Radiance Films Announces September Releases
HomeRadiance Films Announces September Releases
Posted June 5, 2024 06:47 AM by Webmaster
Radiance Films has announced its September batch of Blu-ray releases. They are: Tattooed Life (1965), A Man on His Knees (1979), We Still Kill the Old Way (1967), A Quiet Place in the Country (1968), and Death Game (1977).
Tattooed Life
Tetsuo (Hideki Takahashi, Fighting Elegy), a low-level yakuza is double-crossed by his boss and attacked. His younger brother Kenji (Kotobuki Hananomoto, This Transient Life), an aspiring artist with no connections to crime, comes to his aid and kills Tetsuo's assailant. Fearing repercussions from the yakuza they flee to Manchuria where they risk coming under suspicion of rival gangs. Seijun Suzuki (Branded to Kill) remains loyal to the conventions of the yakuza film, but Tattooed Life contains flashes of his later creative genius, including a final act of explosive visual excess that has become one of the director's all-time classic scenes.
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UK STREET DATE: SEPTEMBER 23.
A Man on His Knees
Mistaken as a witness to a crime, Nino (Giuliano Gemma, The Iron Prefect), learns from a friend he has been put on a Mafia hit list and is being stalked by an assassin (Michele Placido, Romanzo Criminale). A man with a troubled past, Nino knows only too well what he faces and uses all his strength and cunning to keep himself and his family alive. Featuring stunning performances from both leads, Damiano Damiani (The Day of the Owl) applies his trademark realism and socio-political commentary to A Man on His Knees, charting Nino's desperation as he refuses to kneel before the power of organised crime. Newly restored in 4K, Radiance Films is proud to present one of Damiani's finest films on Blu-ray for the first time in the world.
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UK STREET DATE: SEPTEMBER 23.
We Still Kill the Old Way
After two men are killed on a hunting trip a lonely professor (Gian Maria Volonté, The Working Class Goes to Heaven), takes it upon himself to investigate what he believes was not a simple honour killing. As his search intensifies, politics and the Church become implicated in a complex conspiracy orchestrated by a powerful criminal organisation. Elio Petri's We Still Kill the Old Way, based on the novel by Leonardo Sciascia (The Day of the Owl), is a tense paranoid thriller that features Volonté in one of his finest performances and a superb score by Luis Bacalov (Django). Winner of awards for Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival and Best Actor at the Italian Golden Globes, the film is made available on home video for the first time in the UK.
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A Quiet Place in the Country
Leonardo (Franco Nero, The Day of the Owl) is a celebrated artist plagued by nightmares which stop him from completing his work. His agent and sometime lover, Flavia (Vanessa Redgrave, The Devils), encourages him to relax, so he buys a country villa. Once there he begins tracing the story of the previous owner while Flavia's presence in the house seems to awaken something as she encounters one mysterious accident after another. Part ghost story, part meditation on the creative process told through the excesses of the 1960s. Elio Petri (The Working Class Goes to Heaven) brilliantly fuses these ideas in ways that are at times shocking, yet thought-provoking in their investigation of art, sex and madness, set to an eerie score by Ennio Morricone.
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Death Game
Grindhouse Releasing is proud to present the ultimate 1970s psychological thriller. John Cassavetes veteran Seymour Cassel stars as George Manning, a family man whose perfect life is turned into a nightmare of sex and torture when he allows himself to be seduced by two nubile young strangers (Sondra Locke and Colleen Camp) who show up at his door on a rainy night. Considered lost for many decades, Death Game is presented for the first time on UK home video in its original 2.39:1 aspect ratio, meticulously restored in 4K from the original camera negative. Special Features and Technical Specs:
Tattooed Life
Tetsuo (Hideki Takahashi, Fighting Elegy), a low-level yakuza is double-crossed by his boss and attacked. His younger brother Kenji (Kotobuki Hananomoto, This Transient Life), an aspiring artist with no connections to crime, comes to his aid and kills Tetsuo's assailant. Fearing repercussions from the yakuza they flee to Manchuria where they risk coming under suspicion of rival gangs. Seijun Suzuki (Branded to Kill) remains loyal to the conventions of the yakuza film, but Tattooed Life contains flashes of his later creative genius, including a final act of explosive visual excess that has become one of the director's all-time classic scenes.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- High-Definition digital transfer
- Uncompressed mono PCM audio
- Audio commentary by William Carroll, author of Seijun Suzuki and Postwar Cinema (2024)
- Newly edited archival interview with director Seijun Suzuki
- Newly edited archival interview with art director Takeo Kimura
- Trailer
- Newly improved English subtitle translation
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow
- Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Tom Vick and a newly translated archival review of the film
- REGION A/B "LOCKED"
UK STREET DATE: SEPTEMBER 23.
