Jean-Luc Godard, Terayama Shuji, Romolo Guerrieri and more from Radiance in July
Radiance has announced its July disc releases, which is headlined by Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinéma and other works on Blu-ray, and also includes Terayama Shuji’s The Boxer and Romolo Guerrieri’s The Double on Blu-ray, Wojciech Has’s The Hourglass Sanatorium on dual format UHD & Blu-ray. Also coming in July on the Transmission label are Robert Bierman’s Vampire’s Kiss on dual format UHD & Blu-ray, and Two Boxes: Televised Terror in Franco’s Spain on Blu-ray featuring the films La cabina and El televisor. Full details of each release follow.
HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA AND OTHER WORKS (France 1982-2024)
Limited Edition Blu-ray | 20 July 2026 | £39.99
Made over ten years at the end of cinema’s first century, Jean-Luc Godard’s roving, essayistic video project is a multilayered celebration of the art form’s achievements, as well as a raging condemnation of its failure to respond and engage with turbulent times.
Melding together film clips, newsreel footage, painting, music, as well as Godard’s own narration in a transfixing collage, Histoire(s) du cinéma is a passionate cri de coeur by a cinema icon entering a galvanising late period, of which many other works are included in this release. Marked by searching introspection and bold experimentation, these film and video projects evince a creative spirit continuously engaged with the question of cinema’s place in the world, and the world’s place within cinema – not least in Godard’s moving final film, Scénarios (2024), making here its world Blu-ray premiere.
BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION BOX SET FEATURES:
- All 8 episodes of Histoire(s) du cinéma, viewable with two optional English subtitle tracks: a narration translation, and annotated subtitles by Felicity Chaplin identifying clips and images
- Lettre à Freddy Buache – Godard’s anti-film commissioned for the 500th anniversary of the Swiss city of Lausanne (1982)
- Soft and Hard [Soft Conversation on Hard Subjects] – creative partners Godard and Miéville discuss their work while involved in everyday tasks around their home (co-directed with Anne-Marie Miéville, 1985, 52 mins)
- JLG/JLG, autoportrait de décembre – Godard’s self-portrait documentary finds the filmmaker questioning his place in cinema history and the end of Western culture (1995)
- 2 x 50 Years of French Cinema – in his documentary in celebration of the centenary of cinema, Godard points the camera at himself (co-directed with Anne-Marie Miéville, 1995)
- Moments choisis des histoire(s) du cinéma– Godard’s re-edit of Histoire(s) du cinémaon 35mm film reorganises footage and includes unique material (2004)
- Exposé du film annonce du film “Scénarios” – Jean-Luc Godard presents his idea for a 6-chapter feature film (2024)
- Scenarios – Godard’s final work (2024)
- New introduction by Godard expert Michael Witt (2025)
- New interview with Michael Witt on Godard’s magnum opus (2025)
- New interview with Godard collaborator Bernard Eisenschitz on the director’s working methods (2025)
- Extensive archival TV interview with Godard on French programme Bouillon de culture (1993)
- Limited edition booklet featuring new essays by film writers Sophia Satchell Baeza and Jawni Han, and an essay by Adrian Martin
- Limited Edition of 5000 copies, presented in a rigid box with full-height Scanavo cases and removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
THE BOXER [BOKUSĀ] (Japan 1977)
Limited Edition Blu-ray | 20 July 2026 | £17.99
A former boxing champ on the skids (Sugawara Bunta, Japanese Godfather) finds an opportunity for redemption by training a young fighter everyone judges beyond hope (Shimizu Kentaro, Mermaid Legend).
Legendary director and playwright Terayama Shuji (Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets) made The Boxer for major studio Toei, at the request of lead actor Sugawara. While the story has the studio’s trademark gritty 1970s setting, Terayama imbues the film with his characteristic carnivalesque atmosphere and his unparalleled passion for sports, resulting in a boxing movie like no other and a unique entry in his own filmography.
BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION FEATURES:
- High definition digital transfer
- Original uncompressed mono audio
- Interview with composer J.A. Seazer (2026)
- New visual essay on Toei studio in the year 1977 by Tom Mes (2026)
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- Reversible sleeve featuring artwork based on original posters
- Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Roberta Novielli
- Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
THE DOUBLE [LA CONTROFIGURA] (Italy 1971)
Limited Edition Blu-ray | 20 July 2026 | £17.99
Giovanni (Jean Sorel, Rosa la rose, fille publique) is shot in an underground parking garage by a mysterious bearded man. As his life flashes before his eyes, through flashbacks we learn about his life and what led to this moment. His flirtatious wife, Lucia (Ewa Aulin, Death Smiles on a Murderer) and the fissures her behaviour creates, complications with the family business, Lucia’s relationship with a travelling hippie and her beautiful mother-in-law (Lucia Bosé, Fellini Satyricon).
With its delirious editing, continually returning us to the site of his murder, Giovanni’s life turns in on itself as the film explores masculinity, eroticism, and the uncanny. One of the undiscovered greats of the genre, Romolo Guerrieri’s (The Sweet Body of Deborah) The Double is a sexy, metaphysical giallo newly restored and officially released for the first time since VHS.
BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION FEATURES:
- 4K restoration from the original negative
- Optional Italian and English audio tracks
- Original uncompressed mono audio
- Audio commentary by Tim Lucas (2026)
- Archival interview with director Romolo Guerrieri and star Eva Aulin newly edited for this release (2026)
- Appreciation by author Stephen Thrower (2026)
- Easter egg (2 mins)
- Reversible sleeve featuring artwork based on original posters
- Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by author and critic Nathaniel Thompson
- Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
THE HOURGLASS SANATORIUM [SANATORIUM POD KLEPSYDRA] (Poland 1973)
Limited Edition UHD + Blu-ray | 20 July 2026 | £24.99
A young man, Józef (Jan Nowicki, O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization), takes a train into the middle of nowhere to visit his dying father, who he understands is residing in a sanatorium. On arrival he discovers a giant building crumbling into ruin, with the patients seemingly left to their own devices, and time itself behaving in strange, non-linear ways. A doctor then informs him that his father is both alive and not-alive, beginning an epic hypnagogic journey through the hospital and his own mind, with each room unlocking its own sinister, hallucinatory world.
Adapted to the screen from a book of Bruno Schulz short stories by visionary director Wojciech Has (The Saragossa Manuscript), the film overcame fear and scepticism from the Polish authorities when Has smuggled the film out of the country to premiere it at Cannes, where it would go on to win the Jury Prize. The Hourglass Sanatorium has come to be regarded as one of the greatest Polish films of all time, with its surreal structure and staggering feats of production design proving hugely influential on arthouse and fantasy filmmakers alike.
4K UHD & BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION FEATURES:
- New 4K restoration from the original camera negative, presented in Dolby Vision HDR
- 4K UHD and Blu-ray presentation of the feature; world premiere on 4K UHD
- Uncompressed mono PCM audio
- New audio commentary by Polish film expert Michael Brooke (2026)
- Archival interview with production designer Jerzy Skarzynski by filmmaker Jerzy Wójcik (1997)
- Accordion – acclaimed early short film from Wojciech Has (1947)
- Newly improved English subtitle translation
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow
- Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by critic Ela Bittencourt
- Limited edition of 5000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
VAMPIRE’S KISS (USA 1989)
Limited Edition UHD + Blu-ray | 20 July 2026 | £29.99
Peter Loew (Nicolas Cage, Wild at Heart) is a self-centred literary agent living a shallow existence in the money-obsessed Manhattan of the 1980s. His life is nothing but days at the office, one-night stands and unsatisfying therapy sessions, until one night he brings home a mysterious woman (Jennifer Beals, Devil in a Blue Dress) from a club and his life begins to take a bizarre turn.
After their violent encounter, Loew starts to believe she has turned him into a vampire, and he descends into apparent lunacy as his baffled associates and co-workers look on in horror. Let loose on the streets and clubs of late 1980s NYC, Loew’s behaviour becomes increasingly unhinged, as fantasy and reality begin to bleed into one another with terrible consequences…
Directed by Robert Bierman (Keep the Apidistra Flying) from a hilarious and disquieting script from Joseph Minion (After Hours), Vampire’s Kiss is a unique yuppie-comedy-horror that predates American Psycho by many years and continues to live on in internet memes and compilations, thanks to one of the most notoriously outrageous screen performances of all time from Nicolas Cage.
4K UHD & BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION FEATURES:
- Brand new 4K restoration from original 35mm camera negative presented in Dolby Vision HDR
- 4K UHD and Blu-ray presentation of the feature
- New interview with director Robert Bierman
- New interview with composer Colin Towns
- New audio commentary with critics Kim Newman and Nick de Semlyen
- Archival commentary with Robert Bierman and Nicolas Cage
- Robert Bierman short film The Dumb Waiter (1979)
- Trailer
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Original uncompressed stereo audio
- Pull-out poster and six lobby-card style postcards
- Limited edition 40-page perfect bound book featuring new writing from Julia Armfield and Justin LaLiberty
- Limited edition of 5000 copies, presented in rigid box and full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
TWO BOXES: TELEVISED TERROR IN FRANCO’S SPAIN (Spain 1972/1974)
Limited Edition Blu-ray | 20 July 2026 | £19.99
Spain in the early 1970s was a country in transition, with increasing economic prosperity and the expectations of a growing middle class in direct conflict with the dying Francoist regime, where state surveillance, media censorship and social control was still the norm. Inspired by mystery-horror anthology series such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone, this unique period in history is depicted with terrifying clarity and dark humour in these two infamous television films: La cabina and El televisor.
In Antonio Mercero’s La cabina, a group of officials install a telephone box outside a block of flats. After a man enters to make a phone call, he finds himself unable to leave, attracting the attention of fascinated locals as he grows increasingly desperate to escape. A sensation upon release, La cabina also developed a huge cult following in the UK after regularly screening on late-night TV.
In Narcisco Ibáñez Serrandor’s El televisor, a man living a dreary suburban life has a simple dream: to possess his own television. When he finally gets his wish, the dream soon becomes a dangerous, all-consuming obsession. Originally a special episode of Serrandor’s hugely popular series Tales to Keep You Awake, El televisor’s escalating dread and shocking conclusion still retains its power to shock over 50 years later.
BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION FEATURES:
- World Blu-ray premiere of La cabina
- High definition digital transfer of El televisor
- New audio commentary on La cabina with writers and film-makers Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton
- New audio commentary on El televisor with critics and horror experts Jonathan Rigby and Kevin Lyons
- New interview with Spanish film expert Antonio Lazaro-Reboll on horror in Francoist Spain
- Archival interview with co-screenwriter of La cabina Jose Luis Garci
- Archival La cabina location featurette with Antonio Mercero Santos
- Archival press conference with Narciso Ibanez Serrandor promoting El televisor
- Newly improved English subtitle translation
- Original uncompressed mono audio
- O-card and reversible sleeve featuring newly commissioned artwork by Justin Coffee
- Limited edition booklet featuring new writing from Alex Mentabil
- Limited edition of 5000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings