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Review of 'All Coppers Are...' (1972) – Sidney Hayers.
Famed British journeyman director Sidney Hayers is responsible for creating some truly outstanding genre cinema, including razor-edged thrillers 'Revenge',...
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BFI Releasing Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la bête On Blu-ray 8/6/18
La Belle et la bíªte
Written and directed by Jean Cocteau
Blu-ray release on 6 August 2018
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When The Wind Blows
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Ian Jane
in MoviesWhen The Wind Blows
Released by: BFI
Released on: January 22nd, 2018.
Director: Jimmy T. Murakami
Cast: Sir John Mills, Dame Peggy Ashcroft
Year: 1986
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The Movie:
When Twilight Time debuted When The Wind Blows on Blu-ray back in 2014, Mark Tolch had this to say: Sometime back in the mid to late '80's, when watching television was still regarded as somewhat of a family event and you could plan out your evenings by paging t... -
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Wages Of Fear, The
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Created by: Ian Jane
in MoviesWages Of Fear, The
Released by: BFI
Released on: October 23rd, 2017.
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Cast: Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter Van Eyck, Vera Clouzot
Year: 1953
The Movie: Henri-Georges Clouzot's 1953 masterpiece of suspense Wages Of Fear was released in North American a year later in 1954 shorn of over twenty minutes. The American distributors removed portions of the film that they felt were anti-American, as they insinuated that the United Stat... -
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Psychomania (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)
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Created by: Ian Jane
in MoviesPsychomania (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)
Released by: BFI
Released on: September 13th, 2016.
Director: Don Sharp
Cast: George Sanders, Beryl Reed, Nicky Henson, Mary Larkin, Denis Gilmore
Year: 1973
The Movie:
Hey, remember that Motorhead video for Killed By Death where Lemmy, may he rest in peace, gets buried on his motorcycle only to ride out of his grave (kinda like on the cover of Meatloaf's Bat Out Of Hell) to grab his woman and ride off to raise some Hell? Of course... -
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Cry Of The City
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Created by: Ian Jane
in MoviesCry Of The City
Released by: BFI
Released on: August 22nd, 2016.
Director: Robert Siodmak
Cast: Richard Conte, Victor Mature, Shelly Winters, Fred Clark, Debra Paget
Year: 1948
The Movie: Based on the novel of the same name by Henry Edward Helseth, Robert Siodmak's 1948 film Cry Of The City open with a strange scene in which two cops, Lieutenants Candella (Victor Mature) and Collins (Fred Clark), stand quietly in a prison hospital room where Martin Rome (Richa... -
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Expresso Bongo
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C.D. Workman
in MoviesExpresso Bongo
Released by: BFI
Released on: April 25, 2016
Directed by: Val Guest
Cast: Laurence Harvey, Sylvia Sims, Yolande Donlan, Cliff Richard, Eric Pohlmann, Hermione Baddely, Gilbert Harding
Year: 1959
The Movie: The musical genre known as rock and roll began sometime in the late 1940s; it took a number of influences—from rhythm and blues to gospel—and combined them into a unique new form. The exact date of the genre's birth is disputed... -
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Women In Love
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Created by: Ian Jane
in MoviesWomen In Love
Released by: BFI
Released on: August 22nd, 2016.
Director: Ken Russell
Cast: Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson, Eleanor Bron, Alan Webb, Jennie Linden
Year: 1969
The Movie: Directed by Ken Russell and adapted by screenwriter Larry Kramer from the D.H. Lawrence novel of the same name, 1969's Women In Love is set in the small English mining town of Beldover in 1920. Here sisters - a school teacher named Ursula (Jennie Linden) and an arti... -
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Ken Russell: The Great Passions
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Created by: Ian Jane
in MoviesKen Russell: The Great Passions
Released by: BFI
Released on: March 28thth, 2016.
Director: Ken Russell
Cast: Vivian Pickles, Oliver Reed, James Lloyd
Year: Various
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With this second three film collection (released alongside Ken Russell: The Great Composers) the BFI offer up on Blu-ray for the first time some of the late, great Ken Russell's early films made for the BBC.
Always On Sunday: The first movie, made... -
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Beat Girl
Beat Girl
Released by: BFI
Released on: April 25th, 2016.
Director: Edmond T. Greville
Cast: Christopher Lee, Oliver Reed, Nigel Green, Margot Bryant, Nade Beall, Adam Faith, Gillian Hills
Year: 1960
The Movie: The plot for Edmond T. Greville's 1960 film Beat Girl (also known as Wild For Kicks) is very much a product of its time. In the film, David Farrar is Paul. He's a recently divorced Englishman who soon marries a foxy French woma... -
Ken Russell: The Great Composers
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Created by: Ian Jane
in MoviesKen Russell: The Great Composers
Released by: BFI
Released on: March 28th, 2016.
Director: Ken Russell
Cast: Oliver Reed, Huw Wheldon
Year: Various
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The Movies: With this three film collection the BFI offer up on Blu-ray for the first time some of the late, great Ken Russell's early films made for the BBC. The first of the three films is 1962's Elgar, which was originally made for the BBC series Monitor. The shortest film in the set follows the lif... -
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Valentino (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)
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Created by: Ian Jane
in MoviesValentino (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)
Released on: February 29th, 2016.
Released by: BFI
Director: Ken Russell
Cast: Rudolf Nureyev, Leslie Caron, Carol Kane, Felicity Kendal, Seymour Cassel
Year: 1977
The Movie: Directed by the late, great Ken Russell and released in 1977, Valentino begins with the news of the famed actor's untimely demise at the all too young age of thirty-one. Newsreel footage shows us how his legions of female fans are inconsolable over the news, swarming th... -
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Rock! Shock! Pop's Top DVD And Blu-ray Releases Of 2015!
Physical media is dead. Long live physical media. 2015 saw an insane amount of product out from boutique labels, the kind that cult movie fans tend to go rabid for, and man oh man, did we ever cover a lot of them. Not all of them, we're only human after all, but yeah, we wrote about a lot of DVD and Blu-ray releases this year. And with 2015 now, somehow, in the rear view mirror, what better time than this to look back on some of them? So wit... -
BFI Releasing Jean-Luc Godard's Bande à Part
Not a lot of details yet but this was in their latest newsletter:
"The Blu-ray premiere of Jean-Luc Godard's cool classic Bande í ... -
Otto Preminger Film Noir Collection, The
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Created by: Ian Jane
in MoviesOtto Preminger Film Noir Collection, The
Released by: BFI
Released on: September 28th, 2015.
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, Alice Faye, Linda Darnell, Karl Malden
Year: 1945/1950/1950
The Movies: While Otto Preminger dabbled in many different genres throughout his career, he's best remembered for his contributions to the film noir movement of the forties and fifties. The BFI have gathered together three of his best efforts in this area and re... -
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