Curtis Harrington had one of the oddest careers in Hollywood history, beginning as an avant-garde filmmaker in the 1940s and 1950s, then migrating to low-budget thrillers in the 1960s and 1970s, then becoming a go-to director for trashy TV series like Charlie’s Angels and Dynasty.
But a little treasure trove of Curtis Harrington's dreamlike, lush, sexually ambiguous, and death-obsessed short films remains, the newly restored versions of which have now been carefully compiled for this new Blu-ray release, and they are a revelation. In the five shorts that he made between 1946 and 1955, Harrington, using more imagination and inspiration than material resources, used the magical medium of cinema to inscribe his wordless visions of the ineffable exaltations and horrors of sex and death, longing, and perpetually mutable identity onto celluloid in a way more famously associated with Luis Bunuel or David Lynch; in some ways, in the chronological aesthetic lineage of cinema, he's the long-missing link between the two.
BD25 + DVD9 | 1080p AVC, NTSC | 124 minutes | 21.8 Gb + 7.49 Gb
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Experimental, Drama, Short, Horror, Documentary
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