Eddie Muller (in silk bathrobe from a locked-down California)
for people who aren't working, or working from the office, they stay home and watch movies all day, it is the best of times as a movie lover
The Jenkins Culture Bunker is up and running. All visitors are denied entrance at the front gate. Security patrols operate 24/7. Mrs. Jenkins has some mean-looking carving knives. And the discs spin on and on . . .
Kiss the Blood Off My HandsSynopsis: Screen legends Joan Fontaine (Rebecca, Suspicion, The Bigamist) and Burt Lancaster (Desert Fury, I Walk Alone, The Train) star in Kiss the Blood off My Hands, a classic film noir about fate and love amongst the most unlikely individuals. Former POW Bill Saunders (Lancaster), now living in England, is scarred with unstable and violent tendencies. After killing a man in a bar fight, he flees the scene and manages to find cover in the home of Nurse Jane Wharton (Fontaine), who agrees to take him in and believes his story that the killing was an accident. Now in love, Nurse Wharton tries to secure Saunders a job delivering medical supplies when he's released from prison after serving time for fighting with a police officer. Things take a turn, however, when a racketeer (Robert Newton, Odd Man Out) who witnessed Saunders' murder threatens to turn him into the police unless he agrees to assist in a crime. Beautifully shot in glorious black-and-white by the great Russell Metty (Touch of Evil, The Lady Gambles) and stylishly directed by Norman Foster (Journey into Fear, Woman on the Run).Special Features and Technical Specs:NEW 2K RESTORATION OF THE FILMNEW audio commentary by critic Jeremy ArnoldTheatrical trailerOptional English subtitles for the main featureSTREET DATE: JUNE 9
Here it is: https://www.amazon.com/S%C3%A9rie-Noire-Blu-ray-Patrick-Dewaere/dp/B0858SZWHQ/ref=sr_1_13?
Noir bookmarks https://twitter.com/EddieMuller/status/1260335812614344704
Peter Lorre: check.Gloria Grahame: check and double-checkDorothy Malone: Er, OK.Joe Cotton: WTF?Anyway, thanks, Drink.
I don't have a problem with Malone: there is something funny about the nerdy bookstore worker who locks the door, removes her glasses, lets down her hair, has a drink with Bogie and fucks him in the back room. She's not the typical femme fatale, but they already have Gloria Grahame, so I don't have a problem with something offbeat.
The Naked CitySynopsis: "There are eight million stories in the Naked City," as the narrator immortally states at the close of this breathtakingly vivid film?and this is one of them. Master noir craftsman Jules Dassin and newspaperman-cum-producer Mark Hellinger's dazzling police procedural, The Naked City, was shot entirely on location in New York. Influenced as much by Italian neorealism as it is by American crime fiction, this double Academy Award winner remains a benchmark for naturalism in noir, living and breathing in the promises and perils of the Big Apple, from its lowest depths to its highest skyscrapers.Special Features and Technical Specs:NEW 4K RESTORATION by TLEFilms FIlm Restoration & Preservation Services, with uncompressed monaural soundtrackAudio commentary from 1996 featuring screenwriter Malvin WaldInterview from 2006 with film scholar Dana PolanInterview from 2006 with author James Sanders (Celluloid Skyline) on the film's New York locationsFootage of director Jules Dassin from a 2004 appearance at the Los Angeles County Museum of ArtStills galleryEnglish subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearingPLUS: An essay by author and critic Luc Sante and production notes from producer Mark Hellinger to DassinSTREET DATE: SEPTEMBER 8.Brute ForceSynopsis: As hard-hitting as its title, Brute Force was the first of Jules Dassin's forays into the crime genre, a prison melodrama that takes a critical look at American society as well. Burt Lancaster is the timeworn Joe Collins, who, along with his fellow inmates, lives under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey (a riveting Hume Cronyn). Only Collins's dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains? Matter-of-fact and ferocious, Brute Force builds to an explosive climax that shows the lengths men will go to when fighting for their freedom.Special Features and Technical Specs:NEW 4K RESTORATION by TLEFilms FIlm Restoration & Preservation Services, with uncompressed monaural soundtrackAudio commentary from 2007 featuring film-noir specialists Alain Silver and James UrsiniInterview from 2007 with Paul Mason, editor of Captured by the Media: Prison Discourse in Popular Culture Program from 2017 on Brute Force's array of acting styles featuring film scholar David BordwellTrailerStills galleryEnglish subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearingPLUS: An essay by film critic Michael Atkinson, a 1947 profile of producer Mark Hellinger, and rare correspondence between Hellinger and Production Code administrator Joseph Breen over the film's contentSTREET DATE: SEPTEMBER 8.