Fox Noir Collection
- Bete_Noire
- Joined: Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:08 pm
I haven't noticed this mentioned in any reviews, but on my copy of House of Bamboo, the colors become washed out before segueing to the next scene every time. It's a jarring and noticeable effect, and I doubt it's intentional. Did anyone else have this problem? Is it the DVD (which is brand new and mint), or my DVD player?
- domino harvey
- Dot Com Dom
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- HerrSchreck
- Joined: Sun Sep 04, 2005 11:46 am
Probably the endsof scenes/beginning of reels, which have been exposed to elements, light, etc, as opposed to the rest of the reel which is tucked under the layers of celluloid. Even in old b&w films you'll notice speckling etc go thru the roof.. especially pronounced on silents... snowstorms of this stuff just near reel breaks on some titles.
- zedz
- Joined: Sun Nov 07, 2004 7:24 pm
Ah, beat me to it. You lose a generation with optical work, and this effect is compounded with each additional generation lost, so the effect is even more intrusive with a dupe than it is in a first generation print. The problem is,
once you start seeing this effect, you can't really unsee it, so you develop a 'stand by for dissolve' mode of viewing.
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like hearing the cut in Strawberry Fields Forever,
- domino harvey
- Dot Com Dom
- Joined: Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:42 pm
Thank God for Daisy Kenyon, the only bright point of the recent debacle of Fox Noir releases. Though it's the least "noir" noir film in the entire line, at least it's a good film! Preminger's camera movements are wonderful, the very adult story surprised me at every turn (It took like an hour before I could even figure out what kind of movie this was supposed to be!) and Fonda in particular was really good-- a laid-back character who is nevertheless two steps ahead of everyone for the entire film, could anyone have played it better? I don't think so.
- domino harvey
- Dot Com Dom
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- HerrSchreck
- Joined: Sun Sep 04, 2005 11:46 am
Pah! Serves me right for trying to post away from home. Reading comprehension goes down the drain. My bad.. I didn't catch the "every" part.davidhare wrote:This is called "Popping" and it happens because the negs and prints were both done on Eastman. Only Technicolor IB had a system of running two strips of unexposed film for every optical sequence which were complete from the previous edit to the subseqent edit, thus you got flawless optical dissolves or other effetcs without any generational loss of printing, and identical fine grain structure.
And z, regarding Strawberry Feilds... that stuff can really amplify in your mind in your own works... you are aware of all the seams and joins and you think they're as perfectly obvious to everyone else as they are to you, whereas they would have never heard it if you didn't point it out to them.
Then of course their attention to it grows like a cancer.
"Now that's all I hear!"
"Dagnabbit!"
- zedz
- Joined: Sun Nov 07, 2004 7:24 pm
These are the real spoilers, not crummy plot twists, and they should be played close to the chest.HerrSchreck wrote:And z, regarding Strawberry Feilds... that stuff can really amplify in your mind in your own works... you are aware of all the seams and joins and you think they're as perfectly obvious to everyone else as they are to you, whereas they would have never heard it if you didn't point it out to them.
Then of course their attention to it grows like a cancer.
"Now that's all I hear!"
"Dagnabbit!"
- HerrSchreck
- Joined: Sun Sep 04, 2005 11:46 am
- Ashirg
- Joined: Wed Nov 03, 2004 9:10 am
- Location: Atlanta
Ida Lupino Collection?
DVD Empire now lists two Ida Lupino titles coming September 2 - Moontide and Road House.
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Re: Ida Lupino Collection?
Yeah they're for the noir line. If someone released a Lupino set, it'd be probably be Warners.Ashirg wrote:DVD Empire now lists two Ida Lupino titles coming September 2 - Moontide and Road House.
- domino harvey
- Dot Com Dom
- Joined: Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:42 pm
- Jeff
- Joined: Tue Nov 02, 2004 9:49 pm
- Location: Denver, CO
Classicflix has the announcement for the next wave of titles.
- Cinephrenic
- Joined: Tue Nov 02, 2004 2:58 pm
- Location: Paris, Texas
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Quite the contrary this is the best series of titles so far in the series. I've been fooled by Boomerang before, and still remember pre-ordering it two years ago, but it's long been near the top of my list of American films to see, and Moontide is also one I've been very curious from what I've read Fritz Lang worked as an uncredited director on the project.
- dr. calamari
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- domino harvey
- Dot Com Dom
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- souvenir
- Joined: Wed Nov 03, 2004 12:20 pm
Kind of curious calling it the best series of titles when you're admitting to not having seen two of them.wpqx wrote:Quite the contrary this is the best series of titles so far in the series. I've been fooled by Boomerang before, and still remember pre-ordering it two years ago, but it's long been near the top of my list of American films to see, and Moontide is also one I've been very curious from what I've read Fritz Lang worked as an uncredited director on the project.
Lang barely worked on Moontide and his fingerprints were washed away by Archie Mayo. Can't say that I'm fond of Boomerang either, and it's pretty far from being a film noir.
- dr. calamari
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Nope...$14.99 each. Planning to keep one, sell the other. I just hope after all the aggravation, the movie turns out to be worth the wait. In it's favor, at least it wasn't directed by Henry Hathaway, so it's less likely to be sleep inducing.HerrSchreck wrote:And you probably paid 50 bucks for it right?
- Si Parallel Universe
- Joined: Wed Jul 09, 2008 1:38 pm
- Location: London UK
Jeff wrote:Classicflix has the announcement for the next wave of titles.
Well I know Road House is definitely considered a Noir so that is great news and [shamefully] I know little about Moontide as for Boomerang I'll believe it when I see it.
What with the rumoured Cry Of The City getting the CC treatment sometime soon this is getting better for the Fox Noir titles. The OCD part of my brain is wondering if the spine number of Boomerang will be #16 as per the withdrawn release [which I was lucky to pick up 1st time around].