Re: BFI (British Film Institute)
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2015 1:33 pm
Speaking of which - are there any plans for future similar sets? Weren't these created after the government pulled funding for a giant set of films to represent every British county? I suppose the bicycle set is fairly close, but I've really enjoyed both of these - and had always hoped for more (sets covering various local traditions and culture).MichaelB wrote: Here's a Health to the Barley Mow and Roll Out the Barrel.
Can't find the exact quote from the BFI but somebody asked them this and they basically said "keep your eyes peeled for some more later this year" (or something to that effect).Erik Morton wrote:It's now been a year since the last Flipside release. Has the series been discontinued?
Good to hear! If nothing else, I hope they finish their releases of Gerry O'Hara's "trilogy" with The Brute (1977).rapta wrote:Can't find the exact quote from the BFI but somebody asked them this and they basically said "keep your eyes peeled for some more later this year" (or something to that effect).Erik Morton wrote:It's now been a year since the last Flipside release. Has the series been discontinued?
Further to those appearing yesterday, Clouzot's 'The Wages Of Fear' (Limied Edition Dual Format), Hoellering's version of T.S. Eliot's 'Murder in the Cathedral' (Limied Edition Dual Format), 'Make More Noise: Suffragettes in Silent Film' (DVD) and 'Children's Film Foundation Collection: Masters of Venus' (DVD) have all gone up today.GaryC wrote:I'm reliably informed that they will be announcing their releases for the rest of this year tomorrow. Though judging by some of the threads here, titles are already appearing on Amazon for pre-order.
This autumn the BFI will release a wide range of titles with acclaimed classics of world cinema, including Luchino Visconti’s Rocco and His Brothers and Henri-Georges Clouzot’s The Wages of Fear, a Pier Paolo Pasolini Blu-ray collection, film noir masterpieces by Otto Preminger and Jules Dassin, celebrated British TV documentaries and a selection of recent theatrical releases.
September
September kicks off with the Otto Preminger Film Noir Collection (1945-50) on Limited Edition Blu-ray, a three-disc box set featuring Fallen Angel, Whirlpool and Where the Sidewalk Ends. The film noir theme continues with Night and the City (1950), Jules Dassin’s London-set baroque masterpiece of crime and corruption.
2015 marks the centenary of the controversial, yet extremely significant silent drama, The Birth of a Nation (1915) by D.W. Griffith. This re-mastered release follows the Griffith summer season at BFI Southbank.
We celebrate Halloween with DVD re-releases of chilling titles Sleepwalker (Saxon Logan, 1984), The Black Panther (Ian Merrick, 1977), BBC TV’s Schalcken the Painter (1979) and on Blu-ray is Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, 1922), the much imitated adaptation of Dracula.
October
This autumn is the 40th anniversary of the untimely death of controversial writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini. To mark the occasion the BFI is re-releasing six of Pasolini’s most widely renowned films together in the Pasolini Blu-ray Collection (1968-1975) – Medea, Theorem, Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom and his Trilogy of Life (Decameron, The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights). The BFI is also thrilled to announce the release of Abel Ferrara’s Pasolini (2014), starring Willem Dafoe, on both Blu-ray and DVD, following its theatrical release on 11 September.
Also out in October is the DVD premiere of The Children’s Film Foundation Sci-Fi drama Masters of Venus (1962); the Richard Hawley scored Love is All (2014), director Kim Longinotto’s collage of a hundred years of love and courtship on the silver screen, and Ousmane Sembène’s Black Girl / Borom Sarret (1966), one of the founding works of African cinema.
November
November sees the release of Murder in the Cathedral (1952), George Hoellering’s film adaptation of the classic verse drama by T.S. Eliot featuring music by László Lajtha and the voice of the writer himself, and Make More Noise! Suffragettes in Silent Film (1899-1917). Released to complement Sarah Gavron’s forthcoming feature film Suffragette (2015), the collection compiles over 20 silent films from the BFI National Archive, combining gloriously anarchic comedies, newsreels and documentaries with a specially commissioned score by Lillian Henley. It presents a fascinating insight into the early 20th Century struggle for women’s suffrage.
The month also sees the releases of Luchino Visconti’s neorealist classic Rocco and His Brothers (1960), featuring a young Claudia Cardinale and an acclaimed score by composer Nino Rota (The Godfather, The Leopard) and Henri-Georges Clouzot’s nail-biting thriller The Wages of Fear (1954), on Limited Edition Dual-Format.
To coincide with the BFI Southbank TV Documentaries season, we will release two collections of documentaries from the BBC and ITV. Visions of Change Volume One: The BBC (1951-67) and Visions of Change Volume Two: ITV (1958-1967), bringing together the work of renowned film-makers including Ken Russell and Peter Morley, to give an insight into the rapidly changing British culture of the time.
You can see the picture gallery of some of the new packshots on the BFI website here:
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More details on each release and review copy availability will be sent out in due course.
As I mentioned elsewhere, the producer in charge of this series is no longer at BFI. Alas, I could not find any current (personal) contact info for her, so couldn't find out whether someone took over from her on the Ozu series, or whether this has been orphaned (at least for the medium term).longstone wrote:Still no news on the missing Ozu titles either ?
Nice! Considering the only release thus far has been the now-OOP non-anamorphic MGM one, this will obviously be a huge upgrade. Here's hoping they can also port over the two commentaries, one of which includes Russell himself!What A Disgrace wrote:Ken Russell's Women in Love
Yes, and The Music Lovers (along with the Janus-owned Mahler) was rumored as well. Though considering it might be later rather than sooner given Criterion's backed-up schedule, it's just good to see a decent version of this film finally making being released.domino harvey wrote:Women in Love is also coming from Criterion FYI
Presumably to coincide with their Ice Cube retrospective at BFI Southbank...What A Disgrace wrote:It seems the BFI is poised to announce its Q3 slate. Ken Russell's Women in Love, Charles Burnett's The Glass Shield, Andrew Grieve's On the Black Hill, and Don Sharp's Psychomania all have pages on Amazon.