BFI 75th Birthday Celebrations
08-05-08, 06:44 PM
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BFI 75th Birthday Celebrations
From dvdtimes.co.uk:
Here are the 75 titles included in the sale:
Adventures Of Prince Achmed, The
Baadasssss!
Bande a Part
Before The Nickelodeon
Bigger Than Life
British Transport Films Collection (Vol 1): On and Off the Rails
British Transport Films Collection (Vol 2): See Britain by Train
British Transport Films Collection (Vol 5): Off the Beaten Track
British Transport Films Collection (Vol 6): The Art of Travel
Caravaggio
Caretaker, The
Carmen Jones
Celine and Julie Go Boating
Cercle Rouge, Le
Dickens Before Sound
Distant Voices Still Lives
Doulos, Le
Draughtsmans Contract, The
Dreams That Money Can Buy
Early Cinema: Primitives And Pioneers
Early Films of Peter Greenaway - Volume 1
Edge Of The World, The
Electric Edwardians: The Films of Mitchell & Kenyon
Fallen Angel
Five
Geoffrey Jones: The Rhythm of Film
Gertrud
Hidden Fortress, The
Ikiru (Living)
Innocents, The
Jour De Fete
Journey To Italy (Viaggio In Italia)
Kermesse Heroique, La
L'Armee Des Ombres
Leon Morin, Pretre
Leopard, The
Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne
Les Enfants Terribles
Les Vacances de M. Hulot
London / Robinson In Space
Lost World of Friese-Greene, The
Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon, The
Lost World of Tibet, The
Mad Love
Mahabharata, The (Brook)
Man With a Movie Camera (Alloy Orchestra / In the Nursery Edition)
Mitchell & Kenyon in Ireland
Night and the City
Night of Truth
Ordet
Ossessione
Paris Nous Appartient
Partie de Campagne
People On Sunday
Phil Mulloy: Extreme Animation
Piccadilly
Radio On
Regarde la mer (and other short films by Francois Ozon)
Regle du Jeu, La
River, The (Renoir)
RW Paul - The Collected Films
Sanjuro
Seven Samurai, The
Silent Shakespeare
South - Sir Ernest Shackleton's Glorious Epic of the Antarctic
Straight To Hell/Death & The Compass (Alex Cox double-bill)
Terra Trema, La
Threepenny Opera, The
Throne Of Blood
Tristana
Under The Skin
Visions of Light: the Art of Cinematography
Where The Sidewalk Ends
Woman of the Dunes (Director's Cut)
Yojimbo
I assume Amazon.co.uk will have all of these titles for £9.99, and probably even lower, since £9.99 is temporarily the list price? If so, I'm all over Dreams That Money Can Buy, Paris nous appartient, Partie de campagne, Radio On,Distant Voices, Still Lives,the RW Paul set, and possibly a few others.
To celebrate its 75th birthday the BFI are running two special promotions this September. The first sees 75 DVDs from their catalogue on sale at the special price of £9.99 nationwide throughout September, a reduction of half the normal RRP.
This one-of-a-kind promotion includes Jean-Luc Godard’s Bande à part; Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Cercle rouge; Terence Davies’ Distant Voices, Still Lives; Jack Clayton’s The Innocents; Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard; Jean Renoir’s La Règle du jeu; and BFI’s best-selling DVD of all time, Kurosawa’s The Seven Samurai.
In addition, three of the UK’s leading retailers – Amazon, Play and Moviemail – have each chosen ten titles from the BFI catalogue to create their own exclusive celebratory 75th anniversary DVD box set. Housed in deluxe, limited edition packaging, the collections will be on sale from 1 September at the remarkable price of £75.00. At standard prices, the sets contain £200 worth of DVDs. Follow the links for details on the Amazon and Moviemail sets, and if you find the Play.com set, please post the link in the comments.
This one-of-a-kind promotion includes Jean-Luc Godard’s Bande à part; Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Cercle rouge; Terence Davies’ Distant Voices, Still Lives; Jack Clayton’s The Innocents; Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard; Jean Renoir’s La Règle du jeu; and BFI’s best-selling DVD of all time, Kurosawa’s The Seven Samurai.
