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New releases from the BFI, 2016

Posted on November 2, 2016October 31, 2016 by Kenneth George Godwin
The Living Dead relax in early morning mist among the standing stones in Don Sharp's Psychomania (1973)

Two excellent recent Blu-ray releases from the BFI illuminate the extremes of high and low art in British film of the early 1970s. Ken Russell’s version of D.H. Lawrence’s Women in Love is exemplary literary adaptation, while Don Sharp’s Psychomania is … well, something else again!

The revival of Flipside

Posted on June 1, 2016January 14, 2020 by Kenneth George Godwin
Sylvia Syms is touching as the talent-challenged Maisie in Val Guest's Expresso Bongo (1959)

After a two year hiatus, the BFI has revived the Flipside series with three notable releases: Val Guest’s musical satire Expresso Bongo, Edmond T. Greville’s juvenile delinquent exploitation movie Beat Girl, and Jose Ramon Larraz’s “lost” horror film Symptoms.

Recent disks from England, part one

Posted on June 25, 2014March 25, 2016 by Kenneth George Godwin

The latest Flipside release from the BFI, Bill Forsyth’s That Sinking Feeling, is like a cross between a gritty Ken Loach working class story and a Children’s Film Foundation fantasy of kid empowerment.

Notes on Recent Viewing, part one

Posted on February 5, 2014March 26, 2016 by Kenneth George Godwin

A survey of recent viewing covers approaches to realism, metaphor, horror and war in a range of films from the 1920s to the 2010s.

More Recent Disks From England: The Return of Flipside

Posted on June 5, 2013March 26, 2016 by Kenneth George Godwin

After three years of steady releases, for some reason the BFI suspended their Flipside series last May. Now, after an eleven month break, they’ve released two new titles, as unexpected as anything which has come before. In John Krish, they’ve returned to a filmmaker familiar from a number of previous BFI releases, while in B.S. […] Read More

Flipside: The Black Panther (1977)

Posted on August 1, 2012March 26, 2016 by Kenneth George Godwin

Released simultaneously with the Andy Milligan double-bill Nightbirds and The Body Beneath, the BFI Flipside edition of Ian Merrick’s The Black Panther (1977) resurrects an essentially lost British film which suffered a quick death because it took as subject something too raw for British audiences (or at least the British press) to tolerate. Merrick had […] Read More

Flipside: the Art of Andy Milligan

Posted on July 25, 2012March 7, 2017 by Kenneth George Godwin

There’s far more stuff in the world than any of us can ever have complete first-hand knowledge of, so we often have to rely on second- and third-hand information about things we haven’t yet encountered. This leads to a tendency to form opinions about things we actually know nothing about … and judging by a […] Read More

The rise of boutique DVDs: The Flipside

Posted on July 18, 2012February 18, 2015 by Kenneth George Godwin

Even with the tens of thousands of movies released on DVD since the format debuted in the late ’90s, vast amounts of film history remain untouched. Of course, home video has always been a commercial enterprise, the preservation and dissemination of history mostly a by-product. Companies with large back-catalogues of titles have been constantly faced […] Read More

George Godwin, Filmmaker
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Kenneth George Godwin, Film Editor
I have been editing a wide range of film and video projects, both documentary and drama, for two-and-a-half decades. I started at the Winnipeg Film Group, cutting on Steenbeck 16mm flatbeds, adopted Avid in 1995, and have used FinalCut Pro quite extensively over the past ten years. Projects I have worked on have screened – and won awards – at festivals around the world.read more >>

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