SCENES ON SCREEN
The latest releases coming to cinemas and home media
Scenes on the big screen
Following its premiere at Cannes this year and screenings at the BFI London Film Festival, Amat Escalante’s Lost in the Night will be released in selected cinemas on the 24th of November.
It was written by Escalante, alongside his brother Martin and Paulina Mendoza, and stars Juan Daniel García Treviño and Latin American influencer Ester Expósito. It follows a young man in a Mexican mining town who searches for those responsible for his activist mother’s disapearence. A search which leads him to the wealthy Aldama family.
Scenes on the small screen
Severin Films has announced a second collection of Italian Gothic cinema. Danza Macabra, Vol 2 features three films, as well as an award-winning mini-series, and a host of extra features.
Antonio Margheriti’s Castle Blood has been restored and scanned into 4K, alongside the Italian version Danza Macabra. It’s followed by the 1969 four-part series Jekyll, written and directed by Giorgio Albertazzi. It’s presented from the original RAI-TV tape masters with all new English subtitles.
Scanned into 2K from existing 35mm elements, Corrado Farina’s They Have Changed Their Face is next, available for the first time in America. Rounding out the boxset is The Devil’s Lover, written and directed by Paolo Lombardo and scanned uncut into 2K.
Radiance Films has announced its January 2024 slate of releases, with three new limited edition releases, a book of writing on the work of Tai Kato and a partner release from Raro Video.
Kohei Oguri’s The Sting of Death, adapted from Toshio Shimao’s novel, comes to Blu-ray for the first time, following the fallout of a writer’s affair in post war Japan. It’s presented alongside a documentary on the Japanese film renaissance in the 1990s, interviews with film scholar Hideki Maeda and a booklet with a newly translated interview with the director.
There’s also a new restoration of Damiano Damiani’s espionage thriller Goodbye & Amen. Soundtracked by Guido and Maurizio De Angelis, the release includes an audio commentary from Nathaniel Thompson and Howard Berger, interviews with the cast and crew and new writing from Lucia Rinaldi.
Tai Kato’s neo-noir I, the Executioner comes to Radiance, following the hunt for a serial killer who may be linked to young man’s suicide is presented alongside a visual essay on Japanese serial killer films by Jim Harper, an appreciation of the film by director Kenta Fukasaku and writings by Tony Rayns.
The Kato appreciation continues with Tom Mes’ book on the director’s work. Following Kato from his time as assistant director of Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon through his career creating period actioneers and yakuza films, as well as increasingly taboo and daring pieces.
Rounding out the announcements is the latest film in Radiance’s ongoing agreement with Raro Video. Death Occurred Last Night, directed by Duccio Tessari, has been restored from the original camera negative and comes with an audio essay by Francesco Massaccessi, archival interviews and a booklet by David Sodergren.