Arrow Films is all set to release Zardoz on Blu-ray September 21st. If you’re in the U.S. like I am you’re going to need to have a region free player for this one as it is Region B. Keep in mind that Zardoz did receive a U.S. release but it was a limited release from Twilight Time earlier this year. Given how much the Twilight Time releases usually go for you’d probably be better off buying a region free player and this upcoming Arrow Films release. Just something to think about.
Synopsis:
In-between the Hollywood productions of Deliverance and Exorcist II: The Heretic, John Boorman embarked on one of the strangest films ever to come from a major studio, Zardoz.
The year is 2293. Society as we know it has broken down centuries ago with the Earth’s population split into three classes: the Brutals, who work the land and are forbidden from reproducing; their overseers, the Executioners; and the highly-civilised Eternals, who are protected from the outside world by a force-field. But when an Executioner, Zed (Sean Connery, light years from James Bond), smuggles himself into their isolated paradise, he risks unbalancing the system and threatening the status quo…
Photographed by Geoffrey Unsworth (2001: A Space Odyssey, Superman: The Movie) and designed by Anthony Pratt (Excalibur), dystopian science-fiction has rarely looked so beautiful – or been so odd – as it appears in Zardoz.
Special Features:
• New 4K digital restoration by Twentieth Century Fox, supervised and approved by John Boorman
• High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Audio commentary with writer-producer-director John Boorman
• Brand new interviews with Boorman, actor Sara Kestelman, production designer Anthony Pratt, special effects creator Gerry Johnston, camera operator Peter MacDonald, assistant director Simon Relph, hair stylist Colin Jamison, production manager Seamus Byrne, and assistant editor Alan Jones Newly filmed appreciation with director Ben Wheately (Kill List, Sightseers, A Field in England)
• Theatrical trailer
• Radio spots
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Matthew Griffin
• Collector’s booklet containing new writing on the film by Julian Upton and Adrian Smith, plus archive interviews, illustrated with original production stills
Specs:
Release Date: Monday 21st September 2015
Certificate: 15
Language: English
Running Time: 105 minutes
Region: B
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Colour: Colour
