Ben has confirmed to me that Amelia and the Angel will be in HD.Feature commentary by film historian Matthew Melia and Lisi Russell (2018)
The Fall of the Louse of Usher (2002, 83 mins): Ken Russell returns to gothic themes in this legendarily lurid late video work featuring an all-star cast
A Haunted Evening (2023, 35 mins): Stephen Volk, the writer of Gothic, revisits his earliest feature script
The Sound of Shelley with Julian Sands (2017, 18 mins): the actor reflects upon the making of Gothic
Amelia and the Angel (1958, 27 mins): in this charming early Russell short, a young girl, cast as an angel in the school play, is distraught when her brother damages her treasured wings. Pocket money in hand, Amelia traverses London on the hunt for a new pair in time for the play
The Guardian Lecture: Ken Russell in conversation with Derek Malcolm (1987, 87 mins, audio only): the director reflects upon his career, at the time of Gothic
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**FIRST PRESSING ONLY** Illustrated booklet featuring new essays by Ellen Cheshire, Jon Dear, and Matthew Melia and full film credits
The Fall of the Louse of Usher is an interesting inclusion - as above, I had suggested to the BFI that it would be nice to see any of Russell's late 'home' movies as extras but I didn't expect them to end up with that one. One, because it's feature length when that period of his career was predominantly shorts and, second, because it's the only one that has already been available on DVD. I don't want to give off the impression that I'm unhappy (far from it!) but it does make me wonder if there's something preventing a wider release of the shorts.