Short Sharp Shocks (Blu-ray Limited Edition) (BFI Flipside) [UK]

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Release date: November 23, 2020
Purchase links: BFI - Amazon UK - HMV
Price: £19.99 (BFI - HMV) - £17.69 (Amazon)
Notes: Limited to 3000

 

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Featuring the following films:

• Lock Your Door (Anthony Gilkison, 1949)
• The Reformation of St Jules (Anthony Gilkison, 1949)
• The Tell-Tale Heart (J B Williams, 1953)
• Death Was a Passenger (Theodore Zichy, 1958)
• Portrait of a Matador (Theodore Zichy, 1958)
• Twenty Nine (Brian Cummins, 1969)
• The Sex Victims (Derek Robbins, 1973)
• The Lake (Lindsey C Vickers, 1978)
• The Errand (Nigel Finch, 1980)

Strictly limited edition of 3,000 copies

• Man With a Movie Camera (2020, 42 mins): interview with Twenty-Nine producer Peter Shillingford
• A Crazy, Mixed-up Kid (2020, 43 mins): interview with David McGillivray, writer of The Errand
• Telling Tales /Arthur Dent and Adelphi: Films in the Family (2020, 37 mins): Kate Lees, of Adelphi Films, discusses the family business and the discovery of 1953 short The Tell-Tale Heart, long believed lost
• Almost Thirty (2020, 15 mins): interview with Renée Glynne, script supervisor on Twenty-Nine
• Splashing Around (2020, 18 mins): interview with Julie Peasgood, star of The Lake and House of the Long Shadows
• Image galleries for The Tell-Tale Heart, The Lake and The Errand
• Script galleries for The Lake and The Errand
• Gallery of the original short story The Errand
• Newly commissioned sleeve artwork by renowned illustrator Graham Humphreys
• ***FIRST PRESSING ONLY*** Fully illustrated booklet with new writing on the films by Vic Pratt, Dr Josephine Botting, William Fowler, Jonathan Rigby, Peter Shillingford, Lindsey C Vickers and David McGillivray