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The

Masters of Cinema
Series
London, England
Founded in 2004, The Masters of Cinema Series is an
independent, carefully curated, UK-based Blu-ray and
DVD label consisting of over 150 films. From established
cornerstones such as Murnau’s SUNRISE, Mizoguchi’s
UGETSU MONOGATARI, Lang’s METROPOLIS, Welles’ TOUCH OF
EVIL, and Antonioni’s LA NOTTE – to revelatory rediscoveries
such as Epstein’s CŒUR FIDÈLE, Watkins’ EDVARD MUNCH,
and McCarey’s MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW – we believe all
are equally deserving of a larger audience.
THE DISCS.

Films are presented in their original aspect
ratio (OAR), in meticulous transfers created from recent
restorations and / or the most pristine film elements
available to us. The feature presentations are frequently
supplemented by short films, documentaries,
commentary tracks, deleted scenes, trailers, plus new
and vintage interview footage. In November 2008, we
were one of the first labels to push more unusual titles
onto Blu-ray, and this format is now our main focus.
THE BOOKLETS.

Each release is accompanied by a
substantial booklet or book. Alongside rare imagery are
newly commissioned essays and / or classic writings
that take the reader further into the process of the films

and the personalities of the filmmakers.
THE CONTRIBUTORS. Our editions feature contributions
from directors:
p e d r o c o s t a , a l e x c o x , j o e d a n t e ,
g u i l l e r m o

d e l

t o r o ,

b r u n o

d u m o n t ,

j e a n
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p i e r r e

g o r i n ,

g a r y g r a v e r , m o n t e h e l l m a n , j i a z h a n g k e , c l a u d e
l a n z m a n n , a l b e r t m a y s l e s , l u c m o u l l e t , m a r t i n
s c o r s e s e , j o h n n i e t o , d o u g l a s t r u m b u l l , p e t e r
w a t k i n s , etc. and scholars: j a n e t b e r g s t r o m , d a v i d
b o r d w e l l , d a v i d c a i r n s , f r e d c a m p e r , t h o m a s
e l s a e s s e r , s c o t t e y m a n , t a g g a l l a g h e r , k e n t j o n e s ,
d a v i d k a l a t , b. k i t e , b i l l k r o h n , a d r i a n m a r t i n , k e i k o
mcd o n a l d , j i m o
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r o u r k e , t o n y r a y n s , j o n a t h a n

r o s e n b a u m ,

d a n

s a l l i t t
,
g i n e t t e

v i n c e n d e a u , and
many others.
OUR TEAM. We lavish a lot of attention and energy on
our editions, born from our enthusiasm for, our love of,
and our allegiance to the cinema. We’re very lucky that
many of our supporters confidently ‘blind buy’ our new
releases safe in the knowledge that we care about each
film’s presentation as much as they do.
ON THE INTERNET. For full details about each title
included in this catalogue, and the very latest MoC
news, visit our website: www.mastersofcinema.org and
follow us on Twitter: @mastersofcinema
October 2011
The

Masters of Cinema
Series
OPPOSITE: Orson Welles starring in, and directing, TOUCH OF EVIL (1958)
SUNRISE F. W. Murnau 1927
MAD DETECTIVE Johnnie To / WAI Ka Fai 2007
TOKYO SONATA KUROSAWA Kiyoshi 2008
UNE FEMME MARIÉE Jean-Luc Godard 1963

