BFI's Ozu Gangster Collection: full specs announced

I've had this preordered from Amazon UK for a while, but they've finally released the full specs on it, as seen on the Amazon page.

All three full features (Walk Cheerfully, That Night's Wife, and Dragnet Girl) and the surviving fragment of A Straightforward Boy get newly-recorded scores, along with another 10-minute chunk of Tony Rayns' 2010 Ozu: Emotion and Poetry lecture. I wish they'd just put the whole thing on a future Ozu release. New essays are included as on other BFI Ozu Collection releases.

I've been long-brewing a Discovering Ozu article that looks at all the home video releases out there. Most of the surviving movies are out now, with a rumor that a new HD restoration of The End of Summer might be happening.

I wish there were a profitable way for Criterion to release a four or five-movie Ozu Blu-ray set. Oh well.

Daily Grab 57: A Boy on a Bike

My Tony and Ridley Scott series begins very soon. This is from Tony Scott's debut feature, Loving Memory. It's available on all-region Blu-ray from the BFI. This edition includes early short films from both Tony and Ridley, and is the focus of the first installment in "Scott Freed".