Blu-ray Release: The Loveless

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Laurence
– July 10, 2019Find Others: Blu-ray, Movie, New Release, NewsGet More: , ,

Blu-ray Release Date: July 9, 2019
Price: Blu-ray $22.97
Studio: Arrow/MVD

The 1981 biker drama The Loveless features the debut of both its star, Willem Dafoe (John Wick), and its directors, Monty Montgomery and future Academy Award-winner Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty).

A motorcycle gang roars into a small southern town en route to the Daytona races, unnerving and angering the locals with their standoffish attitude and disrespect for social niceties. When one of their number, the charismatic Vance (Dafoe), hooks up with sportscar-driving Telena (Marin Kanter, Endangered Species), he incurs the wrath of the girl’s father, setting the gang on a collision course with the rest of the town as simmering tensions boil over into violent retribution.

Raw, angry and honest, The Loveless evokes both an attitude and a bygone era, exploring the tensions between two very different Americas.

Fully restored and presented in high definition for the first time, Arrow’s new Blu-ray incarnation of the film includes the following:

  • Brand new 2K restoration from the original camera negative by Arrow Films, approved by co-writer/co-director Monty Montgomery and director of photography Doyle Smith
  • High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation • Original lossless mono audio • Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • New audio commentary with co-writer/co-director Monty Montgomery, moderated by Elijah Drenner
  • No Man’s Friend Today: Making The Loveless, new video interviews with actors Willem Dafoe, Marin Kanter, Robert Gordon, Phillip Kimbrough and Lawrence
  • U.S. 17: Shooting The Loveless, new video interviews with producers Grafton Nunes and A. Kitman Ho
  • Chrome and Hot Leather: The Look of The Loveless, new interviews with production designer Lilly Kilvert and director of photography Doyle Smith
  • Relentless, new audio interview with musician Eddy Dixon • Extensive image gallery, including on-set photographs, storyboards and original production
  • Theatrical trailer
  • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx
  • FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Peter Stanfield
Buy or Rent The Loveless

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About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.