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Posted April 18, 2014 05:11 AM by Webmaster

Independent British distributors Network have confirmed that they will add three more titles to their Blu-ray catalog: Nicolas Roeg's Insignificance (1985), Jack Gold's The Medusa Touch (1978), and John Dahl's The Last Seduction (1994).

Insignificance

A unique film from multi-award-winning director Nicolas Roeg, Insignificance has garnered increasing attention and acclaim in the decades since its initial release. It is featured here in a High Definition transfer made from original film elements, in its theatrically-exhibited aspect ratio.

On a hot night in 1954, a professor, an actress, a senator and a ballplayer converge in a New York hotel: avatars of four iconic figures from mid-fifties America. Not merely a statement on relativity, politics and the nature of fame, Insignificance is also a performance and script tour de force, with a fluid progression of flashbacks and flash-forwards focusing on the fictional Einstein's current observations, childhood memories and apprehensions for the future.

Special Features:
  • Full Frame Version
  • Original Theatrical Trailer
  • Image Gallery
STREET DATE: SEPTEMBER 1.

The Medusa Touch

Directed by Jack Gold from a script by Oscar winner John Briley, The Medusa Touch is a star-studded, fast-paced thriller with a spectacular, spine-chilling climax. Starring Richard Burton in what author and critic Kim Newman calls his "best screen work of the 1970s", The Medusa Touch is featured here in a High Definition transfer made from original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.

John Morlar, a well-known novelist, is savagely attacked in his London flat. Barely alive, he is taken to hospital, and Brunel, a French detective currently based in the capital, is assigned to the case. His investigations lead him to Morlar's psychiatrist, who discloses that her patient is obsessed: Morlar feels he bears an awesome telekinetic power – the capacity to "will" destruction and death by making airplanes crash and buildings crumble, start raging fires and unleash mighty floods. Preposterous though it seems, Morlar's power is sickeningly real – he is able to wreak havoc at will and seemingly can't be stopped…

Special Features:
  • Audio commentary with director Jack Gold, Kim Newman and Stephen Jones
  • Destroying the Abbey: behind the scenes footage
  • Original Theatrical Trailer
  • Image Gallery
STREET DATE: SEPTEMBER 8.

The Last Seduction

A critically acclaimed neo-noir, The Last Seduction stars Linda Fiorentino as the ultimate screen bitch, Bridget Gregory, wife of Clay Gregory, an unscrupulous doctor who has just made almost a million dollars from a drug deal. Stealing the money and hiding out in 'cow country' to avoid her husband and his private investigator, she begins a passionate affair with local man Mike. Mike has never met anyone like Bridget. She's intelligent, classy, beautiful, dangerous; a master of emotional and sexual manipulation. Passion, greed and revenge forge a desperate triangle as Bridget controls events that can only have a tragic outcome.

Directed by John Dahl and superbly scripted by Steve Barancik, this classy erotic thriller remains a timeless, exceptionally stylish movie that effortlessly raised the benchmark in sociopathic cool. It is featured here in a High Definition transfer made from original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.

Special Features:
  • 5.1 mix on main feature
  • 'Director's Cut' option (SD only) with commentary
  • Alternate ending
  • The Art of Seduction - making of documentary
  • Original theatrical trailer
  • Tomorrow I Die – an episode of Fallen Angels
  • Commemorative booklet
STREET DATE: SEPTEMBER 15.