My Beautiful Laundrette Blu-ray Biographical/Historical Drama After shooting a drunk in

After shooting a drunk in self defence and humiliating the local newspaper editor into taking his own life

- Program featuring filmmakers Martin Scorsese and Baz Luhrmann discussing their appreciation for Gilda

before experiencing a mental breakdown

Expanding on and fleshing out the characters’ history and the themes of his riotous

Directed by a veteran of the Shochiku studio’s signature Golden Age family dramas

My Beautiful Laundrette Blu-ray Biographical/Historical Drama After shooting a drunk in'My Beautiful Laundrette' Director: Stephen Frears (1985) Criterion Collection Blu ray 2K transfer Stephen Frears was at the forefront of the British cinematic revival of the mid 1980s, and the delightfully transgressive My Beautiful Laundrette is his greatest triumph of the period. Working from a richly layered script by Hanif Kureishi, who was soon to be an internationally renowned writer, Frears tells an uncommon love story that takes place between