MGM’s previous DVD actually contained a couple of features, though limited only to a trailer and the film’s original/alternate ending. Really just an amazing looking presentation. Together with the clearly defined gray levels the shadows in the film come off the best I’ve yet seen them.

Whites can be bold but never over powering or blooming, and black levels are incredibly rich. Gray levels are perfect and contrast is strong. It is a little rougher around the edges in comparison to something like Criterion’s presentations of Night of the Hunter and Sweet Smell of Success, laced with some more obvious damage and some softness on occasion, but as a whole the image is crisp and clean, with a stunning amount of detail and clarity when the materials allow, and film grain, which remains intact, looks natural and never like noise.

He and John Brancato ( The Game) recently wrote and sold the feature spec Trigger Warning, which is being produced by Thunder Road.Robert Aldrich’s noir classic Kiss Me Deadly comes to Blu-ray in the aspect ratio of 1.66:1 on this dual-layer disc, presented in a new 1080p/24hz high-definition digital transfer.Ĭriterion’s presentation for the MGM titles they’ve been releasing have been all fairly stellar and Kiss Me Deadly’s presentation is no different. The ten-part audio drama Bronzeville which he wrote, starring Laurence Fishburne, Larenz Tate, Tracee Ellis Ross, Omari Harwicke and Tika Sumpter was a popular and critical hit, and is currently being developed for TV. His Village Voice essay “I Will Not Read Your Fucking Script” became an internet phenomenon, getting upwards of five million hits. He has written features and TV shows with Harlan Ellison, Walter Hill, Slash, Willie Nelson, and Mick Jagger. He kept losing to Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, but that’s okay. He went on to write the screenplay for A History Of Violence and was nominated for the WGA, BAFTA and Academy Awards for Best Screenplay. Many years later, he wrote and directed the no-budget horror film, Infested, a brutal assault on The Big Chill, with zombies. Josh Olson was the only student in his second grade class to see The House That Dripped Blood.

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