Point Blank 4K UHD + Blu-ray
'Point Blank' Director: John Boorman (1967) Criterion Collection 4K UltraHD + Blu-ray
John Boorman (Excalibur, Deliverance) brought the gangster drama into new realms of modernist abstraction with this stylised revenge thriller, which transforms hard-edged pulp into a kaleidoscopic psychological puzzle.
Lee Marvin is iconically cool as the enigmatic Walker, who, after he’s betrayed and left for dead by his best friend during a robbery, embarks on a brutal quest for vengeance, aided by a jaded ex-moll (a sensational Angie Dickinson) who has her own complex motives for helping him.
Capturing Los Angeles locales with a surreal pop-art eye, Boorman locates the existential dread lurking beneath the city’s sunlit surface.
Special features include:
- Audio commentary featuring Boorman and filmmaker Steven Soderbergh
- Interview with Boorman conducted by author Geoff Dyer
- Interview with critic Mark Harris
- Reflections on Point Blank by filmmaker Jim Jarmusch
- Program on the midcentury Los Angeles architecture featured in the film, with historian Alison Martino
- The Rock (1967), a short documentary on Alcatraz and the making of the film
- Interview with Lee Marvin from a 1970 episode of The Dick Cavett Show
- Essay by Geoff Dyer
