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Radiance Films Announces January Releases
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Posted October 4, 2023 06:36 AM by
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 Radiance Films has announced its January batch of Blu-ray releases. They are: Goodbye & Amen (1978), The Sting of Death (1990), and I, the Executioner (1968).
Goodbye & Amen
Description: John Dannahay (Tony Musante, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage), a CIA agent stationed in Rome, is planning to overthrow an African government. But his plan goes wrong when a corrupt colleague starts shooting people from the roof of a hotel, taking an innocent couple hostage. Director Damiano Damiani (How to Kill a Judge) wields expert tension in this gripping espionage thriller, twisting and turning its tight plot to its sensational finale. Featuring a fantastic supporting cast including Claudia Cardinale (The Day of the Owl), John Steiner (The Case is Closed: Forget It) and Wolfango Soldati (The Heroin Busters), Goodbye & Amen is one of the great 1970s Italian action thrill rides, set to a haunting score by Guido and Maurizio De Angelis (Torso, Keoma).
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW RESTORATION OF THE FILM from the original camera negative presented with Italian and, for the first time on home video, English audio options (2023)
- Uncompressed mono PCM audio
- Audio commentary by Eurocrime experts Nathaniel Thompson and Howard Berger (2023)
- Interview with editor Antonio Siciliano
- Archival interview with Wolfango Soldati (2013)
- New and improved English subtitles for Italian audio and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for English audio
- Reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters
- Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Italian crime cinema expert Lucia Rinaldi
- Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
- REGION A/B "LOCKED"
U.S. STREET DATE: JANUARY 30.
UK STREET DATE: JANUARY 29.
The Sting of Death
Description: In the aftermath of World War II, a writer's love affair with another woman drives his wife mad with distrust. Realising his errors, he tries all he can to save her from literally losing her mind. Kohei Oguri's haunting adaptation of the novel by Toshio Shimao is shot in a hyperreal style that is equal parts painterly and unflinching. Featuring striking set design, powerful lead performances and a vivid evocation of small-town life in postwar Japan, The Sting of Death won the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival while stars Ittoku Kishibe and Keiko Matsuzaka won numerous awards for their performances. Radiance Films is proud to present this remarkable film on Blu-ray for the first time in the world.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- High-Definition digital transfer
- Uncompressed mono PCM audio
- Documentary on the Japanese film renaissance of the 1990s featuring interviews with Kohei Oguri, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Kaneto Shindo and others (Hubert Niogret, 2011, 52 mins)
- Interview with film scholar Hideki Maeda (2023)
- Trailer
- Newly translated English subtitles
- Reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters
- Limited edition booklet featuring a newly translated interview with director Kohei Oguri
- Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
- REGION A/B "LOCKED"
U.S. STREET DATE: JANUARY 30.
UK STREET DATE: JANUARY 29.
I, the Executioner
Description: A man brutally murders a woman after forcing her to write the names of four others. As the murders pile up, the police investigate the links between the victims and how they may be connected to the suicide of a young boy in the same building. Directed by Tai Kato (By a Man's Face You Shall Know Him), a former apprentice of Akira Kurosawa better known for his yakuza films, I, the Executioner is a pitch black neo noir that makes the serial killer the central character. Sensationally photographed with claustrophobic close ups, Kato's film evokes both Hitchcock's Psycho and the films of Nagisa Oshima, while also prefiguring the Italian giallo.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- High-Definition digital transfer
- Uncompressed mono PCM audio
- Visual essay on Japanese serial killer films by Jim Harper
- Appreciation by filmmaker Kenta Fukasaku
- Trailer
- Newly translated English subtitles
- Reversible sleeve featuring original newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow
- Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Tony Rayns and a new translation of archival writing on the film
- Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
- REGION-B "LOCKED"
UK STREET DATE: JANUARY 29.
*Also released, exclusively to radiancefilms.co.uk Tai Kato by Tom Mes, a companion book to Tai Kato Blu-ray releases from Radiance Films representing the first extended writing on a sensationally overlooked filmmaker.
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COMING FROM RARO VIDEO:
Death Occurred Last Night
A lonely widower appeals to the police to find his missing daughter. The sceptical police officer picks up the case but it becomes murder when her body is recovered. Now they must find the culprit before the vengeful father does first. Genre master Duccio Tessari (A Pistol for Ringo, The Bloodstained Butterfly) adapts Italy's premier noir writer Giorgio Scerbanenco for this investigative thriller. Death Occurred Last Night goes into methodical detail of the investigation before getting to the titular death, focusing much more on character and process. Raf Vallone (The Italian Job) gives a tortured performance as the father, while Frank Wolf (Once Upon a Time in the West) stars as the dedicated cop.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- High Definition digital transfer from the original camera negative
- Uncompressed mono PCM audio
- Audio essay by Francesco Massaccessi on the importance of Milan in Italian noirs of the period as well as Scerbanenco's character Duca Lamberti inside and outside his cinematic iterations
- Archival interview with Chris Alexander
- Original trailer
- Reversible sleeve featuring artwork based on original posters
- New and improved English subtitle translation for Italian audio and English SDH for English audio
- Limited edition booklet by David Sodergren
- Limited edition of 3000 copies presented in full-height Scanavo packaging
- REGION-FREE
U.S. STREET DATE: JANUARY 30.
UK STREET DATE: JANUARY 29.
 
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Source: Blu-ray.com |
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KrugerIndustrial
Oct 04, 2023
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Goddamn. Just when I thought I was out, they did it again. |
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Alex DeLarge
Oct 04, 2023
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I, The Executioner evokes both Hitchcock and Nagisa Oshima? I'm freakin' in! |
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Stringer-Bell
Oct 04, 2023
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I really like how how this company has brought back the Japanese style spine cards / obi strips. Its simple but also very stylized. They know their audience. |
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Stray_Dog
Oct 04, 2023
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What I don't like are all these 'Limited Editions', with fixed prices. Will there be a standard edition to follow, with the same extras? |
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ikms
Oct 04, 2023
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Yes, standard editions will follow (unless otherwise noted, only one such LE exclusive license to date) minus the booklet and BBFC rating skirting... skirt |
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silverlakephil
Oct 05, 2023
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I, The Executioner is listed in the wrong aspect ratio. It's in Black and White CinemaScope(2:35) |
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