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Re: BFI (British Film Institute)

#1401 Post by colinr0380 » Thu Oct 15, 2020 4:21 pm

beamish14 wrote:
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I'd LOVE to see The Gourmet finally.
Not high quality but here you go.

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#1403 Post by antnield » Tue Oct 27, 2020 4:28 pm

Mogul Mowgli Blu coming Feb 2021.

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#1406 Post by therewillbeblus » Tue Nov 03, 2020 12:48 am

I'm digging that Targets cover

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#1407 Post by rapta » Tue Nov 03, 2020 6:29 am

Targets is a dream come true. I wonder what else they've licensed from Paramount (unless those deals are bundled in with Universal, which would explain the Dietrich set). Great cover too, I agree - I prefer when labels actually use the original artwork, wherever possible.

What next...Witness? The Parallax View? Black Sunday? One can dream...

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#1408 Post by TMDaines » Tue Nov 03, 2020 7:00 am

In for Marlene and Mädchen.

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#1409 Post by L.A. » Tue Nov 03, 2020 10:47 am

Fortunately I didn’t import Kino’s disc of Mädchen. The Jenni Olson commentary is probably the same but the BFI most likely will have couple extras more and a booklet in the first pressing. Also Marlene Dietrich is always welcome. So these two I’m most excited about.

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#1410 Post by therewillbeblus » Tue Nov 03, 2020 2:08 pm

rapta wrote:
Tue Nov 03, 2020 6:29 am
What next...Witness? The Parallax View? Black Sunday? One can dream...
Criterion is working on The Parallax View, so that may be a U.K. release as well

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#1411 Post by beamish14 » Tue Nov 03, 2020 2:17 pm


Hope we get a commentary on Blue Sky from its writers. Would love to hear Peter Medak discuss Romeo, too. Immensely
flawed, yet bizarrely compelling movie with a lot of gratuitous violence and one of Mark Isham's best scores.

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#1412 Post by L.A. » Tue Nov 03, 2020 2:53 pm

Would BFI have any interest in putting out Medak’s The Ruling Class (1972)?

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#1413 Post by L.A. » Thu Nov 12, 2020 10:54 am

Stanley Tucci: 10 essential performances. Yesterday he celebrated his 60th birthday.

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#1414 Post by Stefan Andersson » Sat Nov 28, 2020 12:24 pm

May 27, 2022 marks the Christopher Lee centenary. Would BFI be interested in a centenary edition or box set of feature films, shorts, perhaps a selection from Lee´s audiobooks and recordings, an image gallery (I remember a shot of Lee testing for the part of Queequeeg in Moby Dick (1956) on the BFI website), and input from Lady Lee, Jonathan Rigby, Kim Newman et. al.?

I realize that collecting several feature films might surely be a rights nightmare. Perhaps a set of 1-2 discs might be organized around some of these:
The Disputation, one of Lee´s best performances IMHO
The Creeping Flesh, as an example of the Lee-Cushing partnership
Les Mains d´Orlac, excellent performance in French
Alias John Preston
The Mirror and Markheim
Cross-Roads (though already released as an extra on a BFI disc)

Haven´t seen Dark Places or Nothing But the Night, so can´t comment on these.

Perhaps other relevant material is housed at the BFI.

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#1415 Post by Franz Propp » Sat Dec 05, 2020 10:17 am

Stefan Andersson wrote:
Tue Oct 13, 2020 3:01 pm
Glancing through Jonathan Rigby´s English Gothic, I find quite a few possibilities for a volume 2:
Markheim, Tony Richardson, 1952
Mirror and Markheim w/ Christopher Lee, 1953
Alias John Preston, w/ Christopher Lee
The Man and the Snake, Sture Rydman
The Return, Sture Rydman
Red, Astrid Frank
Panic, James Dearden
Black Angel, Roger Christian
The Bloody Chamber, based on Angela Carter
Another short film that it would be nice to see upgraded to Blu-ray as part of this collection is Paul Miller's "Spiderweb" (1977). It is not a horror or suspense film per se, but it has an agreeably disquieting ambience about it.

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#1417 Post by beamish14 » Thu Jan 21, 2021 1:06 pm

New features announced for Romeo is Bleeding. I wish Medak himself had recorded a commentary

Newly recorded audio commentary by author and film critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Medak on Medak: An Interview with Peter Medak (2021, 43 mins): a newly filmed interview with director Peter Medak on his career and his work on Romeo is Bleeding
Original theatrical trailer
Isolated score (featuring some effects)
Image gallery
**FIRST PRESSING ONLY** Fully illustrated booklet with new essays by Rebecca Feasey, Lou Thomas and Josephine Botting and full film credits


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#1418 Post by MichaelB » Fri Jan 22, 2021 12:35 pm

Is Medak typically such an outstanding commentator that a 43-minute interview feels like you're being short-changed? There's every chance that he was offered the option and that the interview was his choice!

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#1419 Post by beamish14 » Fri Jan 22, 2021 1:01 pm

MichaelB wrote:
Fri Jan 22, 2021 12:35 pm
Is Medak typically such an outstanding commentator that a 43-minute interview feels like you're being short-changed? There's every chance that he was offered the option and that the interview was his choice!

Oh, I know. He IS a very engaging and informative commentator, though. Still, I also would've liked to have heard from the film's writer/producer, Hilary Henkin, but maybe she was unavailable or
dissatisfied with it. She was the first female writer to earn a cool million for a screenplay, and the film was hyped up a lot before its release.

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#1420 Post by L.A. » Mon Jan 25, 2021 10:28 am

Mädchen in Uniform extras updated:
• Audio commentary by film historian Jenni Olson (2020)
• The Kiss – The Women Who Made a Movie Masterpiece (selected episodes, 2020, 108 mins): writer and journalist Bibi Berki takes us through the making of Mädchen in Uniform and explores the exceptional women who came together to make it in this podcast by Tempest Productions
• A selection of treasures from the BFI National Archive to charm and delight: Tilly and the Fire Engines (c1910, 2 mins), Hints and Hobbies No.11 - 'Hints to the Ladies on Jiu-Jitsu' (1926, 4 mins), Day at St. Christopher's College and School (1920, 18 mins), 4 and 20 Fit Girls (1940, 11 mins)
• Other extras TBC
• **FIRST PRESSING ONLY** Illustrated booklet with new writing by So Mayer, Chrystel Oloukoï, Bibi Berki, Henry K Miller and Sarah Wood
”Other extras TBC” but this already looks great now.

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#1421 Post by yoloswegmaster » Fri Jan 29, 2021 8:41 am

Zavvi leaked these upcoming titles from BFI: 'Jungle Fever', 'Salaam Bombay', 'Radio On', 'Piccadilly', and 'I Start Counting'.

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#1422 Post by reaky » Fri Jan 29, 2021 10:56 am

I can imagine Radio On and I Start Counting being Flipside releases.

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#1423 Post by swo17 » Fri Jan 29, 2021 10:59 am

Going by the covers, only the latter is

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This is directed by the guy that did Godspell, by the way

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#1424 Post by What A Disgrace » Fri Jan 29, 2021 11:45 am

Piccadilly! At long last! Hopefully A Cottage on Dartmoor will follow.

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#1425 Post by rockysds » Fri Jan 29, 2021 11:59 am

County Lines (2019) and Play for Today: Volume Two (Stocker's Copper / The Elephant's Graveyard / Gotcha / The Spongers / Victims of Apartheid / Just a Boy's Game) also up at Zavvi.

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