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Mala Noche
#407

$24.99
Estimated Street Date: Tuesday, February 2 2027

Specifications

Format Blu-ray
Condition New
Label Criterion

With its low budget and lush black-and-white imagery, Gus Van Sant’s debut feature, Mala Noche, heralded an idiosyncratic, provocative new voice in American independent film. Set in Van Sant’s hometown of Portland, Oregon, the film evokes a world of transient workers, dead-end day shifters, and bars and seedy apartments bathed in a profound nighttime, as it follows a romantic deadbeat with a wayward crush on a younger Mexican immigrant. Mala Noche was an important prelude to the New Queer Cinema of the nineties and is a fascinating time capsule from an era that continues to haunt the director’s work.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

  • High-definition digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Gus Van Sant, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
  • Interview with Van Sant
  • Walt Curtis: The Peckerneck Poet, a documentary about the author of the book Mala Noche, directed by animator Bill Plympton
  • Original trailer, edited by Van Sant
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • PLUS: An essay by film programmer and critic Dennis Lim

    Cover by Steve Chow

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