After Dark: Neo-Noir Cinema Collection Two (1990 – 2002)
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Blue Steel
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Internal Affairs
The Crimson Rivers
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The Way of the Gun
The Yards
Theatrical CutThe Yards
Director's CutNarc
Blue Steel
Rookie cop Megan Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis) orders a burglar to drop his gun. He whirls to shoot. Too late. Turner fires, killing him instantly. But she doesn’t know that someone has been watching. And when that someone lifts the assailant’s gun from the crime scene, carves Turner’s name into the bullets and uses them in a series of murders, Turner is drawn into a deadly game of wits with a psychopath who’s always one step ahead and much closer than she thinks!
This psychological thriller vividly depicts a female cop’s mental and physical struggles with an obsessed psychopathic killer.
Internal Affairs
Dennis Peck knows his way around the law. He can launder money, run a scam, fix a bad rap. He can even, for the right price, arrange a murder. “Trust me,” he says, “I’m a cop.” Richard Gere is Peck and Andy Garcia is Raymond Avila, the investigator determined to bring Peck to justice in this supercharged police thriller. Peck isn’t going down without a fight.
The Crimson Rivers
When Commissaire Pierre Niemans (Jean Reno), France’s leading serial killer investigator, is called to investigate a grisly murder, he enters a world of secrets, lies and unthinkable horrors. The dead, whose hands and eyes have been removed, are clues to a terrible tradition the killer can no longer bear. Each murder means something more; each victim, a guilty conspirator in a grand immoral experiment. Filled with blood-chilling suspense, twisted turns and breathtaking locations, this tense thriller has the style, action and intelligence to keep you wondering what’s really happening right up until the shocking conclusion.
The Way of the Gun
Longtime partners Parker and Longbaugh are hoping for a quick and nonviolent payoff when they abduct Robin, a young woman pregnant with the child of a wealthy Southwestern couple. But kidnapping proves to be much more complicated, logistically and psychologically, than other felonies they’ve committed. Parker is increasingly drawn to the mysterious Robin, whose imminent delivery date awakens strong feelings in him. Tensions rise between Parker and Longbaugh, a ruthlessly decisive man who knows Parker’s sentimental impulses could land them in big trouble. As the moment for the ransom exchange approaches, Parker and Longbaugh must battle not only well-armed opponents, but also their own conflicted emotions.
The Yards
Released from prison after taking the fall for a group of his friends, Leo Handler (Mark Wahlberg) just wants to get his life back on track. But when he takes a job with his powerfully influential Uncle Frank (James Caan) and reconnects with his old friend Willie (Joaquin Phoenix), Leo finds himself unwittingly drawn into a world of sabotage, high-stakes payoffs, and even murder! Then, he discovers a secret that makes him the target of the city’s most ruthless family, his own!
Narc
Narc tells the story of suspended undercover narcotics officer, Nick Tellis (Patric), who is reluctantly drawn back onto the force to find the truth behind the murder of a young police officer killed in the line of duty. He is teamed with Henry Oak (Liotta), the slain officer’s partner, a rogue cop who will stop at nothing to avenge his friend’s death. As Tellis and Oak unravel the case, the dark underbelly of the narcotics world reveals itself in surprising ways that are more twisted than either officer has ever seen before and threatens to destroy them both.
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Supplements
- Audio commentary by writer/director Joe Carnahan and editor John Gilroy
- NEW A Hired Gun – editor Lee Percy on Blue Steel
- NEW Audio commentary by film critics Alain Silver and James Ursini
- Audio commentary by director Mathieu Kassovitz and actors Jean Reno & Vincent Cassel (in French with English subtitles)
- Audio commentary by director Christopher McQuarrie and composer Joe Kraemer
- Theatrical Cut and Director's Cut
- NEW The Phallic Woman: Deconstructing Blue Steel – with film historian Professor Jennifer Moorman
- NEW The Clever and the Corrupt – interview with director Mike Figgis
- The Investigation – documentary
- NEW Audio commentary by film writer Travis Woods
- NEW Creating Authenticity – interview with director James Gray
- NEW Chasing Ghosts – interview with actor Jason Patric
- NEW Staring Down the Barrel – production designer Tony Corbett on Blue Steel
- NEW His Most Dangerous Weapon – interview with screenwriter Henry Bean
- The Scalpel Scene – featurette
- Isolated music score with commentary by composer Joe Kraemer
- NEW Motherhood Through the Method – actress Ellen Burstyn on her life, career and The Yards
- NEW Over the Top – interview with director Joe Carnahan
- NEW A Profound Emotional Response – video essay by film historian Chris O'Neill
- NEW One Bad Cop – interview with co-composer Anthony Marinelli
- The Making of a Corpse – featurette with commentary by Jean-Christophe Spadaccini and Denis Gastouet
- Cast interviews with Ryan Phillippe, Benicio Del Toro, Juliette Lewis, Taye Diggs, Nicky Katt and James Caan
- NEW Designing Queens – production designer Kevin Thompson on The Yards
- NEW A conversation with composer Cliff Martinez
- Trailer
- Extended & Deleted Scenes
- The Fight: Challenging Filming – featurette (with optional commentary by Vincent Cassel and Nicky Naude)
- Theatrical Trailer
- NEW Film critic Tim Robey on The Yards
- NEW Interview with Ray Liotta
- Making the Deal
- Alternative Ending
- Night Time Filming, Filming in Altitude, White Rivers, The Avalanche – featurettes
- TV Spot
- Visualizing The Yards – featurette
- Shooting Up
- Trailer
- The Chase – storyboard comparisons (with optional commentary by story boarder Farid Kermici)
- Behind the Scenes – featurette
- The Visual Trip
- The Complete Storyboards: The Avalanche, The Morgue, Unfilmed Opening Sequence, Car Chase
- Roundtable discussion with Charlize Theron, Mark Wahlberg, James Caan and James Gray
- The Friedkin Connection
- Archives from production designer Thierry Flamand
- 8 Deleted Scenes (with optional commentary by writer/director James Gray)
- Theatrical Trailer
- Isolated music score with commentary by composer Bruno Coulais
- Theatrical Trailer
- Theatrical Trailer
- Audio commentary by writer/director James Gray and filmmaker Steven Soderbergh [Director's Cut]
- Teaser Trailer
- Audio commentary by writer/director James Gray