Handmade Films Backers Buy It Back

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• Handmade Films, of course, being George Harrison’s old film company — which in addition to Long Good Friday and Mona Lisa also produced such ’80s gems as Time Bandits, Withnail and I, and the underrated Five Corners.

  Comment by Wally — Thursday, 22 July 2010 16:29 UK  Reply to this post

  • Don’t forget they also stepped in to finance Monty Python’s The Life of Brian when nobody else would touch it due to its humor derived from the life of Jesus, so we have them to thank for one of the funniest movies of all time as well as “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.”

    They did give us Shanghai Surprise as well, so they did have their accidents as well.

    Comment by amt — Thursday, 22 July 2010 18:05 UK  Reply to this post

• Maybe this is what drove the Duchess of York to offer to sell an undercover reporter access to her ex-husband, Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, for $40,000 in cash and 500,000 pounds ($718,500) by wire transfer. But surely wealth manager David Francis should have had an idea what to do with Handmade BEFORE he bought it?

  Comment by Ripsnorter — Thursday, 22 July 2010 19:10 UK  Reply to this post

• Don’t forget “Nuns on the Run”

  Comment by Felix — Thursday, 22 July 2010 22:56 UK  Reply to this post

• The movies of Hand Made Films have been treated very shabbily in their recent DVD/Blu-Ray releases.

  I have bought Mona Lisa and The Long Good Friday on Blu-Ray, and a new Bob Hoskins four-disk DVD collection of his work for Hand Made. All three have been licensed to Image Entertainment, unfortunately. The first two have the worst picture quality I’ve ever seen on Blu-Ray, with major compression artifacts throughout. The disks in the Hoskins collection are mashed together on the same post with nothing separating them. Outside of some bargain disks sold for a buck or two, I’ve never seen this done.

  The Hand Made Films deserved Criterion treatment, but instead got rubbished by Image Entertainment. If you consider buying them, the available DVDs of Mona Lisa and The Long Good Friday (which was available from Criterion, at least for awhile) are much better than the Blu-Ray versions.

  Comment by Nicolas — Friday, 19 August 2011 16:17 UK  Reply to this post

• Do you know who reps the Handmade Film’s rights?
  if so could you give me some info about how to contact them.

  Everett

  Comment by Everett Chmbers — Saturday, 2 March 2013 23:21 UK  Reply to this post