Twilight Time Discussion Thread

[Reddington]

SAE is offering a site-wide $5.00 shipping discount on orders of $50 or more (before shipping) - valid today (9/20) until midnight Eastern 9/23.

Code is: SAVE5

Per the email I received, the offer is a one-time use per customer.

Makes another TT sale order a bit more attractive.

Edit:

Per SAE email update, code has been revised to: SAVE519

[belcherman]

I took advantage of the shipping discount at Screen Archives and picked up the following.

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I think I'm done for this sale, unless something else I want gets a LQA before the sale ends. Hopefully, the remaining titles I want will stay in stock until the next sale.

[Gacivory]

I took advantage, and got: The Boston Strangler, Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia, & The Hound of the Baskervilles!

[dmabuse]

Not sure if this has been addressed, does SAE include the free Transparent 1 Disc Blu-ray Case when you purchase Short Night of Glass Dolls.

[Dailyan]

It seems like the code works on orders under $50 as well.

[Page14]

Originally Posted by dmabuse

Not sure if this has been addressed, does SAE include the free Transparent 1 Disc Blu-ray Case when you purchase Short Night of Glass Dolls.

I can't say for sure, but they did for my order.

[ddwall]

Just ordered Rapid Fire code worked for one film.

[Dailyan]

The SAE coupon persuaded me for one last order:

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[KJones77]

Anybody have any thoughts on Alamo Bay or Beloved Infidel? Thinking of placing another order with the coupon and want to take advantage of some of those $6.95 titles.

[Aclea]

Originally Posted by KJones77

Anybody have any thoughts on Alamo Bay or Beloved Infidel? Thinking of placing another order with the coupon and want to take advantage of some of those $6.95 titles.

Alamo Bay was one of those films that did everything right but just didn't resonate for me despite being brought up in a coastal town with a declining fishing industry that was barely an industry by then (the place was instead mutating into one of those places people go to retire: last I heard it was stuck in a time warp with the locals trapped there in regular conflict with the newcomers and holidaymakers - no gunplay but at least one drunken sword attack), but at $6.95 I'd say give it a shot. It's not like anyone is even making studio pictures about blue collar working stiffs anymore.



"You write beautiful prose, Scott, but we can't photograph adjectives."

Despite its low reputation among devotees of the author, Beloved Infidel is a surprisingly decent attempt to turn a self-destructive F. Scott Fitzgerald's affair with gossip columnist Sheila Graham into a glossy CinemaScope love story in the 20th Century Fox house style of the Fifties. Not that it's going for pure soap, with undervalued and unfairly forgotten A-list director Henry King seemingly using A Star is Born for his template, with his screenwriting career failing because he can't adapt his style to the screen while his books fall out of favour - he can't even find a copy of his book to buy her. The comparisons are particularly pronounced in scenes where Gregory Peck's down on his luck author drunkenly barges in on a rehearsal for a radio broadcast and just keeps on making things worse or when he drunkenly insults an admirer on a plane while Deborah Kerr's would-be muse sits cringing in embarrassment. Elsewhere, it draws parallels with the author's own work as he falls for a woman who, like Jay Gatsby, has reinvented her humble origins but can't forget them.

For all his stolid reputation, Peck was always interested in challenging his screen image and even though he's one of the least likely casting choices imaginable for Fitzgerald, he's clearly relishing the opportunity to cut loose in the second half of the picture with the occasional homicidal drunken rage. Kerr's more obviously in her usual comfort zone, worrying, trying to manage a deteriorating situation and suffering as required. King's direction is polished and intelligent, pulling off a couple of nice moments such as their first meeting being played entirely by subtle eye contact or a nightmarish tableaux giving way to a suddenly empty room near the end of the film, though this being a 50s Fox film, the Love is a Many Splendored Thingish final scene where memories give way to a title song that really struggles to find rhymes with Infidel (the most awkward aspect of an excellent Franz Waxman score) is more likely to provoke smirks than tears. It's not the enduring classic it clearly wants to be, but it's still a much better melodrama than its detractors might claim.

Twilight Time's region-free limited edition Blu-ray release offers an excellent transfer in the film's original widescreen ratio, an isolated score track, original trailer and booklet.

[thebalconyfool]

Picked up three more with the code.

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[bdgking]

For this twilight time sale low quantities that I know of are as follows :

SAE :

Remains of the day = 45 then sold out
Peyton Place lower than 125 remain
The Train less than 200 remain
Beloved Infidel less than 100
American Buffalo less than 100

Also low quantities on : Theater of blood , stormy weather , the vanmishing , flaming star , Devil in a blue dress , Fat City , To sir with love & Kiss of Death

Twilight Time :

Sense and sensability under 25 remain
Stardust memories less than 10 remain

Titles sold out this sale not mentioned before :

State of Grace

I am sure Remains of the day will sell out soon .
I also think a great chance of selling out are : The Vanishing , Devil in a blue dress & Stormy weather as well as possibly flaming star .

I would think others would have but for a sale I think they over priced The Train , Sadie Thompson , Peyton place , How to steal a million & some others IMO .

Finally Twilight Time has done a decent job on low quantity updates however SAE has done a poor job of low quantity updates not 1 update . When having these kind of sales both sites should be updating that information once a week or at least once every other week . This would boost more sales for both sites .

Anyways hope some of this information helps

[KJones77]

Decided to go with the following for my second order:

[HenryHill]

I unwrapped my TT 1984, and it won't play. Has anyone else had this issue with a TT disc? At least I can get the Criterion, but it's annoying to blow $15 on a defective Blu.

[rdodolak]

Originally Posted by HenryHill

I unwrapped my TT 1984, and it won't play. Has anyone else had this issue with a TT disc? At least I can get the Criterion, but it's annoying to blow $15 on a defective Blu.

Have you tried cleaning the disc with soap and water?

[dwk]

Originally Posted by HenryHill

I unwrapped my TT 1984, and it won't play. Has anyone else had this issue with a TT disc? At least I can get the Criterion, but it's annoying to blow $15 on a defective Blu.

You are not alone

[Rzzzz]

Originally Posted by dwk

You are not alone

Holy crap! I'm going to have to start going through my TT discs. If any of my OOP titles start freezing I am going to be pissed!

[rdodolak]

I've read through that thread and the reported concern is not widespread. There's always the small chance a disc will go bad. I'm scanning my 1984 disc is see if anything is noticed.

HenryHill, do you have a blu-ray computer drive? If so, you could always try running software to analyze the disc to see if there are any reported errors.

https://www.vso-software.fr/products.../inspector.php

I've had brand new discs where players had difficulty in recognizing the disc, but after a thorough cleansing they were recognized just fine. Some discs appear to have an oily residue left on them from the manufacturing process.

[HenryHill]

I don't have a Blu-Ray drive, but that's a good idea.

[rdodolak]

I can report back that my 1984 disc seems OK. I ran multiple tests from several software programs to include the surface scan and the file test with VSO Inspector and had no reported errors. I would be curious though to hear what you find out with your disc and if the situation changes.