Official Film Noir on Blu-ray Thread

[Reddington]

Originally Posted by mogwai_macabre

Just got done watching Arrow's recently released Black Test Car (1962). I highly recommend noir fans checking this one out. This is a gorgeous black and white film drenched in shadow.

Two competing car companies tangle themselves in a plot of corporate espionage. Betrayal, blackmail, adultery, red herrings, prostitution. The more you watch the worse it gets. Great stuff.

Here's some screenshots highlighting some of the darker, shadowy moments in the film:

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As a big fan/collector of B&W 'Scope films, this is on my list to pick up.

[donald.brown]

Leave Her To Heaven and Niagara are bonafide noirs and both are in rich, lush Technicolor.

[Professor Echo]

Three Noir-ish titles with offbeat location filming:

THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS (1953/Chicago)

HELL'S HALF ACRE (1954/Honolulu)

CRY VENGEANCE (1954/Ketchikan, Alaska)

[liveandletmarblerye]

Originally Posted by Rozay

I... am in the mood for some vintage Los Angeles, New York, etc.

For vintage New York there’s Sweet Smell of Success beautifully captured by James Wong Howe.

‘I love this dirty town.’

[Jerry2345]

Originally Posted by mogwai_macabre

Just got done watching Arrow's recently released Black Test Car (1962). I highly recommend noir fans checking this one out. This is a gorgeous black and white film drenched in shadow.

Two competing car companies tangle themselves in a plot of corporate espionage. Betrayal, blackmail, adultery, red herrings, prostitution. The more you watch the worse it gets. Great stuff.

Here's some screenshots highlighting some of the darker, shadowy moments in the film:

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Damn, those screenshots !

I love film noir and I love classic Japanese cinema, so....

[Rozay]

Originally Posted by Rozay

Sort of a random question, but for everyone here: what would you say are some noir examples of great on-location shooting?

I started replaying L.A. Noire for the first time since it came out in 2011 and am in the mood for some vintage Los Angeles, New York, etc. For example, I watched Kiss Me Deadly last night which had some pretty cool LA locations.

Thanks all for the responses to my post above. Already had a few of the suggestions in my backlog that I need to get to and went ahead and ordered a bunch of others. Cheers

[MifuneFan]

Allan Arkush has a nice little commentary on Fuller's The Crimson Kimono courtesy of Trailers from Hell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrAM...ature=youtu.be

The film is available from Twilight Time, but is also included in The Noir Archive Volume 3 box set. It's also available in Indicator's Fuller at Columbia box set in the UK.

[Reddington]

The Mill Creek release of The Lady from Shanghai is currently $7.49 on Amazon. I've never seen the film, but before I pick it up I was wondering if there is an appreciable difference in the PQ of the Indicator release that makes that edition the better purchase? Thanks for any help.

[Gunsnroses092789]

Originally Posted by Reddington

The Mill Creek release of The Lady from Shanghai is currently $7.49 on Amazon. I've never seen the film, but before I pick it up I was wondering if there is an appreciable difference in the PQ of the Indicator release that makes that edition the better purchase? Thanks for any help.

https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?a=1&x...8&l=0&i=6&go=1

Looks slightly bright but sharpness seems equal. What do you have to lose for $7.49?

For US buyers, it would be hard to get the Indicator release for under $20.

[noirjunkie]

Originally Posted by Reddington

The Mill Creek release of The Lady from Shanghai is currently $7.49 on Amazon. I've never seen the film, but before I pick it up I was wondering if there is an appreciable difference in the PQ of the Indicator release that makes that edition the better purchase? Thanks for any help.

It will also be included in this forthcoming set, which will include some other solid films, so you might want to wait.



Music in My Heart (1940)
You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
Tonight and Every Night (1945)
Down To Earth (1947)
The Lady from Shanghai (1948)
The Loves of Carmen (1948)
Affair in Trinidad (1952)
Salome (1953)
Miss Sadie Thompson (1954)
Fire Down Below (1957)
Pal Joey (1957)
They Came to Cordura (1959)

[Jobla]

A couple of my visual favorites:

SIDE STREET (great panoramic views of downtown New York)

ANGEL'S FLIGHT (1965 obscurity filmed throughout the decaying Bunker Hill neighborhood of Los Angeles and of course the titular funicular railway--not on home video, but available on You Tube for free).

