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Beginning with these spring titles, our new releases will only include a booklet in the first pressing.
The costs aren't trivial... and that's the reason.The Pachyderminator wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2019 7:22 pmWhat's the reason for excluding booklets from subsequent pressings? Surely the cost of printing more booklets is trivial compared to the cost of pressing another batch of discs?
If I'm not mistaken, the Alan Clarke and Derek Jarman's sets have minimalist individual sleeve designs, so space is pretty much available at least there. I understand not doing so on the belly band (for, indeed, a lack of space) and wanting to keep a minimalist box design, but I'd suppose one could at least try and give some details about the disc split on the back of the individual sleeves.
I've had the issue myself with the miss : I usually build up a pile of "have a look at these if you can find one you want to watch tonight", and without any description or synopsis, it makes it a bit less direct to do so !
Nice! Probably the best deal one can get on Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Glass Shield.
14 October
The autumn slate is kicked off with the 39th release in the BFI Flipside strand, that revisits and reappraises British films that have slipped through the cracks of cinema history. Combining two ‘far out’ films in a Dual Format Edition – exploitation director Derek Ford’s Secret Rites (1971) and Malcolm Leigh’s Legend of the Witches (1970) – this release brings both titles to Blu-ray for the first time. The packaging will feature artwork by renowned illustrator Graham Humphreys and the set will be launched with a special Halloween event at BFI Southbank
BFI Musicals! – October and November
Coinciding with BFI Musicals! The Greatest Show on Screen, the UK’s greatest ever season celebrating the film musical, will be the release of Miloš Forman’s 1979 anti-war musical Hair, celebrating its 40th Anniversary with a UK Blu-ray premiere on 28 October
Other musicals coming out on BFI Blu-ray as part of the season are:
Jacques Demy’s ground-breaking Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967) on 4 November
Barbra Streisand’s 1983 directorial debut Yentl on 18 November – the first UK Blu-ray release of the film
4 November
Following screenings in cinemas across the UK throughout the summer, Varda by Agnès (2019) will receive a Dual Format Edition release. The final film by iconic director Agnès Varda is a documentary that offers a personal insight into her life’s work, using excerpts from her many films to illustrate her unique artistic vision and ideas
18 November
John Huston’s acclaimed Toulouse-Lautrec biopic Moulin Rouge (1952) receives its Blu-ray premiere. This new 4K restoration, which premiered in the Cannes Classics strand at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, brings stunning new life to the film’s exquisite production design and Technicolor photography, which brilliantly evoke Lautrec’s unique vision of Montmartre, Paris
2 December
Paul Verhoeven’s breakout hit Spetters (1980) will be released on Blu-ray. Newly restored and available in High Definition for the first time in the UK, the film – a controversial tale of lust, desire and motocross – helped launch Verhoeven’s international career and that of its stars, including a pre-Blade Runner Rutger Hauer
Betrayed (1988): Costa-Gavras’s edge of your seat thriller sees an FBI agent infiltrates a dangerous white supremacist movement connected to a brutal murder. Starring Debra Winger and Tom Berenger and from the writer of Basic Instinct and Jagged Edge, Joe Eszterhas, the film will be released by the BFI on Blu-ray.
And finally, also to be released before the end of the year is Michael Caton-Jones’s Scandal (1989), an acclaimed interpretation of the Profumo scandal starring Joanne Whalley and John Hurt. With a new 4K remaster, it will be presented in a Dual Format Edition giving it a debut Blu-ray release for its 30th Anniversary.
The Guardian has an article about the film and it’s star Betty Balfour.L.A. wrote: ↑Tue Aug 27, 2019 6:38 amLost for nearly a century, Love, Life and Laughter screens as BFI LFF’s Archive Special Presentation with live musical.
I've been listening to PSB for most of my life and have never managed to see this apart from the clips in the "Always on My Mind" video. I'm surprised to see BFI take an interest in it, as based on how completely it was buried I always assumed it was a failed experiment of some sort. It did come into existence rather alarmingly early in the group's career. But I'm a pretty dedicated fan and so this will be an easy purchase for me; I'm extremely curious about it. Slightly sad that Neil and Chris won't be doing a commentary, though, as their lengthy track for the music video collection PopArt is one of the funniest and most engaging I've ever heard.Lowry_Sam wrote: ↑Fri Feb 14, 2020 11:13 pmSince no one has mentioned it, the Pet Shop Boys' film has been finally digitized (and in 4k). BFI will be releasing It Couldn't Happen Here in June.
This pretty much sums up my memory of it. I rented the VHS tape from a local shop (which I was completely surprised to see actually had it). I remember it being pretty random, with the duo traveling around with an older gent to various locales & the occasional breaking out into song. I seem to recall the videos for the first album were completely redone. At the time, it didn't work for me very well as a film, only the individual music video parts of it were most interesting & since I couldn't see myself ffwd'ing a vhs tape to select the music video portions of it, I decided not to actually buy it & haven't seen it since.dustybooks wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2020 7:02 pmI always assumed it was a failed experiment of some sort.
Perhaps less surprising when you consider that they've already released several films by Jack Bond and have a good working relationship with him. But Bond has form in burying his films for decades - it was pretty much impossible to see the likes of Separation, The Other Side of the Underneath (which he produced) and Anti-Clock between their last public screening in 1983 and the BFI's restorations a decade ago.dustybooks wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2020 7:02 pmI'm surprised to see BFI take an interest in it, as based on how completely it was buried I always assumed it was a failed experiment of some sort.