The British Film Institute (BFI) has announced that they will launch a new label called "Flipside" which will feature "weird and wonderful British films in new high-quality editions". The first three films in this series are '
The Bed Sitting Room', '
London in the Raw', and '
Primitive London', which are all due to hit UK store shelves on May 25th.
Extras for these releases include:
The Bed Sitting Room
- Archival interviews with Richard Lester (1967, 17 mins), Spike Milligan (1967, 40 mins) and Peter Cook (1967, 30 mins)
- Original trailer
- Illustrated booklet with essay by Michael Brooke (BFI Sight and Sound contributor) and original review and promotional material.
London in the Raw
- Remastered to HD from the original negative
- Three 60s 'London Sketches': Pub (Peter Davis, 1962, 26 mins); Strip (Peter Davis, Staffan Lamm, Don DeFina, 1965, 26 mins); Chelsea Bridge Boys (Peter Davis, Staffan Lamm, 1966, 28 mins)
- Original trailer
- Original UK and continental versions of the feature
- Illustrated booklet with essay by novelist and critic Stewart Home (author of Down and Out in Shoreditch and Hoxton); original review and promotional material
Primitive London
- Remastered to HD from the original negative
- Carousella (John Irvin, 1966, 23 mins): a dramatised documentary on the lives of a group of striptease artistes
- Stuart McCabe (strip club owner) interview (1968, 15 mins)
- Shirley (stripper) interview (1968, 6 mins)
- Al Burnett (nightclub owner) interview (1967, 17 mins)
- Original trailer (English and French language options)
- English and French language versions
- Illustrated booklet with essays by Iain Sinclair, Vic Pratt (BFI Curator) and William Fowler (BFI Curator); original review and promotional material