Jessica Hausner's cool sci-fi out now on BFI
OUT TODAY ON BFI BLU-RAY & BFI PLAYER
‘Terrific… it really got under my skin’
Mark Kermode, BBC Radio 5Live

★★★★
‘A gorgeous sci-fi allegory about modern women’s choices’
The i

From visionary director Jessica Hausner (Lourdes), Little Joe is a cool, witty and unsettling sci-fi starring Emily Beecham (Daphne, Into the Badlands) and Ben Whishaw (Skyfall, Mary Poppins Returns), available now on BFI Blu-ray/DVD and on BFI Player Subscrpition

17 August 2020

2-DISC LIMITED EDITION (3,000 copies only)
Audio commentary by Julie Kirgo and Nick Redman (2014)
Isolated score
Sidney Lumet Guardian Lecture (1981, 89 mins, audio only): Director Sidney Lumet talks to Derek Malcolm about US politics, the state of the film industry and how he approaches his craft in this interview recorded at the National Film Theatre
Peter Firth in conversation with Leigh Singer (2020, 45 mins, audio): Actor Peter Firth talks to Leigh Singer about his work in both the National Theatre and Broadway productions of Peter Shaffer's play Equus and how he came to be involved in Sidney Lumet's film adaptation
The Watchers (26 mins): Richard Foster's BFI-produced short imbues the English landscape with extra-terrestrial menace as Julie's fate is sealed in an extraordinary climax
In From the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton (1988, 126 mins): Tony Palmer's feature-length documentary profiling the iconic actor is filled with insightful interviews (including several archival ones with Burton himself) and some brief but enjoyable snippets from several of his films
Religion and the People (1940, 14 mins): Short documentary by Andrew Buchanan illustrating a time when faith lay at the very heart of the British experience
The Farmer's Horse (1951, 17 mins): In a time of increasing mechanisation, this public information film makes the case for the sturdy and reliable farm horse
Original theatrical trailer
***FIRST PRESSING ONLY*** Fully illustrated booklet with new writing on the film, director Sidney Lumet and writer Peter Shaffer and full film credits.

Tbh I found this film profoundly tedious for the most part but I think I'll have to have it for the Richard Burton documentary and... ahem... a certain sequence of special interest ;)

October releases from the BFI

Lynn + Lucy - 19th October

Tales from the Hood 1+2 (2-Disc Set) - 19th October

Dementia (1955) - 19th October

Play for Today: Volume One (4-Disc Set) - 12th October

If that's the Dementia i'm thinking about this is spanking news. i want a release with commentaries and the bollocks.:pop2:

To be clear, its Dementia (aka Daughter of Darkness) not Dementia 13

If anyone is unfamiliar its an experimental horror film from the 1950s. Really weird and really good imho.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047976/

Just to clarify it's Daughter of Horror rather than Daughter of Darkness which was a British Gothic horror about a female serial killer.

:lol: my bad. well spotted :hail:

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Pretty sure I first became acquainted with the works of the great Peter McDougall on 'Play for Today' :nod:

Yep i know, i've just got a copy dvd of this but i really like it, i'm pretty sure there's two versions, so hopefully it will have both.:pop2: