Brian T

I watched the special features on both of these discs last night, and thought these quotes from the short documentary on the restoration of Too Late For Tears were particularly relevant:

From Alan K. Rode:

From Scott MacQueen:
Eddie Muller is indeed present in this little doc, and he discusses the "projectionist's print" as noted above, but he makes absolutely NO reference to its condition, or whether he even got to see it before trying to acquire it. At one point a letter is shown on screen, written by Muller to the projectionist, and one line in it is telling:

In neither this letter nor his interview does Muller (whose participation in this edition is clearly a seal of approval) say anything about the condition of this mystery print because it most likely wasn't known, and evidently still isn't. He does note that this nitrate print was stored in a storage unit "somewhere" (along with prints of other old films from the sounds of it). So while I don't doubt that such a print MIGHT have been useful in the restoration project, it's a stretch to automatically assume it was superior to the prints they were able to access for the project. Oh, and he makes no mention of "Plan A" or "Plan B". The projectionist's print was simply a plan that fell through, so they kept looking. As much as that print might have been the pristine condition Lost Ark everyone was searching for, it could just as likely have been a mess. We'll probably never know unless someone gains access to that storage unit someday, and who knows when that will be, or what condition the print will be in considering storage units aren't generally the best place to store nitrate prints of old movies, surely. Maybe we'll see it unveiled on Storage Wars!

Semi-related, but I thought it was fascinating how they recreated the opening titles and credits on Too Late For Tears, since the best print available had French titles. The process is superficially discussed in the doc, but I have to admit they fooled me completely when I watched the film itself prior to the supplements. They even got the 'jitter' (or whatever it's called) just right.

thetao

These BD's currently have a £12.99 pre-order price at Amazon UK. Subtracting VAT, that's actually £10.83 each, which works out to about $21 shipped.

Brian T

I thought we had a standalone Flicker Alley thread here but this is about as close as I could find, and it’s relevant to the new noir release below.

However, they’ve released a lot of good stuff over the years that doesn’t really get mentioned here outside of their sales, so any chance the title of this thread could be simplified to cover whatever titles we might care to discuss here?

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That said, their South American titles to date have all been phenomenal, both the movies and the treatments, and now it seems like they may have unearthed another gem, this one from Argentina called NEVER OPEN THAT DOOR (1952):

https://flickeralley.com/products/ne...nca-esa-puerta