The Lighthouse

release date: 12th June 2023 

 

From Robert Eggers, the visionary director of The Witch and The Northman, comes The Lighthouse, a hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two men teetering on the edge of sanity. Two “wickies” – one inexperienced (Robert Pattinson, Tenet), the other a grizzled veteran (Willem Dafoe, To Live and Die in LA) – arrive on a remote New England island in the 1890s for a four-week stint maintaining the local lighthouse. But as isolation and personal differences take their toll, both men slowly succumb to their inner demons and to the strange, otherworldly allure of the lighthouse itself… Featuring virtuoso performances by its two leads, striking and period-authentic monochrome photography, and shot through with wickedly dark humour, The Lighthouse is an intense, claustrophobic experience like no other that cements Eggers’ status as one of the most exciting filmmakers of our time.

 

• High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentation, approved by director Robert Eggers

• Audio commentary by co-writer/director Robert Eggers

• Art of Darkness: Making The Lighthouse – a brand new, in-depth documentary on the film, its production, themes and influences, featuring new interviews with co-writer/director Robert Eggers, director of photography Jarin Blaschke, production designer Craig Lathrop, costume designer Linda Muir and authors Guy Adams and Alexandra Benedict

• The Lighthouse: A Dark & Stormy Tale – a three-part documentary on the making of the film

• Limited edition 60-page perfect bound book featuring new writing on the film by Simon Abrams, Wickham Clayton, Martyn Conterio and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

• Fold-out double-sided poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Jeffrey Alan Love

• Six double-sided collector’s postcards

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The Changeling

release date: 5th June 2023 

 

After the tragic loss of his wife and daughter, a New York composer relocates to Seattle in hopes of a fresh start, only to find that his new home harbours a terrible secret.

 

• New 4K scan and restoration presented in HDR10

• Audio Commentary with Director Peter Medak and Producer Joel B. Michaels

• Interview with Peter Medak by filmmaker Adrián García Bogliano at Mórbido Fest 2018

• The House on Cheesman Park – The Haunting True Story of The Changeling

• The Music of The Changeling – an interview with Music Arranger Kenneth Wannberg

• Building the House Of Horror – an interview with Art Director Reuben Freed

• Rigid slipcase with new artwork by Christopher Shy

• 108 page book with new essays by ​​Martyn Conterio, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Rich Johnson, Mikel J Koven, Meagan Navarro, Rachel Reeves, Shelagh Rown-Legg and Heather Wixson plus archive interview with Peter Medak

• Original Soundtrack CD

• 5 collectors’ art cards

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The Hot Spot

release date: 5th june 2023 

 

Harry, a drifter (Don Johnson, Miami Vice) rolls into town and talks his way into a job at a car dealership where he becomes caught between two beautiful women, the boss’s conniving wife Dolly (Virginia Madsen, Candyman) and Gloria (Jennifer Connelly, Requiem for a Dream) a naive young accountant whose life is complicated by blackmail. When Harry plans to rob the local bank, he becomes enmeshed in a lethal web of lust, greed and extortion, whose only escape is murder. Adapted from Hell Hath No Fury by Charles Williams, The Hot Spot is a dusty, sweaty modern noir that updates the pulp formula of twists and turns with an intensity to match director Dennis Hopper’s earlier film roles. Directed by Hopper (Easy Rider, Out of the Blue) with verve, the stellar cast are supported by William Sadler (The Shawshank Redemption), Charles Martin Smith (The Untouchables) and Jack Nance (Eraserhead) accompanied by a brilliant soundtrack featuring Miles Davis, John Lee Hooker, Taj Mahal and original music by Jack Nitzsche.

 

• 2K restoration by Kino Lorber, overseen and approved by cinematographer Ueli Steiger

• Archival interview with Dennis Hopper who discusses The Hot Spot and features footage of John Lee Hooker and images from the set (1991)

• Nick Dawson on Dennis Hopper and The Hot Spot, an interview with the editor of Dennis Hopper: Interviews (2023)

• Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by critics Elena Lazic on the film; Leslie Byron Pitt on the erotic thriller genre and the film’s place within it; and an archival piece on the film featuring an interview with Hopper by RJ Smith

• Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings

  • • Interviews with stars Virginia Madsen (2021, 7 mins) and William Sadler (2021, 7 mins)

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The Kid

release date: 26th june 2023 

 

Charlie Chaplin was already an international star when he decided to break out of the short-film format and make his first full-length feature. The Kid doesn’t merely show Chaplin at a turning point, when he proved that he was a serious film director—it remains an expressive masterwork of silent cinema. In it, he stars as his lovable Tramp character, this time raising an orphan (a remarkable young Jackie Coogan) he has rescued from the streets. Chaplin and Coogan make a miraculous pair in this nimble marriage of sentiment and slapstick, a film that is, as its opening title card states, “a picture with a smile—and perhaps, a tear.

