Cutter’s Way   — 4K 03/17/26

A fresh 4K encoding reveals a finer visual texture on Ivan Passer’s highly-respected film, which features career-best performances by its stars. Disaffected 20-somethings in Santa Barbara investigate a murder and then try to blackmail a corporate CEO; it’s a superb coda to the ’60s counterculture generation. John Heard is the maimed, one-eyed veteran already judged unstable, Jeff Bridges the yacht bum who gets by on his good looks, and Lisa Eichhorn the most forlorn woman of the early ’80s, in need of a reason to give a damn about something. Jordan Cronenweth’s cinematography and Jack Nitzsche’s music track couldn’t be bettered; the movie is a lonely wail against a moral undertow that is distinctly American. On 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray from Radiance Films.
03/17/26