Arrow Video, with
domestic sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group,
will be bringing the early film collaborations of Robert De Niro and Brian De
Palma to market on Nov. 13.
All three films are new
2K restorations from the original film elements or negatives and will be
presented as a three-disc Blu-ray box set.
Before Phantom
of the Paradise, Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Scarface
and Blow
Out, Brian De Palma’s films were a staple of repertory cinema
exhibitors in the late ‘60s/early ‘70s with the likes of Greetings, Hi,
Mom! and The Wedding Party all making the rounds.
Call them “underground,”
if you like. Indie filmmaking;
craft-learning experiments … they were film oddities that nevertheless found
favor with the arthouse audiences of the time.
The one thing that all three of these De Palma films had in common was
the presence of a then unknown actor by the name of Robert De Niro … other
aspiring actors featured in these early works of De Palma included both Gerrit
Graham and William Finley — who would go on to co-star in De Palma’s Phantom
of the Paradise — Jennifer Salt (Sisters) and Jill Clayburgh.
Arrow Video, in addition
to the new 2K restorations for each film, has assembled an impressive selection
of bonus features, including a newly-prepared commentary on Greetings
featuring author Glenn Kenny (“Robert De Niro: Anatomy of an Actor”), and a
newly minted video session with Charles Hirsch, the screenwriter and producer
of both Greetings and Hi, Mom!
And actors Gerrit Graham
and Peter Maloney are featured in a new video sessions, plus critic Howard S.
Berger discusses the film collaborations of Brian De Palma and Robert De Niro.
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