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.
Mary Bronstein’s critically acclaimed If I Had Legs I’d Kick You is to be released as a Limited Edition 4K UHD/Blu-ray box set, as well as on Standard Edition UHD and Blu-ray, by Second Sight Films in December.
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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.