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Re: BFI (British Film Institute)
Posted: Tue May 11, 2021 5:48 pm
by hearthesilence
domino harvey wrote: ↑Tue May 11, 2021 4:52 pm
Rarewaves can offer cheaper shipping because they just drop your Blu-ray into a plastic bag and call it a mailer
swo17 wrote: ↑Tue May 11, 2021 4:55 pm
I've actually received some orders from them in boxes. And I've received refunds/replacements for items that have come damaged
What swo said. They've been using boxes for the past few years, though for some reason they ship all items individually rather than a whole order in one box.
Re: BFI (British Film Institute)
Posted: Tue May 11, 2021 6:14 pm
by DeprongMori
I’ve literally received scores of disc shipments from Rarewaves, and despite their inexplicable habit of shipping 90% of them individually in cardboard sleeves rather than boxes, I don’t think I’ve ever received anything damaged. Their shipping rates are incredibly affordable. I used to order a lot more from Amazon UK and from BFI directly before the shipping rates skyrocketed.
Re: BFI (British Film Institute)
Posted: Wed May 12, 2021 12:26 am
by Finch
Thank you guys for your replies! I should have remembered Rarewaves because I actually ordered one of four recent UK imports through them! I'll bookmark them now.
Re: BFI (British Film Institute)
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2021 8:46 am
by L.A.
Re: BFI (British Film Institute)
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2021 11:24 am
by beamish14
No
Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II, no dice.
Re: BFI (British Film Institute)
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2021 11:36 am
by Glowingwabbit
beamish14 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 04, 2021 11:24 am
No
Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II, no dice.
Hello Mary Lou is an improvement over the original in just about anyway you can imagine. How can you leave that off? On that note, why hasn't that one gotten a blu-ray release? Who has those rights?
Re: BFI (British Film Institute)
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2021 11:46 am
by beamish14
Glowingwabbit wrote: ↑Fri Jun 04, 2021 11:36 am
beamish14 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 04, 2021 11:24 am
No
Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II, no dice.
Hello Mary Lou is an improvement over the original in just about anyway you can imagine. How can you leave that off? On that note, why hasn't that one gotten a blu-ray release? Who has those rights?
It's still with MGM. It has aired on MGM HD, so I hope it can get a Blu-Ray release.
Re: BFI (British Film Institute)
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2021 1:30 pm
by Maltic
Some obvious picks, but good ones (the two
Frankensteins, Dawn of the Dead, Aliens, ED2, Gremlins 2).
Scream 2 is perhaps debatable, I know quite a few who would choose one of the other Craven sequels, e.g.
New Nightmare (edit: oh doh, that's not a
first sequel). I haven't seen the last three picks.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 also has a following. I guess I respect the conceit (making the "subtext" of the original very explicit), though I have to admit I still find the film mostly just unpleasant.
Fulci's
Zombie Flesh Eaters is also known as Zombi 2, an off-brand sequel to Dawn of the Dead.
There's also his unofficial Gates of Hell trilogy, where
The Beyond (arguably his best and most famous film) being the sequel to
City of the Living Dead. Of course, you have Carpenter's unofficial Apocalypse Trilogy, where
Prince of Darkness is the first sequel to
The Thing.
The Pit and the Pendulum followed the
House of Usher in Corman's Poe Cycle, so I guess that counts. Good fun.
... and some have argued
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse is a horror film...
Re: BFI (British Film Institute)
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2021 2:39 pm
by beamish14
Maltic wrote: ↑Fri Jun 04, 2021 1:30 pm
Some obvious picks, but good ones (the two
Frankensteins, Dawn of the Dead, Aliens, ED2, Gremlins 2).
Scream 2 is perhaps debatable, I know quite a few who would choose one of the other Craven sequels, e.g.
New Nightmare (edit: oh doh, that's not a
first sequel). I haven't seen the last three picks.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 also has a following. I guess I respect the conceit (making the "subtext" of the original very explicit), though I have to admit I still find the film mostly just unpleasant.
