The Complete Humphrey Jennings
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Sadly, Timothy (the baby in the picture) died a few years ago, otherwise I'm sure he'd have been asked to contribute.
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Ya can't give a baby booze!!!ellipsis7 wrote:
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Sad to hear, I only hope excessive alcohol played no part in his death.MichaelB wrote:Sadly, Timothy (the baby in the picture) died a few years ago, otherwise I'm sure he'd have been asked to contribute.
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From the Amazon product description...
Volume three includes the following films:
The Eighty Days (1944)
A Diary for Timothy (1945)
A Defeated People (1946)
The Cumberland Story (1947)
The Dim Little Island (1949)
Family Portrait (1950)
Special features
V.1 (1944): a shorter cut of The Eighty Days, made for overseas distribution
The Good Life (1951): Jennings final film
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I'm assuming that that Amazon listing is incomplete, because two Jennings-directed titles are missing: The True Story of Lili Marlene (1944) and Myra Hess (1945). Since they come next to each other in sequence, maybe they got cut out by mistake?
(UPDATE: The disc's producer has confirmed that both these titles are included - and quite rightly!)
(UPDATE: The disc's producer has confirmed that both these titles are included - and quite rightly!)
- antnield
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Amazon have amended to include those two. They've also changed the description of The Good Life to "the film Jennings was working on at his death".
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Full specs announced:
The BFI has published a clip from Family Portrait here.The Complete Humphrey Jennings
Volume Three: A Diary for Timothy
Widely celebrated as one of Britain’s greatest filmmakers, Humphrey Jennings is a true poet of the cinema, and his work was the inspiration for Danny Boyle’s 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony. Released on 15 July 2013, this is the third and final volume of Dual Format Edition (DVD and Blu-ray) releases that bring together his entire directorial output. It includes the films he made between 1944 and 1951, and charts his transition from wartime to peacetime filmmaking.
Featuring A Diary for Timothy, Jennings’ much-loved collaboration with E M Forster, The Dim Little Island, a muted but affecting celebration of Britishness, and Family Portrait, the esoteric Festival of Britain film, this essential collection confirms Jennings as a master of the cinematic art.
Films
The True Story of Lili Marlene (1944)
The Eighty Days (1944)
Myra Hess (1945)
A Diary for Timothy (1945)
A Defeated People (1946)
The Cumberland Story (1947)
The Dim Little Island (1949)
Family Portrait (1950)
Special Features
• Presented in High Definition and Standard Definition;
• V.1. (1944): alternative cut of The Eighty Days;
• The Good Life (Graham Wallace, 1951): the film Jennings was working on at his death;
• Illustrated booklet with film notes, credits and biographies by John Wyver, Patrick Russell, Kevin Jackson, Scott Anthony and others.
Product Details
RRP: £19.99 / cat. no. BFIB1121 / Cert E
UK / 1944-1951 / black & white and colour / English language with optional hard-of-hearing subtitles / 218 minutes / Original aspect ratio 1.33:1
Disc 1: BD50 / 1080p / 24fps / PCM mono 2.0 audio (48k/24-bit)
Disc 2: DVD9 / Dolby Digital mono 2.0 audio (320kbps)
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Does the BFI intend to release any further documentaries by Paul Rotha (1907-84) other than those included in Land of Promise and its GPO Film Unit DVDs? Among other films, it would be nice to see restored versions of Contact (1933) and World of Plenty (1943). The same would apply to Edgar Anstey's Enough to Eat (1936)
- MichaelB
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Contact was originally going to be an extra on the Turksib release - I'm not aware of any rights or materials problems (I know they have a Digibeta master at least). But I'm not aware of any future documentary plans - they've got their hands a bit full right now with this glut of Gothic/supernatural releases over the next few months.
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Can anyone remark on the quality of Keith Beattie's book on Humphrey Jennings, or the Humphrey Jennings Film Reader? I just got into him, and am sort of crazed for any good books/supplements/anything on him.
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Kevin Jackson's biography is excellent, if you can track down a copy - for some reason it never made it to a paperback edition.
I also very strongly recommend Dai Vaughan's Portrait of an Invisible Man, a biography of Jennings' regular editor Stewart McAllister, whose input into Listen to Britain was so enormous that he's credited as co-director despite not shooting a frame of footage himself.
I also very strongly recommend Dai Vaughan's Portrait of an Invisible Man, a biography of Jennings' regular editor Stewart McAllister, whose input into Listen to Britain was so enormous that he's credited as co-director despite not shooting a frame of footage himself.