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Tideland is coming to Blu-ray from Arrow Films Video in August (UK only, I believe):
https://www.arrowfilms.com/product-detai...ay/FCD1782
Thank you. Looks like a nice upgrade. BR will serve its grungey, knarled textures well.

Watched this a couple of weeks ago after several years. Underrated and maybe a little forgotten.

Was immediately pulled into its unique, beautifully cluttered/distressed and distressing slippy reality (s).

I came away with the fresh impression that it was one TG’s most mature and poetic
films

Arrow is one of my favourite video labels.

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Terry's posted about it on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/256730041052484...711213934/
A pair of reviews:

http://www.criterionforum.org/DVD-review...video/2049

https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/73247/tideland/

The Criterion reviewer has issues with the sound design. The Criterion reviewer also seems to like the film more, but at lest the DVDTalk reviewer gets what Gilliam was trying to do, even if he ultimately assigns a "rent it" to the film. Both note that the special features from the original release have been ported over, and the film is finally presented in its original aspect ratio of 2.35:1,
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Finally caught up with the Arrow Blu Ray. The film is a revelation in this format. Incandescent beauty collapses into the deepest darkest, claustrophobia textures.

I never got the chance to see Tideland on the big screen and find I return to it less often the Gilliam’s other films.

When I do reacquaint myself it always seems like a completely different film to the one I remember and it really packed a punch this time round.

I found the film more moving and disturbing than ever before.

The film may hinge on a child’s ever-shifting perspective on the unresolved relationship between the light and dark of this world but it is filtered with a unique order of stoic poetry which may have turned into depressing cynicism in more prosaic hands.

A flower born of horror.