Arrow Video has officially announced and detailed its upcoming Blu-ray release of Donald Cammell's
White of the Eye (1987), starring David Keith, Cathy Moriarty, Alan Rosenberg, and Art Evans. The release will be available for purchase on March 31.
A serial killer is on the loose in and around the small community of Globe, Arizona, and housewife Joan White (Cathy Moriarty) gradually comes to suspect that her opera-loving hi-fi engineer husband Paul (David Keith) might know more than he's letting on...
So far so familiar, but in the hands of British visionary Donald Cammell (who wrote and co-directed Performance with Nicolas Roeg), the film becomes a dazzling kaleidoscope of images and ideas, spanning everything from Apache folklore, desert landscapes and stylish murder set-pieces that recall Dario Argento to a painfully vivid dissection of the emotional fissures undermining a modern marriage. It's all set to an equally eclectic score co-written by Pink Floyd's Nick Mason.
Described by the distinguished critic David Thomson as "one of the great secret works in cinema", White of the Eye is one of the most bizarre and unforgettable thrillers ever made.
Special Features:
- Feature-length (73-minute) documentary, 'Donald Cammell: The Ultimate Performance' (1998)
- Commentary by Donald Cammell's biographer Sam Umland
- Donald Cammell's short The Argument (1972) with an optional commentary by Sam Umland
- Into the White - an interview with co-cinematographer and Steadicam wizard Larry McConkey
- Deleted scenes, with an optional commentary by Sam Umland
- Flashback scenes before the bleach bypass process was applied
- Original opening credits featuring John Diehl, an actor cut from the final film
- Theatrical trailer
- Reversible sleeve with original and newly commissioned artwork by Nathanael Marsh
- Collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Brad Stevens and Sam Umland