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#61
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7/25/04 at 6:32am
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And while I'm at it...

which version of the 1952 noir classic - "Kansas City Confidential" - is considered the definitive in terms of video quality:


- Image



- Gotham Distr.



Any official announcements for this title either?
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7/25/04 at 7:34am
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I did a forum search and came up with nothing.

Marco,
I placed your posts in this thread and you should find the answer to your questions here.







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7/25/04 at 11:06am
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I searched by title so that's probably why this didn't come up.

Thanks.
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7/26/04 at 11:42am
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For those who weren't aware, noir title Lady On A Train (1945) is being released as part of the Deanna Durbin Sweetheart Collection by Universal which is to be released August 3rd along with several other titles as a set.
My Top 25 Noirs:

25. 711 Ocean Drive (1950), 24. Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), 23. Desperate (1947), 22. Pushover (1954), 21. The Blue Dahlia (1946), 20. The File on Thelma Jordon (1949), 19. He Ran All the Way (1951), 18. The Asphalt Jungle (1950), 17. The Killing (1956), 16. I Walk Alone (1948),...
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8/28/04 at 9:29pm
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Is the region 2 edition of You Only Live Once superior to Image's grotty transfer?

18th October: UK release of Leave Her To Heaven - finally!

It's a shame about the woeful transfer of Image's edition of Too Late For Tears. It's a fine Noir. Let's hope that any future transfer of Haskin's superb 1948 Noir, I Walk Alone, with Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster is of high quality. Does Paramount still own this or is it now owned by Universal? The VHS is OOP.

Where can I order the region 2 editions of Berlin Express and Secret Beyond the Door?

Are Warner planning to release all the Lewton RKO films next year - including the underrated, Ghost Ship?
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8/29/04 at 8:34am
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Gordy,

Berlin Express (Manga Films) is available in Spain from www.dvdgo.com. They were recommended by a few other HTF members. I wound up ordering 5 or 6 noir titles from them and they were great to deal with. I've watched one of the titles so far (Crossfire '47), and the transfer was pretty good.

Secret Beyond The Door (Wild Side Video) can be ordered from Amazon.fr, there are 5 or 6 other noirs that Wild Sild have available in Fr. but to be honest, I'm hesitant to order them due to the forced subs and I don't know if that's the case on all of the titles.

Great news on Leave Her To Heaven. I suspect it'll be the first title among the group of noirs to show up early in the new year among the new Fox noir line.

And finally, Alpha will be releasing another decent noir, Jigsaw (1949) starring Franchot Tone on October 26th.
My Top 25 Noirs:

25. 711 Ocean Drive (1950), 24. Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), 23. Desperate (1947), 22. Pushover (1954), 21. The Blue Dahlia (1946), 20. The File on Thelma Jordon (1949), 19. He Ran All the Way (1951), 18. The Asphalt Jungle (1950), 17. The Killing (1956), 16. I Walk Alone (1948),...
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11/1/04 at 7:51am
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Fox Film Noir Update
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11/1/04 at 9:22am
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Regarding Gordon's question about the Lewton films, I just asked that question on the pre-1950 Horror thread. It seems, according to a response from a previous Warners dialogue, that all nine movies will be on the box set coming in 2005. Not sure that Lewton's films quite count as noir, though the list seems to count them that way. Anyone want to speculate on the distinction between noir and horror?
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11/1/04 at 11:55am
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The way I see it, Film Noirs from the 40s and 50s contained elements of German Expressionism and Universal's horror films of the 30s/40s. Later, Noir informed modern 'horror' movies like Les Yeux Sans Visage and Psycho, amongst others. But, then, as I see it, there are two types of 'horror' in Cinema: Supernatural horror (monsters, ghosts, undead) and psychological horror, of which Les Yeux Sans Visage and Psycho belongs to. Lewton's films count as Noir - to a degree - due to the psychological effect the visual style evokes. Tourneur, like his father, was a truly great filmmaker. In the horror genre, at least, he is, in my book, a Master of Cinema alongside Murnau, Whale, Terence Fisher, Bava, Corman, Carpenter and so on!
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11/11/04 at 6:24am
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Some noir news. The following titles are now available or soon to be released:

The Letter – Warner Brothers January 11th, 2005

The WB Gangster Collection – January 25th, 2005 – Contains White Heat, The Petrified Forest, Angels With Dirty Faces, Little Caesar, The Public Enemy and The Roaring Twenties.

The Bigamist (1953) Dec 21st - Alpha
Port Of New York (1949) Dec 21st - Alpha
Alimony (1949) - Alpha
Jigsaw (1949) - Alpha
Trapped (1949) - Alpha

The following titles are also available in R2:

The Fugitive (1947) – Spain (Manga Films)
Clash by Night (1952) - Spain (Manga Films)
Second Chance (1953) - Spain (Manga Films)
Whistle Stop (1946) - Spain (Manga Films)
His Kind of Woman (1951) - Spain (Manga Films)
Obsession (1949) – UK (Fabulous Films Ltd.)
Female Jungle (1956) – UK (Direct Video Distribution Ltd.)
The Bonnie Parker Story (1958) – UK (Direct Video Distribution Ltd.)


