The Night Porter (1974)

[Scottie]

The Night Porter (1974)

In this unsettling drama from Italian filmmaker Liliana Cavani, a concentration camp survivor (Charlotte Rampling) discovers her former torturer and lover ( Dirk Bogarde) working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them. Operatic and disturbing, The Night Porter deftly examines the lasting social and psychological effects of the Nazi regime.

Disc Features
New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
New interviews with director Liliana Cavani and screenwriters Barbara Alberti and Amedeo Pagani
Women of the Resistance, a fifty-minute 1965 documentary by Cavani, composed of interviews with female partisans who survived the German invasion of Italy, with an intro by the filmmaker
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by scholar Gaetana Marrone-Puglia, author of The Gaze and the Labyrinth: The Cinema of Liliana Cavani

http://www.criterion.com/films/604-the-night-porter

[lolwut]

Ooh. Glad I didn't import this. It sounded interesting.

[kuro_sawa]

This is an excellent film, Dirk Bogarde is terrific. A nice double bill for me would pair it with Fassbinder's 'Despair'.

[pro-bassoonist]

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[Blu Titan]

I really like this movie. I own the UK release and with so many movies on my wish list it will be hard to upgrade this one...highly recommended .

[dorothyv]

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Pro-B

Thanks for the review! This was definitely one Criterion dvd title that badly needed a BD upgrade and remastering.

[asmodeux21]

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Pro-B

It looks like the Criterion blu ray is the one to get. Both the French and UK blu ray had a bit too much green in the image for my liking. The screenshots for the Criterion blu ray look a lot more natural to me. Thanks for your review.

[Lutz]

Originally Posted by kuro_sawa

This is an excellent film, Dirk Bogarde is terrific. A nice double bill for me would pair it with Fassbinder's 'Despair'.

For a NIGHT PORTER double bill I would pair it with Visconti's THE DAMNED!

[pro-bassoonist]

I fully agree with Lutz Visconti's The Damned is the perfect film to pair with The Night Porter. Hopefully, Warner will eventually upgrade the DVD release.

Going further down the same path, you can add Agustí Villaronga's excellent but very dark and disturbing In a Glass Cage, which is already out on Blu-ray via Cult Epics.





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[Vw Driver]

Already got the UK release, no reason to double dip for me. But glad that others will get to see this. Amazing film.

[Thomas Irwin]

Good timing. I'd been recently considering picking up the Umbrella Entertainment (Australia) Blu-ray release both directly from their website or one on eBay for roughly $10. Glad I waited, as I'd much rather a Criterion release.

[Lutz]

And if you wanted more on the same theme with an overlap of interesting actors (Rampling/Bogarde/Thulin/Berger) you could do a triple feature with the much lesser quality SALON KITTY.

[lolwut]

In a Glass Cage is a masterpiece. I already wanted to see The Night Porter but the comparison makes this a must buy.

[Dr. Seymour Love]

I remember Warner released both The Damned and Death in Venice at the same time on dvd. Would love to see both of those make it to bd.

[pro-bassoonist]

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[Lutz]

Originally Posted by Dr. Seymour Love

I remember Warner released both The Damned and Death in Venice at the same time on dvd. Would love to see both of those make it to bd.

Asides from them both being Visconti these also make the ultimate fabulous hats double feature!

[sugar_kane]

Originally Posted by Thomas Irwin

I'd been recently considering picking up the Umbrella Entertainment (Australia) Blu-ray release both directly from their website or one on eBay for roughly $10. Glad I waited, as I'd much rather a Criterion release.

Why's that? Umbrella are great with their releases. Definitely on par with Criterion.

[dbach690]

Just watched this last night....and turned it off after about 20 minutes. My new strategy of selecting movies from the collections of others who have many of the same movies as me is not paying off so far. Obviously there are points of agreement, but people just have too divergent tastes I guess. I did make one great discovery using this method: Malena (2000).