BFI Flipside
BFI Flipside is a series of Dual Format Editions (DVD and Blu-ray released together) which was launched in May 2009 and is published by the British Film Institute's Video label. The series so far features a total of 65 feature and short films,[1] as well as 10 archive interviews with the likes of Spike Milligan, Peter Cook and Richard Lester. The BFI Flipside charts "the untold history of British film",[2] and includes performances by such celebrated actors as John Hurt, Jane Asher, Ian McNeice, Richard O'Brien, Tom Bell, Peter Cook, Barry Evans, Denholm Elliott and Judy Geeson in films directed by the likes of Clive Donner, Richard Lester, Barney Platts-Mills, John Irvin, Stuart Cooper, Guy Hamilton, Peter Watkins and James Hill. Each BFI Flipside edition includes a feature film presentation that is complemented by additional film content (sometimes a second feature film by the same director, or a selection of short films which are related to the main feature by subject, era, actor or director). Each release is packaged in distinctive artwork which carries the volume number on the spine, and with a comprehensive booklet containing informative essays, full cast and credit information, original film reviews and reproductions of original promotional material. The Flipside is dedicated to releasing British film titles which have never been available on any home video format before (though some exceptions have been noted by the label's founder and programmer[3]), and all films are newly mastered to High Definition from the best available film materials from the BFI National Archive or from the collections of filmmakers. Each title was originally released on both DVD and Blu-ray, but since The Pleasure Girls in a dual format release.
Releases
| # | Title | Director | Year | Release Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | The Bed-Sitting Room | Richard Lester | 1969 | 25 May 2009 (Blu-ray) 24 October 2011 (Dual format) |
Includes original trailer and archival interviews with Richard Lester (1967, 17 minutes), Spike Milligan (1967, 40 minutes) and Peter Cook (1967, 30 minutes)[4] |
| 002 | London in the Raw | Arnold L. Miller | 1964 | 25 May 2009 (Blu-ray) 24 October 2011 (Dual format) |
Includes an alternative more explicit version of the feature, the original trailer, and three 1960s "London Sketches": Pub (Peter Davis, 1962, 15 mins); Strip (Peter Davis, Staffan Lamm, Don DeFina, 1965, 26 mins); Chelsea Bridge Boys (Peter Davis, Staffan Lamm, 1966, 28 mins)[4] |
| 003 | Primitive London | Arnold L. Miller | 1965 | 25 May 2009 (Blu-ray) 24 October 2011 (Dual format) |
Includes English and French language versions of the feature and original trailer, Carousella (John Irvin, 1966, 26 mins): a dramatised documentary on the lives of a group of striptease artistes, and interviews with Stuart McCabe (strip club owner) (1968, 15 mins), Shirley (stripper) interview (1968, 6 mins) and Al Burnett (nightclub owner) interview (1967, 17 mins)[4] |
| 004 | Herostratus | Don Levy | 1967 | 24 August 2009 (Blu-ray) 24 October 2011 (Dual format) |
Includes alternative 1.33:1 full frame presentation,Blu-ray only a rare audio interview with Don Levy from 1973, Ten Thousand Talents (1960): Levy's student film, a wry look at Cambridge life, featuring the voice of Peter Cook, Time Is (1964): Levy's remarkable science documentary, and Five Films (1967): Levy's hypnotic experiments in film editing techniques.[5] |
| 005 | All the Right Noises | Gerry O'Hara | 1971 | 24 August 2009 (Blu-ray) 24 October 2011 (Dual format) |
Includes Bernard Braden's Now and Then interview from 1967 with Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting and O'Hara's The Spy's Wife (1972): a rare and little-seen short starring Tom Bell and Ann Lynn.[5] |
| 006 | Man of Violence (aka Moon) | Pete Walker | 1969 | 24 August 2009 (Blu-ray) 24 October 2011 (Dual format) |
Includes additional 68-minute feature The Big Switch (aka Strip Poker) from 1968 (with a 77-minute alternative export cut on Blu-ray), and original trailers for both films.[5] |
| 007 | Privilege | Peter Watkins | 1967 | 25 January 2010 (Blu-ray) 24 October 2011 (Dual format) |
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| 008 | That Kind of Girl | Gerry O'Hara | 1963 | ||
| 009 | Permissive | Lindsay Shonteff | 1970 | 25 January 2010 (Blu-ray) 24 October 2011 (Dual format) |
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| 010 | The Pleasure Girls | Gerry O'Hara | 1965 | ||
