Twilight Time Discussion Thread

[rdodolak]

Originally Posted by hockeyshark91

If a TT title is priced higher than $29.99, does that indicate low stock? Should I hurry and make the purchase?

No.

[Worship.my.wreck]

Originally Posted by hockeyshark91

If a TT title is priced higher than $29.99, does that indicate low stock? Should I hurry and make the purchase?

Priced higher where? Because eBay and everywhere else that is selling TT movies are priced higher. Even if they're still in stock at the TT website.

[hockeyshark91]

Originally Posted by Worship.my.wreck

Priced higher where? Because eBay and everywhere else that is selling TT movies are priced higher. Even if they're still in stock at the TT website.

Sorry I wasn't clear enough and left out SAE. They have Major Dundee for $34.99. TT doesn't even have it anymore. I was thinking it indicated low stock for SAE and was thinking of buying now because of that.

[rdodolak]

Originally Posted by hockeyshark91

Sorry I wasn't clear enough and left out SAE. They have Major Dundee for $34.99. TT doesn't even have it anymore. I was thinking it indicated low stock for SAE and was thinking of buying now because of that.

Major Dundee has a higher price because it's a 2-disc set.

[oildude]

Latest news from Twilight Time:

Twilight Time Movies.....it's just received a fabulous new 4K transfer courtesy of the Fox restoration team.

Twilight Time Movies Release date for the blu-ray will likely be early 2017 to tie in with the 60th anniversary.

[docc]

Originally Posted by oildude

Latest news from Twilight Time:

Totally stoked for this, I know I'm wishing my life away but 2017 can't come soon enough....epic and classy quintessential '50s soap drama with Lana Turner pretty much stealing the show, Peyton Place is one of the rare cases where the movie actually improves upon the book

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by hockeyshark91

Sorry I wasn't clear enough and left out SAE. They have Major Dundee for $34.99. TT doesn't even have it anymore. I was thinking it indicated low stock for SAE and was thinking of buying now because of that.

Twilight Time didn't start their own website until late last year, and SAE has most (if not all) of the stock of the earlier titles. Being gone from the TT site does not indicate that it's in low quantity. The first post in this thread should have the most recent Low Quantity Alert list (from mid-April). For the most part, titles aren't added to the LQA list until they reach fewer than 500 available copies.

Several of Twilight Time's earliest titles licensed from Sony were priced at $34.95: Mysterious Island (original edition), Picnic, Pal Joey, Bite the Bullet, and Bell, Book, and Candle. Major Dundee came a year later, but as rdodolak mentioned, it was a 2-disc set.

There have been two other titles priced higher than $29.95: Harlock: Space Pirate, also a 2-disc set, is priced at $34.95; and The Egyptian, TT's first Blu-ray, was priced at $39.95. And most of the British films they've released are priced lower, at $24.95.

[Geode]

Originally Posted by Rory

I've never been a big fan of the old Technicolor IB print look. It was and still is very unnatural. It's simply not the way we see color in real life, and is therefore as stylized and expressive as Black & White, and has it's uses, but I've just never cared for it. Gaudy, in too much of a bad way, is what I'd call dye-transfer Technicolor.

What do you think of the latest BD of GONE WITH THE WIND, ROclockCK. I thought it was pretty good, and my only problem with THE WIZARD OF OZ is a bit too much grain, but the color otherwise is good enough for me.

Many films released in IB Technicolor did not look gaudy but very natural. The process itself did not dictate over-saturated colors.

The original palate used for Technicolor prints of "Gone With the Wind" was not at all what you describe.

[Herandar]

Originally Posted by Geode

Many films released in IB Technicolor did not look gaudy but very natural. The process itself did not dictate over-saturated colors.

The original palate used for Technicolor prints of "Gone With the Wind" was not at all what you describe.

Going back over a thousand pages for that reply... Have a star:

[eddievanhalen]

I read somewhere they were re-releasing Rollerball 1975), or maybe it's a new scan and restoration.

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by eddievanhalen

I read somewhere they were re-releasing Rollerball 1975), or maybe it's a new scan and restoration.

