Twilight Time Discussion Thread

[gates70]

Originally Posted by RCRochester

I wouldn't worry. I had an order ship on October 25th, just after the strike began, and it arrived on December 12th. What does the tracking number for the parcel say? It should at least tell you when it departed from the United States.

Ah ok, thanks makes me feel better. The way it's worded doesn't sound like it even left yet. Last update is Dec 6 and says "Your package is moving within the USPS network..."

[gates70]

...and of course after making a post about it I get home and it's there lol. Same happened when I posted about never getting any duty fees with orders from Kino one time, and guess what, next order I got hit with duties lol. Not once before and never since.

The 4 titles I got by the way are;

Murphy's Law
From Noon Til Three
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Cutter's Way

[RCRochester]

Originally Posted by gates70

...and of course after making a post about it I get home and it's there lol. Same happened when I posted about never getting any duty fees with orders from Kino one time, and guess what, next order I got hit with duties lol. Not once before and never since.

The 4 titles I got by the way are;

Murphy's Law
From Noon Til Three
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Cutter's Way

Maybe you should post about how you never win the lotto

[noirjunkie]

Is the site going to pick back up with TT reviews? The review for Short Night of Glass Dolls is the first I've seen in a long time.

[Dailyan]

Originally Posted by noirjunkie

Is the site going to pick back up with TT reviews? The review for Short Night of Glass Dolls is the first I've seen in a long time.

"Anne of the Thousand Days" was also reviewed this week.
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Anne-...102597/#Review

Two TT reviews in the same week? It's 2013 again!

[StarDestroyer52]

Originally Posted by noirjunkie

Is the site going to pick back up with TT reviews? The review for Short Night of Glass Dolls is the first I've seen in a long time.

They also reviewed Birth of a Nation earlier this year.

[Aclea]

One thing that review of Glass Dolls doesn't pick up on - probably because the reviewer didn't do a comparison - is that unlike the German edition, Twilight Time’s disc offers the choice of the US English dub and the original Italian (properly subtitled rather than dubtitled from the US script), both of which synch perfectly with the actors but which have a very different tone. In part the Italian dialogue is more poetic or simply better written/translated – a waiter’s joke “Don’t be startled, madame, a fireman is standing by” when lighting a flambé becomes the clumsier “Don’t worry, in emergencies I’m able to extinguish it” - but the English dub makes much of the corruption of Prague’s communist political system, even adding off-camera dialogue where none exists in the Italian version to ram home the point. Thus Jean Sorel’s paean to the city’s timeless character in the Italian dub becomes a paean to the survival of individualism in a communist system in the American dub.

The Italian version certainly takes the odd potshot at the system where the dollar trumps idealism every time (one reason most of it was shot in Zagreb rather than Prague), but it takes a more general view of the film’s menace not as a corrupt group of putrefying communist party elite but as the same kind of insulated old money and power feeding off the young they sacrifice and feed off, metaphorically or literally, that you can find in every country. The corruption that Aldo Lado is addressing is more universal than specific to any political ideology, exemplified by the physical decay all around, the semi-deserted streets often inhabited only by the infirm, the blind or the disabled, and the Italian dub is more reflective of his intentions.

Also of note is the fact that Matteo Molinari interviewed Lado at length before doing the audio commentary, so while the director isn't present on the track there's nonetheless a lot of good information that he provided.

[nitin]

And contrary to the review, the US disc looks very different colour grading wise to the German disc, it is in fact identical grading to the UK disc.

[bdgking]

Update on the twilight time sale :

First still not mentioned at the twilight time site the following were sold out recently : The twilight samurai & The last detail . Unless they have more units somewhere they are not posted on either Twilight time or SAE sites .

Also I was looking at both sites to see if any changes happened and that is a big yes .

Solomon & Sheba as well as Guess who's coming to dinner & Places in the heart all look sold out now . Places in the heart is still available at twilight time . ( How long now who knows ? )

At SAE : low quantities of the following still remain

The roots of heaven x 14 only
LA MOGLIE PIU BELLA (THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WIFE
LA Bambola Di Satana
Eddy Dutchen story
Pony Soldier
Royal Flash
Beloved infidel
State of grace
Zelig
Hardcore

At Twilight time : low quantities still remain :

Bound for glory x 6 remain
La Bambola Di Satana under 25 remain
Bandit queen under 40
Thunderbolt & Lightfoot under 50
How to succeed in business
Stardust memories
The chase

Also only available at Twilight time is Places in the heart . Very well could sell out as well .