In addition, three of the UK’s leading retailers – Amazon, Play and Moviemail – have each chosen ten titles from the BFI catalogue to create their own exclusive celebratory 75th anniversary DVD box set. Housed in deluxe, limited edition packaging, the collections will be on sale from 1 September at the remarkable price of £75.00. At standard prices, the sets contain £200 worth of DVDs. Follow the links for details on the Amazon and Moviemail sets, and if you find the Play.com set, please post the link in the comments.
Adventures Of Prince Achmed, The
Baadasssss!
Bande a Part
Before The Nickelodeon
Bigger Than Life
British Transport Films Collection (Vol 1): On and Off the Rails
British Transport Films Collection (Vol 2): See Britain by Train
British Transport Films Collection (Vol 5): Off the Beaten Track
British Transport Films Collection (Vol 6): The Art of Travel
Caravaggio
Caretaker, The
Carmen Jones
Celine and Julie Go Boating
Cercle Rouge, Le
Dickens Before Sound
Distant Voices Still Lives
Doulos, Le
Draughtsmans Contract, The
Dreams That Money Can Buy
Early Cinema: Primitives And Pioneers
Early Films of Peter Greenaway - Volume 1
Edge Of The World, The
Electric Edwardians: The Films of Mitchell & Kenyon
Fallen Angel
Five
Geoffrey Jones: The Rhythm of Film
Gertrud
Hidden Fortress, The
Ikiru (Living)
Innocents, The
Jour De Fete
Journey To Italy (Viaggio In Italia)
Kermesse Heroique, La
L'Armee Des Ombres
Leon Morin, Pretre
Leopard, The
Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne
Les Enfants Terribles
Les Vacances de M. Hulot
London / Robinson In Space
Lost World of Friese-Greene, The
Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon, The
Lost World of Tibet, The
Mad Love
Mahabharata, The (Brook)
Man With a Movie Camera (Alloy Orchestra / In the Nursery Edition)
Mitchell & Kenyon in Ireland
Night and the City
Night of Truth
Ordet
Ossessione
Paris Nous Appartient
Partie de Campagne
People On Sunday
Phil Mulloy: Extreme Animation
Piccadilly
Radio On
Regarde la mer (and other short films by Francois Ozon)
Regle du Jeu, La
River, The (Renoir)
RW Paul - The Collected Films
Sanjuro
Seven Samurai, The
Silent Shakespeare
South - Sir Ernest Shackleton's Glorious Epic of the Antarctic
Straight To Hell/Death & The Compass (Alex Cox double-bill)
Terra Trema, La
Threepenny Opera, The
Throne Of Blood
Tristana
Under The Skin
Visions of Light: the Art of Cinematography
Where The Sidewalk Ends
Woman of the Dunes (Director's Cut)
Yojimbo
I assume Amazon.co.uk will have all of these titles for £9.99, and probably even lower, since £9.99 is temporarily the list price? If so, I'm all over Dreams That Money Can Buy, Paris nous appartient, Partie de campagne, Radio On,Distant Voices, Still Lives,the RW Paul set, and possibly a few others.
08-07-08, 06:19 AM
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Thanks for the info, Noirfan 
The Amazon set (limited to 500, apparently) is currently on for £57 so I've pre-ordered that. Their particular set has a "European Cinema" theme; of the 10, I only have Celine & Julie and Tristana on DVD, so I figure that's not too bad a price for the 8 I don't have. The contents of the set:
La Kermesse Heroique
Les Dames Du Bois De Boulogne
Partie De Campagne
The Threepenny Opera
Regarde La Mer (& other short Ozon)
Le Cercle Rouge
Celine & Julie Go Boating
Tristana
Distant Voices, Still Lives
The Innocents
Dazza.
The Amazon set (limited to 500, apparently) is currently on for £57 so I've pre-ordered that. Their particular set has a "European Cinema" theme; of the 10, I only have Celine & Julie and Tristana on DVD, so I figure that's not too bad a price for the 8 I don't have. The contents of the set:
La Kermesse Heroique
Les Dames Du Bois De Boulogne
Partie De Campagne
The Threepenny Opera
Regarde La Mer (& other short Ozon)
Le Cercle Rouge
Celine & Julie Go Boating
Tristana
Distant Voices, Still Lives
The Innocents
Dazza.
08-07-08, 04:55 PM
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Originally Posted by pro-bassoonist
I highly recommend the Melville's as unlike the Criterion discs there aren't any color-corrections on these.
