[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Upcoming BFI slate:

Jul 24th: The Orchard End Murder (1980)
Jul 24th: Peppermint Soda (1977)
Jul 24th: J'accuse (1938)

Aug 21st: My Beautfiul Laundrette (1985)
Aug 21st: Life is Sweet (1990) (includes A Running Jump (2012) short)

Sep 18th: Ken Loach Boxset: Raining Stones, Riff Raff and Ladybird Ladybird

Really looking forward to The Orchard End Murder (specs below):

Orchard End Murder :
The BFI Flipside presents...
THE ORCHARD END MURDER (DVD + Blu-ray)
A film by Christian Marnham

Set in an idyllic Kent village one balmy summer during the 1960s, The Orchard End Murder is a grim take of murder and mischief.

Lured to the countryside for a romantic tryst, a young lady from the suburbs (Tracy Hyde) wanders off and happens upon a deformed stationmaster and his towering, half-witted rail worker friend (played by BBC TV Casualty's Clive Mantle). The strange encounter turns sinister and deadly when she is followed through and apple orchard.

Written and directed by Christian Marnham and shot by Pete Walker's regular cameraman Peter Jessop, The Orchard End Murder is a darkly humorous yet starkly violent murder thriller, unseen since it originally shocked UK cinema audiences as the supporting feature to Gary Sherman's Dead and Buried

Special features
Presented in both High Definition and Standard Definition
The Showman (Christian Marnham, 1970, 25 mins): short documentary about the circus showman, Wally Shufflebottom Jr.
Part of the Team (Christian Marnham, 1976, 22 mins):COI recruitment film for the WRAF
An Interview with Tracy Hyde (2017)
An Interview with Christian Marnham (2017)
An Interview with David Wilkinson (2017, 13 mins)
Illustrated booklet with new writing by Jo Botting, Vic Pratt, Will Fowler and full film credits
UK | 1981 | colour | 50 minutes | English language, with optional hard-of-hearing subtitles | original aspect ratio 1.85:1 | cert 18 (contains sexual assault)