Steven Soderbergh 4K UHD Collection Announced By Imprint Films

Imprint Films has announced its latest director-focused collection for November, bringing together four films from Steven Soderbergh spanning three decades of his career.

Directed By… Steven Soderbergh (1991–2021) is a Limited-Edition 4K UHD + Blu-ray Hardbox featuring Kafka, Soderbergh’s 2021 reimagining of Mr Kneff, King of the Hill, and The Underneath.

Here’s everything included in the collection.

Kafka (1991) / Mr. Kneff (2021)

Soderbergh followed his acclaimed directorial debut, Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), with the surrealist mystery thriller biopic Kafka (1991). This subversive take on the life of author Franz Kafka blends reality and Kafka’s own fictional works together into a unique, bizarre world.

After a colleague is murdered, insurance worker Kafka becomes embroiled in an underground group attempting to thwart a secret organisation that controls the major events in society.

Starring Jeremy Irons as Kafka, and featuring performances from Theresa Russell, Joel Grey, Ian Holm, and Alec Guinness, the once box-office flop has since mutated into a cult classic.

King of the Hill (1993)

Nominated for the Palme d’Or and named one of the top ten films of 1993 by Time Magazine and Entertainment Weekly, King of the Hill is a moving coming-of-age drama, adapted from a memoir by playwright A.E. Hotchner.

In the 1930s Depression-era Midwest, a young boy is forced to navigate life alone after his mother is committed to a sanatorium with tuberculosis. Surviving on his own in a St. Louis hotel, he waits for his travelling salesman father, whose return is uncertain.

A young Jesse Bradford (Romeo + Juliet, Bring It On) stars, receiving a Young Artist Award nomination for his performance in the film, alongside performances from Jeroen Krabbé (The Fugitive), Lisa Eichhorn (Cutter’s Way), Karen Allen (Raiders of the Lost Ark), Spalding Gray (The Killing Fields), Elizabeth McGovern (Downton Abbey), and Adrien Brody (The Pianist).

The Underneath (1995)

A remake of Criss Cross (1949), and based on the novel by Don Tracy, Soderbergh’s crime noir The Underneath stars Peter Gallagher (The Player), Alison Elliott (Birth), and William Fichtner (Crash).

A recovering gambling addict attempts to reconcile with his family and friends but finds trouble and temptation when caught between feelings for his ex-wife and her dangerous hoodlum boyfriend.

Also featuring performances from Shelley Duvall and Elisabeth Shue, The Underneath features a screenplay written by Soderbergh himself, under the pseudonym Sam Lowry.

Directed By… Steven Soderbergh (1991–2021) is limited to 1,500 copies, and pre-orders open on October 15.

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