chungking express

release date: 21st april 2025

The whiplash, double-pronged Chungking Express is one of the defining works of 1990s cinema and the film that made Wong Kar Wai an instant icon. Two heartsick Hong Kong cops (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung Chiu Wai), both jilted by ex-lovers, cross paths at the Midnight Express take-out food stand, where the ethereal pixie waitress Faye (Faye Wong) works. Anything goes in Wong’s gloriously shot and utterly unexpected charmer, which cemented the sex appeal of its gorgeous stars and forever turned canned pineapple and the Mamas & the Papas’ “California Dreamin'” into tokens of romantic longing.

• bonus footage

• deleted scenes

• interviews: christopher doyle (cinematographer)

• episode of moving pictures (1996) featuring interviews with wong kar-wai (writer/director) and christopher doyle

• essay by amy taubin (critic)

• cover by sarah habibi, based on an original design by nessim higson

• trailers

eclipse

release date: 21st april 2025

A remote cliffside house on the Scottish coast provides the weather-beaten setting for Simon Perry’s eerie, atmospheric psychological thriller, adapted from Nicholas Wollaston’s haunting novel and inexplicably blown adrift since its release in 1977.  Tom Conti (Oppenheimer, Slade in Flame) stars as a bereaved brother troubled by memories of his twin, whom he saw die at sea. After returning to his childhood home for a Christmas celebration with his brother’s alcoholic widow (Gay Hamilton) and her son (Gavin Wallace), things begin to go awry as dark secrets and sibling rivalries surface once more. 

Strange, unsettling and barely seen since it was shot nearly 50 years ago, Eclipse now finds safe harbour on Blu-ray for the first time in a new scan from the best available 35mm archival materials.

• Newly remastered in 2K and presented in High Definition

• Newly recorded audio commentary by Vic Pratt, co-founder of the BFI Flipside 

• Sun & Moon – Tom Conti discusses Eclipse (2025, 10 mins): the actor on his experience of making the film

• Not Waving, Drowning: Joe and Petunia: Coastguard (1968, 2 mins); Charley Says: Falling in the Water (1973, 1 min); Lonely Water (1973, 1 min): three haunting water-safety Public Information Films eerily adjacent to the psychogeographicheadspace of the main feature

• **FIRST PRESSING ONLY** Illustrated booklet with new writing on the film by Vic Pratt, an archival interview with director Simon Perry, an original review, and writing on The Chalk Mark and Marooned by the BFI’s William Fowler

the incubus

release date: 7th april 2025

A quiet New England town becomes the site of a grisly murder and assault, leaving a young man dead and his girlfriend in critical condition. Sam Cordell, head surgeon and medical examiner at the local hospital, senses something isn’t quite normal about the attacker, but barely a day later, another woman is savagely assaulted and killed. With the realisation that a maniac is on the loose, Sam, with the help of police chief Hank Walden and newspaper columnist Laura Kincaid, must unravel the mystery before additional murders occur, all the while unaware that Sam’s own daughter, Jenny, might be next on the victim list… An intense and disturbing supernatural slasher, John Hough’s (LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE, AMERICAN GOTHIC) INCUBUS stars acclaimed actor and filmmakerJohn Cassavetes (A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE), John Ireland (THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME) andKerrie Keane (SPASMS) in her feature film debut.

• booklet

oil lamps

release date: 28th april 2025

From the director of The Cremator and Morgiana, Juraj Herz’s distinctive, decadent film is adapted from the renowned novel by Jaroslav Havlicek. Set at the turn of the 19th-century in the final years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, this atmospheric period drama is a bitter ‘romance’ which centres on the tragic marriage between two cousins. Stepa (the wonderful Iva Janzurova), is a vivacious, modern-minded, wealthy young woman, but who is desperately seeking love and happiness; Pavel (Petr Cepek), is an arrogant, self-serving retired army officer weighed down by debt, cynicism, and syphilis. Herz’s lavish film evokes a pungent atmosphere of decay and features superb performances by its two leads, gorgeous costume and set design, and stunning cinematography by Dodo Simoncic. An iconic classic of Czech cinema.