davee wrote: ↑Sat 06 Jun 2020, 12:48 pm
Arrived this morning, Oxford UK
Will be watching this afternoon
Wow, 9 days before release date! I just ordered from the BFI shop in the hope I can get it sooner than Amazon (which estimates delivery on 20 June - I'll cancel if BFI ships first).
Edit/question: Davee, I assume you ordered from the BFI store?
davee wrote: ↑Sat 06 Jun 2020, 12:48 pm
Arrived this morning, Oxford UK
Will be watching this afternoon
Wow, 9 days before release date! I just ordered from the BFI shop in the hope I can get it sooner than Amazon (which estimates delivery on 20 June - I'll cancel if BFI ships first).
Edit/question: Davee, I assume you ordered from the BFI store?
Yeah, had completely forgotten about order until it arrived. Lockdown treat
Ordered from BFI Shop on 13 Feb according to the delivery note.
Interesting that it says 1:85 to 1 as I always thought the film was 1:66 to 1 or so. Hopefully we aren't losing any room at the top and bottom of the screen.
Thanks for the pictures Dog. The packaging looks amazing. I decided to order it even though my blu-ray disc player is region 1. I think there are ways I can turn my laptop dvd player into a multi-region player so hopefully I can watch it there.
I watched It Couldn’t Happen Here last night for the first time in a long, long time. I never got to see it at the cinema but had both VHS editions and used to watch it a great deal. I even recorded the full audio track onto cassette to listen to on my Walkman. Last night I found I could still recite the dialogue. The quality is really good and I could see details I had never made out before.
The film still makes for bizarre viewing. PSB always give themselves over to their collaborators and this is so much obviously Jack Bond’s voice and therefore completely unique in their cannon. Thematically, as an observation of aspects of Englishness it is aligned to the Please and Actually albums but surrealism and absurdism were relatively new territory for them. The basic plot - a journey through a landscape, impervious to their surroundings; a loose illustration of each song - is a template they have returned to again and again.
Neil's production diary in the accompanying book highlights that they were also working with Derek Jarman at the same time on the Rent video which made me wonder whether he was ever in the running for directing this feature film? He arguably had more proven credentials than Bond and maybe also a more obviously PSB aesthetic.
bongsteve wrote: ↑Tue 09 Jun 2020, 3:29 pm
So just to confirm, this would not be playable on a US bluray/DVD player, correct?
Correct, it will not play on a U.S. bluray/dvd player. Now, there may be an exception. There are some Bluray / dvd players sold here in the U.S. that have a hack to them so that you can change the region. You can find out if your player can be hacked at this site: https://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks. Years ago I bought an Insignia Bluray player (NS-BRDVD4) for about $60 or so. That player has a hack where you enter a sequence of buttons on the remote and you gain access to a hidden menu where you can then change the settings for Bluray and regular DVDs. There are about 3 right now on Ebay for about $50. It's a good player and does the job.
It’s brief; 18 months covered over two pages in mostly single line diary entries, like in Literally. Lots of night shoots, interspersed with Top of the Pops recordings and video edits. It must have been a busy time for them.
Is there a commentary track with Neil and Chris? I seem to remember they mentioned recording one in a past issue of Annually or possibly Literally. I know its not listed o n the packaging, but perhaps its hidden on the discs?
"Steely Blue eyes with no love in them, Scan The World" STOP BUSH
dgraysn wrote: ↑Thu 11 Jun 2020, 1:22 am
Is there a commentary track with Neil and Chris? I seem to remember they mentioned recording one in a past issue of Annually or possibly Literally. I know its not listed o n the packaging, but perhaps its hidden on the discs?
It' on the Elysium track commentary (i think) Chris said the only reason they wanted to release it again was to do a commentary.