Summer Reading Challenge 2018: In a Lonely Place (1947) Dorothy B. Hughes

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Film Noir Releases in August 2018

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My 6-Week Challenge

For the next six weeks, my goal is to watch at least 20 movies that I own on DVD or Blu-ray that I have either never watched or never watched in those formats. I’m not going to tell you how many DVDs and Blu-rays I own that I’ve never watched, but rest assured: 20 barely scratches the surface. But hey, it’s a start. So I hope you’ll join me (and help keep me honest) for what I hope will be a fun series for the next six weeks. I’ll always conclude my brief review with a determination to purge the disc or keep it. Here we go!

Request a Sample Copy of The Dark Pages

Things will be a bit on the quiet side for awhile here at Journeys in Darkness and Light, but in the meantime, I hope you’ll check out some of my older posts, and also request a sample copy of The Dark Pages: The Newsletter for Film Noir Lovers. You can do that right here.

Movies Watched in June 2018

June was interesting, not quite what I’d planned… Read more here.

Import Blu-rays/DVDs and the Region-Free Lifestyle

The guys over at the Just the Discs podcast recently discussed import Blu-rays and region-free players, so I thought I’d talk a little about my own region-free journey, which you can find on my new website. Enjoy!

Summer Reading Challenge 2018: The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) Booth Tarkington

There’s a moment in Richard Linklater’s 2008 film Me and Orson Welles where Welles (Christian McKay) tells another character, “Ambersons is about how everything gets taken away from you.” That scene – which takes place in 1937, years before Citizen Kane – is meant to convey not only a theme from the novel, but also Welles’s own future. Reading the Booth Tarkington novel The Magnificent Ambersons, you can see why Welles was so attracted to it as a young man and how it served as a painful reminder of his own life in later years.