I agree. I don't applaud their policy but I'm glad these films will be out in good editions. But if I had to choose I'd say an obscure film over Jarmusch any day!

I just found out again that Paradise wasn't photographed by Robby Mller, but by To DiCillio, something I had totally forgotten (too much Mller worshipping )

Yes, how time flies by. Last weekend I found an old book from 1985 in the projectionist's room at our cinema and borrowed it immediately. It covers period from mid 1984 till mid 1985 as to which films were theatrically released in Germany. The complete list is huge, but the authors concentrate mostly on the best and most controversial / interesting films (with a long and good review for each of those). I had completely forgotten what an exciting period for films this was.

To name but a few: "Class Relations" (Straub, Huillet), "The Moon in the Gutter" (Beineix), Paris, Texas (Wenders), Repo Man (Alex Cox), Stranger than Paradise (Jarmusch), "The Green Room" (Truffaut), The Killing Fields (Joffe), Greystoke (Hudson), L'autographe (Lilienthal), Brazil (Gilliam), Places in the Heart (Benton), "Element of Crime" (Trier), El sur (Erice), E la nave va (Fellini), Once upon a time in America (Leone), Witness (Weir), Heimat (Reitz), Les favoris de las lune (Iosseliani), Love Streams (Cassavetes), Je vous salue, Marie (Godard), 1984 (Radford), La femme publique (Zulawski), La Pirate (Doillon), A Passage to India (Lean), Rumble Fish (Coppola), The Terminator (Cameron), Body Double (Palma), Tunguska (Schlingensief), Under the Volcano (Huston), "The 4th Man" (Verhoeven), Les nuits de la pleine lune (Rohmer), Prenom: Carmen (Godard), The Company of Wolves (Jordan).