WTF is going on with this?

Will it ever be released?

Now changed from 22nd June to End of August according to Amazon.

:rolleyes:

This is driving me crazy, I pre-ordered it at the beginning of last year. I just want to forget about it and for it to arrive. I'm not angry, just sad and disappointed.

I really hope there aren't serious problems :crying:

They've apparently been trying to make it a really stacked release and have been chasing some Franju shorts to add to package in order to outdo Criterion's package.

Still, you've got to draw the line somewhere otherwise there will be little customer base left for you to sell to as people invariably get impatient and either import or forget about the release completely and spend their money elsewhere. I managed to lock in a fairly low pre-order price of £11 and change sometime last year so my pre-order for this one stays - even if we don't see a release until 2020!

Mine too :nod:

I actually forgot I'd pre-ordered it until Reaps posted his mini rant :lol:

Same here, well £11.84 I believe it was back in feb 2014.

And on a similar note, what has happened to the BFI Flipside series?

I know... we haven't seen a release in years! :(

Found a little more info out in regards to Eyes Without a Face...

Current updated specs:

The current delay is believed to be due to the BFI trying to secure the rights to Le sang des bêtes in order to add it to the package... hopefully they will be successful and if not don't end up delaying yet again!

Being revived later this year, apparently.

And if it's with the project that I know about, it will be with a pretty spectacular bang.

That's great to hear!

Thanks Michael - that's brilliant news. Easily one of my favourite series of blu rays, there are so many titles crying out to be given the Flipside treatment!

Coming in September:

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Both are limited edition Blu releases.

Following on from this... BFI Autumn Announcement.

Another BD of Nosferatu, it'll have to be something special for me to buy another copy, like if F.W Murnau's missing skull is included!

The cover is really innapropraite too... it's almost as if they're trying to pass it off as a modern vampire film with all the blood splatter.

http://www.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org....?itok=ll1XL9Ly

Yeah, doesn't exactly fit the film

Abel Ferrara's Pasolini coming in October:

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Excellent! Can't wait to see it.

Hopefully LES YEUX SANS VISAGE is going ahead this time.I've been waiting years for this.

It's available in their shop and Empire reviewed it this month.....:pray:

It's gone ahead - my copy arrived this morning.

Children's Film Foundation Collection: Outer Space [DVD]
 

Children's Film Foundation Collection: Outer Space [DVD]

This is available thru Amazon third parties for between £5-£6 now.


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I watched Franju's EYES WITHOUT A FACE yesterday on BFI Blu Ray.

For years I avoided watching it on Criterion Blu and when this was announced,I sold it.
It has been put back many times,well over a year,but at last it is here and the wait was more than worth it.

A fantastic job from the BFI.
Any serious horror collector needs to buy this NOW!

Zavvi was the only seller who had it in stock last week.....:confused:



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BFI announcements for early 2016.

Band á Parte and loads of Ken Russell :D :clap:

The War Game!! :)

It would be nice if the BFI could release Russell's Whore.

A film i'm sure hasn't seen the light of day in the UK since it's vhs.

No Flipside releases? :(

Yeah, I was a bit disappointed by that too.

Anyone got the Alain Robbe-Grillet box set? If so, do you recommend it?

It's been trying to lure me for a while.

Film wise it's excellent. I only have the dvd version but even they look stunning.

Definitely - although I guess it will depend on whether you enjoy Robbe-Grillet's style. It was my number one favourite release of last year and was up against some heavy competition. I have the Blu-ray set and the films look and sound excellent.

The DVDs probably look better as unfortunately the Blu-rays are noisy and it's really distracting. David M tried to filter it out a bit but it's still there.

Really! That's interesting to know. :nod:

I didn't notice any noise on these myself although I guess it depends on your set-up.

Do you usually notice noise? It's not my setup, I'm just very sensitive to unnatural picture issues. I don't mind stuff like natural print damage, but digital problems, inaccurate colours, etc really bother me.

I noticed the noise in Arrow's first Tenebrae release straight away as it was very distracting, however aside from that I can't recall noticing any excessive (and by excessive I mean to the extent where it takes me out of the film due to being so distracting) noise in any other Blu release I've seen so far - I have quite a backlog of titles to get through though.

I hadn't seen that when it came out and caught up with it when QCing their new version (so I had to do an A-B comparison) and was really startled by how horrendous it looked. And even more startled to come across online posts defending it on the grounds that it was "natural film grain" - on which planet?

Ironically, if the original version had been scheduled only a few months later, that master would have been rejected under the James White technical regime, just as the existing masters for Milano Calibro 9 and Nightmare City were turned down. (The other long-delayed release, The Honeymoon Killers, was in better shape, but when we heard that Criterion was doing a 4K original-neg restoration we decided that it would make sense to wait.)

The second release of TENEBRAE looks very, very nice.

I've not seen CALIBRE 9 yet - is it significantly better than the Raro release? It's a favourite, seen it more times than I care to remember but haven't watched it in a couple of years - the point when I picked up the Raro BD.

Can anyone recommend this forthcoming release?

Whilst not technically BFI, I thought I'd stick this here. An article on the BFI site in relation to various critics/contributors to Sight and Sound magazine's favourite releases of 2015.

The best DVDs and Blu-rays of 2015 | Sight & Sound | BFI