Revolution [Blu-Ray and DVD]

Al Pacino heads a stellar British/American cast (Nastassja Kinski, Donald Sutherland, Joan Plowright, Annie Lennox) in Revolution: The Director’s Cut.  The definitive version of Hugh Hudson’s (Chariots of Fire, Greystoke) powerfully unsentimental film set during the American War of Independence is a tour-de-force of epic filmmaking.
Single father Tom Dobb (played with dogged resilience by Al Pacino) struggles hopelessly against the violent course of history to protect his only son, meeting many obstacles and hardships along the way.
Accompanied by John Corigliano’s poignant score, Hudson’s 1985 film is an uncompromising evocation of the chaos, squalor and upheaval of war which he has re-cut and updated with a new voice over by Al Pacino.

Also included on Blu-ray is the original theatrical release of the film.

Extra features:

• Standard Definition and High Definition presentation of The Director’s Cut (DVD & Blu-ray)

• Optional High Definition presentation of Original Theatrical Cut (Blu-ray only)

• Revisiting Revolution (2008, 23 mins): Al Pacino and Hugh Hudson in conversation (DVD only)

• Original theatrical trailer (DVD only)

• Revisiting Revolution  (2012, 13 mins TBC): Hugh Hudson talks about the making of Revolution accompanied by production stills by celebrated photographers David Bailey and Don McCullum

• Deleted scenes: Re-cutting Revolution (21 mins TBC): a look at the differences between the different versions of the film