Blu-ray Release: Bound

Blu-ray Release Date: Aug. 28, 2018
Price: Blu-ray $29.33
Studio: Olive Films

The sexy 1996 thriller Bound was the feature film debut of the writing-directing duo The Wachowskis (who were brothers back then and have since transitioned to the female gender).

Bound stars Gina Gershon (Showgirls) as Corky, a tough-as-nails ex-con, and Jennifer Tilly (30 Beats) as her lover Violet. A chance encounter in an elevator ignites a torrid affair between the two women, who soon plot to steal $2 million in laundered mob money and pin the blame on Violet’s mafioso boyfriend, Caesar (Joe Pantoliano, TV’s The Sopranos).

A stylish neo-noir, fusing classic tropes with hyper-stylized camera work and color design, Bound is a crackling retro-crime thriller that never strays too far from its noir roots. It was to be the first of a line of visually dazzling films from The Wachowskis, the writing and directing team behind the Matrix trilogy and, more recently, Jupiter Ascending.

Olive Films new Blu-ray edition, an “Olive Signature” title, contains the following:

• New High-Definition digital restoration
• Theatrical and Unrated versions
• Audio commentary with writers/directors The Wachowskis; actors Joe Pantoliano, Jennifer Tilly and Gina Gershon; film editor Zach Staenberg; and technical consultant Susie Bright
• “Part and Parcel” – with titles designer Patti Podesta
• “The Difference Between You and Me” – with film studies and gender studies professors B. Ruby Rich and Jen Moorman
• “Here’s Johnny!” – with Christopher Meloni
• “Hail Ceasar” – with Joe Pantoliano
• “Femme Fatales” – with Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly
• “Modern Noir: The Sights & Sounds of Bound” – with cinematographer Bill Pope, editor Zach Staenberg, and composer Don Davis
• Theatrical Trailer
• Essay by screenwriter/actress Guinevere Turner (American Psycho, Go Fish)