Twilight Time Discussion Thread

[rdodolak]

Originally Posted by ode

Do you know if the shipping is just a flat fee regardless if you buy multiple discs?

Shipping is incremental and not a flat fee, although the per disc cost is usually lower the more you buy.

[CinemaScope]

Originally Posted by Acer2010

When does Twilight Time usually announce new titles?

On a Saturday around the 20th of the month, so I'll be tomorrow.

[Reddington]

Originally Posted by ode

Can some of you fill me in on what the situation is with Twilight Time sales please?

There is one particular title I want. Buying it at full price with international shipping would make it $43

When are the sales usually?
How much are the discs reduced?

Do you know if the shipping is just a flat fee regardless if you buy multiple discs?

Thanks

The sales seem to have become less frequent, and the pricing less attractive. Certainly through SAE anyway (from whom I've purchased almost all of my TT titles).

What is it you want? Are you quoting the price from TT direct, or from SAE (granted there may not be much difference)?

[CinemaScope]

Originally Posted by ode

Can some of you fill me in on what the situation is with Twilight Time sales please?

There is one particular title I want. Buying it at full price with international shipping would make it $43

When are the sales usually?
How much are the discs reduced?

Do you know if the shipping is just a flat fee regardless if you buy multiple discs?

Thanks

If like me, you're in the UK, it's $43 plus customs & Post Office charges, making it $50+. I'd still pay that for a title I really wanted, but they haven't released anything I've wanted for ages, & like others have said, their sales are not as good as they used to be. The last title I bought was Cat Ballou, & that was in a sale for $15, so under the customs limit. They have a couple of titles I'd buy if they went down to that price in a sale (Genghis Khan & The Admirable Crichton), but it doesn't look like that'll happen. There would normally be an announcement on new releases by now over at the HTF, but nothing so far, & no new announcements last month, I don't know what's happening over at TT.

[logboy]

Originally Posted by CinemaScope

If like me, you're in the UK, it's $43 plus customs & Post Office charges, making it $50+. I'd still pay that for a title I really wanted, but they haven't released anything I've wanted for ages, & like others have said, their sales are not as good as they used to be. The last title I bought was Cat Ballou, & that was in a sale for $15, so under the customs limit. They have a couple of titles I'd buy if they went down to that price in a sale (Genghis Khan & The Admirable Crichton), but it doesn't look like that'll happen. There would normally be an announcement on new releases by now over at the HTF, but nothing so far, & no new announcements last month, I don't know what's happening over at TT.

the only TT discs i’ve had were in the sale, at the lowest bracket. everything else counts itself out. i’m in the UK.

[larrys]

For the last few years, at least, HTF has almost always posted TT's monthly new release announcements on the third Saturday of every month. The third Saturday of this month was last weekend, the 17th. And, as CinemaScope says, there is no announcement today. I won't jump to any conclusions, but it is highly unusual. Maybe HTF no longer has exclusive rights to posting TT's new release announcements.

[captveg]

I get the feeling TT is taking a little time to regroup after the passing of Redman and the Disney acquisition of Fox.

[oildude]

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Special Features: Isolated Music Track / Original Theatrical Trailer

Directed by Raoul Walsh (The Thief of Bagdad, The Roaring Twenties, High Sierra, White Heat, Gun Fury, They Died with Their Boots On, The Naked and the Dead, and many more)

Starring:

Clark Gable (Gone with the Wind, It Happened One Night, The Misfits, Run Silent Run Deep, Call of the Wild, Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), Band of Angels)

Robert Ryan (The Wild Bunch, Inferno, On Dangerous Ground, Crossfire, The Iceman Cometh, House of Bamboo, The Naked Spur, Bad Day at Black Rock, Lawman, Hour of the Gun, The Dirty Dozen)

Jane Russell (The Outlaw, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Road to Bali, The Revolt of Mamie Stover, His Kind of Woman)

Cameron Mitchell (Garden of Evil, Hell and High Water, Blood and Black Lace, Ride in the Whirlwind)


Music by Victor Young, who scored over 200 films including Shane, The Quiet Man, Johnny Guitar, Make Way for Tomorrow, Gun Crazy, Sands of Iwo Jima, Samson and Delilah, The Glass Key, Ministry of Fear, and The Big Clock.

Cinematography by Leo Tover, whose filmography includes The Day the Earth Stood Still, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Untamed, The Heiress, Hold Back the Dawn, I Walk Alone, Blue Denim, and From the Terrace.


Trailer

The Tall Men 1955 Trailer - YouTube

[oildude]

Pre-orders Begin: September 4, 2019, @ 4 PM EST

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Special Features: Isolated Music Track / Audio Commentary with Film Historian Richard Schickel / Original Theatrical Trailer with Isolated Music Track

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Directed by Otto Preminger (Laura, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Anatomy of a Murder, Bunny Lake is Missing, Bonjour Tristesse, Forever Amber, Fallen Angel)

Starring:

Gene Tierney (The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Leave Her to Heaven, Laura, Dragonwyck, Heaven Can Wait, The Return of Frank James, and Night and the City)

Richard Conte (The Big Combo, Thieves' Highway, Call Northside 777, The Blue Gardenia, A Walk in the Sun, Tony Rome, Lady in Cement)

Jose Ferrer (Dune, Cyrano de Bergerac, Miss Sadie Thompson, Moulin Rouge, Lawrence of Arabia, The Great Man, The Greatest Story Ever Told)


Music by David Raksin, who scored over 100 films, including Laura, The Big Combo, Forever Amber, Daisy Kenyon, Force of Evil, Bigger Than Life, Two Weeks in Another Town, and The Bad and the Beautiful.

