British Film Institute (BFI) Discussion Thread

[huntauk]

Glad Rules of The Game is finally getting a UK release. https://shop.bfi.org.uk/la-regle-du-jeu-blu-ray.html

[rapta]

Amazing lineup! Really up for the Renoir and the Skolimowski releases (will probably prioritise the double-set), and might get Full Circle too (but won't use the UHD so might get it later on when reissued, and miss out on the booklet). I already have Enys Men on pre-order, figured it might fly out again like Bait did and I could miss the booklet (luckily I didn't, but a lot of other people did).

[justwannaboogie]

Originally Posted by huntauk

Glad Rules of The Game is finally getting a UK release. https://shop.bfi.org.uk/la-regle-du-jeu-blu-ray.html

Wow! At last, this is an incredible announcement, and it's from the new 4K remaster, which makes the old Criterion release look like crap:

https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?d1=17533&d2=17532&c=6495

It was released in UHD in France, but I'm not too bothered by the lack of a 4K.

[RossyG]

For those who want La Règle du jeu in 4K, the French UHD has English subs.

[CelestialAgent]

Has High Rise Donkey been included on any of the CFF DVDs or BFI Player? Can’t find many results for it when searching.

[Hammerlover]

Originally Posted by trobrianders

I still haven't got round to watching Mia Farrow in See No Evil or Secret Ceremony. And now I've got Full Circle to join that queue. I'm sure they'll all be great.

They are. Love them all.

[CrockettandTubbs]

Originally Posted by huntauk

Glad Rules of The Game is finally getting a UK release. https://shop.bfi.org.uk/la-regle-du-jeu-blu-ray.html

Nice - great film.

Still got the Criterion 2 disc dvd digipack with the blue slipcase.

[grahams76]

Originally Posted by RossyG

For those who want La Règle du jeu in 4K, the French UHD has English subs.

I've yet to watch my copy but I did have a gander at the pic quality and then put in the accompanying blu-ray, which looks shockingly bad.

[CelestialAgent]

Yeah, it’s one of those cases where the BD uses a different master to the UHD.

[professorwho]

For anyone curious, the 4K restoration of The Rules of the Game was completed in SDR by Hivinty, and forced into HDR by the distributor in France for the UHD, which may explain the lack of a UHD.

L’expertise que nous avons menée a révélé que lors de l’authoring, qui n’a pas été réalisé par Hiventy, le Blu-ray a été identifié comme HDR, alors que la restauration 4K de ce film s’est faite exclusivement en SDR.

Cette erreur d’identification conduit les lecteurs Blu-ray et les téléviseurs à récupérer cette information et à basculer automatiquement en mode HDR.
Pour traiter le signal identifié HDR mais qui en fait ne l’est pas, le téléviseur augmente fortement le contraste, ce qui provoque des noirs bouchés avec une perte d’information dans ces noirs.

DeepL:
Our investigation revealed that during authoring, which was not carried out by Hiventy, the Blu-ray was identified as HDR, whereas the 4K restoration of this film was done exclusively in SDR.

This misidentification leads Blu-ray players and TVs to recover this information and automatically switch to HDR mode.
To process the signal identified as HDR but which in fact is not, the TV set increases the contrast strongly, which causes blacks to be blocked with a loss of information in these blacks.

[koberulz]

Is Blue safe to watch on an OLED?

[oddbox83]

Originally Posted by koberulz

Is Blue safe to watch on an OLED?

Should be - I imagine the screen protection features will kick in and dim the screen.

[koberulz]

Originally Posted by oddbox83

Should be - I imagine the screen protection features will kick in and dim the screen.

I've disabled ASBL on mine, so it won't, but even if I re-enabled it just for Blue it'd eventually dim it to nothingness and defeat the purpose anyway.

[SimBobHard]

If the BFI released one of their older Blu releases as a 4K release, what would people be down for?

Personally, I'd love the see Pasolini's Trilogy of Life on 4K.

[trobrianders]

Originally Posted by SimBobHard

If the BFI released one of their older Blu releases as a 4K release, what would people be down for?

Personally, I'd love the see Pasolini's Trilogy of Life on 4K.

4k releases I'd be down for:

Typical BFI release
The Complete Humphrey Jennings Volumes 1-3

Sorely in need of an upgrade
Madame De...

For the beauty of the image alone
Tess

For the sheer hell of it
L'Age d'Or

[ukpaul]

Originally Posted by SimBobHard

If the BFI released one of their older Blu releases as a 4K release, what would people be down for?

Personally, I'd love the see Pasolini's Trilogy of Life on 4K.

The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) - Visconti
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort - Demy
Playtime - Tati

All would, I think, benefit from the greater level of detail. Depends on the available source material, of course.

[jhm]

I'd be more even more keen if the BFI released one of their old DVD releases as a Bluray (e.g. some of the Kurosawa's) but know that's impossible/very unlikely.

[Michael Harper]

Originally Posted by SimBobHard

If the BFI released one of their older Blu releases as a 4K release, what would people be down for?

Personally, I'd love the see Pasolini's Trilogy of Life on 4K.

Aguirre, Wrath of God, The Valley (Obscured by Clouds), Ikiru (wish this had received a Blu-ray release), Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom, The Devils (let’s face it, never going to happen), Successive Slidings of Pleasure, The Great White Silence, Tokyo Story, The Enigma of Kaspar Houser, Nosferatu the Vampyre, and Fitzcarraldo. To name a few off the top of my head.

[andantelise]

Originally Posted by koberulz

Is Blue safe to watch on an OLED?

Not being snarky or sarcastic... What do you mean by blue?

The film Blue by Kieslowski or the color blue?

[rapta]

Originally Posted by andantelise

Not being snarky or sarcastic... What do you mean by blue?

The film Blue by Kieslowski or the color blue?

Derek Jarman’s Blue (1993).