Kino Lorber issues a slim but attractive restoration of John Irvin’s nasty and woefully underappreciated crime thriller.
Da flirts with Shakespearean themes, King Lear and Hamlet being the main points of reference.
A hugely literary spy epic, BBC’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy deserves a better transfer than Acorn Media has afforded it.
It’s not hard to spot the allure in filming stories like The Garden of Eden, big messy works that exceeded even the grasps of their authors.
The film is chock-full of randy boozing and comic non sequitors more mystifying than amusing.