The Coen Brother’s Blood Simple Returning To UK Cinemas For ‘Directors Cut’

Joel and Ethan Coen collectively known as The Coen Brothers need no introduction but 33 years ago the pair were introduced to the cinematic world. What an introduction and thanks to Studiocanal with the of Independent Cinema Office (ICO) Blood Simple is coming back to UK cinemas this October.

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 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 Southbank 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.

M. Emmett Walsh is sleazy Texas private eye Visser, hired by bar owner Marty (Dan Hedaya) to kill his unfaithful wife (s 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’ longtime 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 this old trailer…

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 s McDormand
Investor trailer
Intro by Mortimer Young
Video interview with s McDormand produced by the Criterion Collection © 2016 The Criterion Collection