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jt938 wrote: Wed Feb 04, 2026 1:41 pm Wild At Heart coming from Imprint. No indication on whether or not this'll be a 4k.

As a part of their fourth collection of After Dark: Neo Noir, which feels the most lackluster of the series, the rest being Unlawful Entry (1992, UHD), The Getaway (1994), Mulholland Falls (1996), Freeway (1996), and City of Industry (1997).

Imprint website
Trailer

sabbath wrote: Thu Feb 05, 2026 3:42 am

jt938 wrote: Wed Feb 04, 2026 1:41 pm Wild At Heart coming from Imprint. No indication on whether or not this'll be a 4k.

As a part of their fourth collection of After Dark: Neo Noir, which feels the most lackluster of the series, the rest being Unlawful Entry (1992, UHD), The Getaway (1994), Mulholland Falls (1996), Freeway (1996), and City of Industry (1997).

Imprint website
Trailer

Burying Wild at Heart in a box feels like customer malpractice. Pill goes down a lot easier when you realize it’s probably just the same old master and thus skippable.

Mark L. wrote: Thu Feb 05, 2026 3:47 am Burying Wild at Heart in a box feels like customer malpractice. Pill goes down a lot easier when you realize it’s probably just the same old master and thus skippable.

...until the realization they produced new interviews for the release, including one with Willem Dafoe, which alone makes it tempting to cough up more than $150 plus shipping for seven films, only one of the others is of any interest and its one that already has a UHD release in America. (as well as a audio commentary (with a producer no less), which sounds basically sacrilegious for Lynch releases, then again Imprint did this with The Straight Story though with this film its with the producer) although I'm probably the sort of person who really is drawn in to releases based on this.

Captain Paranoia wrote: Thu Feb 05, 2026 5:22 am

Mark L. wrote: Thu Feb 05, 2026 3:47 am Burying Wild at Heart in a box feels like customer malpractice. Pill goes down a lot easier when you realize it’s probably just the same old master and thus skippable.

...until the realization they produced new interviews for the release, including one with Willem Dafoe, which alone makes it tempting to cough up more than $150 plus shipping for seven films, only one of the others is of any interest and its one that already has a UHD release in America. (as well as a audio commentary (with a producer no less), which sounds basically sacrilegious for Lynch releases, then again Imprint did this with The Straight Story though with this film its with the producer) although I'm probably the sort of person who really is drawn in to releases based on this.

I guess you're serious, but the imprint also seems to be missing the more than an hour of deleted scenes that was on the Shout release (and can still be had for less than half the price of this set). I'm still rocking my Twilight Time release until somebody does a 4K of this.

Film Noir Vol 6:
Flame of the Islands
Hell’s Island
Naked Alibi
Ring of Fear

Wild West Vol 2:
5 Card Stud
Something Big (1971)
Posse
the Revengers
Will Penny

Adventures 10:
The Magic Carpet (1951)
Sudan (1945)
Salome (1953)
the Sword of Ali Baba (1965) - pretty sure this is just a TV movie using footage from the 1944 Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves?
1001 Arabian Nights (1959)

swo17 wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2024 6:21 am April announcements:

John Farrow box

I picked this set up on a whim after realizing how many Farrow films I’ve enjoyed without ever really taking note of him as an auteur, and I think it’s one of the most impressive collections of films and extras I can recall. I know many here look down on Imprint but it is impossible to imagine this curated and insightful set coming from any other label.

domino harvey wrote: Tue Aug 09, 2016 3:09 am Commandos Strike at Dawn (John Farrow 1943) Small Norwegian (!) town finds itself invaded by Nazis who are somewhat sympathetic to the natives (the Nazis say something along the lines of, “Hey, you guys are almost Aryans”) but also do things like steal all the blankets from shivering old people— I’ve seen Nazis do a lot of dastardly acts on-screen but I appreciated that as ludicrous as this was, it was a new one! Paul Muni is one of the locals who covertly fights back against the invaders, and the best stretch of the film is the ten minutes or so where the townspeople impose their will on their aggressors, including a memorable outcome to one Nazi caravan asking for directions.

The Hitler Gang (1943) is a fascinating Hollywood curio that I had never heard of before this set. A big budget biopic of Hitler’s rise played more or less straight by a collection of character actors and bit players cast for their physical resemblance more than acting acumen (this works out okay on the whole but the guy playing Hitler probably should have been dubbed by a more forceful speaker) — the most recognizable face here is probably Sig Ruman and he’s only just barely in it. I expected it to be in the litigious spirit of something like Enemy of Women but the movie doesn’t overplay its hand and while the biopic elements are often on the nose (“My book should be called My Battle because…” &c) they are also used to make the film a borderline gangster film in tone. I did chuckle in one of the extras where Joe Dante dismissed this one out of hand though!

