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Originally Posted by The Reaper Man@Cult Labs

Irreversible for me.

I tried twice watching it but I just couldn’t get Past the camera swinging around like it did and ended up with a headache each time.

[Nostalgic]

Was hoping they would announce the next Columbia Noir set.
Got the first & still working my way through it (I'm addicted to The Lineup! Amazing film!), recommended to anyone with even a slight interest in the genre. 6 (admittedly mixed, but mostly very good) films on blu for £50, it's a steal! Plus the mountains of extras, very, VERY impressive!
Sorry, this turned into a review! Lol! 10/10

[Rob4]

Originally Posted by Rob4

The Chalk Garden
Corruption
and
The Brute

... have all been teased in Sight and Sound as future releases for PH

Just as a follow-up on this I was perusing the Hammer on Bluray FB page when someone mentioned there was no blu for Incense of the Damned to which Kim Newman (25 weeks ago btw) replied:

"Due in a Robert Hartford-Davis box set from Indicator next year."

He went on to say he'd recorded an audio commentary for The Black Torment for the set (previously a Screenbound release)

Therefore pretty sure Corruption will be the third.

Sorry if this is old news I've missed

EDIT: I wonder if they'll include The Fiend?

[Demoncrat]

[g053584398]

Originally Posted by Rob4

Just as a follow-up on this I was perusing the Hammer on Bluray FB page when someone mentioned there was no blu for Incense of the Damned to which Kim Newman (25 weeks ago btw) replied:

"Due in a Robert Hartford-Davis box set from Indicator next year."

He went on to say he'd recorded an audio commentary for The Black Torment for the set (previously a Screenbound release)

Therefore pretty sure Corruption will be the third.

Sorry if this is old news I've missed

EDIT: I wonder if they'll include The Fiend?

Now that is very, very cool news.

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

May

[Susan Foreman]

Full details

'SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME' (1987) - Pre-order available from Powerhouse Films direct - £15:99

Release date: May 17

"Limited Edition Blu-ray (UK Blu-ray premiere)

After exploring the science-fiction and fantasy worlds of Alien, Blade Runner and Legend, famed British director Ridley Scott turned to modern-day New York for Someone to Watch Over Me, one of a number of adult-orientated erotic thrillers, including Fatal Attraction, Black Widow and Jagged Edge, to appear in the late eighties.

Tom Berenger (Platoon, Inception) plays a blue-collar NYPD detective assigned to protect a wealthy murder witness (Mimi Rogers, The Rapture). Soon, the relationship becomes an affair, threatening Berenger’s marriage to Lorraine Bracco (Goodfellas, The Sopranos), and the killer is still on the loose…

Stylishly shot by Steven Poster (Donnie Darko), Someone to Watch Over Me is glossy, high-concept filmmaking from start to finish"

INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES

• 2K restoration
• Original stereo audio
• Audio commentary with filmmaker and film historian Jim Hemphill (2021)
• Someone… to Write a Script (2019): interview with screenwriter Howard Franklin
• Someone… to Shoot a Movie (2019): interview with celebrated cinematographer Steven Poster
• Original theatrical trailer
• Image gallery: promotional and publicity materials
• New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
• Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by Jamie Graham, extracts from an American Cinematographer article on the making of the film, a selection of interviews with key cast members, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and film credits
• UK premiere on Blu-ray
• Limited edition of 3,000 copies

[Susan Foreman]

Full details

'Columbia Noir #3' (1987) - Pre-order available from Powerhouse Films direct - £49:99

Release date: May 17

• JOHNNY O’CLOCK (Robert Rossen, 1947)
• THE DARK PAST (Rudolph Maté, 1948)
• CONVICTED (Henry Levin, 1950)
• BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND DAWN (Gordon Douglas, 1950)
• THE SNIPER (Edward Dmytryk, 1952)
• CITY OF FEAR (Irving Lerner, 1959)

"Limited Blu-ray Edition (6 x World Blu-ray premieres)

For the third volume in our ongoing Columbia Noir series, we return once again to the studio’s archives for a sextet of films which brings together some of the great names of film noir – including Dick Powell, Lee J Cobb, Nina Foch, William Holden, Edmond O’Brien, Dorothy Malone, Glenn Ford, Broderick Crawford, Marie Windsor, and Vince Edwards – in stories of psychoanalysis and cynicism, racketeers and radioactivity, casinos and killing sprees, and cops and convicts.