FOR ALL MANKIND Al Reinert 1988
LA PLANETE SAUVAGE René Laloux 1973
SOUL POWER Jeffrey Levy-Hinte 2009
CITY GIRL F. W. Murnau 1930
M Fritz Lang 1931
PROFOUND DESIRES OF THE GODS IMAMURA Shôhei 1968
VENGEANCE IS MINE IMAMURA Shôhei 1979
THE WORLD JIA Zhangke 2004
THE BURMESE HARP ICHIKAWA Kon 1956
WILL SUCCESS SPOIL ROCK HUNTER? Frank Tashlin 1957
MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW Leo McCarey 1937
METROPOLIS Fritz Lang 1927
LA SIGNORA SENZA CAMELIE Michelangelo Antonioni 1953
LE AMICHE Michelangelo Antonioni 1955
CŒUR FIDÈLE Jean Epstein 1923
HARAKIRI KOBAYASHI Masaki 1962
PIGS & BATTLESHIPS / STOLEN DESIRE IMAMURA 1962 / 1958
THE INSECT WOMAN / NISHI GINZA STATION IMAMURA 1963 / 1958
SILENT RUNNING Douglas Trumbull 1971
THE BALLAD OF NARAYAMA IMAMURA Shohei 1983
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Blu-ray and DVD Catalogue
Green = Dual Format (Blu-ray + DVD) / Blue = Blu-ray / Black = DVD / Films in a yellow box = one item / Red = Out-of-print
TOUCH OF EVIL Orson Welles 1958
TWO-LANE BLACKTOP Monte Hellman 1971
REPO MAN Alex Cox 1984
LE SILENCE DE LA MER Jean-Pierre Melville 1949
PUNISHMENT PARK Peter Watkins 1971
RUGGLES OF RED GAP Leo McCarey 1935
ACCATTONE Pier Paolo Pasolini 1961
RO.GO.PA.G. Rossellini, Godard, Pasolini, Gregoretti 1963
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW Pier Paolo Pasolini 1964
SUNRISE F. W. Murnau 1927 NOW DUAL FORMAT
THE HOLY MOUNTAIN Arnold Fanck 1926
MICHAEL Carl Th. Dreyer 1924
TARTUFFE F. W. Murnau 1926
PITFALL TESHIGAHARA Hiroshi 1962

THE FACE OF ANOTHER TESHIGAHARA Hiroshi 1966
ASPHALT Joe May 1929
METROPOLIS Fritz Lang 1927
SPIONE Fritz Lang 1928
FRANCESCO GIULLARE DI DIO Roberto Rossellini 1950
HUMANITY AND PAPER BALLOONS YAMANAKA Sadao 1937
THE NAKED ISLAND SHINDO Kaneto 1960
ONIBABA SHINDO Kaneto 1964
KURONEKO SHINDO Kaneto 1968
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SCANDAL KUROSAWA Akira 1950
THE IDIOT KUROSAWA Akira 1951
VENGEANCE IS MINE IMAMURA Shôhei 1979 NOW DUAL
TWENTY-FOUR EYES KINOSHITA Keisuke 1954
NIGHTMARE ALLEY Edmund Goulding 1947
ASSASSINATION SHINODA Masahiro 1964
PUNISHMENT PARK Peter Watkins 1971 NOW DUAL
THE PRISONER OF SHARK ISLAND John Ford 1936
DER LETZTE MANN F. W. Murnau 1924
FAUST: A GERMAN FOLK TALE. F. W. Murnau 1926
VAMPYR Carl Th. Dreyer 1932
THE SAVAGE INNOCENTS Nicholas Ray 1959
ABHIJAN Satyajit Ray 1964
TONI Jean Renoir 1934
KWAIDAN KOBAYASHI Masaki 1965
THE COMPLETE BUSTER KEATON SHORT FILMS 1917-1923
F FOR FAKE Orson Welles 1974
FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES MATSUMOTO Toshio 1969
SHOESHINE Vittorio De Sica 1946
FANTASTIC PLANET René Laloux 1973 NOW DUAL
REPAST NARUSE Mikio 1951
SOUND OF THE MOUNTAIN NARUSE Mikio 1954
FLOWING NARUSE Mikio 1956
SHOAH Claude Lanzmann 1985
DIARY OF A LOST GIRL G. W. Pabst 1929
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L’ARGENT Marcel L’Herbier 1928
FRAU IM MOND Fritz Lang 1929
SALESMAN A. Maysles, D. Maysles, C. Zwerin 1969
GREY GARDENS Hovde, A. Maysles, D. Maysles, M. Meyer 1975
SILENCE SHINODA Masahiro 1971
GENERAL IDI AMIN DADA Barbet Schroeder 1974
LE SILENCE DE LA MER Jean-Pierre Melville 1949 NOW DUAL
BELLISSIMA Luchino Visconti 1951

ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS Luchino Visconti 1960
JUDEX Georges Franju 1963
NUITS ROUGES Georges Franju 1974
EDVARD MUNCH Peter Watkins 1974
OYÛ-SAMA MIZOGUCHI Kenji 1951
UGETSU MONOGATARI MIZOGUCHI Kenji 1953
GION BAYASHI MIZOGUCHI Kenji 1953
SANSHÔ DAYÛ MIZOGUCHI Kenji 1954
UWASA NO ONNA MIZOGUCHI Kenji 1954
CHIKAMATSU MONOGATARI MIZOGUCHI Kenji 1954
YÔKIHI MIZOGUCHI Kenji 1955
AKASEN CHITAI MIZOGUCHI Kenji 1956
LA VIE DE JÉSUS Bruno Dumont 1997
LA NOTTE Michelangelo Antonioni 1960
LES MAÎTRES DU TEMPS René Laloux 1982
GANDAHAR René Laloux 1987
NOSFERATU: A SYMPHONY OF HORROR. F. W. Murnau 1922
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DVD #15 – #64
Black = DVD / Films in a yellow box = one item / Red = Out-of-print
A TIME TO LOVE AND A TIME TO DIE Douglas Sirk 1956
TABU: A STORY OF THE SOUTH SEAS F. W. Murnau 1931 DUAL SOON
KOKORO ICHIKAWA Kon 1955
LE GRAND JEU Jacques Feyder 1934
ALONE ACROSS THE PACIFIC ICHIKAWA Kon 1964
THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER William Dieterle 1941
MAD DETECTIVE Johnnie To / WAI Ka Fai 2007 NOW DUAL
L’ENFANCE-NUE Maurice Pialat 1968
NOUS NE VIEILLIRONS PAS ENSEMBLE Maurice Pialat 1972
LA GUEULE OUVERTE Maurice Pialat 1974
PASSE TON BAC D’ABORD Maurice Pialat 1979
A NOS AMOURS. Maurice Pialat 1983
POLICE Maurice Pialat 1985
SOUS LE SOLEIL DE SATAN Maurice Pialat 1987
MURIEL, OU LE TEMPS D’UN RETOUR Alain Resnais 1964 DUAL SOON
UNE FEMME MARIÉE Jean-Luc Godard 1963 NOW DUAL

TOKYO SONATA KUROSAWA Kiyoshi 2008 NOW DUAL
IL GRIDO Michelangelo Antonioni 1957
LA TÊTE CONTRE LES MURS Georges Franju 1959
PHANTOM F. W. Murnau 1922
DIE FINANZEN DES GROßHERZOGS F. W. Murnau 1924
THERE’S ALWAYS TOMORROW Douglas Sirk 1956
SOUL POWER Jeffrey Levy-Hinte 2009
FOR ALL MANKIND Al Reinert 1988 NOW DUAL
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DR. MABUSE, DER SPIELER. Fritz Lang 1922
DAS TESTAMENT DES DR. MABUSE Fritz Lang 1933
DIE 1000 AUGEN DES DR. MABUSE Fritz Lang 1960
M Fritz Lang 1931 NOW DUAL
HOUSE Nobuhiko Obayashi 1977
ICH MÖCHTE KEIN MANN SEIN Ernst Lubitsch 1918
DIE PUPPE. Ernst Lubitsch 1918
DIE AUSTERNPRINZESSIN. Ernst Lubitsch 1919
SUMURUN Ernst Lubitsch 1920
ANNA BOLEYN Ernst Lubitsch 1920
DIE BERGKATZE Ernst Lubitsch 1921
LA SIGNORA DI TUTTI Max Ophuls 1934
CITY GIRL F. W. Murnau 1930 NOW DUAL
PROFOUND DESIRES OF THE GODS IMAMURA 1968 NOW DUAL
THE BURMESE HARP ICHIKAWA Kon 1956 NOW DUAL
WILL SUCCESS SPOIL ROCK HUNTER? Tashlin 1957 NOW DUAL
MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW Leo McCarey 1937 NOW DUAL
DER TIGER VON ESCHNAPUR Fritz Lang 1959
DAS INDISCHE GRABMAL Fritz Lang 1959
SCHLOß VOGELÖD (aka THE HAUNTED CASTLE) F. W. Murnau 1921
COLOSSAL YOUTH Pedro Costa 2006
THE IRON HORSE John Ford 1924
A MAN VANISHES IMAMURA Shôhei 1968
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DVD #65 – #113
Black = DVD / Films in a yellow box = one item / Red = Out-of-print
Pier Paolo Pasolini (seated) and crew, filming THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW (1962)
Blu-ray 2011
Blu-ray Q1 2012
Why
?
The above three factors result in Blu-ray
being the most immersive and faithful
representation of “the cinema experience”
currently available in the home today
(outside of a costly 35mm projector).

