The BFI Blu-ray and DVD Release Thread

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Justin101

You didn't pick up Expresso Bongo? I think that looks better than Beat Girl.

It just didn't 'speak to me' like Beat Girl did (Symptoms was always going to be bought I've been waiting for it to be released for years!) I may pick it up sometime... you'll have to let me know what it's like!

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Beat Girl has a supernatural film with Christopher Lee in the extras so if it was between the two i know which i'd opt for.

Perhaps i should let B_E answer for himself.

That certainly helped.

[Susan Foreman]

Film @ The Digital Fix - Symptoms: BFI Flipside

Film 8.0
Video 8.0
Audio 7.0
Extras 6.0

Film @ The Digital Fix - Beat Girl: BFI Flipside

Film 7.0
Video 9.0
Audio 7.0
Extras 7.0

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

The Firm special features announced:

Special Features:

The Firm (Director's Cut, 68 mins): painstakingly reconstructed from Clarke's personal workprint
Optional audio commentary with Gary Oldman
The Firm (Broadcast version, 67 mins)
Optional audio commentary with actors Lesley Manville, Phil Davis, author David Rolinson and the BFI's Dick Fiddy
Elephant (1989, 39 mins): Alan Clarke's sparse, shocking drama about The Troubles
Optional audio commentary with producer Danny Boyle and critic Mark Kermode
Alan Clarke interview (1989, 10 mins): the director discusses Elephant and The Firm
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light (2016, 36 mins): new documentary about the making of Clarke's last films

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Is there no info on Pendas Fen yet?

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Is there no info on Pendas Fen yet?

Only what's listed on Amazon (due to the format and content I'd say this came directly from the BFI specs):

PENDA'S FEN (Limited Edition Blu-ray)
A film by Alan Clarke

Originally shown on BBC1 in 1974 and rarely seen since, Penda's Fen has become the stuff of legend, its name invoking the spirit of a time when television had the power to provoke and astound.

Exploring theme of personal and national identity, language, history and industrial progress, this unclassifiable drama boldly weaves its exquisite, fantastical imagery with the rousing music of Elgar to tell a tale of ancient legends and sexual awakening which stands as one of British television's greatest ever achievements.

Released for the first time on Blu-ray, this astonishing work from Alan Clarke (Scum, The Firm and Rita, Sue and Bob Too) has been newly transferred in High Definition, and is presented here with a newly created documentary featuring interviews with its writer David Rudkin and producer David Rose.

Special features

World premiere release
Newly remastered in High Definition
The Landscape of Feelings: The road to Penda's Fen (2016, 16 mins): new documentary on the making of Rudkin and Clarke's groundbreaking drama, featuring an interview with David Rudkin and producer David Rose, as well as contributions from Clarke collaborators such as writer David Yallop, actor Sean Chapman and playwright David Leland
Illustrated booklet with new writing by Sukhdev Sandhu and full credits

UK | 1974 | colour | 89 minutes | English language, with optional hard-of-hearing subtitles | original aspect ratio 1.33:1 | BD25 | 25fps | 1080p/50i | LPCM 2.0 mono audio (48kHz/24-bit)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Cheers. Shame there's no commentary. Hopefully the booklet will be good to make up for it.

[Mojo]

Psychomania | Flatpack

Looks like PSYCHOMANIA is coming to the Flipside!

[keirarts]

Originally Posted by Mojo

Psychomania | Flatpack

Looks like PSYCHOMANIA is coming to the Flipside!

Hard to imagine getting a blu-ray release as apparently when severin went looking no suitable materials were to be found. Great movie though

[Mojo]

Originally Posted by keirarts

Hard to imagine getting a blu-ray release as apparently when severin went looking no suitable materials were to be found. Great movie though

Didn't realise this, so I guess it could be bollocks. Still, would like to see this and more 70s stuff on the Flipside!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Mojo

Didn't realise this, so I guess it could be bollocks. Still, would like to see this and more 70s stuff on the Flipside!

Even a features laden dvd would be better than nothing.