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Head over to the FCE site and you'll find product categories in our shop, including Out-of-Print, where we may have very limited, newly-discovered stock of OOP titles from time to time. These discs are strictly limited to 1 per customer. funcityeditions.com/shop

Is the film Breaking Glass available anywhere? Never seen it but really want to. The DVD/Blu-ray is long-deleted and now costs £££.

How a Sequel to a Movie Barely Anyone Saw Became a Sensational (and Originally X-Rated) 1980s Indie indiewire.com/features/comme…

Evening viewing recommendation? On the Criterion Channel watch LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE FABULOUS STAINS (1982) in our Girl Bands! collection. 🎸 ❤️‍🔥 bit.ly/46qLc5k

Paul Morrissey's "Spike of Bensonhurst" 4K UHD - Sasha Mitchell, Ernest Borgnine, Maria Pitillo, Maria Pitillo, Anne De Salvo @FunCityEditions US: amzn.to/3UVgI8R CAN: amzn.to/4iEk5uI BONUS CAPTURES: patreon.com/dvdbeaver/posts/… OUR REVIEW: dvdbeaver.com/subsite/film3/… Paul Morrissey's Spike of Bensonhurst (1988) proved to be the last narrative feature from the director of Flesh, Trash and Heat — a cheerfully unruly farewell that swaps Factory-era squalor for the tribal comedy of outer-borough Brooklyn. Sasha Mitchell, in his film debut, is Spike Fumo, a cocky club boxer with a father in prison and an unshakable faith that local mob boss Baldo Cacetti (Ernest Borgnine, gloriously deadpan and Independent Spirit-nominated for it) will sponsor him into the big time. When Spike takes up with Cacetti's daughter Angel (Maria Pitillo), he's exiled to Red Hook, where he sets up with India (Talisa Soto) and her brother Bandana (Rick Aviles) — and promptly makes his life more complicated still. Co-written with playwright Alan Bowne, it's a street-corner comedy of manners about turf, class and sexual bookkeeping, with politics as gleefully incorrect as anything in the Morrissey catalogue. Critics split hard in 1988 — Ebert gave it three stars and called Borgnine's performance the funniest he'd seen in ages, Siskel wrote it off as warmed-over Saturday Night Fever — and it now arrives on 4K UHD from Fun City Editions. *** Spike of Bensonhurst, directed by Paul Morrissey, has spent close to forty years as a rumor - barely distributed in 1988 by a distributor that didn't survive the decade, skipped entirely by the DVD era, kept alive on tape and late-night cable. That it now turns up on 4K UHD, restored from the camera negative and surrounded by an hour of interviews with the people who made it, is the kind of thing boutique labels exist to do. Everything about the setup - the club fighter, the mobbed-up sponsor, the girl above his station, the fixed fight - promises Rocky by way of Saturday Night Fever, and Morrissey builds the machinery only to let it idle. He isn't interested in whether Spike wins; he's interested in the intricate bookkeeping of loyalty, debt and sexual property that governs three square blocks of Bensonhurst, and in what happens when a character who has never questioned any of it is exiled twenty minutes away to Red Hook and discovers the same system running under different management. Sasha Mitchell, a Bruce Weber model in his first film role, is perfectly cast precisely because he plays Spike without a flicker of irony or self-knowledge: the swagger is real, the stupidity is real, and the charm survives both. The film itself remains an argument: uneven, deliberately unbeautiful, politically ornery in ways that will put some viewers off entirely, and - as Morrissey's last narrative feature - the clearest surviving statement of a filmmaker who spent his career being claimed by a counterculture he didn't believe in. The presentation is strong and the supplements are essential rather than decorative. Easily recommended, and Fun City's effort is a candidate for one of the more meaningful catalogue rescues of the year.