Twilight Time Discussion Thread

[CinemaScope]

Originally Posted by dragon53

The Japanese version of THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES is around $13 including shipping to the US while the TT version was around $35, so it looks like a good deal.

Ebay has the TT version for $250---with free shipping.

...& it's just been released in Germany (I have it), absolutely no extras (no menu or even chapter headings), but it looks great, regions A-B-C & is quite cheap at 10 euros.

https://www.amazon.de/tollkühnen-MÃ...DFDGB7H5VSQS2Y

…& for those who missed it, Fox are releasing Journey To The Centre Of The Earth in Germany at the end of May, regions A-B-C.

https://bluray-disc.de/blu-ray-filme..._der_erde_1959

[JupiterMission]

If anybody is interested, the Pure Cinema Podcast did a Twilight Time episode again as a tribute to Nick Redman. They talk about Redman some and then recommend titles they've enjoyed.

https://directory.libsyn.com/episode...ast/id/8635280

[The Great Owl]

After all of my big talk about only pre-ordering The River's Edge this month, I ended up pre-ordering...

The River's Edge
The Quiller Memorandum
The Whole Town's Talking

[Starchild]

Finally I will know have in my possession The Whole Towns Talking. Very happy day indeed.

[Aclea]

“Contains Fallout, the exclusive, patented ingredient.”

Perhaps because of its roster of rock’n’roll legends The Girl Can’t Help It has overshadowed Frank Tashlin, Tony Randall and Jayne Mansfield’s subsequent comedy – even more now than on its original release - yet somehow I still prefer Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? The Madison Avenue satire shares little more than a title and a character with George Axelrod’s hit Broadway sendup of Hollywood, and it lacks the energy and jukebox construction of Girl (I mean the musical numbers, not the gal herself), but in taking on the corporate advertising rat race rather than the music-and-gangsters milieu it seems just grounded enough for the gags to seem alternately more pertinent and more audacious. As well as being very smart, it’s also unbelievably smutty at times, almost taking even more delight in censor-baiting than its predecessor, albeit with less milk. And in-jokes abound, whether it be Joan Blondell uttering “Well I’ll be a writer’s subplot,” a Technicolor-dyed poodle named after Girl’s cinematographer Leon Shamroy, numerous plays on Mansfield's own filmography or a breathtakingly audacious two-minute break in the film for the benefit of TV viewers that

[Show spoiler]sees the CinemaScope screen reduced to 21 inches of rolling flickering monochrome

.

Twilight Time’s region-free Blu-ray release is going to be a case of some you win, some you lose for some: for the most part it’s a significant upgrade over Fox’s DVD and Masters of Cinema’s long-deleted and now pricey UK Bluray, with noticeably more detail. Viewed side by side the MoC disc is brighter (at times a little too bright) with the impression that either DNR has been used or some detail has been degraded by the brightness boosting in some shots, while the newer master used for the TT disc is darker (perhaps darker than it should be though never too dark) but with a teal push in some scenes, most notably the fourth-wall breaking opening titles, the first scene in Henry Jones’ office and the boardroom scene, though they haven’t gone overboard with it and for the most part it’s less noticeable in motion. It’s one of those cases where both transfers have found different ways of dealing with the limitations of the early CinemaScope lenses and neither offers a truly definitive transfer, so this may come down to personal taste, though for my money the strengths outweigh the weaknesses.

The extras package is different from MoC’s disc too, restoring Dana Polan’s audio commentary from the DVD release, adding some eight minutes of unused mute newsreel footage of Jayne Mansfield’s publicity tour to the one minute newsreel extract, the original trailer (which includes footage of Tashlin but unfortunately gives away the closing cameo by Georgie Schmidlap), isolated score and booklet.

[cinerama]

Originally Posted by Aclea

“Contains Fallout, the exclusive, patented ingredient.”

Perhaps because of its roster of rock’n’roll legends The Girl Can’t Help It has overshadowed Frank Tashlin, Tony Randall and Jayne Mansfield’s subsequent comedy – even more now than on its original release - yet somehow I still prefer Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? The Madison Avenue satire shares little more than a title and a character with George Axelrod’s hit Broadway sendup of Hollywood, and it lacks the energy and jukebox construction of Girl (I mean the musical numbers, not the gal herself), but in taking on the corporate advertising rat race rather than the music-and-gangsters milieu it seems just grounded enough for the gags to seem alternately more pertinent and more audacious. As well as being very smart, it’s also unbelievably smutty at times, almost taking even more delight in censor-baiting than its predecessor, albeit with less milk. And in-jokes abound, whether it be Joan Blondell uttering “Well I’ll be a writer’s subplot,” a Technicolor-dyed poodle named after Girl’s cinematographer Leon Shamroy, numerous plays on Mansfield's own filmography or a breathtakingly audacious two-minute break in the film for the benefit of TV viewers that

[Show spoiler]sees the CinemaScope screen reduced to 21 inches of rolling flickering monochrome

.

Twilight Time’s region-free Blu-ray release is going to be a case of some you win, some you lose for some: for the most part it’s a significant upgrade over Fox’s DVD and Masters of Cinema’s long-deleted and now pricey UK Bluray, with noticeably more detail. Viewed side by side the MoC disc is brighter (at times a little too bright) with the impression that either DNR has been used or some detail has been degraded by the brightness boosting in some shots, while the newer master used for the TT disc is darker (perhaps darker than it should be though never too dark) but with a teal push in some scenes, most notably the fourth-wall breaking opening titles, the first scene in Henry Jones’ office and the boardroom scene, though they haven’t gone overboard with it and for the most part it’s less noticeable in motion. It’s one of those cases where both transfers have found different ways of dealing with the limitations of the early CinemaScope lenses and neither offers a truly definitive transfer, so this may come down to personal taste, though for my money the strengths outweigh the weaknesses.

