The British Film Institute has officially announced and detailed its upcoming Dual Format Edition of The Complete Humphrey Jennings. The release will be available for purchase online and in shops across the United Kingdom on July 15th.
The Complete Humphrey Jennings: Volume 3 is the third and final volume of Dual Format Edition releases that bring together Jennings' 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