This six-disc limited edition collection brings together some of the best directors and actors in six crime-soaked tales of hard-boiled detectives, seductive women, mistaken identity, and suspense, in the best tradition of the shadowy world of Neo Noir Cinema!
Includes After Dark My Sweet (1990), Rush (1991), One False Move (1992), Mortal Thoughts (1992), Flesh & Bone (1993), and Twilight (1998).
After Dark My Sweet (1990) – Imprint Collection #124
An ex-boxer is drifting around after escaping from the mental hospital. He meets a widow who convinces him to help fix up the neglected estate her ex-husband left. Her Uncle talks them both into helping kidnap a rich boy for ransom money, and the ex-fighter must make decisions about his loyalties and what is right.
Directed by James Foley, After Dark My Sweet is generally considered one of the most
underrated films of the 1990’s. Starring Jason Patric, Rachel Ward & Bruce Dern.
“After Dark, My Sweet remains one of the purest and most uncompromising of modern films noir” – Roger Ebert
Special Features and Technical Specs:
1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-Ray
NEW Audio Commentary by director James Foley
NEW Audio Commentary by film critic Travis Woods
Light on a Black Film – Interview with director James Foley
NEW Interview with actor Jason Patric
NEW Interview with actor Bruce Dern
NEW Interview with Jim Thompson expert Robert Polito
Trailer
Aspect Ratio 2.35:1
Audio English LPCM 2.0 Stereo
Optional English HOH subtitles
Mortal Thoughts (1991) – Imprint Collection #125
Demi Moore, Glenne Headly, Bruce Willis and Harvey Keitel star in this riveting psychological thriller about two best friends caught in a complex web of violence and betrayal.
Told in a series of haunting flashbacks, the story unfolds as a determined police detective (Keitel)
questions New Jersey housewife, Cynthia Kellogg (Moore), about the death of her best friend’s abusive husband (brilliantly played by Willis). The two desperate women are reluctantly pushed toward the shocking, violent climax.
“Intricate, intellectually satisfying and emotionally involving murder mystery” – New York Magazine
Special Features and Technical Specs:
1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-Ray
Special features TBC
Original Theatrical Trailer
Aspect Ratio 1.78:1
Audio English LPCM 2.0 Stereo
Optional English HOH subtitles
Rush (1991) – Imprint Collection #126
What happens when two cops stop loving their job…and start living it?
This ’emotionally riveting, powerful and unsparing film (Variety) exposes the plight of two narcotics officers who cross the line…and become enmeshed in the dangerous but intoxicating underbelly of the drug world.
“Head-swivelling directorial debut of Lili Fini Zanuck lays out a tough masculine scenario” – Variety
Special Features and Technical Specs:
1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-Ray
Audio Commentary by director Lili Fini Zanuck
NEW Audio Commentary by entertainment journalist and author Bryan Reesman
NEW Interview with actor Jason Patric
NEW Visual Essay by Chris O’Neill
NEW Interview with director Lili Fini Zanuck
NEW Interview with author Kim Wozencraft
Filming Rush – Vintage Featurette
Tears in Heaven – music video by Eric Clapton
Theatrical Trailer
Original Aspect Ratio 1.85:1
Audio English DTS HD 5.1 Surround + LPCM 2.0 Stereo
Optional English HOH subtitles
One False Move (1992) – Imprint Collection #127
They did it for money. For power. And for fun.
Two ruthless drug dealers commit a brutal mass murder in Los Angeles and are forced to flee the state. And when Fantasia, their beautiful accomplice, begs to go home to Arkansas, she unwittingly leads them into the eye of the hurricane.
Carl Franklin’s Neo Noir masterpiece finally gets the deluxe treatment in HD. Written by Billy Bob Thornton & Tom Epperson.
“On the very short list of great movies about violent criminals, “One False Move” deserves a place of honor” – Roger Ebert
Special Features and Technical Specs:
1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-Ray
Special Features TBC
Theatrical Trailer
Aspect Ratio 1.78:1
Audio English LPCM 2.0 Stereo
Optional English subtitles
Flesh & Bone (1993) – Imprint Collection #128
Arlis Sweeney (Dennis Quaid) leads a life as simple and unchanging as his native West Texas plains. He stocks vending machines, moving from town to town and from one familiar lover to another. Kay Davies (Meg Ryan) also calls the road her home. Running from a broken marriage, she doesn’t know where she’s headed, but any place is better than where she’s been. Fate brings them together and gives them a future, until a figure from the past–Arlis’s father (James Caan)–awakens a memory as deep and dark as a grave: a family history written in cold blood. From the writer of The Fabulous Baker Boys and Wonder Boys, and co-starring Gwyneth Paltrow in her first major feature film role.
“A provocative film-noir homage” – Washington Post
Special Features and Technical Specs:
1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-Ray
NEW Audio Commentary by director/screenwriter Steve Kloves
NEW Interview with editor Mia Goldman
NEW Interview with production designer Jon Hutman
Theatrical Trailer
Aspect Ratio 1.78:1
Audio English DTS HD 5.1 Surround + LPCM 2.0 Stereo
Optional English subtitles
Twilight (1998) – Imprint Collection #129
Screen legend Paul Newman heads a luminous cast in this acclaimed whodunit packed with stars and suspense. He plays Harry Ross, a burned-out private eye who’s plunged into a murder mystery tied to a long-unsolved case of Hollywood dreams, schemes, and cover-ups.
With Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, James Garner, Stockard Channing, and Reese Witherspoon all among the locals who inhabit a Tinseltown world of privilege and sleaze, sexuality, and desperation, trust and double-cross.
“Twilight is a class act in a classic genre” – New York Times
Special Features and Technical Specs:
1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-Ray
NEW Audio Commentary by film critics Alain Silver and James Ursini
NEW Audio Commentary by film critics Alexei Toliopoulos and Blake Howard
NEW Interview with editor Carol Littleton
NEW Interview with film music historian Daniel Schweiger
Theatrical Trailer
Aspect Ratio 1.78:1
Audio English DTS HD 5.1 Surround + LPCM 2.0 Stereo
Optional English subtitles