THE NIGHT PORTER on Blu-ray

[theuofc]

French distributors Wild Side Video have revealed that they will release on
Blu-ray Liliana Cavani's Il portiere di notte a.k.a The Night Porter
(1974), starring Dirk Bogarde (Death in Venice), Charlotte Rampling
(Under the Sand), and Philippe Leroy ( Le Trou).

Street date is October 25th.

The Night Porter is currently available on The Criterion Collection DVD.

[moonfleet]

When I searched for it, I could only find a brazilian edition, hopefuly with optional portugués subtitles...
Wild Side is a fine distributor

They recently released a beautiful coffret of André DeToth's Day of the Outlaw

[julian_craster]

If you are in the UK, you can watch THE NIGHT PORTER for free at Blinkbox:
Watch The Night Porter Online | Free Movies | blinkbox

Thirteen years after WWII a concentration camp survivor (Charlotte Rampling) and her tormentor (Dick Bogarde), currently the night porter at a Vienna hotel, meet again and fall back into their sado-masochistic relationship.

As the Italian 'Nazi porn' genre may not be your cup of tea (not mine) , I recommend a free viewing before you buy it....

Blinkbox is a legit site, but which has ad breaks every five minutes......

[moonfleet]

Curiously, I've never considered that film as a porn, but you're right, people should be adverted that there are "hard scenes & spirit", the whole atmospheric is very imortant too, as we feel being in a paranoiac post WWII Germany... the performances (if I could say so ) of Charlotte (one of my favourite actress ever) and Dirk amongst very good 2d parts are amazing


Also I don't "feel" Pasolini's Salo ou les 120 Journées de Sodome as a porn first, it's a grand and powerful political film for me, unique one, but yes, it's very hard to watch it for a first time, think you'll have to be ready, or prepared to watch it ...

Salo is the pendant of the more joyful Pasolini's "sex-comedies" The Decameron-1001 Nights-Canterbury Tales, which are very good too...

[julian_craster]

Some people would say that THE NIGHT PORTER is 'art' simply because Dirk Bogarde stars in it, and it has a lady (feminist ?) director...

Personally, I think they are misguided - I see THE NIGHT PORTER as tapping into the same market as 'decadent' movies of the same era such as this one:


Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS (1975) :
Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS (1975) - IMDb

But I expect there are those who see this film a great work of art as well !

[julian_craster]

Two DVD covers....


The Night Porter...





Ilsa She Wolf of the SS....




The Night Porter certainly divided the critics !


Dilys Powell liked it - Pauline Kael (the Jewish critic from the New Yorker) thought it was vile..

One leading critic compared the cynicism of THE NIGHT PORTER to that of an Italian fashion house, determined to make an impact/cause controversy in the media by doing a fashion shoot with glamourous models in a disused concentration camp....

[theuofc]

French distributors Wild Side Video have revealed that they will release on
Blu-ray Liliana Cavani's Il portiere di notte a.k.a The Night Porter
(1974), starring Dirk Bogarde (Death in Venice), Charlotte Rampling
(Under the Sand), and Philippe Leroy ( Le Trou).

Street date is October 25th.

The Night Porter is currently available on The Criterion Collection DVD.

The good news is Wild Side's forthcoming Blu-ray is 123 min. vs. the usual available ones of 118 min. from Criterion, et al. Here's hoping that it is at last the uncut version. I've posted info on one of the cuts to the film plus other info at the Bogarde thread:


http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/ac...ml#post2010106

Barbara

[Heinrich]

For me, this story is ridiculously implausible.