Film International - Volume 8, Issue 4, 2010

The Complete Lone Wolf and Cub Box Set Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance/Kozure Okami: Kowokashi udekashi tsukamatsuru (1972) Japan Director Kenji Misumi Screenplay Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima Original Story by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima Producer Shintaro Katsu Director of Photography Chishi Makiura With Tomisaburo Wakayama (Ogami Itto), Akihiro Tomikawa (Daigoro), Fumio Watanabe (Sugito), Tomoko Mayama (Osen), Tomoo Uchida (Goto) Runtime 84 minutes

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx/Kozure Okami: Sanzu no kawa no ugaguruma (1972) Japan Director Kenji Misumi Screenplay Kazuo Koike Original Story by Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima Producer Shintaro Katsu, Hisaharu Matsubara Director of Photography Chishi Makiura With Tomisaburo Wakayama (Ogami Itto), Akihiro Tomikawa (Daigoro), Kayo Matsuo (Yagyu Sayaka), Izumi Ayukawa (Ozuno) Runtime 82 minutes

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades/Kozure Okami: Shinikazeni mukau ubaguruma (1972) Japan Director Kenji Misumi Screenplay Kazuo Koike Original Story by Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima Producer Shintaro Katsu, Hisaharu Matsubara Director of Photography Chishi Makiura With Tomisaburo Wakayama (Ogami Itto), Akihiro Tomikawa (Daigoro), Go Kato (Magomura Kanbei), Yuko Hamada (Torizo), Isao Yamagata (Endo Genba) Runtime 89 minutes

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril/Kozure Okami: Oya no kokoro ko no kokoro (1972) Japan Director Buichi Saito Screenplay Kazuo Koike Original Story by Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima Producer Tomisaburo Wakayama, Hisaharu Matsubara Director of Photography Kazuo Miyagawa With Tomisaburo Wakayama (Ogami Itto), Akihiro Tomikawa (Daigoro), Yoichi Hayashi (Yagyu Gunbei), Tatsuo Endo (Yagyu Retsudo) Runtime 81 minutes

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons/Kozure Okami: Meifumando (1973) Japan Director Kenji Misumi Screenplay Kazuo Koike, Tsutomo Nakamura Producer Tomisaburo Wakayama, Masanori Sanada Director of Photography Fujio Morita With Tomisaburo Wakayama (Ogami Itto), Akihiro Tomikawa (Daigoro), Minoru Oki (Yagyu Retsudo), Michiko Ookusu (Shiranui), Shingo Yamashiro (Lord Kurdoa Naritaka) Runtime 90 minutes

Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven/Kozure Okami: Jigoku e ikuzo! Daigoro (1974) Japan Director Yoshiyuki Kuroda Screenplay Tsutomo Nakamura Original Story by Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima Producer Tomisaburo Wakayama, Masanori Sanada Director of Photography Chishi Makiura With Tomisaburo Wakayama (Ogami Itto), Akihiro Tomikawa (Daigoro), Junko Hitomi (Yagyu Kaori), Goro Mutsumi (Ozuno) Runtime 84 minutes

Shogun Assassin (1980) USA Director Robert Houston Screenplay Kazuo Koike Original Story by Kazuo Koike Producer Robert Houston, Shintaro Katsu, Hisaharu Matsubara, David Weisman Director of Photography Chishi Makiura With Tomisaburo Wakayama (Ogami Itto), Akihiro Tomikawa (Daigoro), Kayo Matsuo (Supreme Ninja), Sandra Bernhard (Voice) Runtime 86 minutes

All DVDs UK, 2009 Produced and Distributed by Eureka Entertainment (region 2) Aspect Ratio 2.35:1 Sound Mix Stereo 2.0 Extras New, restored anamorphic transfer. Newly translated English subtitles. Liner notes by Tom Mes. Theatrical trailers for all films. Packaging based on original Japanese poster design.

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) USA Director F.W. Murnau Screenplay Carl Mayer Original Story by Hermann Sudermann Producer William Fox Director of Photography Charles Rosher, Karl Struss Art Director Rochus Gliese With George O'Brien (the Man), Janet Gaynor (the Wife), Margaret Livingston (the Woman from the City), Bodil Rosing (the Maid), J. Farrell MacDonald (the Photographer), Ralph Sipperly (the Barber) Runtime 93 minutes (Movietone version); 79 minutes (Czech version) DVD UK, 2009 Produced and Distributed by Eureka Entertainment (region 2) Aspect Ratio 1.20:1 Sound Mix Monaural Extras Restored high-definition transfers of two different versions: the American Movietone version; and the silent Czech version. Original English intertitles on the Movietone version, and optional English subtitles on the silent Czech version. Original Movietone score (mono) and alternative Olympic Chamber Orchestra score (stereo). Full-length audio commentary by ASC cinematographer John Bailey on the Movietone version. Outtakes with either John Bailey commentary or intertitles. Murnau's 4 Devils: Traces of a Lost Film Janet Bergstrom's updated 40-minute documentary about the lost Murnau film. Original theatrical trailer. Original photoplay script by Carl Mayer with Murnau's handwritten annotations (150 pages in PDF format). Twenty-page illustrated booklet with film restoration and DVD/Bluray transfer information, along with a comparison between the two versions.