A Man on His Knees
Mistaken as a witness to a crime, Nino (Giuliano Gemma, The Iron Prefect), learns from a friend he has been put on a Mafia hit list and is being stalked by an assassin (Michele Placido, Romanzo Criminale). A man with a troubled past, Nino knows only too well what he faces and uses all his strength and cunning to keep himself and his family alive. Featuring stunning performances from both leads, Damiano Damiani (The Day of the Owl) applies his trademark realism and socio-political commentary to A Man on His Knees, charting Nino's desperation as he refuses to kneel before the power of organised crime. Newly restored in 4K, Radiance Films is proud to present one of Damiani's finest films on Blu-ray for the first time in the world.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
- Uncompressed mono PCM audio
- Archival interviews with stars Giuliano Gemma, Tano Cimarosa and assistant director Mino Giarda
- New interview with Alberto Pezzotta, author of Regia Damiano Damiani
- Trailer
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Filippo Di Battista
- Booklet featuring new writing by Roberto Curti
- REGION A/B "LOCKED"
UK STREET DATE: SEPTEMBER 23.
We Still Kill the Old Way
After two men are killed on a hunting trip a lonely professor (Gian Maria Volonté, The Working Class Goes to Heaven), takes it upon himself to investigate what he believes was not a simple honour killing. As his search intensifies, politics and the Church become implicated in a complex conspiracy orchestrated by a powerful criminal organisation. Elio Petri's We Still Kill the Old Way, based on the novel by Leonardo Sciascia (The Day of the Owl), is a tense paranoid thriller that features Volonté in one of his finest performances and a superb score by Luis Bacalov (Django). Winner of awards for Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival and Best Actor at the Italian Golden Globes, the film is made available on home video for the first time in the UK.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 2K RESTORATION of the film by Movietime in association with Museo Nazionale del Cinema Torino, on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK
- Original uncompressed mono PCM audio
- Archival documentary featuring interviews with writer Ugo Pirro, composer Luis Bacalov and Paola Petri
- Interview with make-up artist Pierantonio Mecacci
- Interview with Roberto Curti, author of Elio Petri: Investigation of a Filmmaker
- Interview with Fabrizio Catalano, grandson of author Leonardo Sciascia
- Trailer
- Newly translated English subtitles
- Reversible sleeve featuring artwork based on original posters
- Limited edition booklet featuring new writing on the film by scholar David Wingrove
- REGION B "LOCKED"
A Quiet Place in the Country
Leonardo (Franco Nero, The Day of the Owl) is a celebrated artist plagued by nightmares which stop him from completing his work. His agent and sometime lover, Flavia (Vanessa Redgrave, The Devils), encourages him to relax, so he buys a country villa. Once there he begins tracing the story of the previous owner while Flavia's presence in the house seems to awaken something as she encounters one mysterious accident after another. Part ghost story, part meditation on the creative process told through the excesses of the 1960s. Elio Petri (The Working Class Goes to Heaven) brilliantly fuses these ideas in ways that are at times shocking, yet thought-provoking in their investigation of art, sex and madness, set to an eerie score by Ennio Morricone.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- High-Definition digital transfer, presented with optional English and Italian audio tracks, on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK
- Uncompressed mono PCM audio
- New interview on the film by author Stephen Thrower (2024)
- Archival interview with actor Franco Nero
- Interview with make-up artist Pierantonio Mecacci
- Visual essay by critic and filmmaker Kat Ellinger on the theme of masculinity in the film and Petri's work (2024)
- Trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation for Italian audio and English SDH for English audio
- Reversible sleeve featuring artwork based on original posters
- Limited edition booklet featuring new writing on the film by Simon Abrams
- REGION B "LOCKED"
Death Game
Grindhouse Releasing is proud to present the ultimate 1970s psychological thriller. John Cassavetes veteran Seymour Cassel stars as George Manning, a family man whose perfect life is turned into a nightmare of sex and torture when he allows himself to be seduced by two nubile young strangers (Sondra Locke and Colleen Camp) who show up at his door on a rainy night. Considered lost for many decades, Death Game is presented for the first time on UK home video in its original 2.39:1 aspect ratio, meticulously restored in 4K from the original camera negative. Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Spectacular new 4K restoration created from the original camera negative
- Provocative, in-depth interviews with cult movie legend Colleen Camp (GAME OF DEATH, APOCALYPSE NOW) and director Peter Traynor, conducted by Eli Roth
- Additional interviews with co-star Sondra Locke, producer Larry Spiegel, cinematographer/editor David Worth, and screenwriter Michael Ronald Ross
- Audio commentaries by Colleen Camp & Eli Roth, and Larry Spiegel & David Worth
- 24-page full-color booklet with rare photos and liner notes
- Extensive still galleries
- AND OTHER SURPRISES!
- REGION-FREE
