Point Blank (1967) (4K UHD)

Ensi-ilta: 30.8.1967

Alkuperäinen nimi: Point Blank

Teatterikesto: 91 min

Maa: United States of America

Arvosana: TMDB: 7.0/10 | IMDB

Director John Boorman brought the gangster drama into new realms of modernist abstraction with this stylized revenge thriller, which transforms hard-edged pulp into a kaleidoscopic psychological puzzle. Lee Marvin is iconically cool as the enigmatic Walker, who, after he’s betrayed and left for dead by his best friend during a robbery, embarks on a brutal quest for vengeance, aided by a jaded ex-moll (a sensational Angie Dickinson) who has her own complex motives for helping him. Capturing Los Angeles locales with a surreal pop-art eye, Boorman locates the existential dread lurking beneath the city’s sunlit surface.

Film Info

United States

1967

92 minutes

Color

2.35:1

English

Spine #1306

DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director John Boorman, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features

Audio commentary featuring Boorman and filmmaker Steven Soderbergh

Interview with Boorman conducted by author Geoff Dyer

New interview with critic Mark Harris

New reflections on Point Blank by filmmaker Jim Jarmusch

New program on the midcentury Los Angeles architecture featured in the film, with historian Alison Martino

The Rock (1967), a short documentary on Alcatraz and the making of the film

Interview with Marvin from a 1970 episode of The Dick Cavett Show

Trailer

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

PLUS: An essay by Dyer

New cover by Jay Shaw

Director John Boorman brought the gangster drama into new realms of modernist abstraction with this stylized revenge thriller, which transforms hard-edged pulp into a kaleidoscopic psychological puzzle. Lee Marvin is iconically cool as the enigmatic Walker, who, after he’s betrayed and left for dead by his best friend during a robbery, embarks on a brutal quest for vengeance, aided by a jaded ex-moll (a sensational Angie Dickinson) who has her own complex motives for helping him. Capturing Los Angeles locales with a surreal pop-art eye, Boorman locates the existential dread lurking beneath the city’s sunlit surface.