The extras package is different from MoC’s disc too, restoring Dana Polan’s audio commentary from the DVD release, adding some eight minutes of unused mute newsreel footage of Jayne Mansfield’s publicity tour to the one minute newsreel extract, the original trailer (which includes footage of Tashlin but unfortunately gives away the closing cameo by Georgie Schmidlap), isolated score and booklet.

Does it have highly directional dialog?

[SeanJoyce]

Originally Posted by cinerama

Does it have highly directional dialog?

Please spoiler-wrap long reviews. Thank you.

[RCRochester]

Originally Posted by CinemaScope

...& it's just been released in Germany (I have it), absolutely no extras (no menu or even chapter headings), but it looks great, regions A-B-C & is quite cheap at 10 euros.

https://www.amazon.de/tollkühnen-MÃ...DFDGB7H5VSQS2Y

…& for those who missed it, Fox are releasing Journey To The Centre Of The Earth in Germany at the end of May, regions A-B-C.

https://bluray-disc.de/blu-ray-filme..._der_erde_1959

I also noticed that Fox are releasing Hombre in Germany too, end of May, which is another OOP Twilight Time title.

[oildude]

Here are the Twilight Time release announcements for May 2019, courtesy of the Home Theater Forum. As always, out of respect for HTF's exclusive announcement window, I will not be updating the first post of this thread until TT makes an official announcement later today.

BABY THE RAIN MUST FALL (1965) BLU-RAY -- May 21

BANDOLERO! (1968) BLU-RAY -- May 21

MORITURI [aka THE SABOTEUR: CODE NAME MORITURI] (1965) BLU-RAY -- May 21

WARLOCK (1959) BLU-RAY -- May 21 [4K Restoration]


WoW!!! Incredible month. Steve McQueen, James Stewart, Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Marlon Brando, Dean Martin, Lee Remick, Anthony Quinn, Yul Brynner, Janet Margolin....and more Raquel Welch.

Directors: Edward Dmytryk, Andrew V. McLaglen, Bernhard Wicki, and Robert Mulligan.

As for films scores, we get Leigh Harline, Elmer Bernstein, and two from Jerry Goldsmith

[StarDestroyer52]

Originally Posted by oildude

Here are the Twilight Time release announcements for May 2019, courtesy of the Home Theater Forum. As always, out of respect for HTF's exclusive announcement window, I will not be updating the first post of this thread until TT makes an official announcement later today.

BABY THE RAIN MUST FALL (1965) BLU-RAY -- May 21

BANDOLERO! (1968) BLU-RAY -- May 21

MORITURI [aka THE SABOTEUR: CODE NAME MORITURI] (1965) BLU-RAY -- May 21

WARLOCK (1959) BLU-RAY -- May 21 [4K Restoration


WoW!!! Incredible month. Steve McQueen, James Stewart, Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Marlon Brando, Dean Martin, Lee Remick, Anthony Quinn, Yul Brenner....and Raquel Welch.

Directors: Edward Dmytryk, Andrew V. Mclaglen, Bernard Wicki, and Robert Mulligan.

. I'm in for Bandolero. Now if we could just get Fathom cleared for release. Also, Baby the Rain Must Fall, also intrigues me as a title to get during a sale.

[Sinbad75]

A nice selection of releases for May, and I am glad for those of you who have been waiting for these titles. I remain hopeful that some day (been asking for these two since TT began) the Columbia/Sony films "The Long Ships" and "Trouble With Angels" will see Blu-ray release by Twilight Time. I'm patient ....

[belcherman]

Originally Posted by oildude

Here are the Twilight Time release announcements for May 2019, courtesy of the Home Theater Forum. As always, out of respect for HTF's exclusive announcement window, I will not be updating the first post of this thread until TT makes an official announcement later today.

BABY THE RAIN MUST FALL (1965) BLU-RAY -- May 21

BANDOLERO! (1968) BLU-RAY -- May 21

MORITURI [aka THE SABOTEUR: CODE NAME MORITURI] (1965) BLU-RAY -- May 21

WARLOCK (1959) BLU-RAY -- May 21 [4K Restoration]

Nice. I’m most interested in Warlock, but I can see myself picking up all of them at some point.

[KJones77]

Wow those all sound up my alley.

[Cremildo]

I might pick up Warlock and Morituri when I'm on a classic film buying spree.

[jarrod_inf]

Baby the Rain Mist Fall and Bandolero!

Steve McQueen and Raquel Welch are always welcome in my collection.

Hopefully a label picked up Mother, Jugs, and Speed

[Aclea]

Another really strong month - Warlock is one of the best Westerns of the 50s and I can finally retire my Mill Creek 4-film DVD set with Bobby Deerfield, The Chase and Ship of Fools, which I was only holding on to for Baby, The Rain Must Fall. Wonder if the Bandolero isolated score will include the groovy disco demo version of the main theme that's an extra on the expanded CD?

Bandolero! - Main Title - Jerry Goldsmith (Surf Version!) - YouTube

[noirjunkie]

I've been wanting Baby, The Rain Must Fall for a long time, so I'm definitely in for that release.

[The Great Owl]

May will be another torture-my-wallet-and-buy-them-all month.

[Monterey Jack]

Originally Posted by Aclea

Wonder if the Bandolero isolated score will include the groovy disco demo version of the main theme that's an extra on the expanded CD?

Bandolero! - Main Title - Jerry Goldsmith (Surf Version!) - YouTube

Doubtful...the TT isolated score tracks almost never feature "album arrangements" of cues.

[Rzzzz]

I think this is the first time ever where I want ALL of the releases announced for the month...