 

• New 4K digital restoration of Charlie Chaplin’s 1972 rerelease version of the film, featuring an original score by Chaplin, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

• New audio commentary featuring Chaplin historian Charles Maland

• Jackie Coogan: The First Child Star, a new video essay by Chaplin historian Lisa Haven

• A Study in Undercranking, a new program featuring silent-film specialist Ben Model

• Interviews with Coogan and actor Lita Grey Chaplin 

• Excerpted audio interviews with cinematographer Rollie Totheroh and film distributor Mo Rothman

• “Charlie” on the Ocean, a 1921 newsreel documenting Chaplin’s first return trip to Europe

• Nice and Friendly, a 1922 silent short featuring Chaplin and Coogan, presented with a new score by composer Timothy Brock

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Smooth Talk

release date: 26th june 2023 

 

Suspended between carefree youth and the harsh realities of the adult world, a teenage girl experiences an unsettling awakening in this haunting vision of innocence lost. Based on Joyce Carol Oates’s celebrated short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” the narrative debut from Joyce Chopra features a revelatory breakout performance by Laura Dern as Connie, the fifteen-year-old black sheep of her family, whose summertime idyll of beach trips, mall hangouts, and innocent flirtations is shattered by an encounter with a mysterious stranger (a memorably menacing Treat Williams). Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, Smooth Talk captures the thrill and terror of adolescent sexual exploration, and it transforms the conventions of a coming-of-age story into something altogether more troubling and profound.

 

• New, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by director Joyce Chopra, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

• Conversation among Chopra, author Joyce Carol Oates, and actor Laura Dern from the 2020 New York Film Festival, moderated by Turner Classic Movies host Alicia Malone

• New conversations between Chopra and actors Treat Williams and Mary Kay Place, moderated by Malone

• Joyce at 34 (1972), Girls at 12 (1975), and Clorae and Albie (1975), three short films by Chopra

• Audio reading of the 1966 Life magazine article “The Pied Piper of Tucson,” which inspired the short story by Oates

• PLUS: An essay by poet and memoirist Honor Moore

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I Am Weekender

release date: 19th june 2023 

 

Initially banned on its release, Weekender – the film of Flowered Up’s classic acid house cri de cœur – is today hailed as one of the most innovative music films ever made. Now WIZ’s pioneering meditation on the British rave experience is celebrated in I Am Weekender, Chloé Raunet’s documentary about the film’s making, impact and legacy, with contributions from Irvine Welsh, Jeremy Deller, Lynne Ramsay, Bobby Gillespie, Clive Langer, Mark Moore, Róisín Murphy, Annie Nightingale, Shaun Ryder, David Holmes, Roy the Roach and more. Once described as ‘the Citizen Kane of acid house’, Weekender, the film that started it all, is also included here in a brand new 2K restoration.

 

• Weekender (1992, 19 mins): the film itself, remastered from the original camera negative and presented in a new 2K restoration

• Take It (1991, 4 mins): Flowered Up promotional video directed by WIZ

• Phobia (1990, 4 mins): Flowered Up promotional video directed by Paul Cannell

• It’s On (1990, 4 mins): Flowered Up promotional video directed by Pinko

• Raise (1990, 4 mins): Bocca Juniors promotional video directed by WIZ and featuring Anna Haigh

• Nish (1989, 4 mins): a short film about early acid house culture by WIZ

• Turn It Up (2023, 27 mins): Chloé Raunet discusses the making of her documentary in this newly recorded interview

• Rushes Revisited (Adam Dunlop, 2023, 9 mins): four sketches made from unseen rushes featuring previously unheard isolated tracks from the original recordings

• Limited edition including slipcase and featuring a fully illustrated booklet with new essays by Miranda Sawyer, Adelle Stripe, Des Penney and WIZ

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National Lampoon’s Vacation Ultimate Collector’s Edition

release date: 26th june 2023 

 

The Griswolds are going on vacation. In the driver’s seat is Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase), an everyman eager to share the open road and the wonders of family togetherness with his long-suffering wife (Beverly D’Angelo) and their two frustrated teens. After myriad mishaps; 2,460 miles; and a run-in with a hapless security guard (John Candy), it’s a wonder the Griswolds are still together. There’s never been a family vacation like it.

