Iris Prize 2018 – shortlist announced
❉ 35 short films compete for Cardiff’s International LGBT Short Film Prize – see them all in Cardiff 9 – 14 October 2018.
BFI
Heathers 30th Anniversary DVD & Blu-ray
❉ How very timely! A 30th Anniversary release of the cult classic high school satire, with a 4K restoration featuring a host of extras, new artwork and a collector’s booklet.
‘Genesis Of The Daleks’ at the BFI, 23 June 2018
❉ The eagerly anticipated Blu-ray release of Doctor Who’s Season 12 was publicised with a screening of ‘Genesis of the Daleks’ at the BFI Southbank.
‘It Happened Here’ (1964) – BFI Dual Format release on 23 July
❉ Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo’s immensely powerful film depicts an alternative history in which England has been invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany.
‘Arcadia: A Film By Paul Wright’ (12A) reviewed
❉ An intriguing blend of folk horror and documentary, featuring an original score by Adrian Utley of Portishead and Goldfrapp’s Will Gregory.
Bizarre Rituals: ‘Hell’s Bells’ reviewed
❉ Things get downright pagan in this short film showing just how weird and sinister some British subcultures can get.
‘THE KNACK…and how to get it’ makes its Blu-Ray debut!
❉ Mod masterpiece to be released by the BFI in a Dual Format Edition – the first time it has been released on Blu-ray in the UK!
‘Woodfall: A Revolution in British Cinema’
❉ Includes A Taste of Honey, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner and two cuts of Tom Jones.
When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again: Derek Jarman’s ‘The Tempest’ (1979)
❉ Rich and strange (with a hip full of loose change) – such stuff that hallicinatory dreams are made on.
Coming Soon… ‘The Other Side With Valerie Hope’
❉ Kate Robbins stars in a blackly comic, Blackpool-set thriller about a psychic medium who is kidnapped by a woman desperate to contact someone on the “other side”.