Official Film Noir on Blu-ray Thread

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by Modman

Link to review posted by EddieLarkin on the UK Inferno thread.

http://www.hometheaterforum.com/topi...addict-review/

Thanks! I've always wanted to see what Rhonda Fleming looked like in color, and this seems like a solid noir as well.

I hope that we get a Region A release soon.

[Pizzamorg]

I can honestly say I've never heard of this film, but a bit of 50s noir 3D Blu goodness sounds good to me.

[maely]

Has anyone ever seen this Fritz Lang film?

http://www.screenarchives.com/title_...MAN-HUNT-1941/

[jetthead]

Originally Posted by maely

Has anyone ever seen this Fritz Lang film?

http://www.screenarchives.com/title_...MAN-HUNT-1941/

I'd venture to guess that most of the regulars in this thread have seen Man Hunt.

It's quite excellent and well worth TT's asking price.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by maely

Has anyone ever seen this Fritz Lang film?

http://www.screenarchives.com/title_...MAN-HUNT-1941/

Yes, I saw Man Hunt a couple of weeks ago, and wrote a User Review.

It's a terrific "proto-noir" with stunning cinematography and a gut-punch call-to-arms in the early days of World War II.

[Pizzamorg]

Originally Posted by jetthead

I'd venture to guess that most of the regulars in this thread have seen Man Hunt.

It's quite excellent and well worth TT's asking price.

Well worth the price? It's eighty pounds on UK Amazon.

[maely]

Revisited Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train last night and holy crap, the film is a masterpiece from start to finish (would compare the tautness of its plot to the Coens' neo-noir Blood Simple, also a film I consider to be perfect). The way the film builds and protracts the suspense throughout the final half-hour is immense, leading up to the heart-palpitating climax on the merry-go-round. There are master shots throughout the film, such as this one:

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And this one:

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And my favorite, this one:

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The very end on the train is just perfect, too; I was cracking up for a while at that. Maybe, just maybe, I'd have to elevate this to the level of my favorite Hitchcock yarn. I loved every minute of it.

[kaseaver]

Strangers on a Train is a great film.

Just finished watching 24 Hitchcocks in the month of August (23 Region A BD + Suspicion on DVD). Shadow of a Doubt was my favorite, followed by Strangers on a Train, Rebecca, Suspicion and Vertigo. I would consider all good examples of film noir with the possible exception of Rebecca.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by kaseaver

Strangers on a Train is a great film.

Just finished watching 24 Hitchcocks in the month of August (23 Region A BD + Suspicion on DVD). Shadow of a Doubt was my favorite, followed by Strangers on a Train, Rebecca, Suspicion and Vertigo. I would consider all good examples of film noir with the possible exception of Rebecca.

I've never really thought of Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca as a film noir, but it has set the stage for a lot of film noir plots. Secret Beyond the Door (1947), Sleep, My Love (1948), Caught (1949), and even Strangers in the Night (1944) are a few examples of "gothic noir" films that seem to follow the path of the Hitchcock film.

Rebecca makes use of several conventions that would later become standard in film noir (flashbacks, voiceover narration, shadowy visuals, etc.).

[kaseaver]

You expressed it better than I could Owl, but I agree the style of Rebecca is what strikes me as film noir. What raises doubt to me with Rebecca as film nor has more to do with the plot, like a lot of Hitchcocks. That is, the romantic stuff and the happy ending.

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[*PREACHER*]

So excited that we are getting this from Arrow:

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by *PREACHER*

So excited that we are getting this from Arrow:

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Nice. I saw someone mention The Killers in the Arrow thread earlier, and I figured they were talking about the 1964 release. UK will have both, before we get one of them . Will add to the list

[MifuneFan]

And another to be added! Warner Archive will be releasing Possessed (1947) Starring Joan Crawford later this year..

POSSESSED (1947)
Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
Subtitles: English SDH
Discs: One 50GB Blu-ray Disc
Run Time: 108 Minutes
B&W
Special Features: Commentary by Film Historian Drew Casper; Featurette: "Possessed: The Quintessential Film Noir"; Original Theatrical Trailer

Credit to Akijama for first posting

[noirjunkie]

Is anyone else really surprised that this is the second noir from Warner Archive? Don't get me wrong; I'm happy it's getting a blu-ray release. But I would have thought that several other films would have been ahead of this one in the queue.

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by noirjunkie

Is anyone else really surprised that this is the second noir from Warner Archive? Don't get me wrong; I'm happy it's getting a blu-ray release. But I would have thought that several other films would have been ahead of this one in the queue.

I can see your point, but I'm not certain that it's a question of genre. I'm wondering if WA will be trying to balance star power. I mean, in a fairly short amount of time they've announced a Cagney and a Crawford.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

And another to be added! Warner Archive will be releasing Possessed (1947) Starring Joan Crawford later this year..

Sweet! I get to retire my DVD soon.

[noirjunkie]

Originally Posted by jayembee

I can see your point, but I'm not certain that it's a question of genre. I'm wondering if WA will be trying to balance star power. I mean, in a fairly short amount of time they've announced a Cagney and a Crawford.

That could be, but in terms of Crawford films, I would think that Mildred Pierce would be ahead of Possessed in terms of name recognition.

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Sweet! I get to retire my DVD soon.

I can't. Not yet, anyway. My copy is part of The Joan Crawford Collection boxed set.

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by noirjunkie

That could be, but in terms of Crawford films, I would think that Mildred Pierce would be ahead of Possessed in terms of name recognition.

True enough. Still, it's hard to discern a pattern from just two examples, whichever way you want to slice it.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by jayembee

I can't. Not yet, anyway. My copy is part of The Joan Crawford Collection boxed set.

I've got separate DVDs of Possessed and Mildred Pierce, because I found them for two dollars apiece a while back.

It will probably be a long while before I'm able to retire a lot of my Warner film noir DVDs, though, because most of them come in the five Warner Film Noir Classic Collection box sets that I own. My DVD of Out of the Past is staying put in that box set.