The Coens’ Blood Simple: Director’s Cut Gets A Cinema Release

STUDIOCANAL / Independent Cinema Office (ICO) are delighted to announce the theatrical release of Blood Simple: Director’s Cut – Joel and Ethan Coen’s thrilling debut feature in a stunning new 4k restoration approved by the Coen Brothers themselves. Blood Simple: Director’s Cut returns to cinemas 6^th October 2017, followed by a new DVD/Blu-Ray/EST release from STUDIOCANAL on 30^th October 2017.

Ahead of the film’s release, a special preview screening will be held at BFI Southbank on 29^th 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.

Emmett Walsh is sleazy Texas private eye Visser, hired by bar owner Marty (Dan Hedaya) to kill his unfaithful wife (Frances McDormand) and her lover (John Getz). Given a plan to work from, he decides to modify it without warning; and matters quickly spiral out of control.

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.

DVD/BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES

New interview with Joel & Ethan Coen

New interview with M Emmett Walsh

New interview with John Getz

Criterion interview with Frances McDormand

Investor trailer

Intro by Mortimer Young

Video interview with Frances McDormand produced by the Criterion Collection © 2016 The Criterion Collection

Certificate: 18

Running Time: TBC