John Hodson
Senior HTF Member
DVD Times has the full specs for wave five of those 'Fox Film Noir' releases here, coming March.
DVD Times has the full specs for wave five of those 'Fox Film Noir' releases here, coming March.
Fox sure seems to like Eddie Muller these days, don't they?
Everyone's got great things to say about all of them, but which is the best movie?
My favorites:
"Nightmare Alley" : Great sideshow elements.
"Somewhere In the Night" : A real mind bender.
These are the 2 that I would how my friends as really great, pulpy movies. Not to take anything away from the others (I haven't watched the 3 from December yet.)
For me I think I would start out with:
Laura and Nightmare Alley
You can't go wrong with either one.
I'd echo those comments. I think Kiss of Death is also among the very best so far. You can't really go wrong though - I've got all 12 titles and enjoyed every one of them.
I've never seen any of these movies and want to start with the best one available. Everyone's got great things to say about all of them, but which is the best movie?
Somewhere in the Night is the most quintesentially noir, though I think Panic in the Streets is a better film. Either of those or Laura would be great places to start.
I would recommend staying away from Call Northside 777, The Street with No Name, and The House on 92nd Street -- they're the three weakest in the series so far, and appeal mainly to hardcore noir aficionados.
Any word on what titles will be in wave #6 or even whether Fox is continuing this series?
I didn't even realize continuing or not was an issue. As far as I know, when Fox started this line they committed to 24 titles, which would give us another 9 this year. And to further randomly speculate, in some notes I have to keep track of possible releases, I have The Brasher Doubloon for the 'Film Noir Classics' and Cry of the City for Criterion (which doesn't make too much sense, but then the Dassin Fox noirs came out from CC around the same time as the first 'Film Noir' wave).
EDIT: Whoops, beaten to the punch by ted:r.