The BFI Blu-ray and DVD Release Thread

[Hawkmonger]

I Love it when distributers add related movies to there releases, BFI do it best (not uncommenly placing 3 extra films onto the disk/s) and luckely Arrow are taking quick suit. Shameless, Eureka, take note.

[trouserpress]

Originally Posted by Hawkmonger

Is there any reason why the overall package certificate for NightBirds is an 18?
According to BBFC both NightBirds and The Body Beneath are 15's. It's peeving me something terrible as this look's cracking.

It's weird. Both the films are rated 15 on the BBFC website, but the trailer for Nightbirds is rated 18. I don't understand why a trailer would be 18 if the film's only 15. next time I talk to someone at the BFI I'll ask.

[trouserpress]

Originally Posted by The Reaper Man@Cult Labs

I'm also looking forward to their release of Revolution!

Revolution is an interesting film, but it's not exactly a classic. The director's cut actually removes scenes rather than putting extra stuff in, but he has added a voiceover which helps the narrative make more sense!

[Hawkmonger]

I just got this conserning the certificate.

I'm afraid we don't know the answer to this - but I agree it's frustrating. I've sent your email to the DVD production side of our organisation, who deal with certification and I will let you know once they get back to me.

Im prity sure it's against the law to sell a product with a higher certificate than the content is attributed...........maybe not, but it should be!

Originally Posted by Trouserpress

It's weird. Both the films are rated 15 on the BBFC website, but the trailer for Nightbirds is rated 18. I don't understand why a trailer would be 18 if the film's only 15. next time I talk to someone at the BFI I'll ask.

Thanks. That make's no sense what so ever.

[Stephen@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by trouserpress

It's weird. Both the films are rated 15 on the BBFC website, but the trailer for Nightbirds is rated 18. I don't understand why a trailer would be 18 if the film's only 15. next time I talk to someone at the BFI I'll ask.

Perhaps it's because of something in the trailer shown out of context of the movie?

[Paul@TheOverlook]

Originally Posted by Stephen@Cult Labs

Perhaps it's because of something in the trailer shown out of context of the movie?

That's certainly happened in the past.

[Daemonia]

Vipco used to pull the trick of including 18 rated trailers on their discs so that even if the film is rated 15 (as in the case of Shock Waves, which was an A and then a 15, strangely) the cover would have to have an 18 rated certificate. Vipco seemed to believe that only 18 rated films sell. It's a dirty trick, but then nothing was beneath Mike Lee in his pursuit of fleecing horror fans.

[Hawkmonger]

Shameless do that same trick now of cause.
I believe trailers should be exempt from classification. Common sense would be obviese if your showing them before a film (If you go to see a nice Pixar film maybe it's not a good idea to show a trailer for, say, Terminater) and this would mean that if a distributer wishes to put them on a release then fine and it will have no effect on the over all certification of the release.
Either that or place trailers of the same certification (even if the film has a higher one) on the disk, meaning there is no increase in certification (eg. the Shameless Trailer for Cannibal Holocaust is 15, so if they had placed that on the BD of Four Flies on grey velvet it would have remaned a 15, but as there is a 18 certified trailer for The New York Ripper also on the disk the over all rating increases.
It's all very ilogical.

[Mojo]

Originally Posted by Hawkmonger

I Love it when distributers add related movies to there releases, BFI do it best (not uncommenly placing 3 extra films onto the disk/s) and luckely Arrow are taking quick suit. Shameless, Eureka, take note.

The inclusion of the extra films is one of the many things I love about the BFI Flipside packages. This, plus the fact that they are not thrown in at random, but are carefully thought out to compliment or relate to the main feature, be it genre, actors, actresses and so on.

There is a chapter at the back of the excellent Ten Years Of Terror book from FAB Press, which details a lot of these short UK films from the 70s, many of which have a thriller / murder / ghost or horror theme. One of them ( The Last Chapter ) has already been included on the BFI's BD of Private Road, so maybe more of these could see the light of day?

[Hawkmonger]

I wish someone would release Blood and Black Lace on BD with The Girl Who Knew to Much as an extra. One for Shameless?