Indicator April Releases
Indicator, a boutique British video label from Powerhouse Films, has announced their four upcoming Blu-ray releases for April. The selection includes titles for fans of stars Vincent Price, Gene Tierney, Olivia de Havilland, Joan Bennett, James Mason, and Warren Beatty, and for fans of directors Max Ophuls and Robert Rossen.
Although these are being released in the U.K., two of the four titles are listed as Region Free, so those will play in Blu-ray players worldwide. Usually, Indicator’s titles are eventually available through Amazon, DiabolikDVD and other U.S.retailers.
Below are the details directly from the Indicator email newsletter and website:
DRAGONWYCK
(Joseph L Mankiewicz, 1946)
Release date: 22 April 2019
Limited Blu-ray Edition (UK Blu-ray premiere)
The directorial debut of the great Joseph L Mankiewicz (All About Eve, Suddenly, Last Summer), Dragonwyck is a glorious melding of Gothic chills and baroque melodrama. A beautiful Connecticut farm girl (Gene Tierney) finds herself embroiled in a conspiracy of madness, murder and intrigue after she agrees to become governess and nurse to the family of her distant cousin (Vincent Price).
Echoing Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940), and reuniting stars Tierney and Price for the third time in as many years (having previously starred together in Otto Preminger’s Laura, 1944, and John M Stahl’s Leave Her to Heaven, 1945), Dragonwyck is a magnificently creepy chiller with a career-defining performance by Price, luminous cinematography by the legendary Arthur C Miller, and a wonderful Alfred Newman score.
INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES:
- Alternative feature presentations: the legacy
- High Definition remaster; and the new 4K restoration
- Original mono audio
- Interview with Vincent Price (1969): archival audio recording of the celebrated actor in conversation at London’s National Film Theatre
- Audio commentary with film historian Steve Haberman and filmmaker Constantine Nasr
- A House of Secrets – Exploring ‘Dragonwyck’ (2008, 17 mins)
- Lux Radio Theater – ‘Dragonwyck’ (1946, 60 mins): vintage radio dramatisation, starring Vincent Price and Gene Tierney
- The Screen Guild Theater – ‘Dragonwyck’ (1947, 30 mins): vintage radio broadcast, starring Vincent Price and Teresa Wright
- Theatrical trailer
- Extensive image galleries: on-set and promotional photography
- New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
- Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by Neil Sinyard, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and film credits
- UK premiere on Blu-ray
Limited Edition of 3,000 copies - All extras subject to change
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BBFC cert: PG
REGION B
EAN: 5037899071571
THE SNAKE PIT
(Anatole Litvak, 1948)
Release date: 22 April 2019
Limited Blu-ray Edition (World Blu-ray premiere)
Shocking and highly controversial at the time of release, The Snake Pit broke new ground in Hollywood cinema for its depiction of mental illness and its treatment. Olivia de Havilland (Gone with the Wind, The Heiress), delivers an astounding performance as a young bride who suffers a breakdown and finds herself committed to an asylum.
Director Anatole Litvak (Sorry, Wrong Number, Anastasia) had to fight to persuade producer Darryl Zanuck to back the film, but the result remains one of the most potent and powerful films to tackle the subject and was an influence on later works such as Sam Fuller’s Shock Corridor (1963), Robert Rossen’s Lilith (1964) and Miloš Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975).
INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES:
- 4K remaster from original negative
- Original mono audio
- Audio commentary with author and film historian Aubrey Solomons
- The Battles of Olivia de Havilland (2019): critic and film historian Pamela Hutchinson discusses the revered actor’s illustrious career
- Neil Sinyard on ‘The Snake Pit’ (2019): a new appreciation by the author and film historian
- Theatrical trailer
- Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography
- New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
- Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by Lindsay Hallam, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and film credits
- World premiere on Blu-ray
- Limited Edition of 3,000 copies
- All extras subject to change
#PHILTD104
BBFC cert: 12
REGION B
EAN: 5037899071588
THE RECKLESS MOMENT
(Max Ophuls, 1949)
Release date: 22 April 2019
Limited Blu-ray Edition (World Blu-ray premiere)
The legendary Max Ophuls (Letter from an Unknown Woman, La Ronde) directs this tense and stylish 1949 film noir melodrama. Joan Bennett (Scarlet Street, Suspiria) stars as a suburban housewife who covers up a murder to protect her teenage daughter, only to find herself blackmailed by an immoral small-time crook, played by James Mason (North by Northwest, The Deadly Affair).
INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES:
- High Definition remaster
- Original mono audio
- Making an American Movie (2010, 42 mins): an analysis by Lutz Bacher, artist and author of Max Ophuls in the Hollywood Studios, on The Reckless Moment
- Maternal Overdrive – Todd Haynes on ‘The Reckless Moment’ (2006, 22 mins): the award-winning writer-director discusses one of his favourite films
- Focus on James Mason (2018): Sarah Thomas and Adrian Garvey explore the distinguished actor’s long career
- Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography
- New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
- Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by Samm Deighan, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and film credits
- World premiere on Blu-ray
- Limited Edition of 3,000 copies
- All extras subject to change
#PHILTD105
BBFC cert: 12
REGION FREE
EAN: 5037899071595
LILITH
(Robert Rossen, 1964)
Release date: 22 April 2019
Limited Blu-ray Edition (UK Blu-ray premiere)
The final film by the great, yet underrated Robert Rossen (All the King’s Men, The Hustler) is a compelling tale of love, madness, and forbidden desire. Warren Beatty (Mickey One, The Fortune) stars as a young war veteran who takes a job as on orderly in a local asylum and falls under the spell of beautiful schizophrenic, Lilith (Jean Seberg – A Bout de souffle, Bonjour Tristesse).
Boasting a superb supporting cast that includes Peter Fonda, Jessica Walter, Gene Hackman and Kim Hunter, Rossen’s delicate and powerful film is one of the most under-appreciated American films of the 1960s.
INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES:
- High Definition remaster
- Original mono audio
- The Guardian Interview with Warren Beatty (1990): archival audio recording of the celebrated actor in conversation with Christopher Cook at London’s National Film Theatre
- The Suffering Screen (2019): a visual essay by journalist and author Amy Simmons which explores cinema’s enduring fascination with female madness
- The Many Faces of Jean Seberg (2019): critic and film historian Pamela Hutchinson explores the career of the famed actor
- Theatrical trailer
- Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography
- New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
- Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by lecturer and broadcaster Richard Combs, an overview of contemporary critical responses, archival articles, and film credits
- UK premiere on Blu-ray
- Limited Edition of 3,000 copies
- All extras subject to change
#PHILTD129
BBFC cert: 12
REGION FREE
EAN: 5037899071854
