#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.

#narrow margin #peter hyams #gene hackman #anne archer #90s movies #1990s movies #neo noir #90s action movies #kino lorber #dvd #gift #jt walsh #j.t. walsh #m. emmet walsh #m emmet walsh

[cinemajunkie70]

A very happy birthday to Gene Hackman!

#gene hackman #superman the movie #scarecrow #the domino principle #night moves #the conversation #the french connection #the French connection II #the poseidon adventure #Hoosiers #crimson tide #heist #the birdcage #the package #uncommon valor #unforgiven #absolute power #bonnie and clyde #narrow margin #enemy of the state #the royal tenenbaums #superman iv: the quest for peace #welcome to moose port #the chamber #runaway jury #class action

[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.

[photoset #2 of 2]

#Narrow Margin #actor #Gene Hackman #M. Emmet Walsh #J.A. Preston #Kevin McNulty #american actor #suit & tie #sitting #screenshots #movie

[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.

#j.t. walsh #jt walsh #Michael Tarlow #Narrow Margin #character actors #underrated actors

[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.

#politics #like for example in some spaces people think that because transphobes tend to 'forget' about trans men* that means we face no violence... #...when we are often forcibly erased and the other forms of violence we face tends to also be erased - like... #...seeing people who go 'lel trans men are going to be forced in women's bathrooms if we go by ASAB' as if... #...we don't face violence for using said bathrooms. that's what i mean by the violence is still there but it's made invisible #and that's a common tactic i think. because if you MAKE people invisible then it's easier to dehumanize them and pretend they don't EXIST #it's just weird when people see that and don't perceive it as violence because it doesn't 'look that bad' #not all violence is fire and brimstone levels of brutality and indeed most violence done unto marginalized people won't look that way #to present violence as ONLY being the extremes we are permitting other forms of violence to exist and be carried out onto people #this ISN'T to say that extreme forms of violence are not atrocities and that they shouldn't be recognized for being brutal but that... #...we cannot narrow our view of violence so much that we still permit it so long as it isn't 'the most extreme' #just like physical abuse is not the only form of abuse one can face - it is analogous in this situation to recognize other violences #i hope this makes sense - i'm writing this with a time crunch and it's a bad habit

[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:

#starlight express #stex #babysitters club #sorry about how narrow the text is #I got it from hoopla and the margins are really weird #no matter how I fiddled with the settings I couldn't make it any wider #I read all the bsc books back in the day but I must have gotten to this one before I got into starlight express #because I would have remembered my favorite book series referencing my favorite musical #my childhood

[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.

#every time the critical role fandom loses it bc someone decides a fight was unfair I'm reminded of all those incredibly narrow survivals #remember when nott survived that blue dragon with 1 HP? #when they only escaped their first lucien fight bc his anti magic cone missed them with the narrowest of margins? #not to mention ashton's recent absolutely wild survival #when everyone told robbie to have his character run at then end of candela obscura chapter 1 bc everyone else was down #and victory seemed impossible - but he didn't and it save them all #or let us not forget the absolutely WILD molly/kingsley resurrection #not victory feels unearned but that would not be true if the stakes weren’t real #we need the occasional iron shepherd or otohan fight that downs the entire party #and before anyone tries to tell me YES i do know ttrpgs also have prewritten and planned elements i do have basic media awareness #it's that intersection of narrative choice and chance that creates absolute gold on occasion #nella talks

[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

#noir city #noir city hollywood #american cinematheque #alan k rode #the narrow margin #rififi #mark fleishcer #richard fleishcher

[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.

#gotta say: it doesn't make me feel any better getting ignored/disparaged on account of my gender irl and then seeing every fictional woman #also get ignored/disparaged when there is no material difference between her and popular male characters other than her gender #how do I escape from irl misogyny if y'all keep willfully ignoring and flinging gendered insults at 99% (<-lowball estimate) of #female characters? how do I put aside the ableism I face in real life when y'all discuss disabled/mentally ill characters in the most #absolutely out-of-pocket way? how do I forget about biphobia when the 'arguments' you make 'for fun' about bisexual characters #in fiction sound EXACTLY the same as the things people say about my bisexuality outside of the internet/fan culture? #and then obviously this gets compounded if you are trying to even simply EXIST in fandom as a poc or a trans person or an intersection of #any or all these varying identities/life experiences #like yes caring about fictional characters is not the same as caring about real people OBVIOUSLY I can't BELIEVE I have to keep clarifying #that. and at the same time!! because multiple things can be true at the same time!!!! engaging in behavior that enforces pre-ingrained #societal biases and prejudices!!!!!!!! does not help dismantle those biases and prejudices!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in a real-world way that DOES #involve caring about actual people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #it's also. interesting. when people go on & on about how some newest show about thin cis white (male) gays is So Important & Revolutionary #So We Must Do Everything To Keep It Relevant And Visible and then act this way about women/poc/trans people/disabled people/fat people #in media. so like. you DO agree that seeing a variety of life experiences represented in fiction is beneficial. you DO believe in the #value of depicting marginalized people. interesting that that only seems to apply to a VERY narrow and specific category of marginalization #(ugh remember when I talked about this and someone called me a straight person good times)

