British Film Institute (BFI) Discussion Thread

[BarnDoor]

Originally Posted by Fnord Prefect

You're right:

http://www.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org....2016-09-02.pdf

Panic over...

Looks like we might be in luck - just had a dispatch e-mail for Psychomania.

[Spiderwalk]

Originally Posted by BarnDoor

Looks like we might be in luck - just had a dispatch e-mail for Psychomania.

Is that from the BFI shop?, and if it is, do they offer free shipping?.

[BarnDoor]

No, HMV.

[thechicken]

The copies were on sale yesterday at the physical BFI shop at the southbank (if that helps at all).

[Fnord Prefect]

Originally Posted by BarnDoor

Looks like we might be in luck - just had a dispatch e-mail for Psychomania.

Same here. Usually don't bother posting such info but listed as in stock at and even better a dispatch notice today from HMV.com seven days before official release date is perhaps worth letting people know about.

£12:99 postpaid:

http://store.hmv.com/film-tv/blu-ray/psychomania

Should be waiting for me when I get home tomorrow.

[the blob]

No Psychomania in my HMV today. Looks like I'll have to order online.

[Fnord Prefect]

That reverse artwork on the Psychomania blu-ray. Where on earth did the BFI dig that up from? If that's from a cinema poster it must rank as one of the worst ever and I want one ASAP.

Hope reversible artwork is a standard feature on future Flipside releases.

[WilsonBros]

Originally Posted by Fnord Prefect

That reverse artwork on the Psychomania blu-ray. Where on earth did the BFI dig that up from? .

There are worse examples of art for it, or at the very least, totally inappropriate...

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[OceanBlue]

Haven't taken the plastic wrapper off my copy of the BFI Blu-ray of Cry of the City yet. I'd be interested to know if anyone here thinks the picture is horizontally stretched. There was an observation in the DVD Beaver review about it.

[nitin]

Originally Posted by OceanBlue

Haven't taken the plastic wrapper off my copy of the BFI Blu-ray of Cry of the City yet. I'd be interested to know if anyone here thinks the picture is horizontally stretched. There was an observation in the DVD Beaver review about it.

I did a back and forth with my R1 DVD and thought it was the DVD that was a bit squashed. Victor Mature in particular looks a bit too skinny on the DVD.

[CrockettandTubbs]

Originally Posted by Spiderwalk

This is confusing!. MovieMail have it listed for the 19th too.

http://www.moviemail.com/film/blu-ray/psychomania

Moviemail's prices are a bit of a joke.

Psychomania is £2 more on their site, and postage is only free on orders over £30

No wonder they've lost my business.

The reverse cover for Psychomania:



Reminds me of:

[Show spoiler] "I'm not NOT licking toads."

[AlexIlDottore]

All glory to The Hypnotoad

Everybody Loves Hypnotoad - YouTube

[rapta]

Just noticed the price for the Quay Brothers set has gone up to £14.99 at HMV, so if you still want this for £4 less pre-order it from Amazon!

Bargain for 2xBD-50 and a hefty booklet (and probably nice packaging too). Oh, and it will include almost every short the Quay's have ever made (essentially), plus Christopher Nolan's recent doc!

[ravenus]

Ousmane Sembene's 1966 film Black Girl (La Noire de...) is about a Senegalese girl that travels with a French family she worked for to their Riviera home with dreams of continuing as a chic nursemaid to their children. But she finds her position altered to that of a housemaid doing cooking and cleaning chores, almost never able to meet with the exotic country outside the confines of the apartment. There's nothing said here that's new, it's the age old examination of cultural alienation and colonial exploitation. Some of the character writing is also flat, especially for the white characters. But there is a spare elegance in the direction and editing, and a striking visual texture (it helps that lead actress Mbissine Thérèse Diop gives off a luminous aura in the film's effective B&W photography). Recommended.
BFI's blu-ray is sourced from a recently restored master from the original negative for the film and looks beautifully filmic in motion, with strong contrast and healthy grain field. The sound design is not expansive but very effective, especially the use of native African music.

[Sifox211]

Originally Posted by rapta

Just noticed the price for the Quay Brothers set has gone up to £14.99 at HMV, so if you still want this for £4 less pre-order it from Amazon! ...

And Amazon have now price matched in an upward direction

[havalina]

Noticed Amazon uk has some BFI in their new 3 for £20 which are different from the HMV 5 for 30 (as well as some overlap):

Cria Cuervos
The Firm
Penda's Fen
Underground
Nosferatu
Black Girl
Culloden/The War Game
Tess
Pasolini
The Adventures of Prince Achmed
The Belly of an Architect
A Zed and Two Noughts
Theorem
The Valley
More
quite a few Flipsides, probably some others

[ParisTexan]

Fopp is running a new BFI promotion in store.

Majority of titles are £8 each (lots of flipside titles I haven't seen on shelves in ages), including some recent ones like Richard III, Symptoms and Farewell My Concubine. The two limited Rosselini boxsets are £20 each, as is the Otto Preminger. Pasolini boxset and Dreyer boxset are £30 and the Herzog one is £40.

[BarnDoor]

Did you happen to see if the Ken Russell sets were on sale?

[Persona]

Originally Posted by BarnDoor

Did you happen to see if the Ken Russell sets were on sale?

No they are £20 each. Picked up The Devils which was only £5 tho!

[Se.Vero]

many BFI titles in the 3for20 offer at amazon:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?fst=as%3A...rnid=383379011