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08-07-08, 10:57 PM
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Originally Posted by NoirFan
Plus the BFI of Le Cercle Rouge has an exclusive commentary and intro from Ginette Vincendeau.
Originally Posted by NoirFan
If it ends up being under ten pounds, I might double dip on this one. The color manipulation on Army of Shadows doesn't look as bad.
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08-10-08, 10:06 PM
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Originally Posted by PopcornTreeCt
I'm thinking about biting. I've wanted The Innocents forever. I do already have Celine & Julie Go Boating.
Hmmm.....
Okay, I bit. The collector in me got the best of me.
Hmmm.....
Okay, I bit. The collector in me got the best of me.
EDIT: Looks like you were referring to the entire Amazon set. Hopefully that includes the various booklet essays as well. There is a bit of crossover with Criterion, but there are some excellent BFI exclusives there.
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08-23-08, 04:55 AM
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I'll definitely be getting the R.W. Paul disc, Celine and Julie, and Dreams That Money Can Buy. May even upgrade to their Night and the City.
I highly recommend the Geoffrey Jones set to the uninitiated. Snow and Rail are the best avant garde films about trains you'll ever see.
I highly recommend the Geoffrey Jones set to the uninitiated. Snow and Rail are the best avant garde films about trains you'll ever see.
08-23-08, 10:54 AM
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08-27-08, 10:27 PM
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09-01-08, 06:04 PM
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Amazon is either doing a select number of titles, or just taking a little time to get around to them all.
E.g. Distant Voices is £8.98, but Radio On, etc. (many others) still appear to be normal price.
(Also appears that the Amazon BFI 75 set is completely sold out. I haven't gotten a ship notice, but preordered it pretty early. I'll be bummed if I missed out.)
E.g. Distant Voices is £8.98, but Radio On, etc. (many others) still appear to be normal price.
(Also appears that the Amazon BFI 75 set is completely sold out. I haven't gotten a ship notice, but preordered it pretty early. I'll be bummed if I missed out.)
09-01-08, 08:38 PM
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09-02-08, 10:04 PM
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Shit:
"We're still trying to obtain the following item[s] you ordered on 10 August 2008, 23:15 BST (Order# 026-1055296-9944335).
Robert Bresson (Director), et al "BFI 75 10 DVD Box Set - European
Cinema (Limited to 500 copies - Exclusive to Amazon.co.uk)"
09-02-08, 10:19 PM
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hmmmm...
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09-03-08, 08:39 AM
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09-03-08, 09:19 AM
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Another email from amazon.co.uk (re the BFI 75 set), in response to my inquiry:
"First, please allow me to extend my most sincere apologies for any frustration caused due to the order placed by you.
Sometimes unexpected fluctuations in supply can add time to our original availability estimate. However, I confirm that you have not been charged for this order.
I request you to understand our limitations in this regard, and we are working closely with the supplier and doing all we can to make this item available from our website, but at this time we cannot guarantee that this item will be immediately made available through our website. This item though is currently unavailable with us, you may check after a fortnight if this item is available on our website.
Please contact us again using the link below if you have any further questions."
Not very helpful. We'll see what happens.
"First, please allow me to extend my most sincere apologies for any frustration caused due to the order placed by you.
Sometimes unexpected fluctuations in supply can add time to our original availability estimate. However, I confirm that you have not been charged for this order.
I request you to understand our limitations in this regard, and we are working closely with the supplier and doing all we can to make this item available from our website, but at this time we cannot guarantee that this item will be immediately made available through our website. This item though is currently unavailable with us, you may check after a fortnight if this item is available on our website.
Please contact us again using the link below if you have any further questions."
Not very helpful. We'll see what happens.
09-03-08, 09:53 AM
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CritterYawn: Yeah, as far as I know, play.com doesn't ship over here. However, all 75 titles are discounted directly from BFI, and it won't be too much more than amazon.co.uk, I don't think.
On the other hand, the sale, per official press release, will last all of Sept... so I figure there is some time to hope that amazon jumps on board. I'm going to hold out another bit, then head over to the bfi store.
On the other hand, the sale, per official press release, will last all of Sept... so I figure there is some time to hope that amazon jumps on board. I'm going to hold out another bit, then head over to the bfi store.
09-03-08, 11:49 AM
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According to a poster on the Criterion forum, the Movie Mail set does not include the individual booklets, so those who ordered the Amazon set may be disappointed in that department.