Radiance Films goes noir with HARDBOILED: THREE PULP THRILLERS BY ALAIN CORNEAU (Review)

The director of LOVE CRIME and ALL THE MORNINGS OF THE WORLD dabbles in the French strain of film noir in this trio of HARDBOILED pulp thrillers.  In POLICE PYTHON 357, a lone wolf cop must stay ahead of his own colleagues to avoid becoming the prime suspect in the murder of his lover who he suspects was actually killed by her previous lover whose identity is as secret as his own.  In SERIE NOIRE, a door-to-door salesman falls for "a hell of a woman" and becomes entangled in a web of lies and murder.  In CHOICE OF ARMS, a reformed gangster must fall back on old habits when he is threatened by a violent and impulsive young punk.  Yves Montand, Catherine Deneuve, Sylvia Sandrelli, Simone Signoret, and Gerard Depardieu star.

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HARDBOILED - THREE PULP THRILLERS BY ALAIN CORNEAU Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One - Police Python 357:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 WidescreenFrench LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by The Projection Booth Podcast's Mike White
• "Maxim Jakubowski on Police Python 357's Source Novel and Adaptation"
• 1976 Belgian television interview with director Alain Corneau and actor François Périer
• Disc Two - Serie Noire:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen
• French LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• "Série noire: The Darkness of the Soul" 2013 documentary
• Interview with director Alain Corneau and actress Marie Trintignant
• 1981 Belgian television set interviews with director Alain Corneau and actors Patrick Dewaere and Miriam Boyer
• "A Hollyhock in a Cornfield: Jim Thompson on Screen" visual essay by film historian Patrick Martinovic
• Theatrical Trailer
• Disc Three - Choice of Arms:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• French LPCM 2.0 StereoOptional English Subtitles
• Introduction by documentary filmmaker Jérôme Wybon
• "Shooting Choice of Arms" 1981 interviews with the cast and crew including behind-the-scenes footage
• 1981 interviews with actors Catherine Deneuve, Yves Montand, and Gerard Depardieu from the set
• Interview with critic Manuela Lazic on Yves Montand in the 1970s
• Theatrical Trailer
• Limited edition of 2,500 copies, presented in a rigid box with full-height Scanavo cases and removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings, reversible covers for each disc, and an 80-page booklet featuring new writing by Charlie Brigden, Andrew Male, Nick Pinkerton, Travis Woods, and newly translated archival interviews with Alain Corneau.
  

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