It has been a busy day if you are me. Tons of awesome Blu-ray and DVD news, including this latest piece fresh off the Twitter from Olive Films. Neo-Giallo Amer lands on US Blu-ray and DVD this October 4th, along with a metric buttload of other great genre titles from other companies.
Amer was the toast of the town in 2010, when it played a number of festivals and got good to great reviews from most critics. It has long since been released in the UK and many other markets, but we haven't heard squat about home video releases in the States for a while, so this is very welcome news. In addition to the film, Olive are providing a bunch of very interesting looking extra features. Check below for details:
Amer was the toast of the town in 2010, when it played a number of festivals and got good to great reviews from most critics. It has long since been released in the UK and many other markets, but we haven't heard squat about home video releases in the States for a while, so this is very welcome news. In addition to the film, Olive are providing a bunch of very interesting looking extra features. Check below for details:
An eroticized homage to 1970s Italian giallo horror films... Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani's pastiche tour-de-force plays out a delirious, enigmatic, almost wordless death-dance of fear and desire. Its three movements, each in a different style, correspond to the childhood, adolescence, and adulthood of its female protagonist. Drawing its stylized, hyperbolic gestures from the playbooks of Bava, Leone, Argento and De Palma and taking them into a realm of near-abstraction. Amer has genre in the blood. Its bold widescreen composition, super-focused sound and emphatic music (lifted from original giallo soundtracks), and razor-sharp cuts make for an outrageous and intoxicating cinematic head-trip. Featuring music from composers Stelvio Cipriani, Bruno Nicolai and the legendary Ennio Morricone.There is no Amazon link yet available, but when there is we will update this post.
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Special Features:
THE FIRST FIVE FILMS BY HELENE CATTET & BRUNO FORZANI (WITH INTRODUCTORY NOTES FROM THE FILMMAKERS)
• CATHARSIS (2001)
• CHAMBRE JAUNE (2002)
• LA FIN DE NOTRE AMOUR(2003)
• L’ETRANGE PORTRAIT DE LE DAME EN JAUNE (2004)
• SANTOS PALACE (2006)
TWO THEATRICAL TRAILERS
ONE THEATRICAL TEASER
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Man, I must be the only person who was disappointed with this film. I thought the first third was brilliant but hated the rest of it. If the whole film had the same consistent vibe of the first "story" I would have loved it. I thought it was technically beautiful throughout but it just didn't engage me as a whole. I got that it's a homage and was going for a certain feel rather than plot structure but it could've still accomplished that with a little more effort into the story. Oh well, it's just my opinion. I never was much of a giallo fan.
This was supposed to get a limited theatrical release in like February which it didn't. Olive probably promised them a theatrical knowing damn well it wasn't going to happen and that's probably how they secured the U.S rights.
I will agree that the second segment was the weakest but boy I wish I had the job of following those two women off camera with a leaf blower.
Hah didn't saw my censored cover yet, severed heads and limbs is not a problem but boobs way too horrible for the the land of the free.