British Film Institute (BFI) Discussion Thread

[stepeanut]

Originally Posted by Wes M.

I've nosed around this BR for so long, watching the price ping-ponging in my Amazon cart - that I haven't secured a copy is in the words of the great Blind Willie Johnson, nobody's fault but mine...

We’ve all been guilty of that at some point, and missed out on certain releases as a result. I bought my copy, years ago, at Fopp. Don’t think I paid more than £6.

Un Chien Andalou has always held a fascination for me, ever since it was used as an intro to David Bowie’s 1976 live performances. And I remember seeing L’Age d’Or on television sometime in the 1980s, so this was a natural purchase, for me.

[Hawkmonger]

Originally Posted by James78

Thank you for the tip Gerby. I watched The Sex Victims last night but was disappointed. It thought it was cheesy rather than spooky or atmospheric. However, I still have high hopes for the rest of the films on the Short Sharp Shocks Blu-ray. It's now available to pre-order from Amazon:

A slightly mixed bag agreed but the two Algernon Blackwood readings are stunning. A real master of weird fiction conveying his own work in fine form.

Picking up for those two alone, proper Ghost Stories For Christmas material.

[Si Parallel Universe]

There doesn't appear to be a BR dot com entry for the BFI disc of L'age D'or ..

[Dailyan]

Originally Posted by si parallel universe

there doesn't appear to be a br dot com entry for the bfi disc of l'age d'or ..

[Si Parallel Universe]

Originally Posted by Dailyan

Thank You

[minister_x]

Yes, you have to just look up "d'Or" - unfortunately the a with the circumflex (â) doesn't match a regular 'a' character, so "L'age" won't find it. Also the lower case a with circumflex (â) won't match the upper case one (Â) either!

[CelestialAgent]

Originally Posted by minister_x

Yes, you have to just look up "d'Or" - unfortunately the a with the circumflex (â) doesn't match a regular 'a' character, so "L'age" won't find it. Also the lower case a with circumflex (â) won't match the upper case one (Â) either!

Just search by Un chien andalou

[CelestialAgent]

Friendship’s Death pushed until June 2021 for “scheduling reasons”, but it’s still premiering at LFF.

https://www.bfi.org.uk/london-film-f...endships-death

[GaryCouzens]

Originally Posted by oddbox83

Am I the only one who always reads the title in my head as "Large Door"? Someone else pointed it out to me many years ago, and I cannot shift it.

Given the film itself, it suits.

Time Out once infamously spelled the title that way in its cinema listings for that week.

[Aclea]

My favourite was a local cinema advertising Walter Hill's Dr. Iver...

[Si Parallel Universe]

If anybody wants to sell me their booklet that came with L'age d'or please drop me a message.

[Wes M.]

10 days on from placing an order for L'age d'or, Simply Home Entertainment have yet to send me a cancellation email ! At this point, it's getting on my nerves. I'm thinking of that line from a jumpy Frederic Forrest in Apocalypse Now: "Why don't they f**kin attack, man!"

@CelestialAgent - did you hear anything from them about your order ?

[LAPrice]

Originally Posted by Aclea

My favourite was a local cinema advertising Walter Hill's Dr. Iver...

A cinema I used to work in announced the showing time for a film called 'Dan's Paris', it turned out be 'Dans Paris' with Romain Duris.

[justwannaboogie]

Received my copy of L'age d'or from CeX today, surprisingly it's in great condition with nothing amiss.

[sjt]

Originally Posted by Aclea

My favourite was a local cinema advertising Walter Hill's Dr. Iver...

Back in the 1990s, Alexander Walker - the Evening Standard's redoubtably fastidious and closeted doyen of moralistic film reviewing - took a whole page to offer up his thoughts on a new Woody Allen work referred to in print throughout as Blitz Over Broadway. It must have been the clipped fey brogue down the end of a phone line......

[Aclea]

One of my biggest surprises was getting to know Walker professionally and to my great amazement finding out that even though we disagreed on almost everything (our one main point of agreement being the shared belief that Wilf Stevenson was a dangerous idiot who was running the BFI into the ground with his internal market/film is a mere chemical process/cultural renewal staff culls and Birtspeak bollocks management style), we actually got on really well and he was a surprisingly easygoing, helpful and generous sort of chap. It's always a weird experience when you find out that one of your bete noirs is a decent bloke. He must have got all the vitriol out of his system in his column.

[Modman]

Originally Posted by Aclea

One of my biggest surprises was getting to know Walker professionally and to my great amazement finding out that even though we disagreed on almost everything (our one main point of agreement being the shared belief that Wilf Stevenson was a dangerous idiot who was running the BFI into the ground with his internal market/film is a mere chemical process/cultural renewal staff culls and Birtspeak bollocks management style), we actually got on really well and he was a surprisingly easygoing, helpful and generous sort of chap. It's always a weird experience when you find out that one of your bete noirs is a decent bloke. He must have got all the vitriol out of his system in his column.

Wilf Stevenson must feel at home in the House of Lords

[CelestialAgent]

Originally Posted by justwannaboogie

Received my copy of L'age d'or from CeX today, surprisingly it's in great condition with nothing amiss.

I've still heard nothing and I can't remember my login for the website I'll have a look in store in HMV for a copy though

My CEX copy of Harold and Maude arrived absolutely pristine as well

[gap]

I find that, in general, the boutique label releases are nearly always mint. I suppose the average joe doesn't buy them so once they have been sold, they sit untouched until another collector-type picks them up.

[CelestialAgent]

Originally Posted by gap

I find that, in general, the boutique label releases are nearly always mint. I suppose the average joe doesn't buy them so once they have been sold, they sit untouched until another collector-type picks them up.

I agree with you there - they usually sit around for weeks and months, even if it’s OOP, with people put off by a £10 price tag.

It was a year or so Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence stuck around in Norwich before I bought it. Weekend was in CEX Ipswich in December 2019 and again last August when I bought it.