The British Film Institute will release
Volume III of the
The Complete Humphrey Jennings films. The Dual Format edition will be available for purchase online and in shops across the United Kingdom on July 15th.
The films of Humphrey Jennings have proved hugely influential over the last 60 years - his influence can be felt in the works of Lindsay Anderson (
If....) and more recent filmmakers, such as Kevin MacDonald (
Touching the Void,
Marley). Jennings was also a major influence for Frank Cottrel Boyce and Danny Boyle, whose 2012 Olympics ceremony used Jennings' book,
Pandæmonium, as its inspiration.
Volume III includes the following films:
- The Eighty Days (1944)
- The True Story of Lili Marlane (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:
- V.1 (1944): a shorter cut of The Eighty Days, made for overseas distribution
- The Good Life (1951): the film Jennings was working on at his death