If you know of any others, please let me know.


EDIT: I've now had a chance to finally watch all of the Manga RKO's and can safely say these are all very good releases with the exception of one; Second Chance (1953). Besides the fact the film is only mediocre at best, it was apparently shot for 3D and it appears to suffer some nasty artifacting (color shifting - overall terrible color and an extremely blurry image lacking any real sharpness). I wouldn't be in a hurry to order this one.
My Top 25 Noirs:

25. 711 Ocean Drive (1950), 24. Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), 23. Desperate (1947), 22. Pushover (1954), 21. The Blue Dahlia (1946), 20. The File on Thelma Jordon (1949), 19. He Ran All the Way (1951), 18. The Asphalt Jungle (1950), 17. The Killing (1956), 16. I Walk Alone (1948),...
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12/1/04 at 11:45pm
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This is a great list of Film noir available. Here's a couple that will have noir-heads drooling!

Night and The City and Thieves Highway are getting released by Criterion in Feb!!!

http://www.criterionco.com/asp/coming_soon.asp

Time to update the list

Blackboard\'s Film noir pick of the week

FILM NOIR OF THE WEEK

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12/2/04 at 1:03pm
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Everything is updated, including the changes to the Fox lineup. Thank you.
My Top 25 Noirs:

25. 711 Ocean Drive (1950), 24. Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), 23. Desperate (1947), 22. Pushover (1954), 21. The Blue Dahlia (1946), 20. The File on Thelma Jordon (1949), 19. He Ran All the Way (1951), 18. The Asphalt Jungle (1950), 17. The Killing (1956), 16. I Walk Alone (1948),...
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12/2/04 at 2:21pm
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Herb,

Thanks for the update and the terrific Noir list (to begin with).

All,

Herb designates upcoming titles as TBR (to be released) along with the expected month of release. Thus a search on the term 'TBR' (on the first page of this thread) makes it a snap to keep up with new releases.

2005 is starting to shape up nicely.
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12/2/04 at 4:33pm
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Any ideas why Laura has been bumped off the schedule yet again by Fox? Everyone had assumed it was to use it as a launch title for the film noir series, and initial reports from the Digital Bits even said as much, but now that we have the announcement, there's no Laura to be found.
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12/2/04 at 5:36pm
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No idea Chris.

Maybe it's in the same "lifeboat" as Double Indemnity
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12/17/04 at 10:27am
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Good news: Laura coming out in March, Leave her to Heaven in Feb... also Caged should be coming out soon too...

Time to update the list

Blackboard\'s Film noir pick of the week

FILM NOIR OF THE WEEK

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12/17/04 at 11:18am
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Thanks eifert. I’ve only edited the Fox release changes three times now, so I was reluctant to do it again... Let’s hope at least Leave Her To Heaven is safe since the cover art has surfaced. Caged is still a rumor (per Mondo Digital) as is Kiss Of Death (1947), but as soon as I hear something definitive, I'll gladly bold them.




List is updated and I've included the 1957 U.A. film Monkey On My Back due to release on February 8th, ’05.

My Top 25 Noirs:

25. 711 Ocean Drive (1950), 24. Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), 23. Desperate (1947), 22. Pushover (1954), 21. The Blue Dahlia (1946), 20. The File on Thelma Jordon (1949), 19. He Ran All the Way (1951), 18. The Asphalt Jungle (1950), 17. The Killing (1956), 16. I Walk Alone (1948),...
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12/22/04 at 3:17pm
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The following RKO titles are available in Italy from Columbia:
Las Vegas Story
They Won't Believe Me

Macao
Crossfire
His Kind of Woman
Big Steal

The first 2 are unavailble in other countries, while others are available in France and/or Spain.

Also, Whistle Stop is available in Region 1 from Brentwood as part of Classic Literature on Film Set.
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12/22/04 at 8:35pm
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Hi Gregory,

Thanks very much for the info. By chance, do you have info or links for Las Vegas Story and They Won't Believe Me…?

I checked two Italian etailers - www.dvd.it and www.dvdland.it (admittedly, the only two Italian etailers I’m familiar with) and I can’t seem to locate them. I do have the other four listed and I will add the R1 Brentwood release for Whistle Stop. Thanks again.

