The BFI has announced that its best-selling title
Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom, previously released in separate Blu-ray and DVD formats, will be released in a Dual Format Edition (DVD and Blu-ray discs in one box) on 23 May. The new DFE release will be a three-disc set containing one Blu-ray and two DVD discs.
All the special features from the original releases will be included. The separate DVD and Blu-ray editions are now deleted.
The BFI launched its Dual Format Edition initiative in May 2010 with the Quay Brothers'
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life and has rapidly increased the number of titles it releases this way.
The launch of Salò represents the first of several titles that will be deleted in their stand-alone formats and re-issued over the coming months. Other titles include the first nine of the BFI Flipside series as well as
Bill Douglas Trilogy,
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner,
and
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.