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Recent & Upcoming Film Noir Releases

Postby HGervais » Thu Jun 11, 2009 9:22 pm

A film genre or period or cycle that is near and dear to more than a few of us, let's make this the thread where we keep track of new & upcoming film noir releases. And with that I am left asking....what? Another year without a film noir boxset from Warners?
I can tell you Sony has a film noir set coming out July 14 which consists of the following titles:
The Sniper/Edward Dmytryk-1952
The Big Heat/Fritz Lang-1953
Five Against the House/Phil Karlson-1955
The Lineup/Don Siegel-1958
Murder by Contract/Irving Lerner-1958

As usual I'm not convinced most of those films could be considered film noir but at this point, I'm not going to argue the point.
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Re: Recent & Upcoming Film Noir Releases

Postby cdouglas » Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:50 am

Noir or not, that's a pretty cool batch of movies.
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Re: Recent & Upcoming Film Noir Releases

Postby Gabriel Girard » Fri Jun 12, 2009 8:02 am

I might buy this if only for The Big Heat - it's the only one I've seen . :oops:
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Re: Recent & Upcoming Film Noir Releases

Postby cdouglas » Fri Jun 12, 2009 8:06 am

I saw Murder by Contract and The Lineup when James Ellroy was guest-programming a night of crime thrillers on Turner Classic Movies. Both were fantastic, particularly The Lineup. The Big Heat is magnificent, too.
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