Twilight Time Discussion Thread

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by jw007

I went ahead and bought 4 titles from Twilight Time (via Screen Archives) just now:

Angel (1982) $4.95
Eureka (1983) $14.95
Moscow on the Hudson (1984) $8.95
Resurrection (1989) $4.95

They all happened to be from the 1980s too! (My favorite decade)

Nice to see you pick up a couple of the Film4 titles. Man, TT must've taken a bath on those. Only one ever sold out (When the Wind Blows) and the others got their price dropped with each successive sale.

[RCRochester]

So a small order I had made from Screen Archives before this latest flurry of excitement arrived yesterday. Included was a backup copy of The Seven Ups which I watched tonight. One of my favourite 70s cop flicks with one of the best car chases ever committed to film. It’s still available at SAE and I encourage anyone who likes that type of film to grab it, it’s a stellar release of a stellar film.

[ShellBeacher]

Originally Posted by jayembee

OK, so I'm curious...if one ordered ten $11.95 titles, and thus got the 10-4-115 deal, and then by the time they start processing your order, at least one of those is no longer available, do you get screwed out of the deal, or do they allow you to substitute a different (and available) title? Not that it'd be a significant loss, as the deal is only a 45¢ savings per title. As I said, I'm curious.

Here's what they just wrote to me:

We regret to inform you that we do not have stock to fulfill your complete order. We are planning on removing the unavailable title(s) from your order and will refund the purchase price of those titles.

If there was a promotional pricing dependent on that title, we will honor that pricing applied to the rest of your order. Please allow 72 hours for the credit to be applied... (and various other nice words about "being patient with us" due to the large volume of orders...then they list your title)

In my case, the lost title didn't apply to that discount, but they're being very cool about that, anyway.

I'm guessing that a few others here will receive a similar note or two soon...

[bdgking]

Originally Posted by hariseldon

Not sure:

2 possibilities come to mind

1) the site is just being so overwhelmed it can't keep up with removing all the titles (or keeping them off).

2) as the orders are being processed - some are being declined/cancelled for various reason -- bad CC, bad buyer with history or issues, ?? if TT is trying to keep out certain notorious resellers or limit shipping to max of a single title so as cancellations are processed, more stock may be returned. Several titles have gone OOS then a few hrs or next day a few copies to nearly 100 show up for sale again (Stanley and Iris, and Greenwich Village went back to nearly 100 copies).




Just looking at the titles added back, almost all the OOS Titles were items that went OOS on Monday and Tues. There are a couple that went OOS Sunday and a group of titles from Monday that all went OOS around the same time. It like they reverted the Listed items to aroung 3-4 am ET Monday, but based on current IN STOCK buttons. Except for those 7-8 times from a few hrs Monday evening it's makes almost a nice pat answer, but not quite.

I saw all that early today and was not to happy to see that . I think they are trans shipping many of the titles from SAE to Twilight Time not in huge numbers but smaller amounts here and there . They are not fully turning the company over till July 1st I believe so this might be there way of maximizing all the sales they can get because for all we know they make more money via what they can get selling at their site than liquidating to SAE .

Who knows ???

[rdodolak]

Originally Posted by belcherman

I just received an email from Twilight Time stating that, due to the incredibly high volume of orders, and due to COVID-19 issues, it could take them weeks to process orders, in first-come, first-served order. They also mentioned, in addition to the discounts and promotions already discussed, that they are offering an additional 10% discount on all Twilight Time orders over $500. This is even one more incentive for "speculators" to stock up now.

So, if there's anything you still want, pull the trigger now or regret it later. I don't think that most of these titles will last until the end of the month.

I saw that too, but they attributed it to orders received over the past three days. They may have gotten the majority of orders at the very beginning, but I placed my order less than an hour after getting the email and my order is still pending. Given they're going in the order of orders received, I'm skeptical they'll actually get majority of orders out over the next several weeks... I'm thinking it could, more likely, be months!

[rdodolak]

Originally Posted by RBBrittain

Addison, a Dallas suburb, is even more urban than Auburn. Probably a third party warehousing company.

Our Serviceworks
3200 Commander Drive, Suite 100
Carrollton, TX 75006

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by bdgking

I saw all that early today and was not to happy to see that . I think they are trans shipping many of the titles from SAE to Twilight Time not in huge numbers but smaller amounts here and there . They are not fully turning the company over till July 1st I believe so this might be there way of maximizing all the sales they can get because for all we know they make more money via what they can get selling at their site than liquidating to SAE .

Who knows ???

I don't believe they'd be transferring copies from SAE to TTM. Sending small amounts of discs wouldn't be cost effective, and might take awhile given Covid-caused shipping issues.

