A young man who may or may not have killed a man becomes embroiled in events that involve his wife’s murderer and a police chief neighbour in Buffet froid, Bertrand Blier’s surrealistic urban crime thriller, a film in which no-one behaves as logic or tradition would dictate. Slarek stops his head spinning long enough to appreciate Blier’s considerable achievement on Indicator’s recently released UHD.
Once regarded as the worst film of all time, Ed Wood's bargain basement sf feature Plan 9 From Outer Space has a place in the hearts of all fans of micro-budget cinema, and it's coming to Blu-ray with Wood's Bride of the Monster from the BFI in October.
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Horace Ové’s Pressure, the first British feature film made by a Black director, comes out on Blu-ray from the BFI, following a 4K restoration. Review by Gary Couzens.
Another time capsule from the late 1950s to the mid 1960s from the Rediffusion archive, Daniel Farson’s Guide to Britain Volume 2 is a dual-format release from the BFI. Gary Couzens goes back in time.
Don Johnson stars as a drifter who wanders into a small Texas town and a whole heap of trouble in director and co-screenwriter Dennis Hopper’s steamy 1990 neo-noir, The Hot Spot. Genre fan Slarek catches up with a film that previously slipped him by and falls for a work that dares to take its time tying the fate of its lead character in Gordian knots.
Alain Resnais’s 1974 film about a real-life swindler who became headline news, Stavisky…, is released on Blu-ray by Indicator. Review by Gary Couzens.
Time slips in Mark Jenkin’s follow-up to Bait and Enys Men, Rose of Nevada, released in dual format by the BFI, also with the other two as a Blu-ray box set of the Cornish Trilogy. Review by Gary Couzens.
The third and final collection of silent short films from cinema’s most divine comedy pairing, Laurel & Hardy: The Silent Years – 1929 from Eureka is out now on two-disc Blu-ray. Devoted Stan and Ollie fan Slarek takes a deep and passionate dive into another glorious release, one that sees the boys cement their partnership and comedic style and make a smooth transition into the talkies.