Official Film Noir on Blu-ray Thread

[lilboyblu]

Originally Posted by djvaso

[Show spoiler]

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-G...lu-ray/149091/

More Alan Ladd & Veronica Lake on Blu-ray is great. Perhaps The Blue Dahlia won't be too far behind either?

[Professor Echo]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

I really hope that this is the case, because In a Lonely Place has been my number one Criterion request for quite a while. It's the darkest film noir of them all!

If you include neo-noir, THE GRIFTERS beats it.

[CBHampson]

Originally Posted by djvaso

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-G...lu-ray/149091/

Adding to my Amazon.de cart, along with Deadline USA, Charley Varrick and a couple Joe Dante titles. Trying to build it up before ordering and now I've got a few more months to do so haha. Still debating the other Koch set as I own the Criterion release of Ministry Of Fear. But I really did love The Big Clock when I caught it on TCM last year.

Anyone know of any other German only releases that are noir or semi-noir.....or otherwise worth owning?

[silverlakephil]

Originally Posted by CBHampson

Adding to my Amazon.de cart, along with Deadline USA, Charley Varrick and a couple Joe Dante titles. Trying to build it up before ordering and now I've got a few more months to do so haha. Still debating the other Koch set as I own the Criterion release of Ministry Of Fear. But I really did love The Big Clock when I caught it on TCM last year.

Anyone know of any other German only releases that are noir or semi-noir.....or otherwise worth owning?

Not German, but the French release of the excellent Gun Crazy still hasn't been released outside of France without the book, which makes it a very expensive purchase. There is a Spanish release, but its probably a pirate release of the French one.

[noirjunkie]

Originally Posted by CBHampson

Anyone know of any other German only releases that are noir or semi-noir.....or otherwise worth owning?

A Simple Plan (1998) is an excellent neo-noir that has only been released on blu-ray in Germany.

Strange Days (1995) is another German-only release that you might find worth picking up.

[silverlakephil]

Originally Posted by noirjunkie;11801858

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Strange Days[/B] (1995) is another German-only release that you might find worth picking up.

Such a great film, one of my favorites. I recommend watching it as a double feature with Blade Runner. A crime that it hasn't been released domestically.

[CBHampson]

Originally Posted by noirjunkie

A Simple Plan (1998) is an excellent neo-noir that has only been released on blu-ray in Germany.

Strange Days (1995) is another German-only release that you might find worth picking up.

Didn't love Strange Days, but am definitely picking up A Simple Plan

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

I already own the Film Chest Blu-ray, but I've decided to double-dip for this latest release. I've been really impressed with The Film Detective discs of Beat the Devil and The Bat, and my only complaint is that these are BD-Rs and not officially-pressed BDs.

D'oh. I also own the Film Detective Blu-ray of Hollow Triumph, and it's actually my favorite of the three that I have.

Hollow Triumph is a solid awesome film noir in every way.

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by stevieray44

You know what would make a good double feature with Blade Runner? Blade Runner, again!

And if you have the right edition, you can watch two different versions during your double-feature!

[Marlow27]

Watched The Big Combo today. What a great noir film, low-key but expressive and tense. John Alton is truly a great of cinematography and the transfer was really great too.

[IronFingaz]

Anyone have the Gun Crazy box-set? How's the quality of the disc?

[joie]

Originally Posted by IronFingaz

Anyone have the Gun Crazy box-set? How's the quality of the disc?

I don't have it, but there is a thread with links to a couple of reviews:
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=216195

[Reddington]

Just noticed the cover has been updated on the Amazon product page.

[MifuneFan]

Excellent. They had a video revealing the new cover a few days ago.

[Vlad Draculi]

Why do they insist on ruining good cover art with "Archive Collection" on their covers?

[PowellPressburger]

I don't mind the Archive banner... it is at least tasteful and simple. besides the fact the WB Archive titles are better than sell thru titles so I don't mind the banner.

[IronFingaz]

Originally Posted by joie

I don't have it, but there is a thread with links to a couple of reviews:
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=216195

Much appreciated

[noirjunkie]

Just announced from Olive for release on April 19:



Hopefully, Olive will use the Film Noir Foundation's 2012 restoration.

[Gerby]

^Looking forward to that one!

[MifuneFan]

Olive also announced Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street from Sam Fuller, which sounds like a bit of a spoof of noir films. Anyone seen it?

Fuller's sole film comedy is a delightfully self-conscious and satiric detective thriller, a low-budget neo-noir confection funded by the popular German television series Tatort and buoyed by a lighter strand of the bold Pop sensibility defined in The Naked Kiss and Shock Corridor. Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street is perhaps best understood, in Fuller's own words, as a "cartoon caper,” with Fuller outdoing even himself in outlandish action sequences—such as a gunfight in a maternity ward—and a cast of loony caricatures led by The Crimson Kimono’s Glenn Corbett, as a bumbling American detective in Berlin to track down his ex-partner's killers, and Fuller's wife Christa Lang as the beautiful and mysterious fräulein guide to the Berlin underworld. All-too-long unseen in its true form, Dead Pigeon has recently been expertly restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, who reconstructed Fuller's director's cut with the addition of twenty-five minutes that had been removed for the film's original release. DCP of the digitally remastered long version courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2015junaug/fuller.html