Day of the Locust Blu-ray
'The Day of the Locust' Director: John Schlesinger (1975) Arrow Limited Edition Blu-ray | 2K restoration
Academy Award-winner John Schlesinger reunites with Midnight Cowboy screenwriter Waldo Salt, a victim of the 1950s McCarthy-era blacklist, to adapt Nathanael West's acid satire of Hollywood decadence and broken dreams.
A painter working in the art department of a movie studio during the 1930s 'golden age' of Hollywood, falls in unrequited love with aspiring starlet Faye Greener. He competes for her affections against other men: a pair of cowboys and a forlorn accountant. As Faye's career fails to take her beyond roles as an extra, her life becomes increasingly desperate and her relationships with men take a darker turn, reaching fever pitch at a red-carpet movie premiere that explodes into barbaric chaos.
A bitter critique of tinsel-town's empty promises and the lost souls cheated by them, featuring lush, dreamlike cinematography by Conrad Hall (In Cold Blood, Fat City), and stunning performances by its talented cast including Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith, and William Atherton
Limited Edition contents:
- O-card slipcover
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork
- Collectors' booklet featuring writing on the film by Pamela Hutchinson
Special features include:
- Oral history audio commentary conducted by writer and film historian Lee Gambin, featuring assistant directors Leslie Asplund and Charles Ziarko, production associate Michael Childers, actors Grainger Hines and Pepe Serna, title designer Dan Perri, costume designer Ann Roth, assistant editor Alan L. Shefland and assistant camera operator Ron Vidor
- Appreciation of the film by critic Glenn Kenny
- Visual essay by costume historian and film historian Elissa Rose, discussing the film's costumes
- Visual essay on the film and its themes by writer and film historian Lee Gambin
- Image galleries, including exclusive behind-the-scenes photographs from the archives of production associate Michael Childers and assistant camera operator Ron Vidor
