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Fans of vin­tage erot­ica, take note: one of the genre clas­sics is com­ing to blu-ray at the end of April.  The Lickerish Quartet proved that erot­ica could be both artis­tic and filmed with pro­fes­sional pro­duc­tion val­ues.  It’s also one of the movies that made Radley Metzger into a cult favorite.  It will be reis­sued in both DVD and blu-ray for­mats, both taken from a high-definition mas­ter.  Plentiful extras will be present in both for­mats, includ­ing a com­men­tary track with Metzger him­self.  Read on for all the sexy-artsy details…

RADLEY METZGER’S FANTASY FOURSOME

The 1970 Erotic Arthouse Classic THE LICKERISH QUARTET

Debuts on High-Definition DVD and Blu-ray on April 26

LOS ANGELES (March 7, 2011) – The New York Times Vincent Canby called direc­tor Radley Metzger’s film THE LICKERISH QUARTET “Beautiful! Ripe with incred­i­ble color, décor and move­ment” in the newspaper’s 1970 review. At the film’s pre­mière in New York Andy Warhol raved that it was “An out­ra­geously kinky mas­ter­piece” and rec­om­mended all to “Go!” see it. The film remains one of the first ever to fea­ture ele­gantly shot sex scenes together with Hollywood type pro­duc­tion val­ues. It raised the bar for the por­trayal of eroti­cism in film while still main­tain­ing an R rat­ing. THE LICKERISH QUARTET is Radley Metzger’s mag­num opus, a deliri­ous sur­real erotic fan­tasy that is both styl­ish and elegant.

Cult Epics proudly presents Metzger’s erotic clas­sic, appear­ing in high-definition Blu-ray for the first time ever. THE LICKERISH QUARTET, rated R by the MPAA, will be avail­able at retail­ers for a list price of $29.98 (DVD) and $34.98 (Blu-ray). Both will be avail­able on April 26, 2011.

Both edi­tions fea­ture a crisp high-definition trans­fer with fully sat­u­rated color. The extras include a making-of The Lickerish Quartet fea­turette con­tain­ing rare footage of Silvana Venturelli, Paulo Turco and Radley Metzger, Giving Voice to the Quartet: loca­tion sound vs. dubbed sound­track, trail­ers and a mon­tage of cool love scenes pro­duced for inter­na­tional ter­ri­to­ries where the orig­i­nal was too hot, plus com­men­tary by Metzger and film his­to­rian Michael Bowen.

Cult Epics will con­tinue to spot­light Metzger’s work this year with Camille 2000 planned for a sum­mer 2011 release. The director’s bi-sexual clas­sic Score is now avail­able on both DVD and Blu-ray.

For addi­tional infor­ma­tion regard­ing THE LICKERISH QUARTET please con­tact Christoph Buerger at (323) 868‑7611 or christoph@davidlynch.com.

Synopsis:

An aris­to­cratic fam­ily becomes obsessed with a strik­ing young blond actress (Silvano Venturelli “Camille 2000”) while watch­ing her in what appears to be a crude, silent stag film. After a visit to a local car­ni­val they meet the girl in per­son and invite her back to their lav­ish man­sion (the Castle of Balsorano in Italy’s Abruzzi Mountains). The blonde vis­i­tor takes turns seduc­ing the fam­ily mem­bers, where she unlocks each of their fan­tasies, fam­ily secrets and hid­den desires.

EXTRAS:

–A making-of The Lickerish Quartet fea­turette con­tain­ing rare footage of Silvano Venturelli, Paolo Venturelli and Radley Metzger

–Montage of cool ver­sion love scenes – pro­duced for inter­na­tional ter­ri­to­ries where the Original ver­sion was too hot.

–Giving Voice to the Quartet: loca­tion sound vs. dubbed soundtrack

–Commentary track by Radley Metzger and film his­to­rian Michael Bowen

–Trailers

THE LICKERISH QUARTET

Price:                               $29.98 (DVD) $34.98 (Blu-ray)

Street Date:                     April 26, 2011

Pre-Order Date:                March 29, 2011

Running time:                   88 minutes

Distributor:                      Entertainment One

DVD Catalog Number:       CTE-DV-096

Blu-ray Catalog Number:    CTE-BD-097

DVD UPC:                        881190009697

Blu-ray UPC:                    881190009796

Language:                        English

Rating:                            R