domino harvey wrote: Sun Jun 28, 2015 3:36 pm Night Has a Thousand Eyes (John Farrow 1948) Melancholy borderline-horror film concerning phony vaudeville psychic Edward G Robinson who miraculously develops the skills he'd long been faking, only to learn that seeing the future brings with it a morose responsibility for the ills it delivers. The second half of the film, with skeptical police detective William Damarest doing his best to stay doubtful as Robinson attempts to save the life of his ex-fiancee's daughter via a series of random signals that naturally begin to transpire, is predictable but also infused with a sad inevitable drive forward, ending with one of the more touchingly downbeat endings I've seen from this genre. Recommended.

domino harvey wrote: Mon Aug 18, 2014 6:11 am Submarine Command (John Farrow 1951) Fourth, final, and weakest by far pairing of William Holden and Nancy Olson. Holden is a sub captain who is haunted by his actions on the last day of the war which resulted in the original captain of the sub dying. Though he's in the right and there's even a narratively convenient meeting with the man's widow who pleads with him to forgive himself, Holden eats himself alive mainly because one of the men under him, William Bendix, keeps giving him dirty looks and refuses to shake his hand &c. William Bendix seems like your girlfriend's father: he's fun, you like him, but you wouldn't want to piss him off. So I get it. But I don't get it. You needn't ask if Holden eventually wins back favor in the eyes of some guy who's really good at holding a grudge once Holden and his ship get recommissioned back into duty for the Korean War, for you already know the answer.

Botany Bay (1952) is a wonderful surprise. Farrow’s only film about his native Australia, this is on the upper end of ship-bound epics, with innocent convict Alan Ladd hellbent on escaping James Mason’s ship. Mason’s character is quite fascinating, as he resists all shortcut urges to become Captain Bligh and presents a plausible sadist who is not a compassionate leader but functions by a code that makes sense. Unfortunately the great entertainment value and restraint are undone a lot by the conventional and uninspired last ten minutes. It’s impossible to watch this after going through the extras and not noting the glee with which Farrow films all the debauchery afoot. I am wholly convinced Farrow is indeed classic Hollywood’s most fervent sadist, and I look forward to revisiting more of his films to retrace these elements.

The extras are copious. I especially liked David Cairns’ lengthy study of the five films included, especially since surely this is the first academic extra to ever contain the phrase “Babe City”! Joe Dante’s interview is proof that all great directors have varied and deep cinema knowledge, as he spends some time praising the rather obscure Karloff film West of Shanghai over more popular fare.

The feature length documentary on Farrow is a real missed opportunity though. The filmmakers gather together an impressive collection of names to discuss Farrow (some of which are inspired, such as getting other famous Australian directors like Bruce Beresford and Philippe Mora to discuss Farrow, or a movie critic friar to talk about Alias Nick Beal), but they are incompetent in constructing a final product out of these interviews. One wishes we just got hours of unedited interview footage. Imogen Sara Smith in particular has a lot of valuable comments in the documentary, I’d love to hear whatever else she had to say (and she does provide the commentary on Night Has a Thousand Eyes in this set, which is labeled as new so may not be the same one she did for Kino)

I’m not sure if there are many copies of this set left but I highly recommend it because it did what you’d want a set like this to do: it caused me to positively reevaluate the subject’s career while enjoying the honest appraisals of those coming to bury Farrow. There’s something refreshingly honest about the conflicted responses of most commentators throughout this set to the man himself, and learning of his varied career apart from moviemaking was quite a shock (after converting to Catholicism to marry Maureen O’Sullivan, he wrote several religious studies). While what I’d consider to be his best film, Wake Island, is not present, you get four good to great movies and one awful one, but even that seems to befit the honest appraisal in the set: he made some shitty movies too, and here’s one of them! As Cairns notes, it really is an unusually representative collection of movies that efficiently explores the career of a prolific director.

swo17 wrote: Fri Oct 24, 2025 5:33 am Night Gallery: The Complete Collection, at a surprisingly reasonable price

Does anyone have a take on this series? Considering a blind buy (I've had luck with stuff like this in the past) but if it's a huge step down from The Twilight Zone, perhaps that isn't a good idea.

I watched it growing up on the Sci-Fi Channel. It’s as much a product of the 70s as the original is of the early 60s (it’s extremely a production on the Universal lot), but with less social messaging (though it’s still there). I still remember the one about the landscape painting that kept showing a corpse move into a different position closer to the house it was hung inside every time you looked at it, but most of the segments were easy in, easy out of memory

Primarily looking for anthology series as vehicles for guest acting performances (I think Robert Culp's episodes of Columbo broke something in my brain permanently and I just want more and more anthology shows from the 60s and 70s) - sounds like this wouldn't necessarily qualify as a good example of that?