Cinematography by Arthur C. Miller, whose career began in the silent era and included many classics such as How Green Was My Valley, Lifeboat, The Ox-Bow Incident, The Song of Bernadette, Dragonwyck, Gentleman's Agreement, The Gunfighter, The Prowler, The Keys of the Kingdom, and Anna and the King of Siam.


Original Trailer

1949 WHIRLPOOL - Trailer - Gene Tieney, Richard Conte - Film noir - YouTube

[ode]

Originally Posted by Reddington

The sales seem to have become less frequent, and the pricing less attractive. Certainly through SAE anyway (from whom I've purchased almost all of my TT titles).

What is it you want? Are you quoting the price from TT direct, or from SAE (granted there may not be much difference)?

"Chilly Scenes of Winter"

https://www.twilighttimemovies.com/c...inter-blu-ray/

It was about the same price on both sites.

[ode]

Originally Posted by CinemaScope

If like me, you're in the UK, it's $43 plus customs & Post Office charges, making it $50+. I'd still pay that for a title I really wanted, but they haven't released anything I've wanted for ages, & like others have said, their sales are not as good as they used to be. The last title I bought was Cat Ballou, & that was in a sale for $15, so under the customs limit. They have a couple of titles I'd buy if they went down to that price in a sale (Genghis Khan & The Admirable Crichton), but it doesn't look like that'll happen. There would normally be an announcement on new releases by now over at the HTF, but nothing so far, & no new announcements last month, I don't know what's happening over at TT.

Yeah, I wondered about customs...

Thanks

[The Sovereign]

Originally Posted by captveg

I get the feeling TT is taking a little time to regroup after the passing of Redman and the Disney acquisition of Fox.

If true, I hope that they come to the conclusion that their sale pricing must get more aggressive if they wish to keep up with what is left of the physical media market. Personally, I don't need their films for the prices they're selling them at.

[Aclea]

Sometimes sale pricing reflects how much stock of a title they hold. Kino recently noted that the reason some titles in their anniversary sale were more expensive than in previous sales was because they had fewer unsold copies to shift this time.

[nitin]

Originally Posted by Aclea

Sometimes sale pricing reflects how much stock of a title they hold. Kino recently noted that the reason some titles in their anniversary sale were more expensive than in previous sales was because they had fewer unsold copies to shift this time.

Have you got TT’s blu of Baby the Rain Must Fall yet? If so, can I please request an Aclea movie review when you rewatch the movie?

[cinerama]

Originally Posted by oildude

Pre-orders Begin: September 4, 2019, @ 4 PM EST









Directed by Raoul Walsh (The Thief of Bagdad, The Roaring Twenties, High Sierra, White Heat, Gun Fury, They Died with Their Boots On, The Naked and the Dead, and many more)

Starring:

Clark Gable (Gone with the Wind, It Happened One Night, The Misfits, Run Silent Run Deep, Call of the Wild, Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), Band of Angels)

Robert Ryan (The Wild Bunch, Inferno, On Dangerous Ground, Crossfire, The Iceman Cometh, House of Bamboo, The Naked Spur, Bad Day at Black Rock, Lawman, Hour of the Gun, The Dirty Dozen)

Jane Russell (The Outlaw, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Road to Bali, The Revolt of Mamie Stover, His Kind of Woman)

Cameron Mitchell (Garden of Evil, Hell and High Water, Blood and Black Lace, Ride in the Whirlwind)


Music by Victor Young, who scored over 200 films including Shane, The Quiet Man, Johnny Guitar, Make Way for Tomorrow, Gun Crazy, Sands of Iwo Jima, Samson and Delilah, The Glass Key, Ministry of Fear, and The Big Clock.

Cinematography by Leo Tover, whose filmography includes The Day the Earth Stood Still, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Untamed, The Heiress, Hold Back the Dawn, I Walk Alone, Blue Denim, and From the Terrace.


Trailer

The Tall Men 1955 Trailer - YouTube

Hopefully with the same 4.0 track with highly directional dialogue that is on the German Blu-ray.

[belcherman]

Glad to see that Twilight Time is still in business.

[Reddington]

Originally Posted by ode

"Chilly Scenes of Winter"

https://www.twilighttimemovies.com/c...inter-blu-ray/

It was about the same price on both sites.

Got to think that as it was released in early 2017, it will be on sale at some point. I think I'm right in saying that two-year old titles have been offered as low as $15 in past sales, but in the most recent sale previous $15 titles were offered at $22.

I'm a Brit expat and I've sent many parcels back to the UK over the past 20 years. Shipping rates have definitely increased considerably, but I find it hard to believe both SAE and TT want $13 to ship one BD - unless they insist on tracking.

The UK customs/tax fees are completely egregious, with a pathetically low "duty-free" threshold. They are the main reason I stopped sending anything over. I just got fed up with the Inland Revenue treating things like a Lego set for my nephew as an easy payday.

Hope you get lucky with a sale. Or a Region B release.

[jjhunsecker]

Are we ever going to get "A Hatful of Rain" ? If not TT, maybe Criterion will take it on

[anthonyls]

Originally Posted by belcherman

Glad to see that Twilight Time is still in business.

Yeah... but for how much longer? It seems they are winding things down.

[cjamescook]

Originally Posted by Aclea

Sometimes sale pricing reflects how much stock of a title they hold. Kino recently noted that the reason some titles in their anniversary sale were more expensive than in previous sales was because they had fewer unsold copies to shift this time.

My buying at the most recent KL sale focused on the cheapest titles figuring that their price indicated they would soon go OOP. I hope I did not make a mistake, meaning other more expensive titles will go OOP before the next sale.