To commemorate their 75th anniversary the BFI has compiled, exclusively for MovieMail, a limited edition Box Set of 10 of their best DVDs. This set celebrates a century of British film history and is available for just £75, saving over £125 on the RRPs!
Only 500 of these will be made so don’t delay!
Box Contents
1900s RW Paul - The Collected Films
1910s Dickens Before Sound 2 Disc Set
1920s Piccadilly E A Dupont
1930s The Edge of the World - Michael Powell
1940s Night and the City - Jules Dassin
1950s See Britain by Train (British Transport Films Vol 2)
1960s Pinter’s The Caretaker - Clive Donner
1970s The Early Films of Peter Greenaway (Vol 1)
1980s Caravaggio - Derek Jarman
1990s Under the Skin - Caroline Adler
MovieMail has long championed the BFI’s wide-ranging, high quality releases of film on DVD & VHS. Indeed, it was a group of arthouse producers – including the BFI’s imprint Connoisseur Video – who formed MovieMail back in the summer of 1996, because they couldn’t get their products into high street stores. This Box Set celebrates both the BFI’s 75th anniversary and twelve years of our fruitful partnership. Looking through the wonderful list of titles, one concept leapt out – 100 years of British cinema with a title drawn from each decade.
The collection picks freely from across the wide spectrum of the BFI’s releases: from the pioneering work of RW Paul (whose films actually date back to 1895), through to the profoundly moving 1997 drama Under the Skin (which gave Samantha Morton one of her first leading roles); from film noir (Night and the City) to the ever-popular British Transport Films series; from Michael Powell’s brilliant The Edge of the World, shot on location in the Shetlands in 1937, to Derek Jarman’s richly evocative 1986 film Caravaggio. The full contents – elegantly packaged in slimline DVD cases – are listed above. This collection is a piece of history in more ways than one. Most importantly, it’s also a cracking collection of excellent films that deserves a place in your library.
