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Hopefully Wise's THE SET-UP will be released sometime on blu. Can't wait to get my mitts on BODY AND SOUL.
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HD Cinema Classics has got Suddenly lined up for Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack release 9/25/2012. Amazon listing here.
Hopefully they don't go crazy with the DNR like they have in the past...Rock! Shock! Pop!Comment
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I'll get that if it looks decent. I have a feeling this film is like THE RED HOUSE (I have that BD here to watch soon) in that it will never look spectacular but hopefully be better than the countless other PD releases. It's a good, tough movie.I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.Comment
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One film I'd really like to see get a dvd release is Devil Thumbs A Ride.Comment
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I was away last week and missed the news that WAC is releasing 4 noirs on August 28! Very cool. They are:
WALK SOFTLY STRANGER
A WOMAN'S SECRET
SOUTHSIDE 1-1000
BORN TO BE BAD
They're even labeled Film Noir Archive Collection on the covers. I've seen the first and last, BORN TO BE BAD is a good one about a really nasty femme fatale with Joan Fontaine and Robert Ryan. Can't wait for these.I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.Comment
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Walk Softly Stranger is the one with Joseph Cotton, right? I vaguely remember seeing that on TV as a kid but my memories of it more or less seem to stop there.Rock! Shock! Pop!Comment
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The Red House on Blu-ray looks very good to my eyes, My previous version was the alpha video, and this Blu kicks its ass all over the place.Originally posted by Andrew Monroe View Post
Born To Be Bad I just watched last week, it has a R2 release thats not too bad, Great little film as well.Comment
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Another great film, This company is doing it right though, despite their some would say oversue of DNR, The previous releases of the PD films they handle were atrocious so any upgrade is welcome. Plus they are affordably priced at less then 10 dollars a piece.
I thought all of their releases so far were massive upgrades in picture quality.Last edited by Mark C.; 08-15-2012, 11:20 AM.Comment
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I agree that they've been big upgrades, I'd just rather they not go crazy with the noise reduction and would like to see them use lossless audio. But yeah, it's hard to argue with the price and they're dealing in titles that no one else seems interested in, so I'm thankful to have them.Rock! Shock! Pop!Comment
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Yeah, and Alida Valli is in it too. I saw it on TCM a few years ago. The ending was too upbeat to kick it into dark noir territory but it was pretty good. SOUTHSIDE 1-1000 is supposed to be a solid T-MEN riff which sounds good to me. And A WOMAN'S SECRET is Nicholas Ray directing Gloria Grahame and Maureen O'Hara (!) so I'm pretty curious about that as well.Originally posted by Ian Jane View Post
Mark, yeah, I've been happy with these budget BDs overall too.I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.Comment
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I happened to stumble on an MOD release at Amazon of one of my most wanted noirs - Andre de Toth's PITFALL. It's from Synergy Entertainment and is no doubt a bootleg. I have been dying to see this for ages so I went ahead and ordered it, it's only 10 bucks. I don't expect much in terms of picture quality, hell there's even a customer review there that states it's slightly out-of-focus throughout but I just can't pass up a chance to finally see this. It stars Dick Powell and Lizabeth Scott, along with Raymond Burr and Jane Wyatt. It's supposed to be a quite potent look at the American dream gone sour. Possible poor quality and all I'm pretty excited about this, one of the last major noirs I need to see.
I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.Comment
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Pretty great cast - let us know what the quality is like once you get a chance to check it out.Rock! Shock! Pop!Comment
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Will do. Hey, did you ever pick up VCI's release of THE PROWLER? That's the fim PITFALL is sometimes compared to. It's s great looking disc and the film is one of my favorite film noirs. Fantastic Van Heflin performance, ditto for Evelyn Keyes. If you haven't seen it, you really should. The dvd has a good commentary too, from Eddie Muller. If we could just get Losey's M remake on dvd now...I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.Comment
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Didn't love the Prowler. The set up in the first 15 minutes is great and I thought we were heading into one of those great claustrophobic Losey aggresive-talk fests. When it turned out to be a completely different type of film I struggled to stay with it. Felt episodic, as if it was made on the spot; "come on man, what happens next!"
Did just watch the Stranger again though. Love that one. There were a lot of busy actors back in dem days but Edward G Robinson must have never taken a weekend off. He seems to be in every second film I watch. But he's a welcome prescense and holds his own here with Welles playing a creepy Nazi. It's all a bit niave but well put together and a lot of fun."Never let the fact that they are doing it wrong stop you from doing it right." Hyman Mandell.Comment
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A good commentary? I'd go so far as to call it THE BEST commentary! I've never seen a guy SO prepared, SO knowledgeable about a movie, and with incredible timing to top it off. He's got everything he wants to say timed out, so that it corresponds with what is happening on screen. Muller's PROWLER commentary should be the model for how it is supposed to be done.Originally posted by Andrew Monroe View Post
As I just mentioned on my blog, I just saw 1949's THE WINDOW for the first time, and it's really something special. It predates THE NAKED CITY by a couple months to be the first documentary-style Noir, and it's shot in New York, so you get piles of amazing on-location shooting of the nasty parts of town. Really an exceptional film, and it's out now on the Warner Archives label.
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