' Hoffman' (1970) - Pre-order available at PowerHouse Films direct - £15:99
Release date: January 17 "One of the most unsettling films in the Peter Sellers canon, Hoffman sees the actor in a sinister starring role as a bachelor who obsesses over his secretary (Sinéad Cusack, Tam Lin, Revenge) and, discovering that her boyfriend (Jeremy Bulloch, The Spy Who Loved Me) has been fiddling the books at work, blackmails her into spending a week with him. Their time together reveals Hoffman’s tragic, lonely existence.
Alvin Rakoff (Death Ship) directs a film which is by turns amusing, poignant and uneasy, and which boasts a central performance so uncomfortable and revealing that its star tried to have the film’s negative destroyed. Hoffman makes its worldwide debut on Blu-ray."
Special features: - New restoration from a 4K scan of the original negative by Powerhouse Films
- Original mono audio
- Selected scenes commentary with director Alvin Rakoff (2022)
- New interview with Alvin Rakoff (2022)
- New interview with focus puller Eddie Collins (2022)
- New interview with draughtsman Terry Ackland-Snow (2022)
- Original theatrical trailer
- Image gallery: promotional and publicity material
- New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
- Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by John Rain, archival interviews with Peter Sellers and Sinéad Cusack, a look at author Ernest Gébler’s multiple iterations of the Hoffman story, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and film credits
- World premiere on Blu-ray
- Limited edition of 2,000 copies for the UK
Extras subject to change
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