Radiance Films September 2026 Blu-ray and 4K UHD Releases Announced
By Lio Renwick
Radiance Films has six titles releasing this September, spanning Italian drama, Japanese mystery, Polish surrealism, and a cornerstone of Iranian cinema. Five arrive under the Radiance label, while Joe (1970) comes through partner label Transmission.
The headline release for world cinema collectors is Treasures from the Golestan Film Studio, the first home video release of the complete output of Ebrahim Golestan's independent Iranian studio. Right behind it, The Saragossa Manuscript (1965) gets a new 4K restoration with a Dolby Vision presentation, the only 4K UHD title in the group.
The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)
Wojciech Has's time-shifting epic arrives on 4K UHD from Radiance Films as a 2-disc 4K UHD and Blu-ray combo pack, built around a new 4K restoration and presented in Dolby Vision/HDR. Audio is uncompressed mono PCM.
For those who don't know the film, it follows a Napoleonic-era soldier who finds a strange manuscript that turns out to recount his own ancestor's surreal adventures, a structure that loops and nests stories within stories.
On extras, Polish film expert Michael Brooke contributes a new visual essay called The Saragossa Labyrinth, covering Has's cinema and this film specifically. There's also Saragossa, a 1998 archival making-of produced for Polish television that runs 29 minutes and features Has, cinematographer Mieczyslaw Jahoda, production designer Jerzy Skarżyński, and assistant director Barbara Sass-Zdort. A newly improved English subtitle translation is included.
Packaging follows the familiar Radiance template, with a reversible sleeve carrying original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow and a limited edition booklet pairing new writing by David Hering with archival writing by Annette Insdorf. It's a limited edition of 5,000 copies in full-height Scanavo packaging with a removable OBI strip.
The Saragossa Manuscript is Region-B and releases September 14, 2026.
Treasures from the Golestan Film Studio (1958-1974)
Iranian cinema collectors will want to clear some shelf space for Treasures from the Golestan Film Studio, which Radiance Films is putting out as the first home video release of the complete output of Ebrahim Golestan's independent studio. Nine films map the origins of the Iranian New Wave, from the documentary The House Is Black to the feature Brick and Mirror.
Two of the centerpieces arrive in new 4K restorations from their original camera negatives. Brick and Mirror was restored by Cineteca di Bologna and Ecran Noir Productions / Fereydoun Firouz under Golestan's own supervision, and Secrets of the Jinn Valley Treasure was handled by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna at the L'Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, with funding from the Iran Heritage Foundation and Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna. A three-minute outtake from Brick and Mirror is also here.
Curator Ehsan Khoshbakht, a collaborator on the Golestan restoration project, anchors the contextual material with a 2026 introduction and a 2026 visual essay on Golestan, plus individual introductions to each programme and a further introduction.
The documentary content is organized into two restored programmes. The first pairs Golestan with poet Forough Farrokhzad across three shorts: A Fire (1961, 25 mins), Courtship (1961, 11 mins), and The House is Black (1962, 22 mins). The second follows Golestan's recurring theme of the land and its people through The Crown Jewels of Iran (1965, 14 mins), Wave, Coral and Rock (1961, 41 mins), The Hills of Marlik (1963, 15 mins), and Harvest and Seed (1965, 29 mins).
The largest single extra is See You Friday, Robinson, Mitra Farahani's award-winning 2022 documentary that runs 96 minutes and chronicles an exchange of ideas between Golestan and Jean-Luc Godard on creativity late in life. Newly translated optional English subtitles are included.
The reversible sleeve features newly commissioned artwork by Filippo Di Battista, and the booklet collects archival writing by Khoshbakht. It's a limited edition of 3,000 copies in full-height Scanavo packaging with a removable OBI strip.
Treasures from the Golestan Film Studio is Region-B and releases September 14, 2026 in the UK.
The Inugami Family (1976)
Kon Ichikawa's The Inugami Family (1976) is a gothic murder mystery that was a major hit in Japan but has rarely surfaced elsewhere, which makes this Radiance Films Blu-ray notable on its own. The release is built on a 4K restoration by Kadokawa Pictures, with original uncompressed mono audio.
