STACK #209 Mar 2022

MOVIE FEATURE

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Maverick directors Sam Peckinpah and Samuel Fuller join the Imprint library this month, along with '50s sci-fi, '70s horror and Steve McQueen's final film. Words Scott Hocking NEWFROM IMPRINT FILMS

The OstermanWeekend (1983)

B ased on the novel by Robert Ludlum, The Osterman

Weekend . Additional extras include a new commentary track by Peckinpah expert Mike Siegel on the director's cut; theatrical cut commentary by a quartet of film historians; three new featurettes and the original

Anthony Hopkins plays an obsessed father who believes his late daughter's soul has been reborn in the 12-year-old daughter of a Manhattan couple (Marsha Mason and John Beck). This quietly creepy rumination on reincarnation gets the Imprint treatment with a host of new extras including an audio

Weekend (1983) is the final film from maverick director Sam Peckinpah ( The Wild Bunch ) and features a cracking A-list cast including John Hurt, Rutger Hauer, Dennis Hopper, Burt Lancaster and Meg Foster. This Cold War political thriller follows a rogue CIA operative (Hurt) and an investigative journalist (Hauer) in their attempt to expose a possible Soviet spy network that threatens national security. The film was extensively re-edited by the producers before release, but Imprint's 2-disc Blu-ray special edition presents the original director's cut scanned in 2K from a newly sourced 35mm negative, along with the shorter theatrical version. The disc also features a new documentary on the discovery of the director's cut and a comparison of both versions, as well as a look at the film's turbulent production in the 2004 documentary Alpha to Omega: Exposing The Osterman

US trailer. Directed by the great

Audrey Rose (1977)

Robert Wise ( The Haunting ) and based on the novel by Frank De Felitta ( The Entity ), the supernatural thriller Audrey Rose (1977) does for reincarnation what The Exorcist did for possession.

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