Herb.
My Top 25 Noirs:

25. 711 Ocean Drive (1950), 24. Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), 23. Desperate (1947), 22. Pushover (1954), 21. The Blue Dahlia (1946), 20. The File on Thelma Jordon (1949), 19. He Ran All the Way (1951), 18. The Asphalt Jungle (1950), 17. The Killing (1956), 16. I Walk Alone (1948),...
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12/22/04 at 11:13pm
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Looks like dvd.it doesn't have it and links to dvdland.it don't work, so here's links to another store that has nice covers for the discs. Unforunately the forum doesn't let me post direct links to the titles, but here's the store name and titles in Italian for you to search.

terminalvideo.it

The Las Vegas Story - Citta' Del Piacere
They Won't Believe Me - Nessuno Mi Credera'
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12/23/04 at 1:27pm
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Great - thanks Gregory. Lists updated and it looks as though I have a couple of late Christmas gifts to pick up (for me).

Also, some cover art for the three upcoming Fox noirs (Laura, Panic In The Streets and Call Northside 777), which is absolutely gorgeous.






I've also edited the list to include the upcoming release of Dead End (Bogart) on March 8th, '05.

My Top 25 Noirs:

25. 711 Ocean Drive (1950), 24. Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), 23. Desperate (1947), 22. Pushover (1954), 21. The Blue Dahlia (1946), 20. The File on Thelma Jordon (1949), 19. He Ran All the Way (1951), 18. The Asphalt Jungle (1950), 17. The Killing (1956), 16. I Walk Alone (1948),...
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12/23/04 at 2:56pm
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Yup those Fox Noir covers are astounding. I guess they learned it from WB

The Laura cover is my favorite. Cannot wait to finally get it.
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12/29/04 at 9:42pm
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Any truth to the rumors these are coming out:

The Street With No Name(1948)
The Dark Corner(1946)
The Lodger(1944)
Hangover Square
Nightmare Alley(1947)

http://forums.turnerclassicmovies.co...t=15&trange=15


also I do see Touchez Pas au Grisbi is coming soon

Blackboard\'s Film noir pick of the week

FILM NOIR OF THE WEEK

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12/30/04 at 7:16am
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Eifert:

Barry at the Bits posted this recently:

Fox's first wave of film noir titles is set for March 15th, but the titles are changed from those originally planned. The officially announced films are Call Northside 777 (1948, with James Stewart), Sam Fuller's House of Bamboo (1955, with Robert Ryan), and Panic in the Streets (1950, with Richard Widmark). Supplements include audio commentaries by James Ursini and Alain Silver, newsreel footage, and trailers. All will be in their OAR which means 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen for House of Bamboo and full frame for the other two. Laura has apparently been moved back to wave 2 scheduled for June 7 and currently slated to include Nightmare Alley and Street with No Name. Wave 3 is tentatively set for September 6 and to include The Dark Corner, The Lodger, and Hangover Square. Given the last-minute changes in wave 1, one should not, however, take the wave 2 and 3 news to the bank.

His article can be found here. Fox then changed House of Bamboo to Laura – specs and cover art can be found here. In light of all the recent Fox changes, I'd prefer to wait till we get closer to the release date before we start bolding specific titles. There's also more discussion regarding Nightmare Alley which can be found here.

Yes, Criterion is releasing Touchez Pas au Grisbi which I plan to review when the screener copy arrives.
My Top 25 Noirs:

25. 711 Ocean Drive (1950), 24. Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), 23. Desperate (1947), 22. Pushover (1954), 21. The Blue Dahlia (1946), 20. The File on Thelma Jordon (1949), 19. He Ran All the Way (1951), 18. The Asphalt Jungle (1950), 17. The Killing (1956), 16. I Walk Alone (1948),...
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12/30/04 at 8:25am
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Barrie adds this about one of my favs:

"Goodtimes will have The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946, with Barbara Stanwyck) on Jan. 25th."

We'll have to see how it compares to the Image disc.
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12/30/04 at 2:55pm
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A great year 2005 wil be

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12/30/04 at 5:52pm
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Watched the R2 DVD of Where the Sidewalk Ends the other night. Not heavy on the extras, but picture and sound are good enough to make it worth a purchase for the interested.
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12/31/04 at 10:59am
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Watched the R2 DVD of Where the Sidewalk Ends the other night. Not heavy on the extras, but picture and sound are good enough to make it worth a purchase for the interested.


Totally agree Steve. In fact all three of the BFI Preminger’s available in R2 are equally worthy – really well done.

Fallen Angel (1945)
Whirlpool (1949)
Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
My Top 25 Noirs:

25. 711 Ocean Drive (1950), 24. Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), 23. Desperate (1947), 22. Pushover (1954), 21. The Blue Dahlia (1946), 20. The File on Thelma Jordon (1949), 19. He Ran All the Way (1951), 18. The Asphalt Jungle (1950), 17. The Killing (1956), 16. I Walk Alone (1948),...
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12/31/04 at 11:34am
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I think Fox could perfectly release all of these 3 titles on dvd, as part of the Film Noir Collection. If not in 2005, at least in 2006.
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1/1/05 at 12:36pm
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Thanks for the continued updates, Herb.
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