...but in North America diddlee-squat?!?
I say SHENANIGANS!!!!!
"The problem with your film is that it's all about you - not the characters on the screen"
What else don't we have on dvd?????????
Burn yourself a good copy on dvd from a good movie channel like I did.
If I had to wait for the forces that be to put out my favs to dvd I wouldn't own one dvd movie. lol
Didn't the Cahiers du Cinema crowd make a fetish of Nicholas Ray films back in the '50s?. It was when they were all trying to one-up each other in finding great auteurs among the Hollywood hack directors. Anyway, that prestige, however spuriously derived, might explain the French issue of the DVD.
I'll bet the French have the complete oeuvre of Jerry Lewis on DVD in a deluxe, multi-box set, complete with outtakes and pompous commentary by the Big Mouth himself.
[deleted]
[deleted]
Didn't the Cahiers du Cinema crowd make a fetish of Nicholas Ray films back in the '50s?. It was when they were all trying to one-up each other in finding great auteurs among the Hollywood hack directors.
No they weren't fetishizing Ray or one-upping each other in making great auteurs out of hacks. They just pointed out the very obvious fact that as restrictive and puritanical the working conditions of Hollywood were, the enormous resources and wide talent of actors contracted by studios nonetheless allowed passionate individual directors to make artistic personal studios within the confinements and restrictions imposed on them. And these directors were able to do so working in a wide different kind of genres using a variety of styles of storytelling. Nicholas Ray was one such director whom they recognized as a genius.
Of course to recognize Ray's genius they had to go against every prevailing norm of film criticism revealing each to be shallow, arbitrary and useless. I.e. they needed taste and talent which you clearly don't have.
And Jerry Lewis is a genius who is liked across the world(not just in France) and even in America, only it's taking a very long time for the critical establishment to realize their errors and apologize.
"Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs." - Nathanael West
The Racket will include commentary by noir specialist Eddie Muller. Muller has also recorded commentaries for They Live by Night (1949, RKO, with Farley Granger) and Crime Wave (1954, WB, with Sterling Hayden), two future film noir DVD releases by Warners.
Thank you, and thank you ALL who commented.
"Always a good show - Often a great one"
This conversation looks like it's finished, but, just in case anybody is interested, I bought the French DVD and can wholeheartedly recommend it. It's not cheap (£22 inc p&p to England), but it's a fantastic transfer, you can turn the French subtitles off, and there are three additional documentaries, two in English (including the semi-classic Ray overview, "I'm a stranger here myself"). You can order it from French Amazon, under the title "Les amants de la nuit" (Region 2, of course), if you can't wait for an American or British company to put it out.
shareI just received the DVD of "They Live By Night" from Amazon France only to discover that it's being released as part of a Warner Brothers 10 DVD set (Film Noir Classic Collection Vol. 4), which I'm going to want to order too... It's not being released till June... but I should have waited till then to save $$
shareI know this thread is very old, but I just bought the double feature DVD Region 1 for the US of They Live by Night (wth a commentary by Farley Granger) and Side Street with commentary by Richard Schickel at Amazon for $18.99.
http://www.amazon.com/They-Night-Street-Double-Feature/dp/B000PKG7CU/r ef=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1271530919&sr=1-1
It's excellent.
Thanks for posting that!
share