International BFI (British Film Institute) DVD releases (1 Viewer)

[WaveCrest]

A summary update post, with some of the BFI's DVD and Blu-ray titles being released between August and November (source: Amazon UK):


August 2012:


Anti-Clock (1979) - Monday 13th August (DVD and Blu-ray, Dual Format Edition)
The Other Side of the Underneath (1976) - Monday 13th August (DVD and Blu-ray, Dual Format Edition)
Separation (1968) - Monday 13th August (DVD and Blu-ray, Dual Format Edition)
BBC Ghost Stories: Volume One - Monday 20th August
BBC Ghost Stories: Volume Two - Monday 20th August


September 2012:


BBC Ghost Stories: Volume Three - Monday 17th September
BBC Ghost Stories: Volume Four - Monday 17th September
A Woman Under the Influence (The John Cassavetes Collection) (1974) - Monday 17th September (DVD and Blu-ray Dual Format Edition)


October 2012:


BBC Ghost Stories (aka Ghost Stories for the BBC): Volume Five - Monday 29th October
BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas: The Definitive Collection (5-Disc Set) - Monday 29th October


November 2012:


The Soviet Influence: Volume Two - Battleship Potemkin (1925) / Drifters (1929) - Monday 5th November (DVD and Blu-ray, Dual Format Edition).

 

[bgart13]

KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE is being released in a bd/dvd combo in October. Also, the fifth volume of the BBC GHOST STORIES is up for pre-order at Amazon UK for October 22nd as well.

 

[WaveCrest]

The past couple of weeks the BBFC have started adding new listings to their website for the stories in the first few volumes.

Updated post #41 of this thread with the new BFI titles.


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Regarding the fifth volume of BBC Ghost Stories and BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas: The Definitive Collection, the stories in both titles respectively (source: Amazon UK):


BBC Ghost Stories (aka Ghost Stories from the BBC): Volume Five - Monday 29th October


- A View from a Hill (2005)
- Number 13 (2006).


The Ghost Stories for Christmas 5-Disc set - Monday 29th October


- Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968)
- The Stalls of Barchester (1971)
- A Warning to the Chorus (1972)
- Lost Hearts (1973)
- The Treasure of Abbot Thomas (1974)
- The Ash Tree (1975)
- The Signalman (1976)
- Stigma (1977)
- The Ice House (1978)
- A View from a Hill (2005)
- Number 13 (2006)
- Whistle and I'll Come to You (2010).


There are no extras listed yet for the fifth volume and the Ghost Stories for Christmas sets.

 

[WaveCrest]

The BFI's dual format edition releases of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) and Opening Night (1977) have been pushed back to next year (source: Amazon UK).

 

[WaveCrest]

Front cover artwork for BBC Ghost Stories: Volumes One-Four (source: Play.com):

 

[WaveCrest]

Mondo Digital reviews of BBC Ghost Stories: Volumes One and Two:


BBC Ghost Stories: Volume One - Mondo Digital review

BBC Ghost Stories: Volume Two - Mondo Digital review

 

[WaveCrest]

Front cover artwork for the BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas: The Definitive Collection (5-Disc) DVD set, released a week on Monday (source of front cover artwork: Play.com):

 

[John Hodson]

BFI press release:

The acclaimed Scottish filmmaker Bill Forsyth is celebrated by the BFI with its Flipside release of That Sinking Feeling in April 2014. This definitive Dual Format Edition of Forsyth’s hilarious cult 1979 debut has been lovingly produced with the full collaboration of its director, with input from one of its most ardent and high profile fans, Mark Kermode. Newly remastered in High Definition, this inventive low-budget masterpiece can be experienced with its original Glaswegian dialogue track and in its correct aspect ratio. Among the disc’s extensive extra features are a full-length audiocommentary with Bill Forsyth and Mark Kermode, a number of rarely seen short films and documentaries and a dryly funny BAFTA Lifetime Achievement Award acceptance film made by Forsyth in 2009.

Other new releases to look forward to this spring/early summer include:

Limited Edition Blu-ray SteelBookTM editions of Werner Herzog’s Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972) and Nosferatu the Vampire (1979) (May)
The Werner Herzog Collection – mammoth Blu-ray and DVD box sets compiling 17 of the legendary German director’s films from late 1960s to the early 1980s, with extras including Jack Bond’s long-unseen South Bank Show on Herzog from 1982 (July)
Seven Samurai – digitally remastered 60th anniversary SteelBookTM and DVD editions of Kurosawa’s world-renowned classic (April)
The Children’s Film Foundation Collection: Runaways – three classic British films including Hide and Seek (1979) (starring a teenage Gary Kemp) and Bond director Lewis Gilbert’s early film Johnny on the Run (1953) (April)
Alain Robbe-Grillet: Six Films 1964-1974 – Blu-ray and DVD box sets making the controversial French director/writer’s enigmatic and sexually-charged films available for the very first time. Digitally remastered presentations of all films, including Trans-Europ Express (1966) and Successive Slidings of Pleasure (1974), as well as interviews and exclusive audio commentaries by world-renowned cult cinema authority, Tim Lucas (June)
Eyes Without a Face – Dual Format Edition of George Franju’s notorious 1960 arthouse horror with extensive extra features (July)

As always, the BFI’s DVD and Blu-ray releases carry the highest quality film presentations and are packaged with contextualising extra features and fully illustrated booklets, providing the very best way to experience the wealth of content on offer.