Stir Blu-ray presents the North American disc premiere of Stephen Wallace’s explosive Australian prison drama, restored and loaded with over five hours of supplements. Inspired by the real-life 1974 Bathurst Prison riots in New South Wales, Stir Blu-ray tells the incendiary inside story through the eyes of career criminal China Jackson (Bryan Brown), whose return to prison after exposing guard brutality ignites simmering tensions between inmates and officers. Written by former Bathurst inmate Bob Jewson, the film is a raw, furious portrait of institutional abuse and resistance, hailed as an “intense and authentic account of a brutal system” and nominated for 13 AFI Awards including Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Actor. Stir Blu-ray has been newly scanned in 2K from the 35mm interpositive preserved at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, finally giving this confrontational classic the presentation it deserves.
directed by: Stephen Wallace
starring: Bryan Brown, Max Phipps, John Frawley
1980 / 102 min
Stir [Blu-ray] w/o slip
BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES
• Audio commentary with producer Richard Brennan, director Stephen Wallace, cinematographer Geoff Burton and actor Bryan Brown, moderated by Mark Hartley
• Audio commentary with crime film and literature historian Andrew Nette
• Tales from the Inside – archival making-of documentary by Mark Hartley
• A Career on the Fringe – tribute to actor Phil Motherwell featuring Robert Reid and Paul Harris
• Director Stephen Wallace introduces The Love Letters from Teralba Road
• The Love Letters from Teralba Road (50 min)
• Trailer

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