Garv’s Pick of the Week: The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (Synapse Films)
For the release week of September 1st:
Garv’s Pick of the Week: The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue [Blu-ray + DVD + CD / Synapse Films]: The dead walk in this colorful 1974 zombie film, highly influenced by George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. Synapse Films, who produced the amazingly beautiful restoration of Suspiria (1977) have worked their magic in the 4K restoration of this cult film from the original camera negative. This limited-edition steelbook includes two audio commentaries, a feature-length documentary, a CD soundtrack, and much more.
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Britannia Hospital [Blu-ray / Kino Lorber]: Director Lindsay Anderson and star Malcolm McDowell completed their Mick Travis trilogy with this 1982 satire of the British National Health Service and of English society as a whole. While the movie isn’t as accomplished as the previous films in the loosely-connected series, if…. (1968) and O Lucky Man (1973), it is still a Lindsay Anderson film, so it has moments of brilliance.
Clockwise [Blu-ray / Kino Lorber]: Everything that can possibly go wrong does as a school headmaster (John Cleese) tries to travel cross-country to give a speech at an important conference.
Death on the Nile [Blu-ray / Kino Lorber]: The success of Sidney Lumet’s Murder on the Orient Express (1974) led to a series of all-star film adaptations of Agatha Christie novels, and Kino Lorber is releasing three on Blu-ray this week. Peter Ustinov took over the role of Hercule Poirot in 1978 for this mystery set aboard a luxury liner on a cruise of the Nile.
Evil Under the Sun [Blu-ray / Kino Lorber]: Ustinov returned to the role of Poirot for this 1982 follow-up.
The Mirror Crack’d [Blu-ray / Kino Lorber]: Before Angela Lansbury portrayed Jessica Fletcher in the series Murder, She Wrote, she played Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple in this 1980 mystery.
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