Besides, what upside would that be to SAE? Let TTM sell them for lower prices, and burn through stock that SAE could sell later on for more money? If TTM sells out of, say, Anne of the Thousand Days and doesn't restock, it's to SAE's benefit, because people who want that film will have to go to SAE to buy it instead.

There's also the fact that the "returning" titles have no "Add to Cart" buttons. Which means that no one can put them into their cart, which means they can't be sold.

[hariseldon]

Originally Posted by bdgking

I saw all that early today and was not to happy to see that . I think they are trans shipping many of the titles from SAE to Twilight Time not in huge numbers but smaller amounts here and there . They are not fully turning the company over till July 1st I believe so this might be there way of maximizing all the sales they can get because for all we know they make more money via what they can get selling at their site than liquidating to SAE .

Who knows ???

If they added the thumbnail, but didn;t allow any orders out of those 50 titles, it makes for a messy website, but not really going to make a difference. It just a dead placeholder in the end making it a little harder to flip through the pages -- another reason I prefer the SAE site anyway

I'm guessing it all is just a web glitch and will fix itself

So far none of the re-added titles have allowed any extra orders. No skin off anyone's nose if do claw back some titles from SAE unless the feeling is that SAE will do better than this current deal which I'm not particularly hopeful

[spatafore]

random question:

Three Coins In The Fountain or Kings Go Forth

which is better?

I need pick one.

[RBBrittain]

Originally Posted by rdodolak

Our Serviceworks
3200 Commander Drive, Suite 100
Carrollton, TX 75006

My Google Maps screenshots are too big for this forum to handle, but compare this address to Screen Archives Entertainment, 5239 John Marshall Hwy, Linden, VA 22642.

[BenOswald]

Originally Posted by spatafore

random question:

Three Coins In The Fountain or Kings Go Forth

which is better?

I need pick one.

Can't speak to 3 coins, but Kings go Forth was annoying af.

[jw007]

Originally Posted by jayembee

Nice to see you pick up a couple of the Film4 titles. Man, TT must've taken a bath on those. Only one ever sold out (When the Wind Blows) and the others got their price dropped with each successive sale.

I had no idea any of these were Film4 titles. Which ones are they? And does that mean I picked extra cool titles?

[grahams76]

Originally Posted by RCRochester

So a small order I had made from Screen Archives before this latest flurry of excitement arrived yesterday. Included was a backup copy of The Seven Ups which I watched tonight. One of my favourite 70s cop flicks with one of the best car chases ever committed to film. It’s still available at SAE and I encourage anyone who likes that type of film to grab it, it’s a stellar release of a stellar film.

Why would you need a back-up copy?

[jmclick]

Originally Posted by hoytereden

I like Barthelmess too. Heros For Sale, The Last Flight, and The Finger Points are a few of his I really enjoy. Richard Dix is another who had a pretty good run in the early ‘30s after transitioning from the silent era.

The Last Flight is one of my all-time favorite films. Barthelmess is fantastic in it, David Manners gives one of his two best performances (the other is his starring role opposite Barbara Stanwyck in The Miracle Woman), and Helen Chandler is enchantingly odd. One of my favorite pre-Codes.

And Richard Dix ... absolutely! Among my favorites are Hell's Highway, The Lost Squadron, The Public Defender, and Ace of Aces. And of course, he was great in Cimarron.

[jmclick]

It appears that both 10 Rillington Place and Comes a Horseman sold out overnight at Twilight Time.

[RCRochester]

Originally Posted by grahams76

Why would you need a back-up copy?

Why do you think?

[ThisKid]

This all means that the release of Alien Nation is not going to happen then, is it?

[Flapperdame16]

Originally Posted by spatafore

random question:

Three Coins In The Fountain or Kings Go Forth

which is better?

I need pick one.

Three coins was horrific. Pretty to look at awful movie though.

[grahams76]

Originally Posted by RCRochester

Why do you think?

Because you play frisbee using blu-rays? A backup seems excessive hence the question.

[somethingblu]

Originally Posted by spatafore

random question:

Three Coins In The Fountain or Kings Go Forth

which is better?

I need pick one.

Both of these films are "niche" titles. Three Coins in the Fountain was filmed on location in Rome and was made during a period when "women's pictures" were kind of a craze again in the 1950s. Twentieth Century-Fox pretty much held the market on these films with this film, "Love is a Many Splendored Thing" among a group of films. International filming became suddenly a hot commodity and lots of studios took advantage. If romantic melodramas a not your thing, this film would likely not be enjoyable. Its a product of its time. Personally I enjoy this film for its stellar cast, including one of my favorite actresses Dorothy McGuire.