![]() The late Jeanne Moreau gets a great early role in Jacques Becker’s tale of Parisian gangsters in Touchez pas au grisbi, a great film that was admittedly a little light on extras. The BFI release of The Wages of Fear, Clouzot’s hardboiled masterpiece, seems finally to be available in HD in a definitive edition in both its length and its look (the oil has never looked quite so monstrous in its amorphous inky black shininess). It’s been an especially good year for fans of the great Michael Curtiz: Criterion released special editions of Mildred Pierce (1945) and The Breaking Point (1950), his sublime adaptation of Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not, while Warners have offered a near-perfect rendition of the uncut version of The Sea Wolf (1941), available complete for the first time in 70 years. I should add that for me the film itself is everything, the extras relatively unimportant.Ģ017 was definitely the year of the bijou Blu-ray label for me, with some stunning release from the likes of 101 Films, Arrow, Eureka (Masters of Cinema), Second Run and Signal One, with the very welcome appearance of new player on the block Indicator. Though I saw fewer new releases this year than I should have liked, there were still some regrettable omissions: Arrow’s boxed noir thriller set including The Big Combo (for which I contributed an introduction) was an obvious contender, ineligible due to my own input Fat City and Mickey One were also very pleasing, welcome and beautifully presented releases from Powerhouse. The Salvation Hunters, The Case of Lena Smith Austrian Filmmuseum Lubitsch in Berlin: Six Films 1918-1921 Eureka/Masters of Cinema
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