Unfortunately, the industry has poorly
explained and demonstrated the technology,
sowing confusion and giving the impression
that Blu-ray is not enough of a worthwhile
upgrade from DVD.
When compared with an actual 35mm frame,
the DVD format – now well into its second
decade as the world’s favourite film-holding
receptacle – is akin to a Polaroid of an oil
painting. Watchable, but capable of being far
surpassed.
Blu-ray is the first home format to adequately
represent the depth and texture of celluloid –
and we find it entrancing
The quest for resolution
The ongoing technology race has been
about maximising resolution and minimising
compression – whilst remaining affordable.
35mm film is widely regarded as being
entirely captured by a 4k film scan (see
opposite). As soon as uncompressed 4k
masters are available for home screening,
this race will noticeably plateau, because
the majority of films in the world have been
shot on 35mm and nothing better than 4k
would be required (ignoring all the futuristic
5k–12k+, 3D, and holographic shenanigans).
Until a few years ago, most films were
telecined (that is, transferred from their native
celluloid state to a video format) in SD to

be displayed on SD TV or released on NTSC
or PAL DVD (also SD). When HD arrived,
these telecines had to be replaced by much
higher resolution scans (2k or 4k). The scale
diagrams opposite give the clearest sense of
the relationships between all these formats,
and the quest to attain optimal resolution.
1.) Five times more image resolution than standard definition DVD + bitrates
much higher than commonly offered downloadable content = an image
far closer to the quality and texture of 35mm in the cinema.
2.) Audio is uncompressed, rich, and dynamic (lossless 192kHz / 24bit).
3.) 24 frames per second progressive imagery, like most 35mm films.
No PAL speedup to 25fps, interlacing, or NTSC video frame rates.
NTSC 720 x 480 (American TV / NTSC DVD)
PAL 768 x 576 (European TV / PAL DVD)
1080p 1920 x 1080 HD TV / Blu-ray
2k Digital cinema / Film scans
4k Holy grail!
35mm 1.37:1
Blu-ray #1–16 2008–2010
The

Masters of Cinema
Series
Founder & Director
Nick Wrigley
MoC Production Team
Craig Keller
Jon Robertson

Andrew Utterson
Nick Wrigley
www.mastersofcinema.org
www.twitter.com/mastersofcinema
Eureka Entertainment Ltd
Unit 9 Ironbridge Close
Great Central Way
London
NW10 0UF
UK
Tel: 020 8459 8054
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Managing Director
Ron Benson
Team Eureka
Ron Benson
Marcus Garwood
Steve Hills
Kevin Lambert
Ian Sadler
Full and detailed information about all the
editions in this catalogue can be found at our
website www.mastersofcinema.org along with
the latest news about future releases.
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