Confessions of a Police Captain

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.

Bertrand Blier’s Buffet froid & Merci la vie and Ken Russell’s French Dressing from Indicator in August

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21 May 2026

The August disc releases from Indicator have been revealed as Bertrand Blier's Buffet froid and Merci la vie on UHD and Blu-ray, and in the US only, Ken Russell's debut feature French Dressing on Blu-ray.

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