Blu-ray and DVD releases announced for summer 2018

The Blu-ray premiere of Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo’s It Happened Here is among the highlights of the BFI’s new Blu-ray/DVD titles scheduled for release between July and September 2018.

First released in 1964, It Happened Here depicts an alternative history where the UK has been invaded and occupied by the Nazis. Brownlow and Mollo started work on the film as teenagers, and the production took some eight years to finish.

The film is presented as a new 2K remaster by the BFI National Archive, from the original camera negative, which was supervised by Kevin Brownlow. The newly remastered version will be premiered at a special launch event at BFI Southbank on 23 July 2018.

Other upcoming releases include:

The UK Blu-ray premiere of Harold Pinter scripted and Paul Schrader directed The Comfort of Strangers (July). 

Jean Cocteau’s legendary La Belle et la Bête on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK ( July –  previously scheduled for March 2018). 

A DVD release of Paul Wright’s exhilarating archive-based folk-horror Arcadia (August). 

Delbert Mann’s Academy award-winning drama Separate Tables, scripted by Terence Rattigan and featuring a stellar cast of Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Rita Hayworth, David Niven and Wendy Hiller (August). 

A stand-alone two-disc Blu-ray release of Tony Richardson’s Tom Jones – featuring 4K restorations of both the original and Richardson’s preferred 1989 director’s cut (August). 

The Man from Mo’Wax – a new documentary from director Matthew Jones about Mo’Wax label boss and UNKLE leader James Lavelle (September). 

Eye of the Needle starring Donald Sutherland. This Second World War spy thriller was directed by Richard Marquand (best known for Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi) (September).