Hoffman Blu-ray
'Hoffman' Director: Alvin Rakoff (1970) Indicator Limited Edition Blu-ray | 4K restoration | Region A +B
One of the most unsettling films in the Peter Sellers canon, Hoffman sees the actor in a sinister starring role as a bachelor who obsesses over his secretary and, discovering that her boyfriend has been fiddling the books at work, blackmails her into spending a week with him. Their time together reveals Hoffman’s tragic, lonely existence.
A film which is by turns amusing, poignant and uneasy, and which boasts a central performance so uncomfortable and revealing that its star tried to have the film’s negative destroyed. With Sinéad Cusack and Jeremy Bulloch.
Limited Edition contents:
- 36-page booklet with a new essay by John Rain, archival interviews with Peter Sellers and Sinéad Cusack, a look at author Ernest Gébler’s multiple iterations of the Hoffman story, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and film credits
Special features include:
- Selected scenes commentary with director Alvin Rakoff (2022, 25 mins)
- Strange Relationship (2022, 22 mins): Rakoff recalls Hoffman’s troubled history and his friendship with Peter Sellers
- An Underexposed Film (2022, 28 mins): focus puller Eddie Collins on the trials and tribulations of the shoot
- Home Improvements (2022, 6 mins): draughtsman Terry Ackland-Snow discusses the film’s sets
- Larry Karaszewski trailer commentary (2020, 4 mins): short critical appreciation
- Image galleries: promotional materials and behind-the-scenes photography
- Script gallery: complete shooting screenplay