They are re-releasing it. Street date is June 14. Specifics haven't been announced yet, but I wouldn't expect a new scan and restoration.

[RalphoR]

I'm really looking forward to The Hound of the Baskervilles, Moby Dick, and The 3 Worlds of Gulliver. What else that's been announced and rumored aren't really getting me excited. I hope the latter two make it out this year.

[noirjunkie]

Originally Posted by jayembee

They are re-releasing it. Street date is June 14. Specifics haven't been announced yet, but I wouldn't expect a new scan and restoration.

A while back, TT announced on Facebook that the re-release will be identical, in terms of specs and special features, as the first release.

[Martin_31]

Watched Used Cars today, and I thought it was average. I was expecting it to be hilarious. There were a couple of moments where it was funny. Overall it's an okay movie.

[BagheeraMcGee]

Just pre-ordered "Eureka" and "Cat Ballou" and added "Rapture" and "Born Yesterday". Looking forward to all of them.

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by noirjunkie

A while back, TT announced on Facebook that the re-release will be identical, in terms of specs and special features, as the first release.

I'm not surprised. The first edition included all of the extras that MGM ever had on previous home video releases, and I wouldn't have expected TT to come up with any extra extras. And given that MGM had already created an HD master for the film, I wouldn't expect them to pony up any money that they don't have anyway to do another one.

[MikeZ.]

Today on Facebook, I had the following exchange :

SAE (a general partial-post ) :

" Check back every Thursday for our regularly featured sale starting Thursdays at 5PM ET through the following Monday at 5pm ET "

Me : Are Twilight Time BDs in the future sale plans ?

SAE : We just started with this feature that will include many products on sale each Thursday at 5 p.m., but nothing in the works for Twilight Time right now. But keep checking back.

Hey, I tried.

[baheidstu]

Just a quick comparison because I know that Screen Archives always takes a lot of heat on message boards when it comes to shipping. Also, this is NOT meant as a dig at Kino, just a comparison for a little perspective.

On April 6th I ordered 6 movies from SAE as part of the TT signed promo (10 to Midnight). Shipping cost to Canada was $11.80 and my items were shipped on April 7th. This shipment included a tracking number. Although the tracking number does not work within Canada, it tracks the package up until it arrived in the country (in Toronto), so I was able to guesstimate the remaining shipping time. My package arrived in Saskatoon on April 21st, exactly two weeks from the shipping date.

Also on April 6th I ordered six titles from Kino as part of their 60% off sale celebrating their new website. Also, on April 7th I received a notification that my order was processed. Shipping costs were $15 and there was no tracking number. The parcel arrived May 6th, one month after my order.

Both items were packaged perfectly in sturdy boxes with bubble wrap around the movies. I am very happy with BOTH of these purchases, but in the end though, the SAE order was cheaper, faster and had tracking info.

[JoeDeM]

Originally Posted by baheidstu

Just a quick comparison because I know that Screen Archives always takes a lot of heat on message boards when it comes to shipping. Also, this is NOT meant as a dig at Kino, just a comparison for a little perspective.

On April 6th I ordered 6 movies from SAE as part of the TT signed promo (10 to Midnight). Shipping cost to Canada was $11.80 and my items were shipped on April 7th. This shipment included a tracking number. Although the tracking number does not work within Canada, it tracks the package up until it arrived in the country (in Toronto), so I was able to guesstimate the remaining shipping time. My package arrived in Saskatoon on April 21st, exactly two weeks from the shipping date.

Also on April 6th I ordered six titles from Kino as part of their 60% off sale celebrating their new website. Also, on April 7th I received a notification that my order was processed. Shipping costs were $15 and there was no tracking number. The parcel arrived May 6th, one month after my order.

Both items were packaged perfectly in sturdy boxes with bubble wrap around the movies. I am very happy with BOTH of these purchases, but in the end though, the SAE order was cheaper, faster and had tracking info.

My average ship time is about 1.5 weeks, from SAE, but I'm just north of Toronto. I like ordering from them many because I buy a lot of film scores, and usually tack on a Warner Archive title for good measure. In any case my Cat Ballou, and Eddy Duchin Story shipped yesterday.

[Brad1963]

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