Anyway, if you're interested you should grab it where you can because it's sold out from Via Vision

mfunk9786 wrote: Thu Feb 26, 2026 1:44 am Primarily looking for anthology series as vehicles for guest acting performances (I think Robert Culp's episodes of Columbo broke something in my brain permanently and I just want more and more anthology shows from the 60s and 70s) - sounds like this wouldn't necessarily qualify as a good example of that?

Hardly '60s-70s, but I always thought Miami Vice was the other ultimate example of this re: the caliber of guest stars

LQ and I have been (slowly, admittedly) making our way through Miami Vice, getting toward the end of Season 2. Seems like each episode is either going to be electric and fun to watch or a "we blew our budget on cocaine this week" one-location snooze in an abandoned South Beach office building of some kind. I find it difficult to want to grab for it.

domino harvey wrote: Thu Feb 26, 2026 1:50 am Peruse here

Thank you!

EDIT: OK, Domino's link and some further research convinced me to buy it. Plus... IDK, seems like a 'now or never' thing to get the Imprint set.

mfunk9786 wrote: Thu Feb 26, 2026 1:22 am

swo17 wrote: Fri Oct 24, 2025 5:33 am Night Gallery: The Complete Collection, at a surprisingly reasonable price

Does anyone have a take on this series? Considering a blind buy (I've had luck with stuff like this in the past) but if it's a huge step down from The Twilight Zone, perhaps that isn't a good idea.

I prefer the 1985-89 Twilight Zone revival, although it kind of went to hell when their budget got slashed and the production had to move to Toronto (Atom Egoyan and J. Michael Stracyzinski teamed up and made the worst thing either of them put their names on).

I was underwhelmed by Spielberg's Night Gallery pilot episode, but I'm also intrigued about the rest of the series..

domino harvey wrote: Sat Feb 21, 2026 6:41 pm I picked this set up on a whim after realizing how many Farrow films I’ve enjoyed without ever really taking note of him as an auteur, and I think it’s one of the most impressive collections of films and extras I can recall. I know many here look down on Imprint but it is impossible to imagine this curated and insightful set coming from any other label.

One of the best labels when it comes to curation and extras, to be sure.

Joe Dante’s interview is proof that all great directors have varied and deep cinema knowledge, as he spends some time praising the rather obscure Karloff film West of Shanghai over more popular fare.

Someone compiled a Joe Dante's favourite films list on Mubi. I guess it's just the tip of the iceberg, but I would call it dantesque. Includes The Big Clock, Alias Nick Beal and His Kind of Woman.

The feature length documentary on Farrow is a real missed opportunity though. The filmmakers gather together an impressive collection of names to discuss Farrow (some of which are inspired, such as getting other famous Australian directors like Bruce Beresford and Philippe Mora to discuss Farrow, or a movie critic friar to talk about Alias Nick Beal), but they are incompetent in constructing a final product out of these interviews. One wishes we just got hours of unedited interview footage. Imogen Sara Smith in particular has a lot of valuable comments in the documentary, I’d love to hear whatever else she had to say (and she does provide the commentary on Night Has a Thousand Eyes in this set, which is labeled as new so may not be the same one she did for Kino)

This is why I much prefer the "raw" interviews (which should be easier/cheaper to do for the disc producer anyway?). With the documentaries, I always end up skipping back and forth, searching for snippets with those critics/cast/crew who have something interesting to say (in the bits we are given).

Rachel Weisz set:

Swept from the Sea (1997)
I Want You (1998)
The Deep Blue Sea (2011)

Philip Seymour Hoffman set:

Flawless (1999)
Owning Mahowny (2003)
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)

Sub in The Light Between Oceans for I Want You and you've got a nice aquatic-themed Rachel Weisz set.

Matt wrote: Fri Mar 20, 2026 4:00 am Sub in The Light Between Oceans for I Want You and you've got a nice aquatic-themed Rachel Weisz set.

God, I’d LOVE a Michael Winterbottom set from someone. Two of his very best, I Want You and Wonderland, have never had decent home video releases

Youth Gone Wild: 1950s Juvenile Delinquency

Awesome

New adventures set too with

the Black Knight (1954)
55 Days at Peking (1963)
Taras Bulba (1962)
Genghis Khan (1965)

Ribs wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 5:17 am After Dark: Neo Noir Cinema Collection One (After Dark My Sweet (1990), Rush (1991), One False Move (1992), Mortal Thoughts (1992), Flesh & Bone (1993), and Twilight (1998))

This is getting a “standard edition” release in June. I’m not really sure what that means when these were all just the same discs in a hard box, though… are the discs just in a normal case with six holders instead of separate cases?

domino harvey wrote: Tue Mar 24, 2026 4:16 am New adventures set too with

the Black Knight (1954)
55 Days at Peking (1963)
Taras Bulba (1962)
Genghis Khan (1965)

Very excited to get Peking in HD. Hugely underrated film