Bad Boy Bubby (1993) Australia Writer/Director Rolf de Heer Producers Domenico Procacci and Giorgio Draskovic Supervising Director of Photography Ian Jones Sound Designer James Currie Film Editor Suresh Ayyar With Nicholas Hope (Bubby), Claire Benito (Mam), Ralph Cotterill (Pop), Carmel Johnson (Angel) Runtime 114 minutes DVD UK, 2009 Produced and Distributed by Eureka Entertainment (Blue Ray, DVD and digital copy, no region) Format 35mm, 2.35:1 OAR, Colour Audio Options 5.1 and 2.0 Dolby, 2.0 DTS, binaural headphone track Extras High-definition transfer supervised by the director. Director and actor commentary track. Interview with director. Theatrical trailer. Twenty-page booklet.

Kurt Kren: Structural Films (2004) Producer sixpackfilm Runtimec.65 minutes Includes 16 structuralist films by Kurt Kren from 1957 to 1995.

Valie Export: 3 Experimental Shorts (2004) Producer sixpackfilm Runtime 36 minutes Language German/English Mann & Frau & Animal (197079), RemoteRemote (1973), Syntagma (1984)

Dietmar Brehm: Black Garden (2006) Producer sixpackfilm Runtime 107 minutes Language German/English The Murder Mystery (198792), Blicklust (1992), Party (1995), Macumba (1995), Korridor (1997), Organics (199899). Bonus-track: Interview with Dietmar Brehm (2000)

Lisl Ponger: Travelling Light (2004) Producer sixpackfilm Runtime 60 minutes Language German/English Passagen (1996), Dja Vu (1999), Phantom Fremdes Wien (2004)

Derek Jarman's Angelic Conversations, Jim Ellis, (2009) Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 328 pp., ISBN 978081665313 (pbk), $21.95

Jerry Lewis (Contemporary Film Directors), Chris Fujiwara, (2009) Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 158 pp., ISBN 9780252076794 (pbk), $19.95

Film Festival Yearbook 2: Film Festivals and Imagined Communities, Dina Iordanova with Ruby Cheung (eds.), (2010) St Andrews: St Andrews Film Studies, 286 pp., ISBN 9780956373014 (pbk), 17.99

Skyscraper Cinema: Architecture and Gender in American Film, Merrill Schleier, (2009) Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 392 pp., ISBN 9780816642823 (pbk), $28.50

Alice in Wonderland (2010) Director Tim Burton Production Company Walt Disney Pictures Screenplay Linda Woolverton Producer Jennifer Todd Cinematographer Dariusz Wolski Production Designer Chris Lebenzon Starring Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway Runtime 109 Minutes

Date Night (2010) Director Shawn Levy Production Company Twentieth Century Fox Screenplay Josh Klausner Producer Tom McNulty Cinematographer Dean Semler Production Designer David Gropman Starring Tina Fey, Steve Carrel, Mark Wahlberg, Taraji P. Henson Runtime 88 Minutes

Iron Man 2 (2010) Director Jon Favreau Screenplay Justin Theroux Producer Matthew Libatique Cinematographer John Debney Editor Richard Pearson Production Designer Dan Lebental Starring Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Mickey Rourke Runtime 124 minutes

Robin Hood (2010) Director Ridley Scott Screenplay Brian Helgeland Producer Brian Grazer Cinematographer Marc Strentenfeld Production Design Pietro Scalia Starring Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Mark Strong

Behind the Burly Q (2010) USA Associate Producer Donnalee Austen Film Editing Evan Finn Camera Sheri Hellard Executive Music Supervisor Joel Sill Executive Producer Robert Zemeckis Produced by Sheri Hellard, Jackie Levine Written, Produced and Directed by Leslie Zemeckis Voice-Over Jacquie Barnbrook, Ron Bottita, Cate Cohen, Matthew Henerson, Amber Gainey Meade Music Clearance by Lisa Bauman Wasiak Music Coordinator Marylou Eales Production Company First Run Features Runtime 98 minutes

An Interview with Javier Rebollo By Paul Douglas Grant