Presenting all six films for the first time on Blu-ray anywhere in the world, this stunning collection includes a commentary on each film, critical appreciations and analyses, a range of documentary shorts from the forties and fifties, six Three Stooges comedy shorts lampooning the tropes and themes of the titles in the set, and a 120-page book. Strictly limited to 6,000 numbered units."

INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES

• 2K restoration of Johnny O’Clock
• High Definition presentations of The Dark Past, Convicted, Between Midnight and Dawn, The Sniper and City of Fear
• Original mono soundtracks
• Audio commentary with filmmaker and film historian Jim Hemphill on Johnny O’Clock (2021)
• Audio commentary with lecturer and curator Eloise Ross on The Dark Past (2021)
• Audio commentary with film historians Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson on Convicted (2021)
• Audio commentary with critic and author Bryan Reesman on Between Midnight and Dawn (2021)
• Audio commentary with the Film Noir Foundation’s Eddie Muller on The Sniper (2009)
• Audio commentary with critic and author Adrian Martin on City of Fear (2021)
• Introduction to The Sniper by Martin Scorsese (2009)
• Pulp Paranoia (2010): appreciation of City of Fear by filmmaker Christopher Nolan
• Pamela Hutchinson on Nina Foch (2021): appreciation of celebrated actor and her regular appearances in Columbia noir productions
• Kim Newman on Gordon Douglas (2021): examination of the director’s wide-ranging career
• Ford Noir (2021): video essay on the various Columbia noir performances of Glenn Ford
• The Screen Guild Theatre: ‘Blind Alley’ (1940): radio adaptation of Broadway play which inspired The Dark Past, starring Edward G Robinson
• The Autobiography of a “Jeep” (1943): light-hearted documentary by Irving Lerner, the director-producer of City of Fear, about the then-new, multi-purpose automobile
• Hymn of the Nations (1944): documentary short, directed by Alexander Hammid and produced by Lerner, featuring famed conductor Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra performing the music of Giuseppe Verdi
• The Cummington Story (1945): docudrama short, written and directed by Helen Grayson and Larry Madison, produced by Lerner, and featuring the music of Aaron Copland, re-enacting the stories of a group of refugees who relocated to a small American town during World War II
• The Negro Sailor (1945): US Navy docudrama short, by Convicted director Henry Levin, about African American combatants in World War II
• Three Lives (1953): United Jewish Appeal short from the writers and director of The Sniper, Edna and Edward Anhalt and Edward Dmytryk, and featuring Jane Wyman, Randolph Scott, Charlton Heston, and Arthur Franz
• Not One Shall Die (1957): United Jewish Appeal short starring Guy Madison and made by the core crew of many Columbia noirs, including cinematographer Burnett Guffey, editor Al Clark, art director Cary Odell, set decorator Frank Tuttle, and composer Morris Stoloff
• Six short films starring the Three Stooges, lampooning the tropes and themes of the features included in this set: Whoops, I’m an Indian! (1936), So Long Mr. Chumps (1941), Dizzy Detectives (1943), Three Pests in a Mess (1945), Shivering Sherlocks (1948), and Oil’s Well That Ends Well (1958)
• Original theatrical trailers for Johnny O’Clock, Between Midnight and Dawn, The Sniper, and City of Fear
• Image galleries: promotional and publicity materials
• New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
• Limited edition exclusive 120-page book with new essays by Peter Stanfield, David Cairns, Michał Oleszczyk, Adam Scovell, Fintan McDonagh and Andrew Nette; archival interviews and articles; new writing on the short films; and film credits
• World premieres on Blu-ray
• Limited edition box set of 6,000 numbered units

[Susan Foreman]

"***IRREVERSIBLE UPDATE***

As you may be aware, during the past month or so there have been some problems with the Amazon listing for our forthcoming IRREVERSIBLE Limited Edition. We're extremely pleased to announce that these issues have now been completely resolved and that orders can finally be placed on Amazon UK

Additionally, some news on the restoration: following conversations with Gaspar Noé and Studiocanal, we have confirmation that the feature presentation is not from a 4K restoration, as was previously announced, but rather a 2K one. The film was originally post-produced at 2K (meaning a true 4K version will never be possible). The restorations of both cuts of the film were prepared in 2019, with Noé himself overseeing all aspects.

Final specs for IRREVERSIBLE will be announced very soon, including a number of exciting new additions. We are extremely proud of the work that has gone into making this release as good as it possibly can be, and we can't wait for you to see the results."

[Rob4]

HAMMER 4 is now OOP. Standard releases to follow.