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It seems that on 07/13/05 "Woman in the Window" is released in Spain. It's announced at dvdgo.com

Cry of the City (1948) is also being released in Spain on July 13th and Kiss of Death is being released on July 6th by Carlotta Films in France.

Not a Film Noir, but one of the greats Bigger Than Life is also being released in Spain...

According to a review at dvdrama(http://www.dvdrama.net/fiche.php?5307), the quality is of the French Kiss of Death is awfull.

Translation (via Babbelfish):
The original trailer offered in supplement presents a silver grain and a contrast superiors at that of the master of film of reference. The emulsion of rather many plans is in bad chemical state; negative and positive dust is abundant on rather many others. And certain overall plans (post-credits of opening for example, sight of New York night) are almost vague: it is fortunately rare but finally all the same! In short... the chemical copy was not correctly restored and the video master is regularly dirty. On the other hand the definition, the management of the blacks are correct. Knowing that this collection is made up of traditional films resulting from Fox, one can only be sorry to note the relative ease with which the Americans manage the state of their inheritance. They are not all the same the Parisian ones which will be given the responsability to restore the negative ones, to make withdraw new copies, to supervise digitalizations! Carlotta making deal with Fox, one expected a better result.

A review of the R2 release of Double Indemnity can be found at DVDBeaver.

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDRev...dvd_review.htm

...and at DVD Times here.

Coming soon: Whirlpool and Somewhere in the Night!

Cool...

http://noiroftheweek.blogspot.com/

I am very surprised by those reviews. I have both editions and it is clear as day to me that the transfer in the new edition from Universal is so over-filtered that it has lost a significant amount of detail that is clearly visible in the original edition from Image.

The audio is slightly improved, but the pal speedup is particularly noticeable in MacMurray's dialogue.

Special features? 0??? Unbelievable.

If this is the same transfer and disc that Universal is planning to release in R1, then I suspect there will be a great uproar from noir fans!

Perhaps R2/4 are just getting the shaft and Universal is saving their best effort for R1, but I have my doubts.

I have sent my concerns about this disc to a rep at Universal... only time will tell.

The Bits is reporting that both Detective Story and The Strange Love of Martha Ivers are coming October from Paramount. Excellent!

Wow, I just recorded onto dvd an HBO showing of Detective Story and the presentation was in need of some work. Also to finally have a good dvd presentation of Strange Love of Martha Ivers has me really excited. I think with those two releases that it gives us hope that Ace in the Hole is in the pipeline too.




Crawdaddy

Flipping through Silver et al's Film Noir book last night, I was reading about Ivers and am looking forward to it. I saw it on TCM a few months ago an loved it.

Doug

I noticed that "Ace in the Hole" is now listed as coming soon. Is there any link for that info?

DVDPlanet just listed the release date for "Detective Story" and "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers" as 10/25/05. Still no word on the release date for "Ace in the Hole".




Crawdaddy

Herb,

Have fun updating your noir list! I just read your email on the blackboard... Wow.

http://members.boardhost.com/mrvalentine/msg/30966.html

So, any updates about Road House? It's listed at Amazon, but Kiss of Death was proved to be just a rumor and there's no info about any Film Noirs at Anchor Bay's own website.

Also, I noticed Cornered was released in Italy as Missione di morte in a 2-disc special edition. Unfortunately, the only extra is the colorized version of the film.

Link

It is coming, just not from Anchor Bay...

In reading Mark Evanier's newsfromme.com site today I noticed he had a blurb about "Ace in the Hole" (Saturday's entry)...



Let's hope that these reports we've been getting about the 1951 film didn't stem from confusion with this new documentary (which is a Columbia product). Of course, if Paramount listed it on their site, then there should be no confusion.

The Ace in the Hole rumor has been around for a while. First, when the Saddam H. video was first announced people assumed it was the Kirk Douglas movie. Then this latest rumor came about saying that indeed the classic noir is coming out too (not the Sony Saddam one). No official announcement yet and I've yet to find confirmaton. If anyone has a link I'd like to see it. From what I hear, the noir 'Ace' will be out in the fall.

How about some Canadian noir? Alpha is going to release Whispering City on September 27th...

Looks like Raw Deal and T-Men will be released by Sony Music Video on October 18. Both titles are listed at DVD Empire and Amazon. At first I thought they were Sony Pictures/MGM releases, but seeing it's Sony Music Video it will probably be another public domain discs.

Scarlet Street and House by the River are listed in the Lang section of Kino catalogue as coming soon. Let's hope it's true!

The Hoodlum is getting another release from Image Entertainment on January 3rd, 2006.

A-Ha! A tip from the DVD Talk forum;

The following Fox Film Noirs have just popped up for pre-order at DVD Empire, to be released December 6; Kiss of Death (Commentary by Film Noir Historians Alain Silver and James Ursini, Theatrical Trailer, Still Gallery), Where the Sidewalk Ends (Commentary by Film Noir Historian Eddie Muller, Photo Gallery, Theatrical Trailer) and The Dark Corner (Commentary by Alain Silver and James Ursini, Trailer).