I want to add a question for anyone .
I have never seen the movie La Bambola Di Satana . If anyone has seen it or not would you suggest seeing it / buying it ? I do not own it and have not seen it . Thinking of buying it but I am very unsure of it ?

Any opinions on it ? Thank You

[StingingVelvet]

Indicator's Hardcore is sold out, so if you want that movie now's the time to buy. It's a solid and unique film I highly recommend.

[jayembee]

Just put in an order with SAE for:

The Yellow Handkerchief
Hilda Crane
Let's Make Love
My Gal Sal
The Revolt of Mamie Stover
Gloria
The Hot Rock
The Bravados
The Last Hurrah
Black Widow
Short Night of the Glass Dolls

[KJones77]

Originally Posted by StingingVelvet

Indicator's Hardcore is sold out, so if you want that movie now's the time to buy. It's a solid and unique film I highly recommend.

Indicator does offer a standard edition though. No booklet but the disc is the exact same so it is still a better release than the TT one.

[StingingVelvet]

Originally Posted by KJones77

Indicator does offer a standard edition though. No booklet but the disc is the exact same so it is still a better release than the TT one.

Oh right I forgot they did that for a second. The Twilight Time has exclusive commentaries I think. Either way, buy the movie somewhere if the plot intrigues you. It's very well done. I'm not a HUGE fan of the ending, but overall... very well done.

[EVERYONE LIES]

I’ve been on the fence about the Eddie Duchin Story forever. Can someone sell me on it?

[StarDestroyer52]

Okay, I bought one more film. This will be this last one or that's what I said last time, heh.

[Jlouisbarrett]

Originally Posted by StarDestroyer52

Okay, I bought one more film. This will be this last one or that's what I said last time, heh.

Omg, I had completely forgotten about that cover art. I have no idea what they were thinking there.

[lilboyblu]

Originally Posted by bdgking

I want to add a question for anyone .
I have never seen the movie La Bambola Di Satana . If anyone has seen it or not would you suggest seeing it / buying it ? I do not own it and have not seen it . Thinking of buying it but I am very unsure of it ?

Any opinions on it ? Thank You

Terrible. It’s like a live action episode of Scooby-Doo, but without a talking dog.

[LordSummerIsle]

Originally Posted by StingingVelvet

Indicator's Hardcore is sold out, so if you want that movie now's the time to buy. It's a solid and unique film I highly recommend.

Glad I picked that one up, then! I had no idea it went OOP

[Aclea]

Originally Posted by EVERYONE LIES

I’ve been on the fence about the Eddie Duchin Story forever. Can someone sell me on it?

The Eddy Duchin Story is a distinctly superior Hollywood biopic, not least thanks to inspired helming by George Sidney, one of the most underrated directors of the 40s and 50s. The story of pianist Eddy Duchin’s rise to fame is the stuff of great melodrama – a rapid rise to fame and a charmed life that was derailed by tragedy and bitterness – and Sidney manages to hit all the right emotional notes while throwing in some immaculate Scope framing and the odd outstanding setpiece (the Dizzy Fingers number gets a remarkably energetic and imaginative staging).

It’s a simple story: boy meets girl, boy becomes overnight success, boy loses girl, boy runs away to war because it helps him lose sight of his personal problems before rediscovering his love of music and, more importantly, of the son he abandoned before fate takes another brutal swing at him. Tyrone Power is certainly too old to still convince as the young man on his way up that studio chiefs still insisted on casting him as in the early scenes, but still manages to more than credibly mime the piano numbers and deliver both the required star quality and some depth to the role (the fact that he only completed three more films before his premature death just two years later adding a piquancy it wouldn’t have had at the time) while Kim Novak is particularly luminous here and gives one of her most impressive performances. And it looks great.

[RCRochester]

Originally Posted by lilboyblu

Terrible. It’s like a live action episode of Scooby-Doo, but without a talking dog.

That description actually makes it sound kinda good.