No Shame/Argento

[Will M]

Forgive me if this has already been posted but I didn't see it anywhere.

From twitchfilm.net:

NoShame Back With Argento’s TV Series, ‘Door Into Darkness’ R1 USA DVD February 26th 2008.
Posted by logboy at 2:02am.
Posted in DVD News , Thriller, Cult, Drama, Horror, Continental Europe & Russia.
Twitch has (as do many sites) a relationship with NoShame‘s USA arm which goes back to their relatively recent inception and shrouded-in-mystery demise, or should I say apparent demise. People have been scrambling to pick-up DVDs from their reasonably prolific output of USA DVDs in recent times, fearing the worst and predicting they’ll be permanently OOP soon as there was no true and concrete sign NoShame would be back from a regrouping of their business, or from an apparent trip to secure USA rights for further releases - well, in with the rumors that had been flying around forums in recent months, there was a mention for a wider release for a TV Series of four hour-long films partly directed by Argento in his earlier career years, under a few different names as it happens, that has appeared in a scarce Dragon DVD over in Germany in years gone by. I’ve that set stuck away somewhere, but many didn’t get their hands on one of those several thousand sets, many have some to Argento (as they will) since. Here’s your chance then.

I will wait to hear more specific and detailed information about any permanent resurrection, but for now this listing seems to confirm we could hope for a revival of the company… I hope, this time around, that they continue some of their excellent choices with genres favored by American audiences, and that some of the weaker stuff few obviously connected too will avoid any other difficult times in their future - they’ve been a great source of some classics, and a good example (quite often) of how to go about things in terms of providing supporting information on a reliable basis.

[K August]

Thanks Will.

February 26th is going to be a great giallo/genre release date.

[Andy Bensini]

I hope this happens. I need to see Il Tram and Eyewitness!

[DavidT]

Is no shame still releasing new films, why then are so many of them going oop?

[Jens Thomsen]

Originally Posted by DavidT

Is no shame still releasing new films, why then are so many of them going oop?

Well, only ten releases were reported going OOP (without any word from the company). People just started buying the rest out of fear.

[Michael CS]

Originally Posted by Jens Thomsen

Well, only ten releases were reported going OOP (without any word from the company). People just started buying the rest out of fear.

What are the 10 going OOP???

Thanks
M.

[Michael Mackenzie]

Looking forward to this. I have the old Dragon DVD, but the picture quality leaves something to be desired, to say the least. I'm not sure whether NoShame will have access to better elements than Dragon did, but we can hope.

[Andy Bensini]

[quote=Michael Mackenzie]QUOTE]


Sorry to veer off topic, but man I just noticed you have a Dean Learner avatar. Rock on!!!

[Tony F]

I read somewhere that are going to put out Torso. Hopefully that will be the final word on that film.

[Troy Howarth]

The previous release leaves room for improvement, so this is very good news. I really liked Il Tram - it has some wonderful setpieces and fits very nicely into the texture and tone of Argento's animal trilogy.

[George Swithen]

Originally Posted by Troy Howarth

The previous release leaves room for improvement, so this is very good news. I really liked Il Tram - it has some wonderful setpieces and fits very nicely into the texture and tone of Argento's animal trilogy.

How did the previous release compare to the Japanese Laserdisc? If, you've seen it, that is.

[Josh M]

DVD Cover:


The same as the Italian DVD released a bit ago:

[Ian Z.]

That's bloody hideous, but the artwork isn't the main draw anyway.

I still have never seen these episodes in English though I have 'em in my collection somewhere. Gotta give 'em a try - perhaps they're not as uninteresting as I remember them. I hope.

[JamieFletcher]

Lets hope this will be No Shames return to form. They were one of the best releasers and put out many well produced DVD's, I hope Door To Darkness is a start of something new. I wonder if they've sorted out their distribution problems which is why they went quiet in the first place.

[Ray Kanne]

I've never seen the previous DVD only the screengrabs in reviews, but it would seem like they were both struck from the same analog master. I've read in several reviews that Cozzi talks about why the quality is so bad and many reviewers seem to assume a transfer was made especially for this release from the 16 mm negatives, but like Michael Mackenzie mentiones in his review of it over at DVDtimes it has noticable video/analog noise, so this can't be true. I'm pretty sure it 's the same transfer as the Laserdisc.