[rthko]

I’m sorry but a lot of privilege discourse is actually cursed. “Middle class white women will have no trouble getting abortions,” as if crossing state lines to dodge the law is “no trouble.” Acting like cis gay men suddenly have no problems post-Obergefell because other groups might comparably have it worse. The framing of “entitled yuppie bike bros” when the bulk of cyclists and pedestrians killed by drivers are working class commuters who don’t have sidewalks or bike lanes where they live. The stereotype that baby boomers could get the equivalent of six figure incomes with a high school diploma and a union job like that’s something to resent and not to aspire to on a societal level. Even the deranged men on Twitter who say “Starbucks workers aren’t working class and REAL working class people do hard labor (my job is being a podcaster btw).” “Check your privilege” might as well be a liberal way of saying “count your blessings and stop complaining.”

#narrow down the margins of who’s allowed to complain until there’s no one left

[cinemajunkie70]

A very happy birthday to Peter Hyams!

#peter hyams #2010 the year we make contact #Outland #end of days #Capricorn one #timecop #sudden death #the relic #a sound of thunder #beyond any reasonable doubt #the presidio #narrow margin #enemies closer #the star chamber #Hanover street #running scared #filmmaker

[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

#Narrow Margin #Movie Poster #Crime #action #thriller #movie

[dreadofthegrave]

I PASSED THE JLPT N3 NO ONE TOUCH ME

#i am nihongo jouzu now /s/s/s #i passed by such a narrow margin i don't know shit actually #but it doesn't matter i can and will get better

[supervisormeero]

Consequences

Pairings: Syril Karn/Dedra Meero  Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Dedra comes to a stop before Syril, her face flushed, her breathing heavy. She demeans him through gritted teeth. “And with all of that considered, you thought it sensible to waste my time in asking whether I would attend your dinner party?”

“My mother’s,” he corrects in an uncharismatic mumble.

Her thin form practically vibrates with wrath. “I don’t care who’s hosting it!”

When Syril asks Dedra for an unusual favor, it sets her on a collision course with the infamous Eedy Karn.

#i had a hard time deciding which fic to post today #this won by an extremely narrow margin #anyway #hope you enjoy dedra meeting eedy and the Two Worst People in the Galaxy fake dating! it's as unhinged as it sounds #syril x dedra #syril karn x dedra meero #syril karn #dedra meero #writer stuff #keero #my writing

[blujayonthewing]

I love to get swept up in researching stuff like ‘best kind of clothes for hiking/ camping’ and then go to try to find some of those clothes to wishlist and be reminded that fat women aren’t allowed to wear things

#so caught up in the euphoria of outdoorsmanning that for a moment I lived in a world where fatphobia doesn't exist #I was also planning on buying Fancy Pretty Underwear for my wedding day and ended up just kinda giving up in despair #I wanted to be indulgent and get real silk and wouldn't you know it the answer is pretty much just no :) #fat men are marginally more allowed to live and have things as a general rule BUT (very broadly speaking) have narrower hips #so it cancels out in the search for pants or underwear specifically :') #listen it was 60f and rained for 24 straight hours while we were camping this weekend and I'm in love with my wool socks now #gimme wool undies! gimme wool jammies! can a bitch live PLEASE #and like I happen to have the resources and werewithal to make my own clothes in theory BUT #1) I shouldn't fucking have to that is Not The Point #pants are HARD and also my adhd ass always intends to make clothes and never gets around to it so you know... not entirely pragmatic anyway #about me

[leahlisabeth]

#i was curious #personally my fave (by a very narrow margin) is the erhu #it speaks to my soul #musical instruments