Yeah I also noticed those Cry of the City and Carmen Jones listings earlier today on Amazon - two of their DVD titles I had a feeling they might upgrade to Blu-ray at some point (the former of which I'm very happy about). Then The Crying Game popped up sometime after that, which was something of a pleasant surprise! Apparently StudioCanal were teasing a release of it a while back, but I'm glad it's now in the hands of the BFI as it'll both be more affordable, likely have more extras, and almost certainly come with a booklet. Looking forward to it!rockysds wrote:The Crying Game, Cry of the City and Carmen Jones all have blu-ray listings on Amazon.
Surprised there has still been no formal announcement from the BFI though. It's been almost a month since some of these new listings have appeared on Amazon. Worth mentioning that the Quay Brothers set looks like it'll be upgraded (basically a port of the Zeitgeist set), and at some point later this year we have both Napoleon and Pioneers of African-American Cinema set (similar to the Kino Lorber one), as well as the delayed The Wages of Fear from last year. I think there were rumours of a Chaplin at Keystone upgrade too.
So it's set to be an exciting rest of the year from the BFI, and I'd be surprised if they didn't have a few other titles up their sleeves before the year's out. Fingers crossed for some more upgrades to some of their DVD-only titles - in particular, any remaining Kurosawa (e.g. Ikiru, Red Beard, Stray Dog, High and Low etc.), Woman of the Dunes (Teshigahara), An Actor's Revenge (Ichikawa), A River Called Titas/The Cloud Capped Star (Ghatak), Syndromes and a Century (Weerasethakul), Still Life (Jia), Bigger Than Life (Ray), Godzilla/The Mysterians (Honda), The River (Renoir), Killer of Sheep/My Brother's Wedding (Burnett), Tristana (Buñuel), La Belle et la Bête/Orphée (Cocteau), and maybe an upgrade to the Lotte Reiniger set (since Svankmajer is likely off the cards). I hope they can achieve at least a few of those, and then if not then other UK labels (Eureka, Arrow, Second Run, Criterion) can get hold of them instead.