Criterion put some legwork into improving the presentation from its prior DVD release.
The hardcore version of Score stands shoulder (or dick) with screenwriter Jerry Douglas’s more notable recent works.
How do you want it: long and slow or hard and fast?
Blast of Silence begins with a brutal, uncompromising invocation of birth and ends with an almost mystically sensitive death.
The neglected standing of Blast of Silence is the film’s own best proof of its uniquely wallflowerish take on film noir tropes.
Prudes be damned, Radley Metzger doesn’t soft-sell the gay sex in the slightest.
These films are the director’s riskiest statement on sexual ambivalence.