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Radiance Films May 2026 Releases

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Radiance Films May 2026 Releases

Radiance Films is releasing five limited edition titles in May, headlined by the 4K UHD world premiere of Brian De Palma's Hi, Mom! (1970), starring Robert De Niro.

The lineup also includes Sadao Nakajima's yakuza drama Aesthetics of a Bullet (1973), Georges Lautner's Le professionnel (1981), Jacques Rivette's two-part Joan of Arc portrait Jeanne la pucelle (1994), and György Pálfi's black comedy horror Taxidermia (2006), the debut release from independent label Chasm Films.

The four Radiance titles each arrive in a numbered limited edition with Scanavo packaging, a removable OBI strip, reversible sleeve artwork, and a dedicated booklet of new and archival writing.

Hi, Mom! (1970) includes a new 4K restoration from the original camera negative and Dolby Vision HDR. The release also includes Dionysus in '69, Brian De Palma's 1970 experimental theater film, as a supplemental feature.

The May lineup also includes the debut release from Chasm Films, an independent label dedicated to under-seen world genre cinema, distributed by Radiance Films. Chasm Films launches with Taxidermia (2006) in its world Blu-ray premiere.

All five titles release in the UK on May 18, 2026. Hi, Mom! (1970) and Aesthetics of a Bullet (1973) also release in the US on May 19, 2026. Pre-orders are open at radiancefilms.co.uk.

You can read the full details on each release below.

Hi Mom 4K UHD Blu-ray from Radiance Films

Hi, Mom! (1970)

Aspiring adult film-maker Jon Rubin (Robert De Niro, Taxi Driver) returns from a tour of Vietnam and, armed with his film camera, attempts to find meaning and inspiration in the counter-culture of New York in 1970. Rubin graduates from surreptitiously filming his neighbours, to joining a militant Black experimental theatre group, before flirting with full-scale domestic terrorism, in this hilariously madcap satire that has still retained its outrageous power to shock, fifty years after initially stunning American audiences. Making its world premiere on 4K UHD, Hi, Mom! is a vital work of the early New Hollywood, and a key work in the career of master director Brian De Palma.

4K UHD & Blu-ray Limited Edition Special Features

Aesthetics of a Bullet Blu-ray from Radiance Films

Aesthetics of a Bullet (1973)

A yakuza gang selects a good-for-nothing street vendor to stir up trouble in enemy territory. With a flashy suit, a gun and a pocketful of money, he feels like a king but when trouble comes knocking, he realises that waving a gun and pulling the trigger are two very different things. After the major studios refused to finance it, director Sadao Nakajima (The Japanese Godfather Trilogy) took this project to New Wave bastion the Art Theatre Guild. With a deeply impressive performance by Tsunehiko Watase (Sympathy for the Underdog) that predates Robert DeNiro's indelible turn as Travis Bickle in Scorsese's Taxi Driver by three years, Aesthetics of a Bullet is a lost gem of 1970s Japanese cinema ripe for rediscovery.

Blu-ray Limited Edition Special Features

Le professionnel Blu-ray from Radiance Films

Le professionnel (1981)

When his orders to kill an African president change at the last minute, French secret agent Josselin Beaumont (Jean-Paul Belmondo, Breathless, Mississippi Mermaid) isn't recalled but betrayed by his superiors, who denounce him to the enemy as an assassin. After two arduous years in a foreign jail, Joss escapes back to his homeland with vengeance on his mind, determined to carry out his original mission. He lets his former bosses know of his plans, using his spying skills to taunt them and to evade the brutal Commissioner Rosen (Robert Hossein, The Wicked Go to Hell). This French classic marked a high point in Belmondo's action career, his spectacular stunts and brawny charm underlined by Ennio Morricone's iconic theme 'Chi mai'.

Blu-ray Limited Edition Special Features

Jeanne la pucelle Blu-ray from Radiance Films

Jeanne la pucelle (1994)

15th century France. Tasked by visions of saints to help free her country from the English, a young peasant girl leaves her humble home to meet the heir to the French throne, determined to lead his troops into battle. She ends the siege on the city of Orléans and accompanies the triumphant king to his coronation in Reims. Injured during subsequent battles, she is soon captured by the enemy, who put her faith on trial. The mythical figure of Joan of Arc comes to vivid life in this grounded and moving adaptation by Jacques Rivette (L'amour fou, Va savoir), an epic two-part portrait starring a magnetic Sandrine Bonnaire (À nos amours, Vagabond).

Blu-ray Limited Edition Special Features

Taxidermia Blu-ray from Chasm Films

Taxidermia (2006)

The first release from Chasm Films, an independent label dedicated to curating a catalogue of under-seen, under-appreciated and underground world genre cinema. Distributed by Radiance Films.

In Hungary during World War II, Vendel Morosgoványi (Csaba Czene) indulges his outlandish sexual fantasies while stationed at an isolated military outpost. Decades later, his illegitimate child Kálmán Balatony (Gergely Trócsányi) has become a professional speed-eater who dreams of consuming his way to fame and fortune. Instead, he grows old and immobile, cared for by his son Lajoska Balatony (Marc Bischoff), a taxidermist determined to leave behind a great work of art when he dies. Written and directed by perhaps Hungary's greatest working filmmaker, György Pálfi's Taxidermia blends body horror, black comedy and astonishing aesthetic beauty to paint a fascinating portrait of Hungary from the 1940s to the twenty-first century.

Blu-ray Limited Edition Special Features

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