THE LINEUP (1958) Dandy car chase through San Francisco streets, with a hair-raising dead stop on an uncompleted portion of a freeway.

[jayrobb9]

Originally Posted by Jobla

A couple of my visual favorites:

SIDE STREET (great panoramic views of downtown New York)

ANGEL'S FLIGHT (1965 obscurity filmed throughout the decaying Bunker Hill neighborhood of Los Angeles and of course the titular funicular railway--not on home video, but available on You Tube for free).

THE LINEUP (1958) Dandy car chase through San Francisco streets, with a hair-raising dead stop on an uncompleted portion of a freeway.

Side Street also features one of the first ever location-shot car chases, does it not?

[Reddington]

Originally Posted by Gunsnroses092789

https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?a=1&x...8&l=0&i=6&go=1

Looks slightly bright but sharpness seems equal. What do you have to lose for $7.49?

For US buyers, it would be hard to get the Indicator release for under $20.

Thanks. Putting together a small Amazon UK order so thought I'd ask. But based on the caps, the Mill Creek looks fine.

Originally Posted by noirjunkie

It will also be included in this forthcoming set, which will include some other solid films, so you might want to wait.

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Music in My Heart (1940)
You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
Tonight and Every Night (1945)
Down To Earth (1947)
The Lady from Shanghai (1948)
The Loves of Carmen (1948)
Affair in Trinidad (1952)
Salome (1953)
Miss Sadie Thompson (1954)
Fire Down Below (1957)
Pal Joey (1957)
They Came to Cordura (1959)

Thanks. I'm slowly collecting everything with Welles, but not sure my interest in Hayworth runs that deep. It is a good reminder though that I need to get on and watch the TT release of Pal Joey I got in a group buy with another member here...in 2016.

[Gunsnroses092789]

The Naked City Criterion review:

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-N...133901/#Review

[noirjunkie]

Originally Posted by Reddington

I'm slowly collecting everything with Welles

Well, then come on over here: https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?p=11131099

[chas speed]

Originally Posted by donald.brown

Leave Her To Heaven and Niagara are bonafide noirs and both are in rich, lush Technicolor.

Add Desert Fury to that list.

[rocknblues81]

Originally Posted by Reddington

Thanks. Putting together a small Amazon UK order so thought I'd ask. But based on the caps, the Mill Creek looks fine.



Thanks. I'm slowly collecting everything with Welles, but not sure my interest in Hayworth runs that deep. It is a good reminder though that I need to get on and watch the TT release of Pal Joey I got in a group buy with another member here...in 2016.

Speaking of Welles... Just picked up Man in the Shadow for under 11 bucks on Amazon. It is a western noir type of film. It is solid

[Reddington]

Originally Posted by rocknblues81

Speaking of Welles... Just picked up Man in the Shadow for under 11 bucks on Amazon. It is a western noir type of film. It is solid

Nice! I got it during the KL sale back in June but have yet to watch it. I bought it primarily due to my interest in films shot in B&W CinemaScope. The caps in the site review look great.

So many in my unwatched pile...

[Modman]

Probably more noir stained then noir but Studio Canal are teasing on Facebook Yield to the Night (although, it could be alternatively West 11) for UK release as part of their Vintage Classics series.

[nitin]

Diao Yinan has now made two honest to goodness proper neo noirs, albeit with more overt social critique present than in the original classic noirs.

His first, Black Coal Thin Ice, is more languid and aimless than his followup The Wild Goode Lake but it is definitely cut from the same cloth. Both feature a convoluted mystery plot, eye popping neon lit cinematography, femme fatales, cynical lead characters and a heavy sense of fatalism hanging over everything.

Also, Black Coal Thin Ice starts in 1999 but the bulk of the film is set in 2004. The timeframe is important as the socioeconomic upheaval in China around the turn of the millennium has a similar impact on the mood of this film and it characters as WWII’s socioeconomic impact did in the classic noirs.

Some may find it too slow moving and opaque in its plotting, but if you are willing to stick with it, it provides quite a satisfactory and unexpected conclusion.

Well Go’s blu ray is the only English friendly one in the world and while the bulk of it looks very nice, the compression does not handle the heavier digital noise that is present in some of the low light scenes all that well. The sound design in this film is also superb and is reproduced well in the lossless mix.