The story gets going when the Inugami patriarch dies and leaves his fortune to a young woman on the condition that she marry one of his grandsons. Detective Kosuke Kindaichi turns up to investigate the murders that follow.
Extras lean heavily on archival material. A newly filmed 2026 interview with Aaron Gerow examines the film's impact in Japan, and the disc carries the archival documentary Secrets of Kon Ichikawa's Visual Style, which runs 44 minutes, along with eight minutes of outtakes from it. Also here are a 30-minute archival making-of featuring Ichikawa, star Koji Ishizaka, and editor Chizuko Osada, a separate 16-minute archival interview with Ishizaka, a 12-minute archival documentary on the 4K restoration process, and a trailer. A new and improved English subtitle translation is included.
The set comes with a reversible sleeve carrying original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow and a limited edition booklet with new writing by Yuka Kimbara. It's a limited edition of 3,000 copies in full-height Scanavo packaging with a removable OBI strip.
The Inugami Family reaches U.S. and Canadian shelves September 15, 2026, with the UK release a day earlier on September 14, 2026.
New Rose Hotel (1998)
Abel Ferrara's New Rose Hotel (1998) makes its UK home video debut on Blu-ray from Radiance Films, in a 2K restoration from the 35mm interpositive by Vinegar Syndrome that Ferrara himself approved. The neo-noir, adapted from a William Gibson short story, follows two extraction specialists hired to lure a genius away from a rival company. Audio is the original 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio surround track.
The extras lean on new and recent interviews. Ferrara and star Asia Argento both sit for new 2026 interviews, Willem Dafoe appears in a 2025 piece titled Wild and Woolly, and critic Beatrice Loayza contributes a 2026 interview. Carried over from 1998 is an audio commentary by co-screenwriter Christ Zois, and the disc also has a trailer and optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
The reversible sleeve uses designs based on the original promotional materials, and the booklet features new writing by Brad Stevens, author of Abel Ferrara: The Moral Vision. It's a limited edition of 3,000 copies in full-height Scanavo packaging with an O-card and a removable OBI strip.
New Rose Hotel is Region-B and releases September 14, 2026 in the UK.
Corruption (1963)
Mauro Bolognini's Corruption (1963) comes to Blu-ray from Radiance Films in a 2K restoration, with uncompressed mono PCM audio. The drama centers on a wealthy publishing magnate who sets out to tempt his priest-bound son away from his spiritual ambitions.
Extras are on the leaner side here. There's a new 2026 interview with critic and programmer Adrian Wootton and an archival interview with producers Alfredo Bini and Manolo Bolognini, plus a newly improved English subtitle translation.
A reversible sleeve carries original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow, and the booklet features new writing by film scholar Marco Natoli. It's a limited edition of 3,000 copies in full-height Scanavo packaging with a removable OBI strip.
Corruption arrives in the U.S. and Canada on September 15, 2026, and the UK on September 14, 2026.
Joe (1970)
Joe (1970), John G. Avildsen's satire of early-1970s America, comes to Blu-ray through Transmission, Radiance's sub-label. Written by Norman Wexler and featuring Susan Sarandon's first screen role, it follows a wealthy businessman who forms an uneasy alliance with a bigoted factory worker after his daughter's overdose. The release uses a high-definition digital transfer with original uncompressed mono audio.
The standout extra is a newly recorded audio commentary with critics Matt Zoller Seitz and Jason Bailey. There's also a new interview with critic Ellen E. Jones, theatrical trailers with optional audio commentaries from actor and producer Marc Edward Heuck, a stills gallery, and optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
The packaging is straightforward, built around a limited edition booklet with new writing from Adam Nayman. Joe is a limited edition of 3,000 copies in full-height Scanavo packaging with an O-card and a removable OBI strip.
Joe releases September 14, 2026 in the UK as a Region B disc.
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