Babylon System
You wait 28 years for a Babylon DVD release (factoring in the invention of the DVD during that time, of course), and then what happens?
Icon Home Entertainment are releasing a UK DVD of the classic film in October, which is great.
What is really great is that this release will feature “fully restored and remastered image and audio (personally overseen by Chris Menges - Babylon’s Director of Photography) plus Audio Commentaries and Interviews”. These are exactly the sort of things which were missing from the recent Rarovideo release (as was pointed out by Stewart Home in his review for Woofah issue 2).
More information when we have it - updates to the uncarved Babylon subsite will also follow.
smith3000:
Great news! I’ve been keeping an eye out for that Italian job but not seen anything. The Icon release sounds a lot more like it though.
You’ve made an old man very happy!
11 August 2008, 11:41 pmJohn:
We aim to please, Mr Smith!
12 August 2008, 1:50 pmHyperbole: Babylon, Eric Arthur Blair and Ten Inches Of Fear « expletive undeleted:
[...] John Eden at Uncarved made this particular old man very happy earlier this week, when he announced the news that Babylon, the superlative British reggae movie, is finally coming out on DVD in the UK [...]
15 August 2008, 11:05 pm