 

• Film on 4K UHD and Blu-Ray

• Rigid Slipcase with Original Theatrical Art

• Double-Sided A3 Poster

• 4 Double Sided Art Cards

• Bumper Sticker

• Capacity Envelope

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Waterworld

release date: 26th june 2023

 

The most expensive film ever made at the time of its release, Waterworld has thrilled audiences through the years with its awe-inspiring action scenes, gargantuan maritime sets and ground-breaking special effects. A definitive post-apocalypse blockbuster, Waterworld stars Kevin Costner (The Untouchables) as The Mariner – a mutant trader, adrift in a dystopian future where Earth is submerged under water and humankind struggles to survive on boats and in ramshackle floating cities. The Mariner becomes embroiled with the Smokers, a gang of pirates who, led by villainous leader Deacon (Dennis Hopper, Blue Velvet), are seeking Enola (Tina Majorino, Napoleon Dynamite), a girl with a map to the mythical realm of Dryland tattooed on her back.

Famous for both its epic scale and the controversy that swirled around its production, Waterworld is a key cult film of the 1990s, and an essential entry into the subgenre of ecologically-minded blockbusters. Presented here in an exclusive new restoration of the theatrical cut in 4K Ultra HD, alongside Blu-ray presentations of the TV and Ulysses cuts, and with a wealth of extra material, this high-water mark of high-concept Hollywood can now be enjoyed as never before.

 

• Three cuts of the film newly restored from original film elements by Arrow Films

• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• Six collector’s postcards

• Double-sided fold-out poster

• Limited edition 60-page perfect bound book featuring writing on the film by David J. Moore and Daniel Griffith, and archival articles

• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Paul Shipper

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Fists in the Pocket

release date: 19th june 2023

 

Tormented by twisted desires, a young man takes drastic measures to rid his grotesquely dysfunctional family of its various afflictions, in this astonishing 1965 debut from Marco Bellocchio. With its coolly assured style, shocking perversity, and savage gallows humor, Fists in the Pocket (I pugni in tasca) was a gleaming ice pick in the eye of bourgeois family values and Catholic morality, a truly unique work that continues to rank as one of the great achievements of Italian cinema.

 

• New 4K digital restoration, approved by director Marco Bellocchio, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

• Interviews from 2005 with Bellocchio, actors Lou Castel and Paola Pitagora, editor Silvano Agosti, critic Tullio Kezich, and filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci

• New interview with scholar Stefano Albertini

• Trailer

• New English subtitle translation

• PLUS: An essay by film critic Deborah Young 

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Red Sun

release date: 19th june 2023

 

Thomas (Marquard Bohm, Kings of the Road) gets a ride to Munich where he finds his ex-girlfriend Peggy (counter culture activist and model Uschi Obermaier) who takes him in. In her flat he finds Peggy and her roommates have a commune-like lifestyle where they kill the men in their lives after five days, but will Thomas realise in time? A pop fantasy focused on the post-’68 and women’s liberation movements, Red Sun was compared to a comic strip by Wim Wenders and is a beautiful art-genre collision that is both brilliantly bizarre and provocative. Director Rudolf Thome was an emerging talent in the New German Cinema alongside Wenders, Fassbinder and Herzog, but received little international distribution and fell into obscurity despite a consistent career covering six decades. Radiance Films is proud to present Red Sun to English-speaking audiences for the first time in a restoration overseen by Thome.

 

• High-definition digital transfer overseen by director Rudolf Thome

• Select scene commentary with Thome and Rainer Langhans, Obermaier’s boyfriend and Kommune 1 member who served as inspiration for the film and was on set for the shoot

• Rote Sonne between Pop Sensibility and Social Critique – A newly produced visual essay by scholar Johannes von Moltke on Red Sun, which looks at the social and cultural influences on the film and provides context for the era in which it was made (2022, 21 mins)

• From Oberhausen to the Fall of the Wall: A visual essay by academic and programmer Margaret Deriaz tracing the development of the New German Cinema from the Oberhausen Manifesto to the fall of the Berlin wall (2023, 50 mins)

• Limited edition 52-page booklet featuring new writing on the film by Samm Deighan, newly translated archival letters by Wim Wenders, critic Enno Patalas and the German Film Evaluation Office on the film’s official submission, newly translated archival interview with Rudolf Thome and an overview reviews

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