Fantastic news

It has been announced, in the very underhand way of being mentioned in the recently uploaded .pdf of their new print catalogue, that Laloux's La Planète sauvage is to be one of next films from the Masters of Cinema series back catalogue (the other being Godard's Une femme mariée) to be re-released on Blu-ray Disc! Considering their track record with the matter we can be pretty sure that it will be all regions, but those outside of the region-B zone had better hold off until one of us within there can confirm it (and it's not as if there's as much as a time frame for the release announced; judging by what has, expect 2010, or December 2009 at the earliest). It has been added to my list of animation on Blu-ray Disc, which I could do with making a prominent link to from the start page. A slight re-shuffling and re-wording of that should be forthcoming.

Also, though it's now been out for some months I've only just noticed that KimStim, who have previously brought Kawamoto and Ocelot's films to North America, have released a region 1, English-subbed version of the New Animation Animation collection of TEZUKA Osamu's experimental short films (the original NAA DVD, unusually for their collections of Japanese filmmaker's work, is without English subtitles; the region 4 version from Madman in Australia was the first English-friendly release of these films on DVD that I know of).

Current music: Kate Bush – The Sensual World
Making the most of giving into autumn, I suppose. Although been listening much to (iTunes samples of) Nina Hagen (another Norn recommendation) and wanting muchly to buy some but am still far from recovering from having splurged all my money on board games…