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RCRochester · 12-02-2019, 08:33 PM

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Originally Posted by klauswhereareyou

Kind of interested in Cutter's Way. Is it a mystery film at all?

Yes, it is. But it's not a straightforward one. It's sort of like Klute in that it's as much a character study and mood piece as it is a mystery. The mystery provides a sort of framework for the story but the film isn't an Agatha Christie style whodunnit or anything like that.

BenOswald · 12-03-2019, 12:33 AM

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Originally Posted by klauswhereareyou

Kind of interested in Cutter's Way. Is it a mystery film at all?

Cutter's way is great. Cool California movie that really inhabits the space between the 70s and 80s. I love the title sequence. Jordan Cronenworth's flexible cinematography is really on display. People love John Heard's evil turn, but it's all Jeff Bridges for me.

SeanJoyce · 12-03-2019, 12:42 AM

I'm eternally grateful to TT for Chilly Scenes of Winter and Cutter's Way for exposing me to the range of talent of John Heard. For most of my movie-watching life he was, as I'm sure he was with so many others, merely just the "dad in Home Alone".

These two movies showed what a raw and immense talent he was in his young days...it's too bad he seemed to level off and never really ascended to greater heights.

And I'll echo what others here have said, Cutter's Way is probably heads and shoulders my favorite blind buy from this company. If they do go under, it'll be jewels like this for which I'll remember them by.

bonehica · 12-03-2019, 12:52 AM

All this talk about Cutter's Way and now I have to make a blind buy. Thanks A-holes!!

sb5 · 12-03-2019, 01:39 AM

Just to keep pilling-on: Cutter’s Way is my favorite TT blind buy by far. Everybody buy it.

Aclea · 12-03-2019, 01:46 AM

I always think of it as a neo-noir long drunk night of the soul. In a really good way...

Cagney loved it so much he tried to make a film with Ivan Passer (The Eagle of Broadway, with Cagney as an elderly Bat Masterson in his newspaperman days and William Hurt as Damon Runyon) until his health problems made him uninsurable.

mja345 · 12-03-2019, 01:55 AM

For me, "Who'll Stop the Rain" is right up there with "Cutter's Way" as a neglected masterpiece that TT put out. Those two films are among my favorite discoveries of the last 5 years. They're two of the best American films of the late 70s/early 80s IMO. Passer and fellow Czech Karel Reisz made two phenomenal films that have been criminally overlooked.

SeanJoyce · 12-03-2019, 01:57 AM

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Originally Posted by mja345

For me, "Who'll Stop the Rain" is right up there with "Cutter's Way" as a neglected masterpiece that TT put out. Those two films are among my favorite discoveries of the last 5 years. They're two of the best American films of the late 70s/early 80s IMO. Passer and fellow Czech Karel Reisz made two phenomenal films that have been criminally overlooked.

Yeah that one's caught my notice and I've earmarked it for a future sale

RICKBONDOO7 · 12-03-2019, 02:21 AM

Is Twilight Time going Out of Business ? I don't see any New titles coming for Nov, Dec. ? Anyone know any details ?

Rzzzz · 12-03-2019, 02:38 AM

Hopefully they are restructuring and will be back soon...

SDCinerama · 12-03-2019, 04:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Rzzzz

Hopefully they are restructuring and will be back soon...

The stated positions that they're on pause. More info to come.
So everyone should buy a ton of disc to motivate them to roar back to life.

koberulz · 12-03-2019, 04:40 AM

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Originally Posted by RCRochester

Yes, it is. But it's not a straightforward one. It's sort of like Klute in that it's as much a character study and mood piece as it is a mystery. The mystery provides a sort of framework for the story but the film isn't an Agatha Christie style whodunnit or anything like that.

As someone who bought it and disliked it, I would suggest the answer is closer to 'no'. If you go into it expecting a mystery film, you'll likely hate it.

I do need to give it a rewatch now I've recalibrated my expectations though.

Aunt Peg · 12-03-2019, 04:58 AM

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Originally Posted by mja345

For me, "Who'll Stop the Rain" is right up there with "Cutter's Way" as a neglected masterpiece that TT put out. Those two films are among my favorite discoveries of the last 5 years. They're two of the best American films of the late 70s/early 80s IMO. Passer and fellow Czech Karel Reisz made two phenomenal films that have been criminally overlooked.

Cutter's Way has an interesting history. It was originally called Cutter and Bone (I have a US lobby card set that uses that title) and United Artists and no faith in the film and dumped it. Then the United Artists Classics division re-released it as Cutter's Way had it became something of a mini art-house hit.

It had a pretty good cult following in the 1980s and 1990s and then fell off the radar.

Poor Who'll Stop the Rain (the original titles was Dog Soldiers and it may have been released in some markets under that title) has never really received any audience support though it had some critic fans such as Pauline Kael.

