Arrow Video, with domestic sales and distribution
expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has selected Mar. 3 as street
date for a new Hi-Def Blu-ray presentation of auteur filmmaker Robert Altman’s
1996 double-kidnapping thriller, Kansas City.
Set in the mid-1930s, small-time grifter Johnny
O’Hara (Dermot Mulroney) is kidnapped by hoodlum Seldom Seen (Harry Belafonte)
and Blondie O’Hara (Jennifer Jason Leigh), Johnny’s wife, comes up with a
unique solution to the problem. She
kidnaps the drug-addled wife (Miranda Richardson) of a well-connected local
politician (Michael Murphy) and blackmails him into helping her free
Johnny.
Simple plan … it gets complicated in an Altmanesque
way very quickly.
Bonus features include a vintage commentary from Robert
Altman and two vintage featurettes — “Robert Altman Goes to the Heart of
America” and “Kansas City: The Music.”
There is also a newly-filmed video appreciation with
film critic Geoff Andrew (“The Films of Nicholas Ray: The Poet of Nightfall,” “Stranger
Than Paradise: Maverick Film-Makers in Recent American Cinema,” etc.).
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