Fulci's
Zombie Flesh Eaters is also known as Zombi 2, an off-brand sequel to Dawn of the Dead.
There's also his unofficial Gates of Hell trilogy, where
The Beyond (arguably his best and most famous film) being the sequel to
City of the Living Dead. Of course, you have Carpenter's unofficial Apocalypse Trilogy, where
Prince of Darkness is the first sequel to
The Thing.
The Pit and the Pendulum followed the
House of Usher in Corman's Poe Cycle, so I guess that counts. Good fun.
... and some have argued
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse is a horror film...
New Nightmare is definitely a big omission, and I'm extremely partial to Jack Sholder's very polarizing first sequel, which deals with themes that were never being explored in horror films up to that point.
Re: BFI (British Film Institute)
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2021 3:07 pm
by Glowingwabbit
It's a promotion piece for Quiet Place 2 so they're just talking about the follow up film. So New Nightmare isn't an omission (as Maltic realized)..
Even as an unofficial trilogy, I don't think most people would ever think to call Prince of Darkness a sequel.
Re: BFI (British Film Institute)
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2021 3:15 pm
by therewillbeblus
This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse is missing, but very glad to see Doctor Sleep on there (though I can only recommend the Director's Cut)
Re: BFI (British Film Institute)
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2021 4:58 am
by MichaelB
Maltic wrote: ↑Fri Jun 04, 2021 1:30 pm
Fulci's
Zombie Flesh Eaters is also known as Zombi 2, an off-brand sequel to Dawn of the Dead.
It really isn't any kind of sequel, though, except in the producers' fevered imagination. Screenwriter Dardano Sacchetti wrote the first draft a few months before
Dawn of the Dead had opened commercially anywhere, and was far more inspired by the likes of
I Walked With a Zombie and
Island of Lost Souls. By the time Lucio Fulci came on board, the producers had decided that it would be marketed as a sequel to the Romero film under the title
Zombi 2, but this seems to have had minimal impact on the film's content, and Fulci pretty much made it along the lines originally laid down by Sacchetti.
Re: BFI (British Film Institute)
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2021 5:53 pm
by L.A.
Re: BFI (British Film Institute)
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2021 5:23 pm
by L.A.
Re: BFI (British Film Institute)
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 2:36 am
by What A Disgrace
I went into this smugly expecting to read a list of ten films I already heard of, and left it having heard of four films I had not heard of but now definitely want to see.
Re: BFI (British Film Institute)
Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2021 11:16 am
by L.A.
Re: BFI (British Film Institute)
Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2021 10:00 am
by L.A.
Re: BFI (British Film Institute)
Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2021 11:48 am
by Maltic
Unforgiveable omission of Clint's
Honkytonk Man
Re: BFI (British Film Institute)
Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2021 12:23 pm
by smokes
^^ they also omitted the classic nashiville girl
Re: BFI (British Film Institute)
Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2021 1:23 pm
by L.A.
I remember seeing a country music(?) film a long time ago but don’t know the title. The main character writes a song and auditions it in front of some music people. They think the composition doesn’t have any potential and kiss him goodbye. In reality the mighty ones/record producers steal the song and is recorded by another artist and becomes a hit. When the original composer hears it on the radio he of course is pissed and wants to set things right. Don’t know is the film on that list but would love to see it again.
Re: BFI (British Film Institute)
Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2021 5:50 pm
by L.A.
Re: BFI (British Film Institute)
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2021 12:37 pm
by L.A.
10 great Technicolor films
I would say this is a great list.
Re: BFI (British Film Institute)
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 10:11 am
by Roscoe
BFI to release THE SEVENTH SEAL as their first 4K UHD release.
https://www.bfi.org.uk/news/seventh-sea ... ay-release
Edit: my apologies, I didn't see the posting to this effect in the other thread.
Re: BFI (British Film Institute)
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 10:02 pm
by Suchwas McTeague
Can US citizens become BFI members, and if so, do they qualify for the 15% off shop purchases (by mail, obviously)?
Re: BFI (British Film Institute)
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2021 6:33 am
by L.A.