Aclea · 12-03-2019, 08:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Aunt Peg

Poor Who'll Stop the Rain (the original titles was Dog Soldiers and it may have been released in some markets under that title) has never really received any audience support though it had some critic fans such as Pauline Kael.

They released it as Dog Soldiers in the UK, though they seemed to be trying to sell it as The Incredible Hulk:

Which probably got Ang Lee thinking...

Rzzzz · 12-03-2019, 12:36 PM

Nick Nolte probably has that framed and hanging in his house somewhere....

Aclea · 12-03-2019, 02:23 PM

I can imagine his agent did as well.

RCRochester · 12-03-2019, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by mja345

For me, "Who'll Stop the Rain" is right up there with "Cutter's Way" as a neglected masterpiece that TT put out. Those two films are among my favorite discoveries of the last 5 years. They're two of the best American films of the late 70s/early 80s IMO. Passer and fellow Czech Karel Reisz made two phenomenal films that have been criminally overlooked.

Good call. I watched Who'll Stop The Rain recently and, yeah, it does have that same vibe.

I first learned about Cutter's Way from one of Danny Peary's Cult Movies books so I had some idea of what it was about before watching it. That was back in the late 80s so it's had a strong cult following for a while and generally gets favourable reviews.

cropduster · 12-03-2019, 03:52 PM

It's awesome to see all this love for Cutter's Way. Hands down my #1 favorite TT blind buy. Fantastic performances from not only John Heard and Jeff Bridges, but Lisa Eichhorn as well. Eichhorn's performance is so subtle and full of sadness,

[Show spoiler]

My 2nd favorite TT blind buy goes to Pretty Poison. It's a film that rarely gets mentioned around here but is definitely a hidden gem in the TT catalogue. Anthony Perkins stars as Dennis, a young man recently released from a mental hospital. He meets Sue Ann, played by Tuesday Weld, and develops a relationship with her, convincing her that he is a secret agent working for the CIA. Dennis decides to "recruit" Sue Ann, and the pair investigate happenings in the local town until an incident occurs that completely changes the dynamic of their relationship. Perkins and Weld both have great chemistry together and their performances come off as extremely natural throughout the film. I also love the look of the film and the film's setting, which takes place in the confines of small town America that resembles the 1950's-early 1960's. If you like quirky films, definitely give this film a watch. It's equal parts crime drama, psychological thriller, film noir, with a lot of black comedy thrown in for good measure.

Who'll Stop the Rain is another film I absolutely love, though I didn't blind buy the film as I had seen the film previously before picking up the TT release. It's an incredible film, definitely deserves to be more well known, especially for fans of American crime films from the 1970's.

RedHarvest · 12-03-2019, 04:07 PM

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Originally Posted by BenOswald

Cutter's way is great. Cool California movie that really inhabits the space between the 70s and 80s. I love the title sequence. Jordan Cronenworth's flexible cinematography is really on display. People love John Heard's evil turn, but it's all Jeff Bridges for me.

I also love the score in the title piece; that strange, ethereal Jack Nitzsche music.

SeanJoyce · 12-03-2019, 04:24 PM

2nd favorite TT blind buy is probably another Jeff Bridges title, The Fabulous Baker Boys. Loved the piano bar scene of Seattle, seeing real life brothers play screen brothers (making up for missing out on The Long Riders), and the firecracker that was young Michelle Pfeiffer.

If only somebody would give us Bad Company...

And finally, since we're talking about little-seen TT gems, I finally got around to The Secret of Santa Vittoria. oildude wrote an ebullient review when it was on the cusp of selling out, and I pounced on it. Charming little comedy that also works as a dramatic counterpart to something like The Train, with a small Italian village under the "leadership" of a bumbling but affable citizen-cum-mayor, Anthony Quinn, who conspire to save their heritage from marauding Germans by stashing a million bottles of wine in the tunnels of a cave. Fun, heartfelt movie that looks great on Blu-ray, was really happy I grabbed this before it went.

12-03-2019, 01:39 AM	#31765
sb5 Blu-ray Guru Member since:Jul 2017 4K collection:181 Blu-ray collection:5219 DVD collection:1	Just to keep pilling-on: Cutter’s Way is my favorite TT blind buy by far. Everybody buy it. Last edited by sb5; 12-03-2019 at 01:53 AM.

12-03-2019, 01:46 AM	#31766
Aclea Blu-ray Baron Top contributor Member since:Jun 2012 Blu-ray reviews: 3	I always think of it as a neo-noir long drunk night of the soul. In a really good way... Cagney loved it so much he tried to make a film with Ivan Passer (The Eagle of Broadway, with Cagney as an elderly Bat Masterson in his newspaperman days and William Hurt as Damon Runyon) until his health problems made him uninsurable. Last edited by Aclea; 12-03-2019 at 01:51 AM.

