Visions of Ecstasy

[McCrutchy]

Visions of Ecstasy Blu-ray

Famously banned in the UK (until this year) for blsphemy, Nigel Wingrove's short film Viisions of Ecstasy (1989), will be coming to Blu-ray in the USA later this year.

Redemption Films is involved with this release in the United States, and they just posted this to their Facebook page:

The release of VISIONS OF ECSTASY has been postponed to October 23... for a very good reason. The original camera negative, which was missing for years, has just been unearthed. So we are going to go back and remaster the film (a second time) for this Blu-ray release.

The disc will also include the short film FAUSTINE...commissioned by Channel Four but never aired.

[chip75]

Didn't the UK just get the DVD?

[McCrutchy]

Originally Posted by chip75

Didn't the UK just get the DVD?

Yes, not that long ago...

[McCrutchy]

It looks like this has been given an ultimatum:

Originally Posted by Redemption Films on Facebook

On November 27, we release on DVD VISIONS OF ECSTASY, a film by Redemption founder Nigel Wingrove. Banned in the UK for more than 20 years (the only film ever banned for blasphemy), VISIONS was finally cleared for release in 2012. This super-deluxe edition includes VISIONS, newly mastered from the camera negatives -- and it looks stunning. The disc includes a previously unseen short (FAUSTINE, also newly mastered from the camera negative), VISIONS outtakes, a videotaped interview, the short film ABEL (newly remastered) as well as Wingrove's nunsploitation feature SACRED FLESH.

and in the comments:

Originally Posted by Redemption Films

It is being released through Kino Lorber, but it will not be numbered as part of the regular Redemption line (because those are reserved for classic rather than contemporary titles). If the DVD sells, a Blu-ray release will follow, as all the films were mastered in HD (except SACRED FLESH, which was shot in SD).

Very disappointing news.

[junyab]

Brutal...way to alienate your blu buyers.