#narrow margin

[brokehorrorfan]

Narrow Margin will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on June 18 via Kino Lorber. The 1990 neo-noir action thriller is a remake of the 1952 film of the same name.

Peter Hyams (End of Days, Timecop) writes and directs. Gene Hackman and Anne Archer star with James B. Sikking, J.T. Walsh, and M. Emmet Walsh.

Narrow Margin was previously restored in 4K by StudioCanal. Special features are listed below.

Disc 1 - 4K Ultra HD:

Audio commentary by writer-director Peter Hyams

Audio commentary by film historian Peter Tonguette

Disc 2 - Blu-ray:

Audio commentary by writer-director Peter Hyams

Audio commentary by film historian Peter Tonguette

Making-of featurette

B-roll and sound bites

Theatrical trailer

Gene Hackman (The Package) stars as an L.A. District Attorney attempting to take an unwilling murder witness (Anne Archer) back to the United States to testify against a top-level mob boss. Frantically attempting to escape two deadly hitmen sent to silence her, they board a Vancouver-bound train only to find the killers are onboard with them. For the next 20 hours, as the train hurls through the beautiful but isolated Canadian wilderness, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues in which their ability to tell a friend from foe is a matter of life and death.

Pre-order Narrow Margin.

[cinemajunkie70]

A very happy birthday to Gene Hackman!

[notforemmetophobes]

Narrow Margin (1990) - M. Emmet Walsh as Sgt. Dominick Benti

Of course M. Emmet Walsh and Gene Hackman could catch one here. 

Also J.A. Preston and Kevin McNulty could catch a D too.

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[seph7]

J.T. Walsh as Michael Tarlow in Narrow Margin (1990).

He looked good. I do love it when he wears a red tie. He was so softly spoken in this film, however briefly he was in it.

[moviereviews101web]

Narrow Margin (1990) Movie Review

Narrow Margin – ABC Film Challenge – Thriller – N – Narrow Margin – Movie Review Director: Peter Hyams Writer: Peter Hyams (Screenplay) Writer: Martin Goldsmith, Jack Leonard (Story) Cast Gene Hackman (The French Connection) Anne Archer (Fatal Attraction) James Sikking (The Pelican Brief) J.T. Walsh (Needful Things) M. Emmet Walsh (Knives Out) Plot: A Los Angeles Deputy District…

[oneofusnet]

Digital Noise Episode 345: Take The Twister Challenge DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 345: TAKE THE TWISTER CHALLENGE John and Chris review a really big stack this week of home releases. Some good. Some bad. Some EXTREMELY bad. And some surprisingly wonderful. From the film that set the standard for hitman movies, to that 90s Gene Hackman thriller on a train you never saw (but should have). From an auteur version of Shakespeare that definitely should be a lot better, to one of the best remastered wonderfully dumb movies ever, we’ve got quite the show for you. All titles were sent to Digital Noise by the distribution companies in question… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 345: Take The Twister Challenge read more on One of Us

[citizenscreen]

Charles McGraw and Marie Windsor in THE NARROW MARGIN (1952), directed by Richard Fleischer

[uncanny-tranny]

I think if we are to do marginalized communities good, it'll help to remember that often, marginalized people who seem to be "forgotten about" in the mind of bigots aren't being treated well by them either - so many marginalized people are forcibly erased and made invisible. That is not a neutral action; it is a form of violence. Not all violence will present itself in the extreme of facing physical violence. The core of any violence against marginalized peoples will often come from a similar level of hatred for them. That's why it's so important to combat all violence, even the forms of violence you don't perceive "as harmful" as other forms.

[musical-chick-13]

Regarding the whole "Fandom Is An Escape, so why should I have to care this much about misogyny/racism/ableism/transphobia/etc." thing. Idk about the rest of you, but it gets kind of hard for me to "escape" when I keep seeing people say the same vile things about characters who share aspects of my identity that I hear all the time in real life.

[octarineblues]

7 fandoms, 7 characters 👀

(only seven fandoms? only one per fandom? how am i supposed to do that?)

let's see:

1. Good Omens - Crowley

2. Star Trek - Spock

3. Doctor Who - Donna Noble

4. LOTR - Boromir

5. Silmarillion - Fingon

6. The Sandman - Lucienne (from the TV series) (i just think she is so cool. but tbh i've been also obsessing over the Corinthian for ages)

7. Marvel - Loki (but like. Thor 1 & 2 or Agent of Asgard kinds of Loki)

aaa thank you @perpetuallyuneloquent!! I'm gonna tag @athenashaw and @dreamduality :D

[psalmsofpsychosis]

It's ✨️wayne manor✨️ time.

Fic tidbit from a spooky little wayleska thing i've been working on.

[notforemmetophobes]

Narrow Margin (1990)

R-1h 37min Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller

A Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney is sent to protect a woman who accidentally witnessed a Mafia murder.

Director: Peter Hyams Writers: Peter Hyams (screenplay), Earl Felton (earlier screenplay) Stars: Gene Hackman, Anne Archer, James Sikking

[theanimatedbishoujoevalana]

I made a discovery today

The members of the Babysitters Club have canonically seen Starlight Express:

The book this is from, Stacey's Mistake, was originally published in 1987, which is in fact when Starlight Express was on Broadway. And this is even kept in the graphic novel version! They don't mention Starlight Express by name, but if you know, you know:

Here's how the show is described in the book, btw:

[thornheartless]

whos worse for each other. butchlander or ozycom

That is the question of the century I think, I'm inclined to say butchlander because in an alternative universe I could actually see ozycom making it work in a way that's at least a little better for each other

[nellasbookplanet]

Every now and again I'm reminded of how fundamentally different ttrpg liveplays are as a storytelling medium from literally any other and it drives me a little bit bonkers. So much comes down to chance; you can plan and strategize and have some absolutely wild modifiers, but if you roll a nat 1 you still roll a nat 1. It doesn’t matter how important a character is to the narrative and how many plans the players have for them, they can still die at any time and be inevitably lost because the dice told you, sorry, resurrection didn’t work this time. And then we build the narrative around that, an echoing hole that can never be mended, because we have no other choice but to move one.

You never know if a risky choice will be rewarded or punished. You can go into what looks like an easy fight and lose bitterly due to bad luck, or into what should be an impossible one and still win. You will never be reassured by the knowledge that it’s a prewritten, planned out story where some things are bound to happen for maximum narrative impact.

But neither will moments feel cheapened by the knowledge that it was always bound to happen. A character comes back to life in a movie and, well, you know it’s because the narrative needed them and they were never truly at risk; they come back in the game and you know just how easily the dice could have landed on a different number and it wouldn’t have mattered how needed they were.

It can, if we allow it, remind us that purpose and meaning in real life has nothing to do with inevitability or fate; it’s all about what we make it, the choices that arise out of chance, the consequences that come from choice. We create our own narrative out of inherent meaninglessness and chaos and it is beautiful.

[filmnoirfoundation]

#noircityhollywood continues at the American Cinematheque tonight with THE NARROW MARGIN & RIFIFI. Introduction by Mark Fleischer, son of filmmaker Richard Fleischer, and Alan K. Rode.

Tickets and and full festival schedule: https://bit.ly/3Ij9Mc2