| 011 | The Party's Over | Guy Hamilton | 1965 | ||
| 012 | Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush | Clive Donner | 1967 | 13 September 2010 | Includes Complete uncensored presentation of main feature (DVD and Blu-ray); Alternative censored version (Blu-ray only, 96 mins); Alternative censored sequences (DVD only, 10 mins); Because That Road is Trodden (Tim King, 1969, 23 mins): dream-like confessional concerning the fantasies of a public schoolboy; Stevenage (Gordon Ruttan, 1971, 21 mins): documentary celebration of Britain's first New Town and Fully illustrated booklet with contributions from Steve Chibnall, Hunter Davies, Vic Pratt and William Fowler |
| 013 | Bronco Bullfrog | Barney Platts-Mills | 1969 | ||
| 014 | Private Road | Barney Platts-Mills | 1970 | ||
| 015 | Duffer | Joseph Despins, William Dumaresq | 1971 | ||
| The Moon Over the Alley | Joseph Despins, William Dumaresq | 1975 | |||
| 016 | Joanna | Mike Sarne | 1968 | ||
| 017 | Lunch Hour | James Hill | 1962 | ||
| 018 | Requiem for a Village | David Gladwell | 1975 | ||
| 019 | Deep End | Jerzy Skolimowski | 1970 | ||
| 020 | Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs | Stuart Cooper | 1974 | 24 October 2011 | Includes Original Little Malcolm trailer; Put Yourself in My Place (Francine Winham, 1974, 25 mins): fraught gender relations trigger a startling role reversal in this polemical comedy starring Judy Geeson (Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush); The Contraption (James Dearden, 1977, 7 mins): in a final act of defeat or defiance, a man (Richard O'Brien) builds a sinister contraption; Fully illustrated booklet featuring original artwork and contributions by Yvonne Tasker, John Hurt, Stuart Cooper and Mike Leigh. |
| 021 | Voice Over | Christopher Monger | 1980 | ||
| 022 | Her Private Hell | Norman J. Warren | 1967 | 20 February 2012[6] | |
| 023 | Nightbirds | Andy Milligan | 1970 | 21 May 2012[7] | |
| 024 | The Black Panther | Ian Merrick | 1977 | 21 May 2012[8] | |
| 025 | You're Human Like the Rest of Them | B. S. Johnson | 1967 | 15 April 2013[9] | |
| 026 | Captured | John Krish | 1959 | 15 April 2013[10] | |
| 027 | Sleepwalker | Saxon Logan | 1984 | 23 September 2013[11] | |
| 028 | Schalcken the Painter | Leslie Megahey | 1979 | 18 November 2013[12] | |
| 029 | That Sinking Feeling | Bill Forsyth | 1979 | 21 April 2014[13] | Includes the Original Glaswegian Dialogue track as well as the alternative dubbed dialogue track; Audio Commentary by Bill Forsyth and critic Mark Kermode; Interview with actor Robert Buchanan; Kermode Uncut film from 2012 which Mark Kermode discusses the budget for That Sinking Feeling with Bill Forsyth; KH-4 (1969) and Mirror (1970), two short films directed by John Schorstein starring Forsyth; Glasgow 1980 (1971), a documentary by Oscar Marzaroli, edited by Forsyth; Islands of the West (1972) a promotional film directed by Forsyth; Bill Forsyth's Lifetime Achievement Film, the short acceptance film made for BAFTA. |
A budget-priced DVD sampler entitled Kim Newman's Guide to The Flipside of British Cinema (2010), spine number "000", features a documentary in which the UK's leading cult film expert introduced and contextualized the first nine releases in the series, and also included three complete short films as extras - John Irvin's Carousella (1966), Gerry O'Hara's The Spy's Wife (1972), and a short travelogue Tomorrow Night in London (1969, exclusive to the release).
External links
References
- ↑ Brooke, M (2011) BFI Flipside Master List, Criterion Forum 18 July 2011
- ↑ Watts, P (2011) BFI Flipside celebrates forgotten British film, The Independent 25 February, retrieved 23 September 2011
- ↑ Rugo, D (2011) Those Obscure Objects of (British) Desire: A Conversation with Flipside's Sam Dunn, Mubi.com 11 October 2011
- 1 2 3 Dave Foster, The Digital Fix (2009-04-08). "BFI: Discover the Flipside on DVD & Blu-ray | News | Film @ The Digital Fix". Homecinema.thedigitalfix.com. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
- 1 2 3 Dave Foster, The Digital Fix (2009-07-24). "BFI Flipside Wave 2 in August | News | Film @ The Digital Fix". Homecinema.thedigitalfix.com. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
- ↑ "Buy Her Private Hell: Dual Format Edition (With DVD) (Blu-ray) online at Play.com and read reviews. Free delivery to UK and Europe!". Play.com. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
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