2012 BFI Release Summary

[MichaelB]

Now that the final release of 2012 is out there, here's a reminder of everything the BFI put out over the past twelve months:

British
The Belly of an Architect (dual format)
A Bigger Splash (dual format)
The Black Panther (Flipside 024) (dual format)
British Transport Films vol 10: London on the Move (DVD)
Children's Film Foundation Volume 1: London Tales (DVD)
The COI Collection Volume 7: The Queen on Tour (DVD)
The Devils (DVD)
Ghost Stories - five separate volumes plus box set (DVD)
Her Private Hell (Flipside 022) (dual format)
Humphrey Jennings Vol 2: Fires Were Started (dual format)
The Lacey Rituals (DVD)
London: The Modern Babylon (DVD)
Nightbirds (Flipside 023) (dual format)
Revolution (dual format)
Roll Out the Barrel: A History of British Pubs on Film (DVD)
A Royal Occasion: From Victoria to Elizabeth II (DVD)
This Our Still Life (DVD)
Wonderful London (DVD)

France
Fairy Tales - Early Colour Stencil Films from Pathé (DVD)
Jour de Fête (dual format)
Maîtresse (dual format)
Mon Oncle (dual format)

Japan
The Ozu Collection: The Student Comedies (DVD)
The Ozu Collection: Three Melodramas (DVD)

USA
Encounters (DVD)
The Erotic Films of Peter de Rome (DVD)
Faces (dual format)
Shadows (dual format)
Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (uncut DVD reissue)
A Woman Under the Influence (dual format)

USSR
The Soviet Influence: Battleship Potemkin/Drifters (dual format)

[RossyG]

A terrific year for compendium DVDs, especially:

British Transport Films #10
Children's Film Foundation #1
COI #7
Humphrey Jennings #2
Roll Out the Barrel
Ghost Stories box set

Not their best year for feature films to my mind, but still a few BDs to appreciate, especially The Black Panther, A Bigger Splash and the two Tatis.

[tenia]

So, where are we with the Flipside ? Is the collection over yet ?

[MichaelB]

So, where are we with the Flipside ? Is the collection over yet ?

Definitely not - more are scheduled for next year.

(April, I think, so titles should be announced soon.)

[Perkins Cobb]

Good to know. Flipside has become my favorite BFI brand and like tenia, I was thinking it had petered out.