Chameleon Street Blu-ray (UPDATED)
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Posted June 19, 2023 06:56 PM by Webmaster
Arbelos has dated and detailed its upcoming Blu-ray release of Wendell B. Harris Jr.'s film Chameleon Street (1989). The release will be available for purchase on August 8.
UPDATE Arbelos will have a Limited Edition with an exclusive slipcase available for purchase through its site as well.
Label description: Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival—yet criminally underseen for over three decades—Chameleon Street recounts the improbable but true story of Michigan con man Douglas Street, the titular "chameleon" who successfully impersonated his way up the socioeconomic ladder by posing as a magazine reporter, an Ivy League student, a respected surgeon, and a corporate lawyer. Elevated by a dexterous performance and daring direction from multi-hyphenate actor-writer-director Wendell B. Harris Jr., the film pins a lens on race, class and performance in American identity, which has lost none of its relevance. At once piercingly funny and aesthetically mischievous, Chameleon Street is a "lost masterpiece of Black American cinema" (BFI) long overdue to take its rightful place in the independent film canon.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
UPDATE Arbelos will have a Limited Edition with an exclusive slipcase available for purchase through its site as well.
Label description: Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival—yet criminally underseen for over three decades—Chameleon Street recounts the improbable but true story of Michigan con man Douglas Street, the titular "chameleon" who successfully impersonated his way up the socioeconomic ladder by posing as a magazine reporter, an Ivy League student, a respected surgeon, and a corporate lawyer. Elevated by a dexterous performance and daring direction from multi-hyphenate actor-writer-director Wendell B. Harris Jr., the film pins a lens on race, class and performance in American identity, which has lost none of its relevance. At once piercingly funny and aesthetically mischievous, Chameleon Street is a "lost masterpiece of Black American cinema" (BFI) long overdue to take its rightful place in the independent film canon.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION from the original 35mm camera negative
- New audio commentary featuring Wendell B. Harris Jr. and Ashley Clark
- New audio commentary featuring cast and crew
- Marriage Counseling - The evolution of a scene
- Being Independent is Glorious - An archival conversation featuring Harris and Mike Plante
- Archival video interview with William Douglas Street Jr.
- The Process - Archival documentary on the making of CHAMELEON STREET
- Colette Vignette &#@45; Harris' award-winning 1986 short film featuring CHAMELEON STREET actress Colette Haywood
- So, You Say You Know Leadbelly… - Archival footage from CHAMELEON STREET pre-production character explorations
- Original theatrical trailer
- 2021 U.S theatrical trailer
