The Driver's Seat Blu-ray
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Posted June 21, 2023 06:11 PM by Webmaster
The British Film Institute has provided a promotional video for its upcoming Blu-ray release of Giuseppe Patroni Griffi's The Driver's Seat (1974), starring Elizabeth Taylor, Ian Bannen, Mona Washbourne, Guido Mannari, and Luigi Squarzina. The release will be available for purchase on June 26.
Description: Elizabeth Taylor stars as a troubled woman who, upon arriving in Rome, finds a city fragmented by autocratic law, leftist violence and her own increasingly unhinged mission to find the most dangerous liaison of all. Never before released in the UK, The Driver's Seat (aka Identikit) remains the most obscure, bizarre and wildly misunderstood film of Taylor's illustrious career. Adapted from an unnerving novella by Muriel Spark (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie), the film marked a wild step into the unknown for the screen icon, as she cast off the shackles of the US studio system in the shadow of her tumultuous personal life. Co-starring Ian Bannen, Mona Washbourne and Andy Warhol, The Driver's Seat stunned critics and audiences alike upon its premiere in 1974 but failed to secure a UK release – until now.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Description: Elizabeth Taylor stars as a troubled woman who, upon arriving in Rome, finds a city fragmented by autocratic law, leftist violence and her own increasingly unhinged mission to find the most dangerous liaison of all. Never before released in the UK, The Driver's Seat (aka Identikit) remains the most obscure, bizarre and wildly misunderstood film of Taylor's illustrious career. Adapted from an unnerving novella by Muriel Spark (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie), the film marked a wild step into the unknown for the screen icon, as she cast off the shackles of the US studio system in the shadow of her tumultuous personal life. Co-starring Ian Bannen, Mona Washbourne and Andy Warhol, The Driver's Seat stunned critics and audiences alike upon its premiere in 1974 but failed to secure a UK release – until now.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 4K RESTORATION BY SEVERIN FILMS AND CINETECA DI BOLOGNA
- Introduction By Kier-La Janisse, author of House of Psychotic Women (2022, 6 mins)
- Audio Commentary with curator and programmer Millie De Chirico (2022)
- A Lack of Absence (2022, 22 mins): writer and literary historian Chandra Mayor on Muriel Spark and The Driver's Seat
- The Driver's Seat (credit sequences) (1974, 4 mins)
- Waiting For… (1970, 11 mins): a woman embarks on a filmmaking project after being given a camera and told to capture her everyday reality
- The Telephone (1981, 4 mins): a young woman enacts imaginative revenge on her boyfriend
- Darling, Do You Love Me? (1968, 4 mins): in a parody of her media persona, Germaine Greer stars as a terrifyingly amorous woman who pursues a man relentlessly
- National Theatre of Scotland trailer (2015, 2 mins): a promotional clip for the UK's first stage production of The Drivers Seat
- First pressing only: Illustrated booklet featuring new writing on the film by the BFI's Simon McCallum and Canadian artist, writer and filmmaker Bruce LaBruce. Also includes Kier-La Janisse's piece on The Driver's Seat, previously published in her acclaimed book, House of Psychotic Women
