THE NIGHT PORTER: ON UK DVD AND BLU-RAY NOW!
The Night Porter – still balancing on a cinematic highwire betwixt Nazi exploitation and taboo busting work of art decades after it first shocked the world – is out today (30.08.2012) on UK DVD and Blu-ray. We’ve been raving about the release for weeks and on a personal level, I think this is one of THE great movies of the 1970s. In a decade when the directors ruled Hollywood and boundaries were being pushed in mainstream, genre and exploitation pictures, The Night Porter challenged them all and stands shoulder to shoulder with films like Last Tango In Paris, The Boys In The Band, W.R.- Mysteries of the Organism and Carnal Knowledge as a work that shocked audiences out of their complacency and asked probing questions.
Check out the content we’ve been posting in recent week – including exclusive film and interview clips – and prepare yourself to either revisit a troubling but ultimately satisfying work of terrible imagination or step for the first time into a nasty classic from a different time when the cinema audience actively wanted a challenge…