The British Film Institute has launched its Blu-ray/DVD launch schedule for July–September 2020. Highlights embrace a Woodfall Films marvel, a Peter Sellers caper and a Frank Capra basic.
20 July:
DVD/Blu-ray: The Guinea Pig (1948) directed by Roy Boulting. Starring Richard Attenborough, Sheila Sim, Bernard Miles, Joan Hickson.
The Boulting Brothers’ landmark British class-battle melodrama drama will get its first ever Blu-ray launch in a brand new 2K remaster. A working class boy is given a scholarship to an unique public college the place he should cope with the snobbery of each his new classmates and a few of his academics.
DVD/Blu-ray: The Good Die Young (1954) directed by Lewis Gilbert. Starring Stanley Baker, Joan Collins, Gloria Grahame and Laurence Harvey
In
this newly-remastered taut powerful British thriller, amoral aristocrat
Miles Ravencourt plots a daring theft to settle his playing money owed,
performed out on the shadowy streets of Post-War London.
Blu-ray: Maborosi (1995) directed by Hirokazu Koreeda.
Previously out there within the BFI Blu-ray field set Of Flesh and Blood: The Cinema of Hirokazu Koreeda, Maborosi will get a stand-alone launch as a part of JAPAN2020, the BFI’s main celebration of Japanese cinema. Koreeda’s fantastically-filmed fiction-characteristic debut is an beautiful meditation on uncertainty and coming to phrases with the previous, which garnered awards on the Venice Film Festival and introduced him to worldwide consideration.
17
August:
Blu-ray: After Life (1998) directed by Hirokazu Koreeda.
Also beforehand out there within the BFI Blu-ray field set Of Flesh and Blood: The Cinema of Hirokazu Koreeda, the director’s lyrical fantasy After Life will get a stand-alone launch as a part of JAPAN2020.
Blu-ray: Equus (1977) directed by Sidney Lumet. Starring Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Jenny Agutter.
Adapted
by Peter Shaffer from his personal landmark Tony-winning play, this
gripping Oscar-nominated
psychological
thriller, involves Blu-ray for the primary time within the UK.
21
September
Blu-ray: After the Fox (1966) directed by Vittorio De Sica. Starring Peter Sellers, Victor Mature, Britt Ekland
This
madcap comedy caper, starring Peter Sellers as a conman disguised as
a neo-realist movie director, is each a zany heist farce and a riotous
filmmaking satire and involves Blu-ray for the primary time within the UK.
Blu-ray/DVD: Mademoiselle (1966) directed by Tony Richardson. Starring Jeanne Moreau, Ettore Manni, Keith Skinner.
Featuring
a robust central efficiency from Jeanne Moreau as a violently
sociopathic college instructor, this mesmerising mid-1960s
thriller, a Woodfall Films manufacturing, arrives on Blu-ray for the
first time.
Blu-ray: Pocketful of Miracles (1961) directed by Frank Capra. Starring Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Hope Lange, Peter Falk
This
charming city fairy story is a basic Hollywood comedy from certainly one of
America’s most celebrated abilities and was Frank Capra’s remaining
movie.
The beforehand-introduced experimental and political science fiction drama Friendship’s Death by famend movie theorist Peter Wollen has moved again to later in 2020.
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out for additional protection of those releases from The Digital Fix.
