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DVD REVIEWS
[On Angel Face] " The gem I was waiting for with this was the Eddie Muller commentary... and it was no disappointment. Eddie, the best at Noir commentaries, gives us anecdotes of feuding between Mitchum and Preminger and much more! It really is chocked full of information and a favorite Noir commentary to match a favorite Noir no, strike that favorite film period!"
Gary Tooze, DVD Beaver
"The DVD comes with a superb commentary by Eddie
Muller, which, unlike most commentaries, responds to
the scenes as they play out and actually is an aid to
viewing."
Mick LaSalle, S.F. Chronicle
"Muller goes over the usual themes and factors
but adds his own special sense of humor and a speaking
style to be envied. His rundown on the eight or nine
stages of amour fou in movies about desperate doomed
lovers is dead-on accurate."
Glenn Erickson, DVD Savant
"I have a great amount of respect for Eddie Muller
and consider him one of the leading authorities on the
movement of film noir. His accomplishments are impressive
to say the least, aside from the books he has published,
he is very actively involved in the preservation of
original noir elements."
Herb Kane, Home Theater Forum
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Susan Andrews at Polarity
Post-Production in San Francisco, recording the audio
commentary track for Fox's DVD release of Fallen Angel,
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"If
it were up to me, Eddie Muller would do all the commentaries
for film noir DVDs. No historian/author seems to know
more about film noir than Muller, and few can talk about
it in such an entertaining way."
Virtual Shopping Directory
"Eddie Muller [is] the most informative and least
pretentious of the folks providing historical perspectives
on film classics."
Ed Blank, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Eddie
Muller is a great choice to provide commentary for No
Way Out. A writer, filmmaker and historian, Muller
is the quintessential film noir aficionado, one who
sheds lots of light on this dark, riveting tale of racial
hatred.
The movie is first-rate, and Mullers
commentary is top draw.
Marvin Lake, Virginian-Pilot
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FILM NOIR DVDS SPECIAL
FEATURES
Audio Commentaries /
Featurettes / Interviews

Eddie Muller has now done more than 20 “yak tracks” on DVD releases, earning a reputation as one of the most informative and amusing commentators in the home entertainment business. If you don’t believe us, read what critic Ed Blank says in a Pittsburgh Tribune feature lauding Eddie’s work.

Most recently, Eddie teamed up with James Ellroy to provide commentary for the underrated Crime Wave, and with Farley Granger to discuss Nick Ray’s masterful They Live by Night, both included in Warner Bros. Film Noir Collection Vol. 4. He also can be heard on Angel Face and Macao (with Stanley Rubin and Jane Russell) in the recent Robert Mitchum box set from WB.

Eddie also appears on-camera as a narrator of the 30-minute documentary “Shadows of Suspense,” a special feature on the making of Double Indemnity, included on the Universal’s deluxe DVD edition of the film.
Other on-camera appearances are featured in two Gary Leva-produced DVD docs, “Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light” in WB's Film Noir Collection Vol. 3 and “One Magnificent Bird” on The Maltese Falcon Special Edition DVD. Eddie also appears on a "The Quintessential Film Noir," a special featurette on the DVD release of Joan Crawford's Possessed.
For 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Eddie has provided commentaries for: I Wake Up Screaming, Somewhere in the Night, House on 92nd Street, Where the Sidewalk Ends, No Way Out, Fallen Angel, The House on Telegraph Hill, and The Brasher Doubloon.
SAYS EDDIE
Doing the audio commentaries is a fun and liberating
experience, because I finally get to say, for the record,
all the insanely trivial background stuff that goes
through my head while I'm re-watching these films. It's
a stream of consciousness riff, recorded in a cramped
sound booth as the film unwinds on a monitor. Then it's
mass-produced and distributed, and way after the fact
thousands of people occupy my brainspace for 90 or so
minutes. Weird. If somebody talked this much during
a movie I was watching, I'd kill him. |
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