Twilight Time Discussion Thread

[Aclea]

Or it may have been licensed from Hollywood Classics International, the sales agency who handle BD and DVD rights for a selected back-catalogue titles from Sony, Universal and others:

https://www.hollywoodclassics.com/mo...thousand-days/

Either way it's good to see them adding another studio's picture(s) to their diet.

[Cremildo]

I own Anne of the Thousand Days on DVD, but will be glad to upgrade. I love me some royal porn - and Jarrot's film is one of the best of its time.

[RCRochester]

Originally Posted by Cremildo

I own Anne of the Thousand Days on DVD, but will be glad to upgrade. I love me some royal porn - and Jarrot's film is one of the best of its time.

I’ve seen it in DVD double features with Mary, Queen of Scots which would also be a good film to see on bluray.

[RCRochester]

Originally Posted by Aclea

Or it may have been licensed from Hollywood Classics International, the sales agency who handle BD and DVD rights for a selected back-catalogue titles from Sony, Universal and others:

https://www.hollywoodclassics.com/mo...thousand-days/

Either way it's good to see them adding another studio's picture(s) to their diet.

I see, so maybe with Fox on a bit of a hiatus at the moment, they’re turning to this “Hollywood Classics” as a locum licensor.

[Cremildo]

Originally Posted by RCRochester

I’ve seen it in DVD double features with Mary, Queen of Scots.

That's the one I own. It was one of the first DVD I imported from the USA.

[BagheeraMcGee]

Originally Posted by RCRochester

I’ve seen it in DVD double features with Mary, Queen of Scots which would also be a good film to see on bluray.

Wouldn't shock me at all to see some label announce Mary, Queen of Scots right around the time the new one with Margot Robbie and Saoirse Ronan is released later in the year.

[xochipilli]

Nice. I was hoping we might get Star! before the year was over to coincide with the anniversary, but A Man Called Peter and Anne of the Thousand Days are still two very interesting titles I want in my collection.
Much like others here I would also like to know how Anne is with TT, as I honestly would like Universal to not abandon its' standard catalog releases, since they're the one studio other than Warner still putting out older titles directly. Some official report on the situation, as well as any more concrete news on any FOX issues, would help quell any niggling speculation.

[Aclea]

I seriously doubt anyone at Fox knows themselves right now - and if they do, they're too busy polishing their resumes for when the axe falls.

[belcherman]

Originally Posted by Cremildo

I own Anne of the Thousand Days on DVD, but will be glad to upgrade. I love me some royal porn - and Jarrot's film is one of the best of its time.

I remember Anne of the Thousand Days as a rather stodgy costume drama, but it is the movie that introduced me to the glory that is Geneviève Bujold. I may pick it up when it falls in the $10-15 range.

[Page14]

Originally Posted by belcherman

I remember Anne of the Thousand Days as a rather stodgy costume drama, but it is the movie that introduced me to the glory that is Geneviève Bujold. I may pick it up when it falls in the $10-15 range.

Geneviève Bujold is my main draw to it also ... although I'm not positive, but I think I first saw her in Coma.

[Aclea]

I rather liked it myself:



Anne of the Thousand Days is an enjoyably lavish entertainment from the days when duelling kings and commoners were all the rage at the box-office - Beckett, A Man For All Seasons, The Lion in Winter, Mayerling - before Cromwell and Mary Queen of Scots all but killed off the genre. As history, its better at the general details than the specifics, but it's magnificently staged and not without some dry wit and humour ("We used the incest excuse last time. We can't make a habit of it."), most of it intentional - there's not a writer alive who wouldn't be aware of the effect that giving Richard Burton dialogue like "Divorce is like killing - after the first time it's easy" would have on an audience. There's even some pathos in the final image of Henry callously riding off to his next bride as his last one's blood stains the hay on the executioner's scaffold.

An Oscar-nominated Burton is on good form before he lurched into drunken autopilot mode (it's hard to believe that when he next made a film two years later it would be the lazy low-budget stock footage fiasco Raid on Rommel, part of his ongoing habit of squandering any goodwill his better roles got him by following them with easy paydays), and Genevieve Bujold (also Oscar nominated) does well as the alternately innocent and vindictive Anne Boleyn. Even the usually arch and hammy John Colicos is fine as the overambitious Thomas Cromwell, but it's the eternally undervalued Anthony Quayle who steals the acting honors as Cardinal Wolsey (the film's third acting Oscar nomination: just his bad luck to be up against Gig Young's performance of a lifetime in They Shoot Horses Don't They?), even making you feel for the old monster as he falls from favor.

[Page14]

Geneviève Bujold

I think this is fairly recent ... within the last year. I tried finding something where she speaks English, but didn't have any luck.

Vidéo de remerciement de Geneviève Bujold | Geneviève Bujold's thank you video - YouTube

[RCRochester]

Originally Posted by xochipilli

Nice. I was hoping we might get Star! before the year was over to coincide with the anniversary, but A Man Called Peter and Anne of the Thousand Days are still two very interesting titles I want in my collection.
Much like others here I would also like to know how Anne is with TT, as I honestly would like Universal to not abandon its' standard catalog releases, since they're the one studio other than Warner still putting out older titles directly. Some official report on the situation, as well as any more concrete news on any FOX issues, would help quell any niggling speculation.

Universal already licence out to Shout Factory, Kino Lorber, Criterion and others, so I doubt it would impact their own releases, it just allows more of their movies to get out there.

