Twilight Time Discussion Thread

[seagal]

Originally Posted by Twilight Time

A limited special offer from TWILIGHT TIME this Wednesday, April 6th at 4 PM Eastern time - an autographed copy of 10 TO MIDNIGHT- signed by both Producer PANCHO KOHNER and Screenwriter (The Evil That Men Do) JOHN CROWTHER! This will be available to those customers who spend a minimum of $119.80, before shipping, on other TWILIGHT TIME product. You must add the signed edition to your cart and check out successfully with an order confirmation number to qualify. There will be a page just like the other titles to be added to your cart located on the homepage within the TWILIGHT TIME new releases box. This is a first come first serve offer, with a limit of one per customer. YOU MUST HAVE THE QUALIFYING TWILIGHT TIME ITEMS WITHIN YOUR CURRENT ORDER, NO PREVIOUS ORDERS OR FUTURE ORDERS QUALIFY.

Is there a possibility that yoú are going to pick up the rights for the Bronson movie "The Evil that Men Do" from Hens Tooth?

Because that company hardly release anything on blu-ray.

[RickDee]

Originally Posted by atfree

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Judgm...lu-ray/101179/

Same transfer as TT....region free. Very nice.

Cool will check it out. 2.0 is fine for this film.

[Twilight Time]

Originally Posted by RickDee

Cool will check it out. 2.0 is fine for this film.

As well as the 5.1 you also won't get the isolated score, the overture, intermission or exit music either - especially created for this release, but you probably don't care about those things either, right?

[jshaide]

Hopeful for a Dragonwyck announcement this weekend!

[Twilight Time]

Originally Posted by jshaide

Hopeful for a Dragonwyck announcement this weekend!

Not this weekend - but one day - we're holding off for the new transfer - it'll be worth the wait.

[RickDee]

Originally Posted by Twilight Time

As well as the 5.1 you also won't get the isolated score, the overture, intermission or exit music either - especially created for this release, but you probably don't care about those things either, right?

Nope not worth the mental anguish SAE enjoys putting me through. Not sure why I would need intermission music or exit music. Unless of course I'm charging people to come watch movies at my house. The pause button works real good

[ArnieCunningham]

Originally Posted by RickDee

Nope not worth the mental anguish SAE enjoys putting me through. Not sure why I would need intermission music or exit music. Unless of course I'm charging people to come watch movies at my house. The pause button works real good

Its if you want to just listen to music.

[darkness2918]

Originally Posted by RickDee

Nope not worth the mental anguish SAE enjoys putting me through. Not sure why I would need intermission music or exit music. Unless of course I'm charging people to come watch movies at my house. The pause button works real good

"Mental anguish" lol

[oildude]

I DO. I love the Overture, the Intermission, the Entr'Acte, the Exit music that were most frequently associated with select high profile big releases during the Golden Age of the 1940s-early 1970s. Often filmed in 65mm or 70mm with gorgeous 6-track sound, these movies were marketed as events, with a sense of grandeur harkening back to live theater. Films that got the full treatment are a special reminder for me of a time when movies could be grand spectacle, projected in stand alone movie theaters capable of seating large audiences, with balconies, deep velvety seats, beautiful furnishings, and curtains that drew back to reveal a giant single screen. Ushers (remember them?) would take people to their seats. I may not always sit through these interludes at home without hitting fast forward, but oh man do I appreciate the feeling I get knowing they are there on the blu-ray as part of the viewing experience.

As a child on the tail end of all this in the late 1960s-early 1970s, I got to see a lot of movies in stand alone movie theaters in towns in North Texas and on the military bases where we frequently lived. One of the best things about growing up in a military family was that base theaters of that time were big, stand alone, sometimes built on the classic style, and played movies all day long, like the one on the base where we lived in West Germany for many of my childhood years. Some first run films still came around in their roadshow versions. During the day the theater showed reruns of classic films of the 1950s and 1960s. If in its original run a film had been marketed as a spectacle with overture, intermission, etc, then those parts were still included and I saw them that way. Those were good bathroom breaks for a kid ....LOL (one of the first run epics I saw there was when my mother took me to see Nicholas and Alexandra in early 1972; I was just a tad too young to fully appreciate the whole theatrical experience). It was only later when the multiplexes swept it all away and a series of expensive flops mostly killed off big roadshow-style movie presentations that I realized how times had changed.

One of my fondest memories is spending the summer with my grandparents in North Texas after returning from living in Europe. I was 14 and it was the first time I had been with them for such an extended period after our long absence overseas. My grandpa frequently took me to see movies at what even then was one of the few remaining stand alone old-style movie theaters in Wichita Falls. Ironically, this is just 26 miles up the highway from Archer City, hometown of author Larry McMurtry, made famous in his novel and the film The Last Picture Show.

[Reddington]

Just received my latest SAE TT order. Once again, SAE meeting and exceeding my reasonable expectations for an order placed with a small, specialist online retailer. No doubt SAE has the occasional, genuine, problem, but I've had nothing but exceptional service every time.

[RickDee]

Originally Posted by Reddington

Just received my latest SAE TT order. Once again, SAE meeting and exceeding my reasonable expectations for an order placed with a small, specialist online retailer. No doubt SAE has the occasional, genuine, problem, but I've had nothing but exceptional service every time.

