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#1227 Post by EddieLarkin » Wed Feb 18, 2015 3:16 pm

The three new box sets have now dropped to reasonble prices on Amazon: £21.50 for Chaplin, £36 for Morrison and £43.25 for Dreyer.

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#1228 Post by Minkin » Fri Apr 24, 2015 6:42 pm

MichaelB wrote: Here's a Health to the Barley Mow and Roll Out the Barrel.
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).

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#1229 Post by Erik Morton » Wed May 13, 2015 5:05 pm

It's now been a year since the last Flipside release. Has the series been discontinued?

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#1230 Post by rapta » Thu May 14, 2015 12:12 pm

Erik Morton wrote:It's now been a year since the last Flipside release. Has the series been discontinued?
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).

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#1231 Post by Erik Morton » Thu May 14, 2015 12:19 pm

rapta wrote:
Erik Morton wrote:It's now been a year since the last Flipside release. Has the series been discontinued?
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).
Good to hear! If nothing else, I hope they finish their releases of Gerry O'Hara's "trilogy" with The Brute (1977).

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#1232 Post by TMDaines » Thu Jul 30, 2015 4:42 am

The BFI is really on a killer run at this point. Could have done with some other silents, but another raft of Blu-ray firsts coming.

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#1233 Post by GaryC » Thu Jul 30, 2015 6:57 am

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.

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#1234 Post by neilist » Thu Jul 30, 2015 7:33 am

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.
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.

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#1235 Post by MichaelB » Fri Jul 31, 2015 7:10 am

Here's the full statement, complete with links to all the relevant Criterion Forum discussions.
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:
http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news ... utumn-2015" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

More details on each release and review copy availability will be sent out in due course.

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#1236 Post by What A Disgrace » Sat Aug 01, 2015 9:09 am

So, with no Flipside titles this year, and several getting released on DVD only editions, is the Flipside label at an end?

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#1237 Post by EddieLarkin » Sat Aug 01, 2015 9:29 am

What A Disgrace wrote:So, with no Flipside titles this year, and several getting released on DVD only editions, is the Flipside label at an end?
No. Some credible speculation here.

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#1238 Post by tenia » Sat Aug 01, 2015 9:46 am

I can confirm the Flipside will come back at some point, but the BFI prefers to remain silent on the collection for now.

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#1239 Post by longstone » Sat Aug 01, 2015 9:53 am

Still no news on the missing Ozu titles either ?

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#1241 Post by Michael Kerpan » Tue Dec 15, 2015 7:20 pm

longstone wrote:Still no news on the missing Ozu titles either ?
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).

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#1242 Post by Drucker » Tue Feb 09, 2016 6:33 pm

Looks like two new Flipside releases up for pre-order:

Beat Girl

Expresso Bongo

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#1243 Post by RossyG » Wed Feb 10, 2016 4:28 pm

And Symptoms: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01B ... vd&sr=1-17" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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#1244 Post by What A Disgrace » Sat Apr 30, 2016 8:22 am

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.

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#1245 Post by colinr0380 » Sat Apr 30, 2016 12:14 pm

Psychomania would make for a great Flipside title, if only for the soundtrack, the well known names in tiny supporting roles, the psychadelic toad hallucination scene and the gang of bikers doing vaguely delinquent things, such as irritating shoppers in a high street or cutting their way through traffic!

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#1246 Post by criterion10 » Sat Apr 30, 2016 12:58 pm

What A Disgrace wrote:Ken Russell's Women in Love
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!

I'm also wondering what other Russell titles the BFI can release. I'd say that The Music Lovers (also with MGM) is probably a good possibility. And considering that The Devils' license will probably need to be renewed next year (initially signed late in 2011, I believe), perhaps Warner Bros. will finally let them release the 2004 Reconstruction, and on Blu-Ray no less.

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#1247 Post by domino harvey » Sat Apr 30, 2016 1:22 pm

Women in Love is also coming from Criterion FYI

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#1248 Post by criterion10 » Sat Apr 30, 2016 3:29 pm

domino harvey wrote:Women in Love is also coming from Criterion FYI
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.

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#1249 Post by rapta » Sat Apr 30, 2016 4:34 pm

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.
Presumably to coincide with their Ice Cube retrospective at BFI Southbank...

Jokes aside, glad we're finally getting some Burnett on Blu-ray! Been wishing they'd upgrade Killer of Sheep or My Brother's Wedding for a while now, but The Glass Shield will do for now. Might not get it immediately but definitely going on the wishlist!

Psychomania is another interesting choice for them to release (more cult horrors...maybe another Flipside title?), and will Women in Love be their last try at releasing a Ken Russell title on Blu-ray or do they have more planned?

Be interested to see if anything else is announced alongside these but glad an announcement is coming. Probably next week sometime would be my guess.

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#1250 Post by rockysds » Tue May 24, 2016 4:50 pm

The Crying Game, Cry of the City and Carmen Jones all have blu-ray listings on Amazon.

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