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Kamikaze Hearts (Blu-ray)

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A 2K restoration of Juliet Bashore’s celebrated queer quasi-documentary

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Alternately distressing, instructive, contestable, and fascinating, Juliet Bashore’s quasi-documentary plunge into the 1980s porn industry takes an unsparing look at issues of misogyny, drug abuse, and exploitation via the story of two women—the naive newcomer Tigr and her partner, the magnetic, imperious porn veteran Sharon Mitchell — caught in a toxic romance.

By turns mesmerizing and unsettling, Kamikaze Hearts is both a fascinating record of pre-gentrification San Francisco’s X-rated underground and an intense, searing love story. The film offers a disturbing glimpse of the modification of bodies, feelings, and lives.

Presented in a new 2K restoration from the original 16mm A/B camera negatives, Kamikaze Hearts has been restored by Kino Lorber in collaboration with the Outfest UCLA Legacy Project at the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

Extras
  • Restored in 2K from the original camera negative by Kino Lorber and the UCLA Film & Television Archive
  • Audio commentary by director Juliet Bashore, actors Sharon Mitchell, Jon Martin and Howie Gordon, and performance artist Shelly Mars
  • Crash (excerpt, 13 mins)): in 1990 Juliet Bashore workshopped a 'fictional' version of Kamikaze Hearts through the American Film Institute. This sketch is one of the outcomes from the AFI project
  • Interviews (2022, 173 mins): a selection of newly recorded interviews totalling almost three hours with Juliet Bashore, Sharon Mitchell , Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens, Susie Bright, Howie Gordon, Jon Martin
  • Vintage trailer
  • 2022 trailer
  • English subtitles for the Deaf and partial hearing (feature only)
  • **FIRST PRESSING ONLY** Illustrated booklet featuring new writing by artist, curator and co-founder of Club des Femmes Sarah Wood and a 1990 interview with Juliet Bashore
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SKU 5035673014820
Catalogue Number BFIB1482
Product contents 1 disc
Year 1986
Director Juliet Bashore
Format Blu-Ray
Publisher(s) BFI
Countries USA
Colour Colour
Subtitles English subtitles for the Deaf and partial hearing (feature only)
Language(s) English
Running time 77 mins
Blu-ray region B
Certificate 18
BFICID_ID 150208604
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