Originally Posted by Aclea

I rather liked it myself:



Anne of the Thousand Days is an enjoyably lavish entertainment from the days when duelling kings and commoners were all the rage at the box-office - Beckett, A Man For All Seasons, The Lion in Winter, Mayerling - before Cromwell and Mary Queen of Scots all but killed off the genre. As history, its better at the general details than the specifics, but it's magnificently staged and not without some dry wit and humour ("We used the incest excuse last time. We can't make a habit of it."), most of it intentional - there's not a writer alive who wouldn't be aware of the effect that giving Richard Burton dialogue like "Divorce is like killing - after the first time it's easy" would have on an audience. There's even some pathos in the final image of Henry callously riding off to his next bride as his last one's blood stains the hay on the executioner's scaffold.

An Oscar-nominated Burton is on good form before he lurched into drunken autopilot mode (it's hard to believe that when he next made a film two years later it would be the lazy low-budget stock footage fiasco Raid on Rommel, part of his ongoing habit of squandering any goodwill his better roles got him by following them with easy paydays), and Genevieve Bujold (also Oscar nominated) does well as the alternately innocent and vindictive Anne Boleyn. Even the usually arch and hammy John Colicos is fine as the overambitious Thomas Cromwell, but it's the eternally undervalued Anthony Quayle who steals the acting honors as Cardinal Wolsey (the film's third acting Oscar nomination: just his bad luck to be up against Gig Young's performance of a lifetime in They Shoot Horses Don't They?), even making you feel for the old monster as he falls from favor.

I liked it too though I've never been much of a fan of Genevieve Bujold, I've just never been able to see what others do in her, when it comes to either looks or acting talent. I think she does fine in this one though.

I realize that you lumped Cromwell in with those films that killed the genre, but I really liked that one and would like to see it on blu-ray which, as a Sony title, might be on Twilight Time's radar.

[Aclea]

Originally Posted by RCRochester

I realize that you lumped Cromwell in with those films that killed the genre, but I really liked that one and would like to see it on blu-ray which, as a Sony title, might be on Twilight Time's radar.

It was the catastrophic box-office of that, Mary Queen of Scots and The Last Valley which pretty much did for the genre, but I'd be happy to see all three on Blu (especially the latter). Cromwell has a decentish German release, but that has German credits, though I imagine it's on TT's radar. Maybe they're waiting on a remaster...

I doubt we'll ever see the uncut three hour version - Columbia apparently insisted on the entire section dealing with Cromwell in Ireland being dropped from the final cut because they thought it would kill the film's box-office prospects (Cromwell's so despised by many there that many Catholic priests still refuse to baptise children with the name Oliver) only for it to bomb anyway. There was also a lot more material cut, but with the film such a flop, not exactly being critically revered and Ken Hughes long gone I doubt there will ever be a full restoration even if the elements still exist.

[xochipilli]

Originally Posted by RCRochester

Universal already licence out to Shout Factory, Kino Lorber, Criterion and others, so I doubt it would impact their own releases, it just allows more of their movies to get out there.

Oh yeah, thanks for the reminder. That does make me less worried about stuff like Thoroughly Modern Millie and Sweet Charity. Although in regards to Twilight Time I still find it odd to see a Universal title in their schedule, given that they're pretty restricted to their Fox and Sony deals, with the odd title of Asian origin.

Their sole title from another major studio (Warner's Heaven & Earth) came through the demands of Oliver Stone and was also region-A locked, so I'd just like to know if there's a deal with Universal on the horizon, or just some of their titles coming on a semi-regular basis. An official press release would be nice.

[Brad1963]

Per Home Theatre Forum:

Twilight Time Insider -

Yes, we have a short-term arrangement that will allow us to release a handful of Universal pics.

[KJones77]

Originally Posted by Brad1963

Per Home Theatre Forum:

Twilight Time Insider -

Yes, we have a short-term arrangement that will allow us to release a handful of Universal pics.

Awesome! Excited to see what other films they have in the pipeline.

[Dailyan]

Originally Posted by Brad1963

Per Home Theatre Forum:

Twilight Time Insider -

Yes, we have a short-term arrangement that will allow us to release a handful of Universal pics.

If we can finally get “American Me”, with a new scan to boot, I’ll be one happy camper.

[belcherman]

Originally Posted by RCRochester

Universal already licence out to Shout Factory, Kino Lorber, Criterion and others, so I doubt it would impact their own releases, it just allows more of their movies to get out there.



I liked it too though I've never been much of a fan of Genevieve Bujold, I've just never been able to see what others do in her, when it comes to either looks or acting talent. I think she does fine in this one though.

I realize that you lumped Cromwell in with those films that killed the genre, but I really liked that one and would like to see it on blu-ray which, as a Sony title, might be on Twilight Time's radar.

The problem with Bujold is that she wasn’t often given much to work with, at least in her English-language films. However, when she was good, she was very, very good, as she was in Anne of the Thousand Days. She was also great in a PBS production of Jean Anouilh’s Antigone. Another film that I’d like to see get a release is Another Man, Another Chance. As for her beauty, it’s in the eye of the beholder, I guess.

And, speaking of costume dramas, when are we going to get Robin and Marian?

[xochipilli]

Ah, that settles it. It's nice to get some confirmation on what was going on.

I just hope Universal goes more the Fox route(loaning out some lesser-known curiosities and occasionally a major studio title with less appeal), rather than more like Sony(throwing out damn near every major title they have (Bye Bye Birdie, The Way we Were, Places in the Heart), including three Best Picture Oscar winners, with no regard to what the word niche should mean).

I also hope that either Universal delivers some above average transfers, or that TT is a bit more selective in what they accept. I believe that's one of the reasons they stopped their deal with MGM, so having some iffy looking films dragging the quality down wouldn't be very nice.