Powerhouse Films

[Susan Foreman]

'Fatherland' (1986) - Blu-ray pre-order available from Powerhouse direct - £15.99

Release date: April 19

"Ken Loach collaborated with playwright Trevor Griffiths (Comedians) for this underseen political drama about an East German protest singer (played by Gerulf Pannach) who emigrates to the West when he falls foul of the authorities. He arrives to much interest from the media – and a potentially lucrative record contract – but wishes only to be able to perform his songs, and to find his father, another exile, who had left his home country during the 1953 East German uprising."

INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES

• High Definition remaster
• Original mono audio
• Language Barriers (2021): new interview with editor Jonathan Morris
• Talk About Work (1971): Ken Loach’s documentary for the Central Office of Information, photographed by Chris Menges, interviewing young people about their work
• Right to Work March (1972): documentary film of a five-week protest march from Glasgow to London that saw the participation of a number of cultural figures, including Loach and other filmmakers
• Image gallery: publicity and promotional material
• New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
• Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by Frank Collins, an archival interview with Ken Loach, an extract from Loach on Loach, an overview of contemporary critical responses, new writing on the short films, and film credits
• UK premiere on Blu-ray
• Limited edition of 3,000 copies

[Susan Foreman]

'Carla's Song' (1996) - Blu-ray pre-order available from Powerhouse direct - £15.99

Release date: April 19

"The first collaboration between director Ken Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty – a relationship which now extends to fifteen feature films and shorts, including My Name Is Joe and I, Daniel Blake – Carla’s Song tells the story of George (Robert Carlyle, Trainspotting), a Glaswegian bus driver, and Carla (Oyanka Cabezas), a Nicaraguan refugee. Set in 1987, the film follows the pair as they meet, fall in love, and travel to Nicaragua in search of Carla’s former lover, a possible victim of the civil war."

INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES

• High Definition remaster
• Original stereo audio
• Audio commentary with director Ken Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty (2005)
• Keeping Up Appearances (2021): new interview with producer Sally Hibbin
• Two Worlds Collide (2021): new interview with editor Jonathan Morris
• Tuning in to Nicaragua (2021): new interview with composer George Fenton
• Background to the Art (2021): new interview with art director Fergus Clegg
• Sounds of Music (2021): new interview with sound recordist Ray Beckett
• Keeping Up Appearances (2021): new interview with script supervisor Susanna Lenton
• Deleted scenes
• Original theatrical trailer
• Image gallery: publicity and promotional material
• New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
• Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by Michael Pattison, an extract from Paul Laverty’s introduction to his screenplay, Ken Loach on recutting the film, an extract from a report on the Nicaraguan premiere, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and film credits
• UK premiere on Blu-ray
• Limited edition of 3,000 copies

[Susan Foreman]

'Irreversible' (2002) - Blu-ray pre-order available from Powerhouse direct - £22.99

Release date: April 19

"Perhaps the quintessential exemplar of New French Extremism, Irreversible amazed and outraged audiences across the world upon its release in 2002 with its harrowing scenes of rape and violence. Now Gaspar Noé’s nauseating, thrilling, ingenious masterwork returns in a new 4K restoration, both in its original Theatrical Cut and a potent new Straight Cut, assembled in 2020, that re-orders the film’s reverse narrative into a linear chronology."

INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES

• 4K restoration supervised by writer-director Gaspar Noé
• Two versions of the film: the 2002 Theatrical Cut (98 mins); and the 2020 Straight Cut, which re-orders the narrative into a linear chronology (90 mins)
• Original 5.1 surround sound and 2.0 stereo audio tracks
• Audio commentary by Gaspar Noé on the Theatrical Cut (2003)
• The Irreversible Odyssey (2019): retrospective documentary featuring interviews with Gaspar Noé, actors Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel, and others
• SFX (2003): visual effects supervisor Rodolphe Chabrier discusses his team’s work on the film
• Original theatrical trailer
• 2020 Straight Cut trailer
• Image gallery: publicity and promotional material
• New and improved English subtitles
• Limited edition exclusive 80-page book with a new essay by Anna Bogutskaya, archival interviews and articles, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and film credits
• UK premiere on Blu-ray
• Limited edition of 5,000 copies

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

Irreversible for me.

[Graveyard]

Originally Posted by The Reaper Man@Cult Labs

Monica Bellucci for me.

Nice to see Mr. Loach getting some love, Carla's Song it's a lovely movie, never saw Fatherland, curious about that one.

[Rob4]

Originally Posted by Dave Boy

Shadow Of The Cat is a definite for me.

For me too.

It'll probably be part of a Hammer boxset. I'm interested as to what else will be included?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Rob4

For me too.

It'll probably be part of a Hammer boxset. I'm interested as to what else will be included?

I doubt it due to it not actually being an official Hammer film (Even though we know it was made by them)

[Rob4]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I doubt it due to it not actually being an official Hammer film (Even though we know it was made by them)

You could be right Dem. I was just thinking that its provenance is so well known now among Hammer fans Indicator wouldn't pass up the chance to market is as such.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Rob4

You could be right Dem. I was just thinking that its provenance is so well known now among Hammer fans Indicator wouldn't pass up the chance to market is as such.

Haha, in a way it would be false marketing because nowhere in it's credits does it mention Hammer at all.

[Rob4]

Can I be persuaded to buy Irreversible? I've never seen it or really had the desire to. It's always something that sounds to me like you endure rather than enjoy. Anyone here care to make a case for it?