O.C. And Stiggs, Thieves Like Us coming to Blu-ray from Radiance!!!

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Very exciting news today as the new UK-based boutique home video label Radiance has announced two new Altman releases coming in July! This marks O.C. And Stiggs’ first appearance in HD, and the Thieves disc is far more stacked with extras than the Kino release stateside was. Both are currently listed as Region B and will be available 7/17/23!

O.C. And Stiggs (1987)

BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES

  • High-Definition digital transfer
  • Uncompressed mono PCM audio
  • A new documentary featurette on the making of the film by critic Hunter Stephenson featuring new interviews with the cast and crew (2023) - more details to be confirmed
  • New interview with camera operator Robert Reed Altman (2023)
  • Altman on O.C. and Stiggs archival featurette (2005, 8 mins)
  • Trailer
  • Gallery of rare images
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • Reversible sleeve featuring original and new artwork by Time Tomorrow
  • Limited edition booklet featuring archival writings by Robert Altman about the film and his approaches to filmmaking
  • Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings 

Extras subject to change

Thieves Like Us (1974)

BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES

  • High-Definition digital transfer
  • Original uncompressed mono PCM audio
  • Audio commentary by director Robert Altman
  • Brand new interview with co-screenwriter Joan Tewkesbury who discusses the film and her working relationship with Altman (2023)
  • Brand new interview with star Keith Carradine (2023)
  • Geoff Andrew on Thieves Like Us - the critic discusses the film and its place within Altman’s work
  • Two classic radio plays featured in the film - The Shadow written by and starring Orson Welles and Speed Gibson of the International Secret Police starring Ed Gardner
  • Trailer
  • Promotional image gallery
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • Reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters
  • Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by critic Pamela Hutchinson; archival writing by Robert Altman; and a piece looking at the script development from the novel by professor Alan Schroeder
  • Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings 

Extras subject to change

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RIP Ned Beatty (1937-2021)

One of the all-time greats. Unmatched range. Improved everything he showed up in. Worked with Altman twice, in Nashville (1975) and Cookie’s Fortune (1999).

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Paramount Home Media Distribution will add Nashville to its Paramount Presents home video line on August 10th. The Criterion Collection Blu-ray has gone out of print since their access to the rights lapsed, presumably to make way for this release, which only adds a 4K transfer (compared to Criterion’s 2K) and a new featurette. Of course, all of the Criterion-produced extras from their release are missing here.

Synopsis: Following 24 unique characters through 5 days in the country music capital, Robert Altman’s Oscar winning epic presents a complexly textured portrayal (and critique) of America’s obsession with celebrity and power. Among the various stars, aspirants, hangers-on, observers, and media folk are politically ambitious country icon and his fragile star protégée, a self-absorbed rock star who woos a lonely married gospel singer, a talentless waitress painfully humiliated at her first singing gig, a runaway wife with dreams of stardom, and a campaign guru who is trying to organize a concert rally for an unseen presidential candidate. An essential of 70s cinema, this newly remastered Blu-ray, from a 4K film scan of the original elements, looks better than ever.

Special Features and Technical Specs:

- NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM

- NEW 24 Tracks: Robert Altman’s NASHVILLE

- Audio Commentary by Robert Altman

- Theatrical Trailers

- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature

- Collectible packaging featuring a foldout image of each film’s theatrical poster and an interior spread with key movie moments

- STREET DATE: AUGUST 10.

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Pre-order at Amazon.

'Today Nashville is a “greatest films of all time” list regular, but perhaps the film’s most striking legacy is its prescience. Given our own recent experiences of political and social upheaval, its themes are no less vital now: the irresistibility and fallibility of the American dream; America as a cautionary tale of capitalism-gone-haywire; the latent violence embedded in its very constitution that seems destined to surface.’

The 4K restoration of Nashville is released in selected UK cinemas from 25 June. The retrospective season Robert Altman: American Outsider is on at the BFI in London until 31 July bfi.org.uk

Kino’s new Blu-ray of Altman’s 1985 Sam Shepard adaptation Fool For Love is now available - review from DVDBeaver at the link above.

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Available for purchase from Kino Lorber here

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The newly remastered soundtrack for Images by John Williams (yes, that John Williams) is also available on vinyl from Quartet Records (almost Quintet)!

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Quartet Records, in collaboration with Handmade Films, is proud to present a remastered CD reissue of an early masterpiece from legendary composer John Williams (THE TOWERING INFERNO, THE COWBOYS, JAWS, E.T., THE RIVER) for Robert Altman’s 1972 psychological thriller-drama starring Susannah York.

The film inspired one of Williams’ most fascinating and avant-garde scores. The composer based his ideas on two different musical styles: one more classical, almost childlike, the other experimental, aggressive, with an essential contribution from famous Japanese percussionist and experimental musician Stomu Yamash´ta. This musical duality allows Williams to reflect how sanity gradually and irretrievably loses ground to madness in York’s character. The composer was Oscar-nominated in 1972 for both IMAGES and THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE; this was the first time he received a double nomination in the same category of Original Score, something that became usual in the following four decades.

This new 2021 edition, the first official release of IMAGES approved by the composer, has been expertly produced, restored and mastered by Mike Matessino utilizing a recently discovered stereo element, the only available source that could be located. The CD comes with a 20-page booklet featuring an authoritative and exclusive in-depth essay by Jon Burlingame, never-seen-before photos of the C.T.S. recording session with Williams, Yamash’ta and Altman, as well as the recently discovered liner notes written by Williams for an album (carefully assembled by the composer himself) that was ultimately released only as promotional edition for members of the Academy.

Joseph Walsh Wrote a Sequel to “California Split”

Called “Lunch with Bill and Charlie.” Available to read here.