The Coen Brothers’ Blood Simple, still arguably their best work, is getting a huge re-release in the UK courtesy of STUDIOCANAL.
oel and Ethan Coen’s thrilling debut feature will be released in a stunning new 4k restoration approved by the Coen Brothers themselves. It will return to cinemas 6th October 2017, followed by a new DVD/Blu-Ray/EST release from STUDIOCANAL on 30th October 2017.
Ahead of the film’s release, a special preview screening will be held at BFI’s superb centre on the Southbank in London on 29th September 2017.
A stylish, imaginative and hard-boiled neo noir, Blood Simple announced the Coens as vital and distinctive new cinematic voices on its release three decades ago. Possessing all the characteristics that propelled the Coens to later success – razor sharp dialogue; a predilection for lethal and futile violence; ironic, fatalistic humour; and an inventive focus on the tragicomic lives of idiosyncratic misfits.
Beautifully shot and performed and with a haunting score by the Coens’ long-time collaborator Carter Burwell, it’s a landmark film, a trailblazing, near virtuosic debut which reinvented the noir for a new generation and marked the arrival of two filmmakers who would go on to revolutionise the American indie cinema scene.
Check out an amazing new poster, released to co-inside with the re-release above, and the original trailer below.
