Scudder Rediscovered

It is the 30th anniversary of James Ivory's gay classic Maurice in September and glorious heaven the film has gone and gotten a great big fancy 4K restoration, huzzah! It will screen here in New York at the newly renovated Quad Cinema on May 19th - The Quad is actually doing a whole series, starting with Maurice, on Queer Film, but the details for that will come later I guess.

Anyway for such a series Maurice is a lovely place to start. I saw the film screened in 35mm last year and it's a gorgeous piece of movie-making, as lush as anything Merchant Ivory is famous for but woefully under-seen. This will fix that! I imagine it will get a great blu-ray release after playing some theaters, which is long overdue - it's basically out of print right now! Here's the trailer for the re-release (and if you want to see a poster click here)...