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Angel Heart will be released on 4K Ultra HD (with Blu-ray and Digital) in Steelbook packaging on July 12 via Lionsgate. It will be available exclusively at Best Buy, where you can pre-order it for $19.99.
The 1987 horror film noir is written and directed by Alan Parker (The Life of David Gale, Mississippi Burning), based William Hjortsberg’s 1978 novel Falling Angel. Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet, and Charlotte Rampling star.
Krzysztof Domaradzki designed the Steelbook art. A semi-transparent slipcover is included. Special features are listed below.
Special features:
- Introduction by writer-director Alan Parker
- Audio commentary by writer-director Alan Parker
- Cineastes Des Annees interview excerpt with writer-director Alan Parker
- News features
- Personality profiles
- Additional interviews
- Behind-the-scenes footage
- A Background in Voodoo
- Teaser trailer
- Behind-the-scenes gallery
Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke), a down-and-out Brooklyn detective, is hired by the mysterious Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro) to track down a singer named Johnny Favorite on an odyssey that will take Angel through the desperate streets of Harlem, the smoke-filled jazz clubs of New Orleans, and the swamps of Louisiana and its seedy underworld of voodoo.
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”We spend our whole lives trying to stop death. Eating, inventing, loving, praying, fighting, killing. But what do we really know about death? Just that nobody comes back. But there comes a point in life, a moment, when your mind outlives it’s desires, it’s obsessions. When your habits survive your dreams.”
The Life of David Gale (2003) dir. Alan Parker
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Fame(1981). A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.
I enjoyed this so much more than I was expecting to. Yeah, it’s pretty disjointed and frenetic and grittier than it has any right to be, but it really captures both the headrush and the grind of what these kids experience. It’s messy, sure, but it also surprisingly really works. 7.5/10.
Stars of ilussion: Robert De Niro. “Eggs are good for your health”
“Los huevos bendecidos por sacerdotes saben igual que cualquier otro huevo”…
“Eggs blessed by priests taste the same as any other egg”
Photograms: Angel Heart, directed by Alan Parker. De Niro as Devil
Eduardo Orozco
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Pink Floyd - The Wall (1982)
The Commitments
Directed by Alan Parker
Screenplay by Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais and Roddy Doyle (based on the book by Roddy Doyle)
Ireland / UK / USA, 1991Watched on 23rd January 2014
First viewing
I spent the day with my best friend, and she introduced me to this wonderful film. I had heard of it, of course, but I had no idea how funny it was, or how true it rings to a musician. I loved it.
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Grey Fluffy Clouds - The Orb Vocals Alan Parker (by RockinRolls89)
More Alan Parker, sending up The Orb.
Alan Parker Urban Warrior - Glastonbury 1995 (by svenjd)
APUW is even funnier than I remember him being.
And I met a real-life version of him not long ago.
Lisa Bonet / ANGEL HEART(Alan Parker, 1987)
