With the exception of Kino Lorber's forthcoming release of the notorious Ilsa films on 4K UHD, the most sought after home release this year has to be Ted Kotcheff's classic, Aussie nightmare Wake in Fright (1971).
It's been a long wait, but one that seems to be worth it with just how superb Umbrella Entertainment's restoration seems to look so far. A significant contrast to the yellow colour grading of the film when it was released on Blu-ray in 2009. And to think, I always thought it looked that way to emphasise the scorching heat and all that beer in the film.
Hopefully, a more local distribution label will release this restoration around my neck of the woods, as I honestly can't justify paying a small fortune for any film, no matter how great it is, to be shipped from the other side of the world.
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"You mean... you don't think The Yabba is the greatest little place on Earth?"
Some really quote worthy scenes from Wake in Fright. "Yer mad, yer bastard!" is another great one.
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