THE PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK (BLU-RAY)

“A total triumph. Gritty, gutsy, and vivid to the point of revulsion, it is an overpowering tragedy about urban drug addiction. Director Jerry Schatzberg in only his second film becomes a major talent, while Al Pacino and Kitty Winn are terrific as a heroin-doomed couple.”- Variety

“Bleak and intimate…Shot in a loose, semi-improvised style, the film strains for physical details…yet it is the offhand emotional moments that linger.” - Fernando F. Croce, Slant Magazine

Al Pacino made his extraordinary starring debut as Bobby, a fast-talking, hustling junkie in The Panic in Needle Park (1971), directed by Jerry Schatzberg from a screenplay by the distinguished screenwriting team of Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne. Roaming a grim stretch of New York’s Upper West Side, Bobby hooks up with a relative innocent, Helen (Kitty Winn), and as she joins him in addiction, their doomed romance becomes the fulcrum around which this gritty slice-of-life drama turns.

LANGUAGE: English
VIDEO: 1080p High Definition / 1.85:1
AUDIO: English 1.0 DTS-HD MA
SUBTITLES: English SDH
1971 / Color
109 MINUTES
RATED PG

Special Features: Isolated Score Track (featuring Unused Music Composed and Conducted by Ned Rorem) / Panic in the Streets of New York / Writers in Needle Park / Notes on Ned Rorem’s Unused Score / Original Theatrical Trailer

Limited Edition of 3,000 Units

This item has a planned release date of June 14th.