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.
Roman Polanski has finished shooting his new film and this is a little throwback: Roman Polanski & Mickey Rourke during a break from filming ‘The Palace’. Photo Credit: Angelo Borer
On the set of ‘The Palace’: 1-2. Alfred Grossenbacher with Roman Polanski & Mickey Rourke, 3-6. Mauricio Kuckelkorn, 7. Daniel Blumensev, 8. Ph. Andrea Abate
Skid row alcoholic Wanda Wilcox (Faye Dunaway) becomes involved with hard-drinking writer Henry Chinaski (Mickey Rourke, as the alter ego of Charles Bukowski) in the semi-autobiographical character study Barfly (1987, Barbet Schroeder)
Faye Dunaway, Charles Bukowski & Mickey Rourke on the set of “Barfly” directed by Barbet Schroeder, 1987
Ecco. Mi basterebbe il 5% di quello che si bevvero questi tre quella sera. E la mattina svolterebbe alla velocità della luce. Probabilmente a sinistra senza mettere la freccia e imboccando la rampa dell'autostrada contromano. Ma noi ci si accontenta.
“I decided to shoot in black and white because I wanted to make an art film for young people, and black and white gives a quality of poetic realism. I didn’t just leave it to the script to tell the story – I also used camera angles, lighting and soundtrack to stimulate a young audience into loving the form as much as I did. I was disappointed when they didn’t rush to see it. But it’s pleasing its appeal has endured. It was the film I really wanted to make.
I like its strong visual motifs, such as the sequences with the sped-up cloud movement. I’ve always been fascinated by the unreliability of time, shown by the sweeping shadows as the sun and moon make their way across our sky.”
Mickey Rourke reignites alleged feud with Robert De Niro
Mickey Rourke has seemingly reignited his alleged long-running feud with Robert De Niro.
Taking to Instagram, The Wrestler star claimed he would “embarrass” the Raging Bull actor “severely” should they ever meet in public.
“Let me tell you something, you punk ass, when i see you i swear to God on my Grandmother, on my brother and all my dogs,i gonna embarrass you severely 100%. Mickey Rourke ‘ as God is my witness,’” he wrote, alongside a photo of De Niro.
Rourke shared this pic alongside his social media smack-down, Credit: Mickey Rourke, Instagram
Elsewhere in the social media smack down, Rourke hit out at the Oscar winner for reported comments about the star’s character.
“Hey Robert De Niro, that’s right i am talking to you, you big f**king crybaby,” he wrote on Instagram. “A friend of mine just recently told me that a few months back you’re quoted as saying to newspapers ‘Mickey Rourke’s a liar he talks all kind of s**t’.
“Listen Mr. Tough Guy in the movies, you’re the 1st person that ever called me a liar and it was in a newspaper,” he added.
Rourke says he was blocked from appearing in The Irishman because of De Niro, Credit: Getty via Zimbio
Rourke claimed in September that he was blocked from appearing in The Irishman after De Niro refused to work with him.
“The casting person told my manager that Robert De Niro said he refused to work with me in a movie, he said during an appearance on Italian TV show Live — Non è la D’Urso.
However, a spokesperson for De Niro previously said Rourke was never in the mix.
“Mickey Rourke was never asked to be in The Irishman nor was he ever even thought of, discussed or considered to be in the movie,” De Niro’s rep Jane Rosenfield said in a statement to The New York Post.
De Niro pictured in a scene from The Irishman, Credit: Empire
Rourke, whose apparent feud with De Niro goes back three decades, also claimed he had been snubbed by the actor when they both appeared in Alan Parker’s 1987 film Angel Heart.
