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Horror Classic ‘Don’t Look Now’ Is Getting A 4K Re-Release

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One of the best horror movies of all time is getting a re-release later this year. I remember the first time I saw Don’t Look Now – it is genuinely upsetting, foreboding all the way through, and utterly brilliant. I’m looking forward to getting my hands on this.

The 4K restored version of Don’t Look Now will open in UK cinemas on July 5. This version of the film will also be released on DVD and Blu-Ray and in a new collector’s edition on July 29, which will include previously unseen extras material and newly commissioned artwork by illustrator Jeremy Enecio.

Related: Don’t Look Now is voted the number one British film of all time

On a cold, bright autumn day in Suffolk, England, a little girl in a red mackintosh drowns in a pond – the daughter of John (Donald Sutherland) and Laura Baxter (Julie Christie). Trying to recover from the tragedy, the couple arrive in Venice, Italy, where John has been commissioned to restore a church. In the eerie atmosphere of the lagoon city in winter, they encounter two strange sisters. Laura is suddenly released from her grief when one of them, a blind psychic, tells her that she is in contact with her dead daughter. Angered and sceptical, John carries on with his work, but witnesses an unsettling vision of his own: a little girl in a red mackintosh disappearing into the Venetian alleys.

As a wave of killings haunts the city, Laura returns to England to visit their son after an accident at his school. But the premonitions don’t stop: John suffers a near-fatal accident high on the church scaffolding, and then he glimpses his wife, supposedly hundreds of miles away, on a private launch flanked by the two mysterious sisters. The local police are intrigued by and even sympathetic to his story, but cannot help. As Venice and his fate closes in on John, illusion, reality and sudden terror spiral the story to its grotesque climax, as the design in director Nicolas Roeg’s mosaic becomes unforgettably clear.

The new trailer for the restoration is here courtesy of STUDIOCANAL.

SPECIAL FEATURES:

The 4K Collector’s Edition contains 4 discs including:

  • The restored film in UHD for the first time
  • The feature on Blu-ray with brand new extras as well as a bonus Blu-ray of extras
  • The original Pino Donaggio soundtrack CD.

The Collector’s Edition also includes the theatrical poster, art cards, and a booklet with an essay, an original press interview with Nic Roeg and script extracts from the BFI archive.

All SKUS include the following extras:

  • New Pass the Warning: Reflecting on Nic Roeg’s masterpiece: new documentary featuring interviews with David Cronenberg, Danny Boyle, Brad Bird, Andrew Haigh, Stephen Woolley, Peter Bradshaw and more
  • New A Kaleidoscope of Meaning: Colour in Don’t Look Now
  • New 4k restoration featurette
  • Audio commentary with Nic Roeg
  • Interviews with Donald Sutherland, Pino Donaggio, Allan Scott, Tony Richmond, Danny Boyle
  • Don’t Look Now: Looking Back
  • Behind the Scenes stills gallery

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