De Palma, Lautner, Rivette, Nakajima and Pálfi from Radiance in May
Radiance Films has announced its May Blu-ray and UHD releases, which will consist of an early work from Brian De Palma and Robert De Niro in the shape of of Hi, Mom!, director George Lautner’s intense action-thriller Le Professionel, Jacques Rivette’s grounded and moving Joan of Arc portrait Jeanne la Pucelle, Nakajima Sadao’s yakuza drama Aesthetics of a Bullet, and on the Chasm label, György Pálfi’s deranged chronicle of modern Hungary Taxidermia. Full details below.
HI, MOM! (USA 1970)
Limited Edition UHD + Blu-ray | 18 May 2026 | £24.99
Aspiring adult film-maker Jon Rubin (Robert De Niro, Taxi Driver) returns from a tour of Vietnam and, armed with his film camera, attempts to find meaning and inspiration in the counter-culture of New York in 1970. Rubin graduates from surreptitiously filming his neighbours, to joining a militant Black experimental theatre group, before flirting with full-scale domestic terrorism, in this hilariously madcap satire that has still retained its outrageous power to shock, fifty years after initially stunning American audiences.
Making its world premiere on 4K UHD, Hi, Mom! is a vital work of the early New Hollywood, and a key work in the career of master director Brian De Palma.
4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS:
- 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 audio
- Audio commentary by writer Travis Woods (2026)
- Interview with critic Ellen E Jones (2026)
- Dionysus in ‘69 – an experimental theater production of Euripides’ ‘The Bacchae’, filmed by Brian de Palma (1970, 85 mins)
- Archival interview with co-writer Charles Hirsch (2018)
- Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitle track
- Reversible sleeve featuring artwork based on original posters
- Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Matt Zoller Seitz
- Limited edition of 5000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
LE PROFESSIONEL (France 1981)
Limited Edition Blu-ray | 18 May 2026 | £17.99
When his orders to kill an African president change at the last minute, French secret agent Josselin Beaumont (Jean-Paul Belmondo, Breathless, Mississippi Mermaid) isn’t recalled but betrayed by his superiors, who denounce him to the enemy as an assassin. After two arduous years in a foreign jail, Joss escapes back to his homeland with vengeance on his mind, determined to carry out his original mission. He lets his former bosses know of his plans, using his spying skills to taunt them and to evade the brutal Commissioner Rosen (Robert Hossein, The Wicked Go to Hell).
This French classic marked a high point in Belmondo’s action career, his spectacular stunts and brawny charm underlined by Ennio Morricone’s iconic theme ‘Chi mai’.
LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY CONTENTS:
- High-Definition digital transfer
- Uncompressed dual mono PCM audio
- New interview with critic and author Ginette Vincendeau about Jean-Paul Belmondo’s stardom (2026)
- New interview with film score expert Lovely Jon about Ennio Morricone’s iconic theme “Chi mai” (2026)
- Archival television interview with Jean-Paul Belmondo (1981)
- Archival television interview with René Chateau, Belmondo’s agent, producer, and associate (1982)
- Audio commentary by film historians Howard S. Berger, Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson
- Original French theatrical trailer
- Newly improved English subtitle translation
- Reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters
- Limited edition booklet featuring archival interview with director Georges Lautner and more
- Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
JEANNE LA PUCELLE (France 1994)
Limited Edition Blu-ray | 18 May 2026 | £29.99
15th century France. Tasked by visions of saints to help free her country from the English, a young peasant girl leaves her humble home to meet the heir to the French throne, determined to lead his troops into battle. She ends the siege on the city of Orléans and accompanies the triumphant king to his coronation in Reims. Injured during subsequent battles, she is soon captured by the enemy, who put her faith on trial.
The mythical figure of Joan of Arc comes to vivid life in this grounded and moving adaptation by Jacques Rivette (L’amour fou, Va savoir), an epic two-part portrait starring a magnetic Sandrine Bonnaire (À nos amours, Vagabond).
LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY CONTENTS:
- 4K restoration of each film from the original negatives, presented on two discs
- 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
- Interview with co-writer Pascal Bonitzer (2026)
- Archival interview with Jacques Rivette and Sandrine Bonnaire (1994)
- Interview with critic and author Beatrice Loayza (2026)
- Original French theatrical trailers
- Newly improved English subtitle translation
- Reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters
- Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by film critic Willow Catelyn Maclay, and newly translated archival writing
- Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
AESTHETICS OF A BULLET [TEPPŌDAMA NO BIGAKU] (Japan 1978)
Limited Edition Blu-ray | 18 may 2026 | £17.99
A yakuza gang selects a good-for-nothing street vendor to stir up trouble in enemy territory. With a flashy suit, a gun and a pocketful of money, he feels like a king but when trouble comes knocking, he realises that waving a gun and pulling the trigger are two very different things.
After the major studios refused to finance it, director Sadao Nakajima (The Japanese Godfather Trilogy) took this project to New Wave bastion the Art Theatre Guild. With a deeply impressive performance by Tsunehiko Watase (Sympathy for the Underdog) that predates Robert DeNiro’s indelible turn as Travis Bickle in Scorsese’s Taxi Driver by three years, Aesthetics of a Bullet is a lost gem of 1970s Japanese cinema ripe for rediscovery.
BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS:
- High-Definition digital transfer
- Uncompressed mono PCM audio
- Newly filmed appreciation by filmmaker Robert Schwentke
- New interview with filmmaker Kazuyoshi Kumakiri
- Archival interview with Sadao Nakajima
- Trailer
- Newly improved English subtitle translation
- Reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters
- Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Olaf Möller and an archival essay on the film
- Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
TAXIDERMIA (Hungary 2026)
Limited Edition Blu-ray | 18 May 2026 | £17.99
In Hungary during World War II, Vendel Morosgoványi (Csaba Czene) indulges his outlandish sexual fantasies while stationed at an isolated military outpost. Decades later, his illegitimate child Kálmán Balatony (Gergely Trócsányi) has become a professional speed-eater who dreams of consuming his way to fame and fortune. Instead, he grows old and immobile, cared for by his son Lajoska Balatony (Marc Bischoff), a taxidermist determined to leave behind a great work of art when he dies.
Written and directed by perhaps Hungary’s greatest working filmmaker, György Pálfi’s Taxidermia blends body horror, black comedy and astonishing aesthetic beauty to paint a fascinating portrait of Hungary from the 1940s to the twenty-first century.
BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS:
- World Blu-ray premiere
- High-definition digital transfer
- New interview with director György Pálfi
- New audio commentary by writer and film historian Michael Brooke
- The Making of Taxidermia (2006)
- Shaman vs Icarus (Táltosember vs Ikarus, 2003) and The Fish (A Hal, 1997) – two short films by György Pálfi
- Erdő (2006) – music video by Hollywoodoo presented in original and director’s cut versions
- Géza Szöllősi’s Artbook – extensive image gallery of work by art designer Géza Szöllősi
- Deleted scenes
- Trailer
- Newly improved English subtitles
- Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Anna Batori, author of The Extreme Cinema of Eastern Europe (2023) and Space in Romanian and Hungarian Cinema (2018)
- Limited edition of 3000 copies, featuring an O-card slipcase with new artwork by John Dunn, full-height Scanavo packaging and reversible sleeve featuring original artwork by Géza Szöllősi and alternative artwork by John Dunn