A woman returns from the dead with a thirst for blood and slowly rediscovers her identity with the help of her dearest friend in The Living Dead Girl, Jean Rollin’s violent but beautifully realised study of friendship and loss, now available as a glorious 4K UHD release from Indicator. An empathetic Slarek descends into the crypt.
Cruel Tales of the Bohachi, featuring Ishii Teruo's Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight on UHD and Harada Takashi's Bohachi Bushido: The Villain on Blu-ray, is coming from Eureka In September as part of the Masters of Cinema series.
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Barely released in 1970 and long unseen, but having picked up a cult following, science fiction comedy musical Toomorrow, with an early starring role for Olivia Newton-John, comes to Blu-ray from the BFI. Review by Gary Couzens.
After witnessing the death of his governess as a child, the now adult Archibaldo develops a taste for murder when reunited with the music box he believes caused her demise in Luis Buñuel’s blackly comic 1955 The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz. Slarek finally catches up with one of his favourite filmmaker’s most intriguing and enjoyable Mexican films on Second Run’s new Blu-ray.
James Bidgood’s Pink Narcissus, a landmark in experimental gay cinema, has a Blu-ray release from the BFI. Review by Gary Couzens.
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.