The second of the BFI’s releases from the Associated-Rediffusion catalogue, Daniel Farson’s Guide to Britain Volume 1 is released as a dual-format edition in which he looks at aspects of life, culture and famous people of the late 1950s to the early 1960s. Gary Couzens opens the time capsule.
Hammer Volume Seven: Ships and Giggles, featuring a quartet of comic classics, starring a roll-call of British comedy greats, will be released on Blu0-ray by Indicator in May.
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Five early films from the great American documentarian, Cinema Expanded: The Films of Frederick Wiseman, is a three-disc Blu-ray set from the BFI. Review by Gary Couzens.
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