4K UHD Suspiria (4K UHD) (CultFilms) [UK]

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Release date: TBA
Purchase Links: Indiegogo (Crowd Funding will be Live on October 30th 2017)
Price: £29.00
Notes: 4K UHD will be a crowd funded Steelbook With 4K UHD and Blu-ray

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Cultfilms UK have just announced a UK 4K restoration release and will be on all formats including 4K UHD


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SUSPIRIA...like you've never experienced it!

CultFilms is honoured to present the 4K restored version of Dario Argento’s horror masterpiece SUSPIRIA!

We will distribute our 4K restoration of SUSPIRIA – made under the watchful eye of Dario Argento - on UHD, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD, and in cinemas…and orchestrate the ‘UK Tour of Suspiria 4K’, which we are coordinating with several venues across the country next month.

Our SUSPIRIA tour is due to conclude with a very special event in London: an evening with Dario Argento, featuring a Q&A with the maestro himself and a presentation of the film.

The restoration has also been selected to screen in the prestigious Cult strand of this year’s BFI London Film Festival.

CultFilms specialises in distributing the finest art-house world cinema and the best cult classics. Born from the fusion of Nouveaux Pictures and Argent Films, two long standing pioneering world cinema labels established in the 90s, with over a quarter century of curating experience, CultFilms specialises in restoring and releasing renowned classics and little known gems to discerning audiences on Blu-ray, DVD, VOD, television, and in cinemas.

In 2016 we presented, along with Italian partners, the 4K restoration of THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS at the Venice Film Festival where the film had originally won the Golden Lion. The 4K exhibition of THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS will launch next month at the Barbican in London, followed by screenings across the country. The film will be released as physical media from its 4K source as a hardback bound ‘media-book’. This special CultFilms edition will feature essays and unique period photographs.

We will shortly announce our future 4K restoration plans … so keep an eye out for more thrills!

For more information about CultFilms, visit: cultfilms.co.uk
 
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SUSPIRIA 4K PLANS UNVEILED BY CULTFILMS

In 1977 SUSPIRIA stunned cinemagoers around the world. Now, forty years later, CultFilms is proud to terrify audiences once again with the dazzling 4K restoration of Dario Argento's groundbreaking masterpiece.

Italian horror auteur Dario Argento unleashed the ultimate cult film with his visionary symphony of terror, SUSPIRIA. Ballet student Suzy Bannion (Jessica Harper) arrives at a prestigious dance academy in Freiburg, a school plagued by gruesome and supernatural happenings. Soon students begin to die in horrific circumstances – is Suzy next, and can she uncover the academy’s sinister secret before it’s too late?

Abandoning the black gloves of the giallo in favour of a witchy brew of magic and murder, Argento carved a Baroque nightmare, saturated with expressive colour and punctuated by shocking violence.

Considered the most famous Italian horror film of all time for its vivid, groundbreaking style and jaw-dropping bloodshed, SUSPIRIA now returns for its fortieth anniversary to assault audiences once more.

***Crowd-funded limited edition UHD and Blu-ray dual-format SteelBook***
Fans will have the opportunity to crowd-fund a very special limited edition UHD and Blu-ray dual-format SteelBook (pictured) of the SUSPIRIA 4K restoration. The crowd-funding campaign will go live on 30 October, just in time for Halloween! This will be a limited numbered edition including a slate of specially-commissioned extras exclusive to this SteelBook release and available nowhere else in the world. Keep your eyes peeled for more information coming very soon.

***SUSPIRIA Blu-ray and DVD dual-format edition***
CultFilms will release their 4K restoration of SUSPIRIA in a Blu-ray and DVD dual-format edition with slipcase on 14 November 2017.

Extras will include:

- Audio Commentary by critics Kim Newman and Alan Jones
- An interview with Dario Argento and Claudio Simonetti
- New Extra: The 4K Restoration Process
- New Extra: Dario Argento Presents his Suspiria
- New Extra: Dario Argento Introduction

Please note the artwork is currently TBC.

***CultFilms presents the SUSPIRIA 4K Tour***
CultFilms will orchestrate the ‘SUSPIRIA 4K Tour’, which they are coordinating with several venues across the country. The SUSPIRIA tour will culminate with a very special event in London: an evening with Dario Argento, featuring a Q&A with the maestro himself and a presentation of the restoration. Dates for the tour include but are not limited to:

6 October: BFI London Film Festival (Suspiria 4K premiere)
14 October: Mayhem Film Festival
14 October: BFI London Film Festival
21 October: Celluloid Screams, Sheffield
28 October: Newcastle's Tyneside Cinema
28 October: Regent Street Cinema, London (35mm)
14 November: Barbican, London (with Dario Argento intro and Q&A)
17 - 23 November: Barbican, London

***The Restoration***
‘I hope that you are ready...’ declares Dario Argento in his personalised introduction to the CultFilms release of SUSPIRIA

Argento filmed SUSPIRIA on some of the last of the Eastman 5247 film stock. In order to reach the deep colours he had envisioned, the director struck the original release prints using a very different Technicolor Dye Transfer process which had already become obsolete. SUSPIRIA was the last film to be released following that particular method and all subsequent prints did not adhere to Argento’s original vision, with the look of the film affected dramatically.

The new 4K scan was painstakingly restored by TLE Films in Germany with that crucially distinct colour palette reinstated in accordance with Argento’s original Technicolor Dye Transfer specification, using period film materials as reference.

The restorers also reinserted all missing frames which had degraded badly or were simply lost over the years, making this version of SUSPIRIA premiered by CultFilms the most complete and original looking, and finally doing justice to Argento’s vision.

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Campaign is Live
The first 85 backers get the steelbook for £24.00

Price after 85 backers is reached is £29.00

Steelbook is Limited to 950 copies
See the perk options available at
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/suspiria-unique-4k-uhd-blu-ray-steelbook/x/14279343#/

THE SPECIAL EDITION

BUT we believe SUSPIRIA deserves to be seen at its best, in the most advanced video format which is why we propose to release SUSPIRIA on 4K UHD in a unique numbered specially crafted SteelBook (dual format with a Blu-ray) filled with special features …and that's why we need your support!

With your help will release the definitive dual edition containing a standard Blu-ray and a UHD disc, so you can witness the film in all its cinematic glory.

This will be one of the first non-mainstream films to come out on the UHD format!

This special edition will be strictly limited: we will only print 950 units.

PLEASE NOTE: The SteelBook artwork shown here is for illustration purpose only. We will commission new and original artwork for our a specially designed glossy, embossed SteelBook!
 
Crowd Fund Update
Thanks to your amazing support this 4K UHD/Bluray Suspiria Limited Edition is definitely going to happen!!

It is your Suspiria and you have literally made it an overnight success. Let's not stop here,let's make this even better and go into the Stretch Goal we'd previously mentioned - though we did not imagine we'd be introducing it so soon after the launch!

Stretch Goal : if with your support this campaign reaches £25,000 we will make this Limited Edition even more special! We'll add an additional disc of bonus features by filming and editing our own extra features and/or sourcing and reviving long-disappeared iconic documentaries on Dario Argento - and more depending on funding and production budget! This will mean that you will get more for the same amount pledged and that every penny will go towards making this project your own unique definitive edition! So, spread the word!
 
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