If you stand in line at a ticket booth for a concert and there are 20 people ahead of you and there are only 20 tickets left then its either bad luck or you should have gotten in line sooner if possible.

However, if you are say fifth in line and there are ten tickets left and five people cut in front of you then. Well...

[Widescreenfilmguy]

I'm hoping for some vintage 3D in this announcement... Miss Sadie Thompson perhaps?

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by oildude

I DO. I love the Overture, the Intermission, the Entr'Acte, the Exit music that were most frequently associated with select high profile big releases during the Golden Age of the 1940s-early 1970s.

Same here. I certainly don't sit on my sofa staring at the word "Overture" (or "Intermission" or "Exit Music") on the screen for the few minutes involved, but I definitely let them play through while making myself a cup of tea or whatever.

The score is a part of the film experience, and that includes the Overture, etc.

[belcherman]

Originally Posted by jayembee

Same here. I certainly don't sit on my sofa staring at the word "Overture" (or "Intermission" or "Exit Music") on the screen for the few minutes involved, but I definitely let them play through while making myself a cup of tea or whatever.

The score is a part of the film experience, and that includes the Overture, etc.

The "extra" music served the same purpose back in the road-show days. Most people weren't glued to their seats listening to the concert. They were at the concession stand getting popcorn, filing in, getting settled in their seats during the overture; they were going back to the concession stand or to the restroom or stepping out for a smoke during the intermission; they heard the exit music as they (you guessed it) exited the theater. It was all part of the experience, as you say.

I don't ever listen listen to the isolated scores. That's probably my loss, but seeing blu rays presented in the road show format brings me back to the days when going to the movies was something special. I, too, was still a kid when the era of classic epics came to a close. I remember fondly my father taking me to see It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and How the West Was Won, among others. Kudos to Twilight Time for bringing back some of that reverence.

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by belcherman

The "extra" music served the same purpose back in the road-show days. Most people weren't glued to their seats listening to the concert. They were at the concession stand getting popcorn, filing in, getting settled in their seats during the overture; they were going back to the concession stand or to the restroom or stepping out for a smoke during the intermission; they heard the exit music as they (you guessed it) exited the theater. It was all part of the experience, as you say.

I don't ever listen listen to the isolated scores. That's probably my loss, but seeing blu rays presented in the road show format brings me back to the days when going to the movies was something special. I, too, was still a kid when the era of classic epics came to a close. I remember fondly my father taking me to see It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and How the West Was Won, among others. Kudos to Twilight Time for bringing back some of that reverence.

Yes, it was special for me, too. I also remember seeing It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and How the West Was Won as a kid.

I rather mourn the loss of this kind of thing these days. I'm trying to remember the last time I went to a (new) movie that had an Overture. I think it was Disney's The Black Hole. That was over 35 years ago. Given the number of more recent films pushing over the 2½-hour length, I'm surprised that they haven't brought back Intermissions. I recall being very surprised that Titanic didn't have one.

[RickDee]

Originally Posted by jayembee

Yes, it was special for me, too. I also remember seeing It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and How the West Was Won as a kid.

I rather mourn the loss of this kind of thing these days. I'm trying to remember the last time I went to a (new) movie that had an Overture. I think it was Disney's The Black Hole. That was over 35 years ago. Given the number of more recent films pushing over the 2½-hour length, I'm surprised that they haven't brought back Intermissions. I recall being very surprised that Titanic didn't have one.

If you are going to bring back intermissions and make it an event you need to bring back the old majestic theaters with balconies. Having an overture with an intermission wouldn't be the same at your average cookie cutter stadium theater. I miss the grand show palaces of my youth and as the 1970's were winding down so were those theaters in favor of the shopping mall theater of the 80s.

[Dan_Shane]

Originally Posted by oildude

I DO. I love the Overture, the Intermission, the Entr'Acte, the Exit music that were most frequently associated with select high profile big releases during the Golden Age of the 1940s-early 1970s.

It was only later when the multiplexes swept it all away and a series of expensive flops mostly killed off big roadshow-style movie presentations that I realized how times had changed.

Now you've done it. You forced a nostalgic tear to roll down my cheek. People who have never experienced a roadshow in a classic movie palace cannot imagine what they missed. Spectacular.

[jshaide]

Surprised the 70mm roadshow of The Hateful Eight didn't come up at all in these last few posts. Did you all get to see it?

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by RickDee

If you are going to bring back intermissions and make it an event you need to bring back the old majestic theaters with balconies. Having an overture with an intermission wouldn't be the same at your average cookie cutter stadium theater. I miss the grand show palaces of my youth and as the 1970's were winding down so were those theaters in favor of the shopping mall theater of the 80s.

True enough...to a point. But I saw Lawrence of Arabia three years ago, when it was being shown at special screenings after the most recent restoration (just before it came out on Blu-ray). I saw it at the local cattleplex, but that didn't diminish the enjoyment of seeing it on the big screen, complete with Overture, Intermission, and Exit Music.

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by jshaide

Surprised the 70mm roadshow of The Hateful Eight didn't come up at all in these last few posts. Did you all get to see it?

I wanted to, but the nearest venue was over an hour's drive away, and things were far too hectic over the holidays to make time to go see it.