12-03-2019, 12:42 AM	#31763
SeanJoyce Blu-ray Ninja Member since:Nov 2014	I'm eternally grateful to TT for Chilly Scenes of Winter and Cutter's Way for exposing me to the range of talent of John Heard. For most of my movie-watching life he was, as I'm sure he was with so many others, merely just the "dad in Home Alone". These two movies showed what a raw and immense talent he was in his young days...it's too bad he seemed to level off and never really ascended to greater heights. And I'll echo what others here have said, Cutter's Way is probably heads and shoulders my favorite blind buy from this company. If they do go under, it'll be jewels like this for which I'll remember them by.

12-03-2019, 12:52 AM	#31764
bonehica Blu-ray Grand Duke Top contributor Member since:Nov 2018 Location:Flint, MI 4K collection:1176 Blu-ray collection:4740 DVD collection:319 Trading Score:1	All this talk about Cutter's Way and now I have to make a blind buy. Thanks A-holes!!

12-03-2019, 01:55 AM	#31767
mja345 Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Jun 2015 4K collection:1166 Blu-ray collection:12350 DVD collection:266	For me, "Who'll Stop the Rain" is right up there with "Cutter's Way" as a neglected masterpiece that TT put out. Those two films are among my favorite discoveries of the last 5 years. They're two of the best American films of the late 70s/early 80s IMO. Passer and fellow Czech Karel Reisz made two phenomenal films that have been criminally overlooked.

12-03-2019, 02:21 AM	#31769
RICKBONDOO7 Special Member Member since:Jul 2011 Location:NEW JERSEY 4K collection:68 Blu-ray collection:810 DVD collection:67 Blu-ray reviews:92	Is Twilight Time going Out of Business ? I don't see any New titles coming for Nov, Dec. ? Anyone know any details ?

12-03-2019, 02:38 AM	#31770
Rzzzz Banned Member since:Nov 2016 Location:Behind enemy lines 4K collection:18 Blu-ray collection:1414 DVD collection:544 Blu-ray reviews: 6	Hopefully they are restructuring and will be back soon...

12-03-2019, 12:36 PM	#31775
Rzzzz Banned Member since:Nov 2016 Location:Behind enemy lines 4K collection:18 Blu-ray collection:1414 DVD collection:544 Blu-ray reviews: 6	Nick Nolte probably has that framed and hanging in his house somewhere....

12-03-2019, 02:23 PM	#31776
Aclea Blu-ray Baron Top contributor Member since:Jun 2012 Blu-ray reviews: 3	I can imagine his agent did as well.

12-03-2019, 03:52 PM	#31778
cropduster Special Member Member since:Jun 2017 4K collection:- Blu-ray collection:- DVD collection:-	It's awesome to see all this love for Cutter's Way. Hands down my #1 favorite TT blind buy. Fantastic performances from not only John Heard and Jeff Bridges, but Lisa Eichhorn as well. Eichhorn's performance is so subtle and full of sadness, [Show spoiler] My 2nd favorite TT blind buy goes to Pretty Poison. It's a film that rarely gets mentioned around here but is definitely a hidden gem in the TT catalogue. Anthony Perkins stars as Dennis, a young man recently released from a mental hospital. He meets Sue Ann, played by Tuesday Weld, and develops a relationship with her, convincing her that he is a secret agent working for the CIA. Dennis decides to "recruit" Sue Ann, and the pair investigate happenings in the local town until an incident occurs that completely changes the dynamic of their relationship. Perkins and Weld both have great chemistry together and their performances come off as extremely natural throughout the film. I also love the look of the film and the film's setting, which takes place in the confines of small town America that resembles the 1950's-early 1960's. If you like quirky films, definitely give this film a watch. It's equal parts crime drama, psychological thriller, film noir, with a lot of black comedy thrown in for good measure. Who'll Stop the Rain is another film I absolutely love, though I didn't blind buy the film as I had seen the film previously before picking up the TT release. It's an incredible film, definitely deserves to be more well known, especially for fans of American crime films from the 1970's.

12-03-2019, 04:24 PM	#31780
SeanJoyce Blu-ray Ninja Member since:Nov 2014	2nd favorite TT blind buy is probably another Jeff Bridges title, The Fabulous Baker Boys. Loved the piano bar scene of Seattle, seeing real life brothers play screen brothers (making up for missing out on The Long Riders), and the firecracker that was young Michelle Pfeiffer. If only somebody would give us Bad Company... And finally, since we're talking about little-seen TT gems, I finally got around to The Secret of Santa Vittoria. oildude wrote an ebullient review when it was on the cusp of selling out, and I pounced on it. Charming little comedy that also works as a dramatic counterpart to something like The Train, with a small Italian village under the "leadership" of a bumbling but affable citizen-cum-mayor, Anthony Quinn, who conspire to save their heritage from marauding Germans by stashing a million bottles of wine in the tunnels of a cave. Fun, heartfelt movie that looks great on Blu-ray, was really happy I grabbed this before it went.

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