Vincent Price’s Legendary TV Cookery Show: Cooking Price-Wise (BFI Flipside)

[dr727]

Cooking Price-Wise (FLIPSIDE 50)
Release Date: November 24 2024

The never-before released 6-part cookery show from 1971, presented by the incomparable actor and chef Vincent Price. Recipes include Moroccan tajine, the American Ice Box Cake and Fish Fillets Noord Zee!

BFI Flipside presents Cooking Price-Wise…

You don’t need to be a master chef to join cinema’s master of terror Vincent Price in the kitchen for this brilliantly bizarre crash-course in very-1970s cookery! Early in that delicious decade, while he was on a sojourn in England, the legendary screen-star and fine-dining aficionado took an unlikely break from the macabre movies to rustle up this long-sought-after labour-of-love six part television series, encouraging bored British housewives to serve up something different. From melon monsters to crocodile cucumbers, not forgetting the perfect soufflé, the marvellous Mr Price is your genial and garrulous host amid the paisley-patterned saucepans, as he demonstrates favourites recipes from around the world – in this fantastic full-fat celebrity cookery show unlike any other!


• Standard definition presented on Blu-ray

• Victoria Price on Cooking Price-Wise (2024): Vincent Price’s daughter, writer and inspirational speaker Victoria Price, reflects upon her father’s love of the finer things in life
• Monster Munch (2024): Queen of the Kitchen Jenny Hammerton - of silverscreensuppers.com - demonstrates how you too can prepare a classic Vincent Price dish in this all-new kitchen caper
• A Treasury of Great Recipes (2024): Jenny Hammerton celebrates Vincent Price’s writing on cookery and his love of all things edible
• Cooking Vincent Price's Goulash (2013, 7 mins): Nathalie Morris and film archivist Jenny Hammerton demonstrate how to make a deliciously sinister goulash courtesy of the acting legend
• The Good Housewife “In Her Kitchen” (1949, 9 mins): tricks and tips on food preparation - 1940s-style - in this imaginative Central Office of Information short
• Other extras tbc
• Optional English descriptive subtitles

• **LIMITED EDITION** Includes O-card and booklet featuring new writing by Victoria Price, Peter Fuller, Vic Pratt and Jenny Hammerton

[CompleteCount]

Well, that had me over easy!

I've always wanted to see these, and it's going in the basket en poussin!

[Deadend45]

Cant wait for BFI's blu-ray release of Hilarious House of Frightenstein.

[Guernica78]

This is brilliant, I would never have predicted it - should be Brillaint fun. Wonder what other TV series will be considered for the Flipside? Any thoughts..

Also has anyone seen this series?

[CelestialAgent]

Wonder if BFI will release any other video based productions upscaled for BD

[fatboyslim142]

Originally Posted by Guernica78

This is brilliant, I would never have predicted it - should be Brillaint fun. Wonder what other TV series will be considered for the Flipside? Any thoughts..

Also has anyone seen this series?

No, albeit I do have MP3s of the following Vincent Price related things somewhere:

1) International Cooking Course (LP series) - There appears to be 12 LPs according to Discogs but I think I have more than 12 MPs.
2) Wine Is Elegance - Same label (Nelson Industries) but not part of the above series.

[Eidolon]

Originally Posted by CelestialAgent

Wonder if BFI will release any other video based productions upscaled for BD

We don't know yet if it is going to be upscaled. 'SD on BD' is open to interpretation, but I would expect they are going to upscale it unfortunately. I'd rather it just be left alone.

Originally Posted by Guernica78

This is brilliant, I would never have predicted it - should be Brillaint fun. Wonder what other TV series will be considered for the Flipside? Any thoughts.?

I'd still like to see West Country Tales, which apparently exists, and is much sought after. Odd that nobody has put it out yet.

[yukito]

Already preordered. Vincent Price and cooking. Perfection.

[oddbox83]

Originally Posted by Eidolon

We don't know yet if it is going to be upscaled. 'SD on BD' is open to interpretation, but I would expect they are going to upscale it unfortunately. I'd rather it just be left alone.

Why unfortunately?

[RFK]

I just want the recipe for the poodles in the pie dish.

[dr727]

Originally Posted by Eidolon

We don't know yet if it is going to be upscaled. 'SD on BD' is open to interpretation, but I would expect they are going to upscale it unfortunately. I'd rather it just be left alone.

Update: I spoke with a disc producer at BFI yesterday who confirmed this will be standard definition without any upscaling (aka SD on BD).

Also, I wouldn’t expect that of the BFI. They are conservation and preservation focused and presenting the material in that altered state wouldn’t align their respect for the original media.

[oddbox83]

Odd. They've upscaled before (The Appointment for one).

No big deal either way, but a pro level upscale can avoid the poorer consumer end upscalers in players or TVs.

It doesn't alter the image as UK Blu-ray supports 1080i50 which would preserve video motion exactly, provided no intentional deinterlacing happens.

Everyone used to want upscales. Now with Severin doing their routine deinterlacing of video material and Cameron and Universal doing AI upscales, traditional upscaling is being thrown in with the rest when there's nothing wrong with it.

[Martyghost]

Originally Posted by oddbox83

Universal doing AI upscales

Are they?!

[CouncilSpectre]

Originally Posted by Martyghost

Are they?!

Jaws 3:

[Eidolon]

Originally Posted by oddbox83

Why unfortunately?

Because in order to upscale it has to have all it's interlacing altered, which means that it's not as broadcast, upscaling is always a compromise, especially on TV material that's shot on old tech.
Secondly, it stops it from being playable on old tech. There's a much bigger retro community out there than a lot of people realise, and if it's put on disc in it's original SD 4:3 25fps, then it will still playable on old 4:3 CRT sets, of which I have two. The second you upscale it has to be pillarboxed in a 16:9 frame which stops this from being possible.

There's literally nothing to gain from upscaling. BD comes with the advantage of the extra space so SD content doesn't have to be as compressed, but once it's upscaled, it's altered and limited. There's plenty of bad upscales of old TV shows out there already, such as Fawlty Towers, where the dvds are still the better options.

[Eidolon]

Originally Posted by dr727

Update: I spoke with a disc producer at BFI yesterday who confirmed this will be standard definition without any upscaling (aka SD on BD).

Also, I wouldn’t expect that of the BFI. They are conservation and preservation focused and presenting the material in that altered state wouldn’t align their respect for the original media.

That's good to know, I just hope that it's being left in a 4:3 frame, and not placed in a 16:9 pillarboxed frame. There is a frustrating tendency by some companies to do this. Even Nucleus did it with their Video Company Idents reel, which was annoying.

[RossyG]

Originally Posted by CouncilSpectre

Jaws 3:

That’s the most scary part of the film.

[CouncilSpectre]

Originally Posted by RossyG

That’s the most scary part of the film.

The Jaws Have Eyes....

[Martyghost]

Originally Posted by RossyG

That’s the most scary part of the film.

Yes, that is truly terrifying in more ways than one.

[Martyghost]

Originally Posted by Eidolon

There's literally nothing to gain from upscaling. BD comes with the advantage of the extra space so SD content doesn't have to be as compressed, but once it's upscaled, it's altered and limited. There's plenty of bad upscales of old TV shows out there already, such as Fawlty Towers, where the dvds are still the better options.

Don't let the Doctor Who crowd hear that on stories that have no film left!

Of course the whole "now it's HD on blu-ray" thing is mainly an excuse for companies to resell their back catalogue all over again. I'm talking archive SD video productions. I didn't rebuy Fawlty Towers.