori) - New Line
Out of the Past (Tournier) - Warner/Turner (Turner)
Performance (Cammell) - Warner
The Rain People (Coppola) - Warner
Short Cuts (Altman) - New Line
Simple Men (Hartley) - Turner
Spanking the Monkey (Russell) - New Line
They Died with Their Boots On (Walsh) - Warner
To Be or Not to Be (Lubitsch) - Warner? (Warner)
Treasures of Sierra Madre (John Huston) - Warner
White Heat (Walsh) - Warner
Who's That Knocking at My Door? (Scorsese) - Warner
Yankee Doodle Dandy - Warner


MISCELLANEOUS
Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo) - Rhino
Black Cat White Cat - ? (USA Films)
Ju Dou (Yimou Zhang) - Pioneer (reissue)
The Last Wave- Rhino
Mona Lisa (Jordan) - Anchor Bay
The Thin Blue Line (Morris) - Anchor Bay? Disney? (Anchor Bay)


NON-DVD
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder) - ? (Teleculture)
Boudu saved from drowning (Renoir) - ? (Interama)
Un Chien Andalou (Bunuel) - ? (Video Yesteryear)
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (Bunuel) - ? (Water Bearer Films)
Days and Nights in the Forest, Distant Thunder (Ray) - ? (Pathe)
Diary of a Chambermaid (Bunuel) - ? (Castle Hill)
Grey Gardens (Hovde) - ? (Portrait Films)
Homework (Kiarostami) - ? (Global Video)
I Stand Alone (Noe) - ? (Strand Releasing)
The Kindgom, The Kingdom II (von Trier) - ? (October Films)
The Last American Virgin (Davidson) - ? (Canon)
Madame de (, Earrings of) (Ophuls) - ? (Connoisseur)
Next of Kin (Egoyan) - ? (Connoisseur/Meridian)
La Notte (Antonioni) - ? (Connoisseur)
Nouvelle Vague (Godard) - ? (Cinema Parallels)
Numero Deux (Godard) - ? (Facets)
Otello (Zefirelli) - ? (Canon)
Salaam Cinema (Makhmalbaf) - ? (Green Film House, production)
Salesman (Maysles) - ? (Maysles Films production)
Starhaser: The Legend of Orin - ?(Atlantic Releasing)
Streamroller and Violin (Tarkovsky) - ? (Artkino pictures, theatrical)
La signora di tutti (Ophuls) - ? (Connoisseur)
Sweet Movie (Makavejev) - ? (Facets?)
Teorema (Pasolini) - ? (Connoisseur, Xenon)
El Topo (Jodorowsky) - ? (Unknown Video)
Voyage to Italy (Rossellini) - ? (Connoisseur)
A World Apart (Menges) - ? (Atantic)
WR-Mysteries of the Organism - ? (Facets)
You were Judged and Found Wanting (Brocka) - ? (Cinemanila, production)


CLUELESS
L'Age d'Or (Bunuel) - ?
The Apple (Makhmalbaf) - ?
Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson) - ? (Nouveau Film in UK)
La Belle Histoire (Lelouch) - ?
Chimes at Midnight (Welles) - ?
Close-up (Kiarostami) - ? (BFI in UK)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (Davies) - ?
The Duelists - ?
Four Nights of a Dreamer (Bresson) - ?
Fox and His Friends (Fassbinder) - ?
Germany, Year Zero (Rossellini) - ?
I Girasoli (de Sica) - ?
The Holy Mountain (Jodorowsky) - ?
Jeanne Dielman - ?
Kings of the Road (Wenders) - ?
Listen to Britain - ?
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Fassbinder) - ?
Meshes of Afternoon (Deren) - ?
Metropolis (Lang) - public domain (Moroder version - ? )
The Milky Way (Bunuel) - ? (UMC)
Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (Fassbinder) - ?
Playtime (Tati) - Criterion (Is this going to be includes in upcoming Hulot trilogy?
S7UP series (Apted) - ? (Granada TV, UK)
The Sorrow and Pity (Marcel Ophuls) - ?
Spring in a Small Town (Mu) - ?
Trouble in Paradise (Lubitsch) - ?





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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