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MichaelB wrote:Confirmed as an upcoming Flipside release via a comment on Kim Newman's Facebook page.

More details when I get them.

colinr0380 wrote:blah blah blah blah blah Overlord.

A mesmerising performance from John Hurt is at the centre of this chillingly dark comedy about delusional, Hitlerian revolutionary Malcolm Scrawdyke, leading his devoted followers Wick, Irwin and Nipple in a battle against an unseen nemesis. The film was financed by Beatle George Harrison, and is based on the play by David Halliwell that was first staged by Mike Leigh. Filmed on location in a bleak, wintry Oldham by director Stuart Cooper (Overlord; The Disappearance) and cinematographer John Alcott (2001; A Clockwork Orange).

Special Features:

• Dual Format Edition: includes both the Blu-ray and the DVD of the film and the extras.
• New High Definition restoration.
• Put Yourself in My Place (Francine Winham, 1974, 21 mins): Comedy starring Judy Geeson in which a husband and wife change roles.
• The Contraption (James Dearden, 1977, 8 mins): Experimental comedy short.
• llustrated booklet featuring essays, credits and biographical information.

George Harrison presents
*Little Malcolm and his Struggle Against the Eunuchs*
A film by Stuart Cooper

A mesmerising and furious performance from John Hurt, as delusional revolutionary Malcolm Scrawdyke, is at the heart of this chillingly dark comedy. Rarely seen in almost 40 years, it is released by BFI Flipside in a Dual Format Edition with thematically related archival short films and an extensive booklet with essays and contributions from Stuart Cooper and Mike Le
Expelled art student Scrawdyke leads his Party of Dynamic Erection – with devoted followers Wick (John McEnery), Irwin (Raymond Platt) and Nipple (David Warner) – in an enraged battle against an unseen nemesis. Rosalind Ayres is both sensitive and ferocious as Malcolm’s would-be girlfriend Ann.

Based on the celebrated 1965 stage play by David Halliwell, Little Malcolm was filmed in 1974 on location in bleak, wintry Oldham by director Stuart Cooper (Overlord, The Disappearance) and cinematographer John Alcott (A Clockwork Orange, The Shining).

Financed by George Harrison, who had admired John Hurt’s lead performance in the play at the Garrick Theatre in 1965 (and preceding the launch of Harrison’s HandMade Films by five years), Little Malcolm was winner of the Silver Bear at the 1974 Berlin Film Festival. Music is by Stanley Myers (The Deer Hunter) with incidental music by George Harrison, and the film also features performances by Harpoon and Splinter.

Special features
• Presented in both High Definition and Standard Definition;
• Original Little Malcolm trailer;
• Put Yourself In My Place (Francine Winham, 1974, 25 mins): fraught gender relations trigger a startling role reversal in this polemical comedy starring Judy Geeson (Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush);
• The Contraption (James Dearden, 1977, 7 mins): in a final act of defeat or defiance, a man (Richard O’Brien) builds a sinister contraption in a dark cellar;
• Illustrated booklet featuring original artwork and contributions from Stuart Cooper, John Hurt, Mike Leigh (who directed the debut stage production of Halliwell’s play) and Yvonne Tasker from the University of East Anglia.

Release date: 24 October 2011
RRP: £19.99 / cat. no. BFIB1123 / Cert 15
UK / 1974 / colour / English, optional hard-of-hearing subtitles / 111 mins
Original aspect ratio 1.85:1 / Region 0 / BFI Flipside title no. 020
Disc 1: BD50 / 1080p / 24fps / PCM mono audio (48k/24-bit)
Disc 2: DVD9 / PAL / PCM mono audio (48k/16-bit) (Extras Dolby Digital 320 kbps)

knives wrote:Is this Dearden related to the other one?