James Bidgood’s Pink Narcissus, a landmark in experimental gay cinema, has a Blu-ray release from the BFI. Review by Gary Couzens.
Two more cult favourites are to get the Second Sight Limited Edition UHD/Blu-ray treatment, Director Jean-Jacques Annaud's medieval mystery The Name of the Rose and Shane Meadows' revenge drama Dead Man's Shoes.
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A new movie’s director, subject matter and promise is taking Camus back to when he was entranced by the early work of Steven Spielberg 48 years ago. You can’t go home again but the potential of Disclosure Day has Camus more excited for a new Spielberg movie than he has been for decades… Worth waiting for?
Obsession, desire and bodily functions are explored over three generations of the same bloodline in Hungarian filmmaker György Pálfi’s provocative, challenging and richly imaginative second feature Taxidermia. A once uncertain Slarek revisits the film after a 19 year gap and falls in love with every outrageous element on Radiance’s excellent new Blu-ray.
How a young boy might react and see the world if his parents and other authority figures fell under alien control is explored with genuine vision and style by director and production designer William Cameron Menzies in his 1953 genre classic Invaders from Mars. A typically late Slarek takes a walk to the sandpit with the BFI’s recently released UHD.
Peter Weir’s first full-length feature, The Cars That Ate Paris, comes to UHD and Blu-ray from the BFI, both editions also including his 1979 TV movie The Plumber. Review by Gary Couzens.
An assistant district attorney investigating a lethal gun battle in a Palermo office block starts to suspect that the officer handling the case may know more about it than he claims in Confessions of a Police Captain, Damiano Damiani’s riveting, politically charged 1971 crime drama. Slarek weaves between corruption and organised crime on Radiance’s typically excellent new Blu-ray.
Akira Kurosawa’s Red Beard [Akahige] his final film with Toshirō Mifune, comes to Blu-ray from the BFI. Gary Couzens goes to see the doctor.