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Fat City, The Big Heat & The Front on dual format from Indicator in March

31 January 2017

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).

Indicator will release three all-time classicson 20 March 2017: 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 newlyimproved 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, and all are making their UK Blu-ray premiere.

 

Fat City

Fat City (1972) | Limited Dual Format Edition (3,000 copies) | £22.99

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.

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

 

The Big Heat

The Big Heat (1953) | Limited Dual Format Edition (3,000 copies) | £22.99

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.

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

 

 

The Front

The Front (1976) | Limited Dual Format Edition (3,000 copies) | £22.99

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.

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