This March, INDICATOR continues its mission to publish unmissable films in lovingly-produced Limited Dual Format Editions (including UK premiere Blu-rays and a collector’s booklet).
Available on 20 March, INDICATOR presents three all-time classics: John Huston’s brilliant, powerful boxing drama FAT CITY (1972), with Stacy Keach and Jeff Bridges; Fritz Lang’s noir masterpiece THE BIG HEAT (1953), starring Glenn Ford and Gloria Grahame; and Martin Ritt’s bold Hollywood-blacklist comedy drama THE FRONT (1976), featuring Woody Allen and Zero Mostel.
Mastered from the finest available materials, each of these essential releases will feature expertly encoded presentations, a range of new and archival extra features, and newly-improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. Published in limited runs, these first pressings will also contain an exclusive, full-colour booklet with newly commissioned writing and full film credits.
FAT CITY
Directed by John Huston
Starring Jeff Bridges, Stacy Keach, Susan Tyrell, Candy Clark
Release Date: 20 March, 2017
John Huston’s sombre but compassionate boxing drama is a criminally-underseen late-career masterpiece from the great director.
Peppered with outstanding performances this gritty yet affectionate look at the world of small-time boxing highlights a down-and-out fighter and a young up-and-comer, both moving through a world of seedy gyms and flop houses.
INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES:
• 4K restoration • Original mono audio
• Audio commentary by film historians Lem Dobbs and Nick Redman
• New ‘making of’ documentary featuring interviews with stars Stacy Keach and Candy Clark
• Archival interview with director John Huston on Fat CIty
• Isolated score
• Original theatrical trailer • Image gallery
• New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
• Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by critic Danny Leigh
• UK Blu-ray premiere • Limited Dual Format Edition of 3,000 copies
THE BIG HEAT
Directed by Fritz Lang
Starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Lee Marvin, Jocelyn Brando
Release Date: 20 March, 2017
A HARD COP AND A SOFT DAME… IN A BRASS-KNUCLE THRILLER!
Fritz Lang’s iconic film noir masterpiece is an uncompromising exploration of corruption and violence at the dark heart of small-town America.
Glenn Ford is the good cop in a bad town, who single-handedly takes on local mobsters headed by Alexander Scourby and his psychotic right-hand man Lee Marvin.
INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES:
• Audio commentary by film historians Lem Dobbs, Julie Kirgo and Nick Redman
• New filmed appreciation by film historian Tony Rayns
• Martin Scorsese on The Big Heat
• Michael Mann on The Big Heat
• Isolated score • Original theatrical trailer
• Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography
• New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
• Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by critic Glenn Kenny
• Limited Dual Format Edition of 3,000 copies • UK Blu-ray premiere
THE FRONT
Directed by Martin Ritt
Starring Woody Allen, Zero Mostel, Michael Murphy
Release Date: 20 March, 2017
What if there were a list?
A list that said: Our finest actors weren’t allowed to act. Our best writers aren’t allowed to write.
Our funniest comedians aren’t allowed to make us laugh. What would it be like if there were such a list?
It would be like America in 1953.
INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES:
• Audio commentary by actress Andrea Marcovicci, and film historians Julie Kirgo and Nick Redman
• Director of Photography Michael Chapman on The Front
• Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography • Original theatrical trailer
• New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
• Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by professor Gabriel Miller, author of The Films of Martin Ritt: Fanfare for the Common Man
• Limited Dual Format Edition of 3,000 copies • UK Blu-ray premiere
