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Member	Item		Review/Comment
albert 11th Apr 2021		Blu-ray Potiche - Studiocanal (2011)	Bare bones package from champion cheapskates Studio Canal.
albert 11th Apr 2021		Blu-ray The Day The Earth Caught Fire - BFI (2014)	The bonus short films are: Operation Hurricane (1952), 33min The H-bomb (1956), 22min The Hole In The Ground (1962), 30min There is also a well known C.O.I. TV clip regarding motorbike collisions Think Bike with Edward Judd, "think once, think twice, think bike".
albert 11th Apr 2021		Multi-Format The Decameron - BFI (2011)	Notes For An African Oresteria, I can only describe as being a collection of random home-movie footage from African travels accompanied by a rambling dialogue. Pasolini's comments are his 'notes' making suggestions for ideas, "this could be the village, this man could be so-and-so", etc. It is very hard to imagine that the poverty and dereliction on show could ever be translated into the beautiful images seen in his films, which are more of a European idealised and fake vision of Africa. BFI have repackaged this title one or more times, though I think the contents remain the same.
albert 11th Apr 2021		DVD Thieves' Highway - 20th Century Fox (2006)	Region 2 DVD. This issue was (I think) a repackage using different artwork. I would presume that Fox used the actual disc throughout Europe and 'region 2', and that only the cover slip changed.
albert 11th Apr 2021		Multi-Format Moulin Rouge [1952] - BFI (2019)	There are six short 'street life' films (most are 1min in length) of Paris around 1900-1925, some of the Exhibition, these are only of a passing interest, as is a short of Manchester printing workers walking past a camera, and a comedy sketch depicting an illegal bill poster. There are four early anti-war cartoons, or 'lightning sketches', and one from 1895 of the Kaiser. A 1974 animation 'Lautrec' inspired by the artist's sketchbooks rounds off the extras.
albert 11th Apr 2021		Blu-ray Ramrod - Arrow (2018)	Includes a 40 page booklet.
albert 10th Apr 2021		Multi-Format The Ox-Bow Incident - Arrow (2016)	Check out the new artwork, a bunch of miserable faces and hand loops, its London Tube commuters ! Oh? which line is Ox-Bow on? ...well couldn't the artist (if that's the term) have come up with something better, for instance like how the original poster art did.
albert 10th Apr 2021		Blu-ray This Is Spinal Tap - Optimum Releasing Ltd (2009)	Optimum / Studio Canal ? now the same company ?
albert 9th Apr 2021		Blu-ray Saturday Night And Sunday Morning - BFI (2015)	BFI have repackaged this one or more times, but I think that the disc contents remain the same. There was a dual format edition when first released on Blu-ray.
albert 9th Apr 2021		Blu-ray The Red Shoes - ITV Studios Home Entertainment	Additional cat number on the disc VFB22329, probably for other markets outside the UK. This is the restoration edition with the colours steady and looking gorgeous (instead of flying all over the place on previous DVD editions). I cannot see a release date anywhere but it will be after Martin Scorsese's introduction at Cannes 2009, which is included in the special features.
albert 9th Apr 2021		Multi-Format Beat The Devil - BFI (2020)	Includes a 20min Government PR film "Atomic Achievement" (1956), and an advert for tea "By The Fireside" (1945).
albert 9th Apr 2021		Blu-ray Grimsby - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2016)	Region ABC Blu-ray. Because Sony is a multinational corporation I would presume that the actual disc is the same one found in many countries and that only the cover slip changes. There are lots of exemptions and get-out clauses on the download code. Sony have a clause to cancel it after 2019.
albert 9th Apr 2021		Blu-ray Orphée - BFI (2019)	Includes a 38 page booklet.
albert 9th Apr 2021		Blu-ray La Belle Et La Bête [1946] - BFI (2018)	includes a 38 page booklet.
albert 9th Apr 2021		Blu-ray High Plains Drifter - Universal (2016)	This was also available separately to the box set.
albert 9th Apr 2021		Blu-ray The Mask - Warner Home Video (2016)	This has been repackaged at least a twice, usually with an outer card slip case. The same special features are on a number of editions, including DVDs. Because the distributers are a multinational corporation I would guess that the disc is actually multi-region and is the same one supplied to many countries.
albert 9th Apr 2021		Multi-Format The Good Die Young - BFI (2020)	Short films to be added are: When Giants Fought (1926) Midnight Taxi (1946)
albert 9th Apr 2021		Blu-ray The Trip [1967] - Signal One (2015)	One of my favourite films having seen it many times both in the cinema and on video & DVD, and well worth the upgrade. The film looks amazing, probably remastered though it doesn't specifically say so, and complete (some scenes looked trimmed on previous releases such as the chase through town), the running time is listed as 80mins but I suspect it is longer here.
albert 9th Apr 2021		Blu-ray Bad Grandpa - Paramount (2014)	Paramount also produced a DVD, though I think that the "explicit & extended" version is only on the Blu-ray. Because the distributers are a multinational corporation I would guess that the disc is actually multi-region and is the same one supplied to many countries.
albert 9th Apr 2021		Blu-ray Dark City - Arrow (2019)	Includes a 24 page booklet.
albert 9th Apr 2021		Multi-Format Permissive - BFI (2011)	Like most of the BFI's first Blu-ray releases the 'dual format' bundle was initially only available for a limited time. I have included a picture of the back cover from the later 'Blu-ray only' issue, the special features are the same, as is the actual disc. The Blu-ray includes a 38 page booklet.
albert 9th Apr 2021		Blu-ray Whiplash [2014] - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2019)	Sony also produced a DVD, though some of the special features are not included such as the original short film.
albert 8th Apr 2021		Multi-Format Cohen And Tate - Arrow (2016)	Weird looking 'alternative' artwork.
albert 8th Apr 2021		Multi-Format 52 Pick-Up - Arrow (2016)	I didn't bother scanning the new 'modern' artwork commissioned a few years back 'cos its seriously out-dated already. Arrow if you are reading this comment then please stop doing alternative artwork.
albert 8th Apr 2021		Multi-Format La Grande Bouffe - Arrow (2015)	The DVD will probably be in crappy NTSC format, being that it is region 1 as well as region 2. I seem to have lost my booklet, or maybe it was not included. The sleeve does say there should be one.
albert 8th Apr 2021		Multi-Format Woman On The Run [1950] - Arrow (2016)	The DVD will probably be in crappy NTSC format, being that it is region 1 as well as region 2.
albert 8th Apr 2021		Blu-ray Dark River [2017] - Arrow (2018)	Includes a booklet. I think Arrow also issued a DVD version.
albert 8th Apr 2021		Blu-ray Secret Beyond The Door... - Arrow (2018)	Pointless and pitiful alternative artwork, commission work for useless people.
albert 8th Apr 2021		Blu-ray I Drink Your Blood - 88 Films (2017)	Reversible slip has pointless alternative artwork. 88 Films also produced a DVD for this title, though I don't know if it has all the extra features.
albert 8th Apr 2021		Blu-ray The Mystery Of Picasso - Arrow (2018)	Also includes a booklet, and pointless alternative artwork.

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