PRE-ORDER – Kiss of the Spider Woman (4K UHD, #1299)

Featuring indelible performances from Raul Julia and an Academy Awardwinning William Hurt,Kiss of the Spider Womanis a work of radical compassion that boldly expands notions of love, gender, and revolution. In the filmdirected by Hctor Babenco following his international breakthrough withPixote,and adapted from the novel by the iconoclastic writer Manuel PuigJulia and Hurt play Valentin and Molina, a militant leftist activist and a queer, cinema-obsessed window dresser, imprisoned together under a repressive military dictatorship. The two gradually forge a bond that transforms the way they both understand politics, sexuality, and masculinity. Blending raw realism with Molinas imaginative escapes into sumptuous movie fantasy, this searing human drama offers a powerful vision of personal liberation embedded within broader political struggle.

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Film Info

• United States, Brazil
• 1985
• 120 minutes
• Color/Black and White
• 1.85:1
• English
• Spine #1299

4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital restoration, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• Alternate uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film presented Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• Interview with Suzanne Jill Levine, biographer ofKiss of the Spider Womanauthor Manuel Puig, about the adaptation
• Tangled Web: Making Kiss of the Spider Woman(2008), a feature-length documentary
• Short program on Puig
• Trailer
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by critic B. Ruby Rich

  New cover by Greg Ruth