Twilight Time Discussion Thread

[tallrichard]

Mine are (In No Specific Order):

Bell, Book and Candle
The Big Heat
Bite The Bullet
Man Hunt
Leave Her to Heaven
Mississippi Burning
A Man For All Seasons
Bird Man Of Alcatraz
Inherit The Wind
Experiment In Terror

Close to Top Ten:

The Driver
Breaking Away
Emperor Of the North
Hard Times
Where the Sidewalk Ends

[Jobla]

HARDCORE
INSERTS
MYSTERIOUS ISLAND
EXPERIMENT IN TERROR
PICNIC
ROLLERBALL
THE EDDIE DUCHIN STORY
THE ST. VALENTINE'S DAY MASSACRE

Future candidates:

HUSH...HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE
TONY ROME
THEATRE OF BLOOD
THE EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS ON MAN-IN-THE-MOON MARIGOLDS (if released)

[baheidstu]

My Top 10. Some of these are due to my personal affection for the films, some are based on the quality of the release.

Thunderbolt & Lightfoot
Bye Bye Birdie
Pal Joey
The Buddy Holly Story
Bite The Bullet
The Driver
The Last Detail
Body Double
Lenny

And I'm reserving a spot in my top 10 for the Tony Rome double feature.

[tisdivine]

Originally Posted by onetet

Haven't scored it yet, but I bet it'll take a place in my top 10 TT list. I haven't seen it since the VHS days, since it was a "house favorite" at Baltimore's Video Americain (the vid shop featured in John Waters' Serial Mom, incidentally)... but I loved it then.

Didn't someone say Serial Mom was coming from TT at some point or was that just someone's wishful thinking lol

[belcherman]

My personal top ten, in alphabetical order (although if ranked by preference the top spot wouldn't change):

Bell, Book and Candle
The Big Heat
Breaking Away
Cat Ballou
Drums Along the Mohawk
The Last Detail
Emperor of the North
Inherit the Wind
A Man for All Seasons
Radio Days

This list is subject to change, of course. There are still some great titles on my unwatched pile.

[Al_The_Strange]

My top ten (more in order of how much I like the film itself rather than how good the edition is--but really, they all look decent):

Inherit the Wind
Christine
1984
Enemy Mine
Rollerball
The Driver
Judgment at Nuremberg
Bunny Lake Is Missing
The Blob '88
Zardoz

Got Hardcore on order and it's awaiting shipping. It's a blind buy, but I'm hoping it could be worthy of making my top ten TT list.

[BagheeraMcGee]

Here's my top 10, although I also have a bunch of unwatched TT titles as well, so this is subject to change:

A Man For All Seasons
At Close Range
Breaking Away
Inherit The Wind
Mississippi Burning
Stormy Weather
10 Rillington Place
The Big Heat
The Driver
The Last Detail

[atfree]

My Top Ten (no particular order):

Man Hunt
The Big Heat
The Train
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
House of Bamboo
Night of the Generals
Journey to the Center of the Earth
The Man from Laramie
Hombre
The Blue Max

[slimdude]

Originally Posted by Musicguy

A friend of mine loved Woody Allen films and tried to convince me to see one. So one day in 1978 we went to the theater to see "Interiors" I was 13.

I couldn't understand why he thought I would like Woody Allen films or find them funny

Interiors was a drama made by Woody Allen. It wasn't a comedy!

[mrjohnnyb]

My Top Ten
(in alphabetical order)
The Big Heat
Breaking Away
Broadway Danny Rose
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Fat City
The Last Detail
A Man for All Seasons
Purple Rose of Cairo
Radio Days
Sexy Beast

[CinemaScope]

I've only bought five, but I'm very happy with them:

The Egyptian
Mysterious Island
Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
In Like Flint
Garden Of Evil.

[baheidstu]

Originally Posted by slimdude

Interiors was a drama made by Woody Allen. It wasn't a comedy!

Yes. That what the point he was making.

[Musicguy]

My total to date. Not a Bad transfer in the bunch (thought "April Love" looks okay but not great)

Born Yesterday
Picnic
Pal Joey
April Love
Bell, Book and Candle
Inherit the Wind
Bye Bye Birdie
The World of Henry Orient
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
The Blue Max
A Man For All Seasons
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Oliver!
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Nicholas and Alexandra
Lost Horizon
The Blue Lagoon
Broadway Danny Rose
Steel Magnolias
As Good as it Gets

On my list:
Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte
9 to 5
The Chase

[The Great Owl]

My top 10 Twilight Time discs, since everybody's doing it...

The Big Heat
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Leave Her to Heaven
House of Bamboo
Violent Saturday
Breaking Away
The Driver
Hard Times
Experiment in Terror
Journey to the Center of the Earth

[Blu Titan]

Not going to do a top 10 now, but The Big Heat is #1 on my list .

[Musicguy]

Originally Posted by slimdude

Interiors was a drama made by Woody Allen. It wasn't a comedy!

Exactly! My friend kept telling me how funny Woody Allen films were so I finally say okay let's go see the new film. It was "Interiors" of course it wasn't funny!

So naturally I was scratching my head. And honestly, he didn't know it was going to be a serious film at the time.

And being 13 most of it went over my head as far as subtext etc.

"My husband was a runner for the mob"
"what happened to him?"
"they shot his eyes out"
"You mean he's blind?"
"Dead, he's dead!"
"that's right, the bullets would go right through"

Broadway Danny Rose

[Al_The_Strange]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

House of Bamboo

I keep looking at that one and wondering if it's worth a blind-buy. What do you recommend?

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by Al_The_Strange

I keep looking at that one and wondering if it's worth a blind-buy. What do you recommend?

It's one of my Top 10 Twilight Time films, so I definitely recommend a blind buy. Especially if you like film noir.

[Al_The_Strange]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

It's one of my Top 10 Twilight Time films, so I definitely recommend a blind buy. Especially if you like film noir.

Excellent. Film noir is something I generally like. It seems like a lot of the biggest noir films take more than one viewing for me to appreciate, but I'm thinking something with an Asian flair might be up my alley.

Will probably pull the trigger on that whenever the next flash sale is.

[oildude]

Pre-order date for the September releases will be August 31. I'll update the first post with this information tonight when I get home from work.