Twilight Time Discussion Thread

[Deadend45]

Originally Posted by Cecil B. DeMille

In short: A lot of their Fox releases (e.g. blu-rays of classic Cinemascope films) were only released by the label. And they might remain the only blu-rays of these films for years to come

Several Fox titles are available from Signal One and during the sites sales can be had cheaper then TT ever sold for even with the shipping cost but all region B locked:
https://www.signal1entertainment.com/
Fox titles that were carried by TT can also be found on EU stores.

[Cecil B. DeMille]

Originally Posted by Deadend45

Several Fox titles are available from Signal One and during the sites sales can be had cheaper then TT ever sold for even with the shipping cost but all region B locked:
https://www.signal1entertainment.com/
Fox titles that were carried by TT can also be found on EU stores.

This is true, though still keep in mind - Regarding the Fox films, a good chunk was only ever released by Twilight Time: Swamp Water, Jane Eyre, Rains of Ranchipur, Fate is the Hunter, 9 to 5, Desirée, Roots of Heaven, Peyton Place, Julia, The Best of Everything, The Eddy Duchin Story, The Hot Rock. Many others were only released by obscure German and French labels in Europe, which are mostly OOP as well, and which usually feature crappy covers and horrendous compression. And a bunch of others had better transfers than their European counterparts. In any case, the Twilight Time disc of a Fox film usually is the best bet, unless it was released by Eureka or Signal One in the UK (who however got older masters for some of their discs, so watch out).

The number of exclusive releases used to be even higher. Most of these are older, pre 1960s Fox films, often from the Cinemascope era. Cinemascope fans can't get around Twilight Time. For some weird reason though, German labels have been able to keep doing business with Fox after the Disney takeover, or still had some licenses from their Fox deals, which explains quite a few of the Twilight Time Fox films appearing there 2017-2020 or so. Strangely enough, I just saw in the database that a low budget label released "The Adventures of Hajji Baba" in Germany this year, which used to be a title previously exclusive to TT. Though the TT disc likely still is better. Perhaps the rights holder in Germany was someone other than Fox.

With Columbia, some of the TT discs are still the only way to watch these movies. For example, "Man in the Dark", Columbia's first 3D picture, so far has not been re-released on blu-ray. Though over the last couple of years, Sony's own label in the US (e.g. "Bell, Book and Candle") or Indicator in the UK (e.g. "Edge of Eternity" or "You’ll Never Get Rich", more recently) have been putting out some of these TT-only gems, so I am hopeful that all of TT's Sony/Columbia discs will see official re-issues of some sort.

MGM has always been very license-happy. With Sandpiper's low budget reissues, pretty much all of the old MGM discs must have been made available in some way or another.

[Deadend45]

Roots of Heaven is available in France, Rains of Ranchipur and Desirée have been released by France's impressive ESC.

As for your evaluation of TT quality I would like to see where you are seeing TT putting out a better release then others. Every comparison I have seen TT at best only equals others in pq and is often bested. At least sandpiper knows how to do the correct gamma setting.

While I do not recommend buying anything sight unseen I have been impressed by some French and German labels which is more then I say about TT.

[McCrutchy]

Screen Archives Entertainment just started a short sale on the remaining titles, which are 30% off the $19.95 price, or $13.96 each:

https://www1.screenarchives.com/disp...TWILIGHT-TIME/

BIG 30% off sale!

**TWILIGHT TIME**

ON SALE ONLY UNTIL TUESDAY, JULY 1st
at midnight Eastern!


Must use code TWILIGHT0725 at checkout.

I recently had to pay about $45 for a copy of Fox's The Young Lions, where the Twilight Time disc in currently the only one worldwide, so, especially because these are now 30% off, I decided to order everything in my SAE cart, which has been going for a couple of years, now:

[Show spoiler]

Not all of these are Fox titles, but several are. I figured this is one of the last times I'll be able to get them.

Don't forget that SAE defaults to more expensive USPS First Class shipping, so be sure to click the option to revert to cheaper USPS Media Mail if you want to save a little more. With these 14 titles, I saved about $15 using the Media Mail option.

[VanKilman]

Originally Posted by McCrutchy

Screen Archives Entertainment just started a short sale on the remaining titles, which are 30% off the $19.95 price, or $13.96 each

Thanks for the heads up on the sale! I try to order in big batches from Screen Archives, as the website is not the most user-friendly to navigate, so I grabbed a bunch this time around:

EUREKA (1983)
NEXT STOP, GREENWICH VILLAGE (1976)
MORITURI (1965)
THE QUILLER MEMORANDUM (1966)
A PRAYER FOR THE DYING (1987)
EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS ON MAN-IN-THE MOON MARIGOLDS
THE OTHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT (1977)
PRETTY POISON (1968)
PLAY DIRTY (1968)
CINDERELLA LIBERTY (1973)
MELVIN AND HOWARD (1980)

All are blind buys for me - I tried to stick to titles that were 20th Century Fox, didn't have reissues since the TT discs, weren't easily available to view digitally, or didn't seem to be likely to be reissued anytime soon (or some combination thereof). We'll see how that shakes out in time.

[GeoffOliver]

I thought some of these titles were gone for good. Some of these I'd never pay full price for, but for $13 each? Why not.



Probably my final Twilight Time order from SAE. There's a few titles that are sold out that I'd like to pick up if I find them cheap enough though.

[Cremildo]

Great opportunity to get some Woody Allen gems for a decent price.

[Bradsdadg]

Nice to see this thread pop up again. I do miss Twilight Time, or what it was back in the day. Still some gems on there to get at nice prices

[HarryAlbright89]

I'm thinking by years' end of doing a top 100 Twilight Time releases to commemorate the founding of the company. Pound for pound no label released more stuff that i was interested in than them. Of the purchases I see above I can't say enough positive things about Hilda Crane, Wild in the Country, Anne of the Thousand Days and The Revolt of Mamie Stover. Unsung titles I'll also shout out kind words for include Yanks, In the French Style and Ten North Fredrick.

[Bradsdadg]

Found a few titles to grab before the sale ends. I've also been going through the titles I already have in the collection. Going to have to rewatch a few of my favs

[HarryAlbright89]

Originally Posted by Bradsdadg

Found a few titles to grab before the sale ends. I've also been going through the titles I already have in the collection. Going to have to rewatch a few of my favs

If you could give any feedback on The Quiet American that would be great. I've been interested in the title for sometime, but just haven't gotten around to it. Joseph Mankiewicz is one those directors who've I've never been disappointed in, though I admit I'm relatively unfamiliar with Murphy and Redgrave. My best hope for the film is a careful blending of tragic romance with healthy dose of political intrigue a la The Ides of March.

[borntorun_intheusa]

Originally Posted by McCrutchy

Screen Archives Entertainment just started a short sale on the remaining titles, which are 30% off the $19.95 price, or $13.96 each:

https://www1.screenarchives.com/disp...TWILIGHT-TIME/



I recently had to pay about $45 for a copy of Fox's The Young Lions, where the Twilight Time disc in currently the only one worldwide, so, especially because these are now 30% off, I decided to order everything in my SAE cart, which has been going for a couple of years, now:

[Show spoiler]

Not all of these are Fox titles, but several are. I figured this is one of the last times I'll be able to get them.

Don't forget that SAE defaults to more expensive USPS First Class shipping, so be sure to click the option to revert to cheaper USPS Media Mail if you want to save a little more. With these 14 titles, I saved about $15 using the Media Mail option.

Thank you so much for the heads up and the tips. Ended up grabbing Melvin and Howard which I didn't even know got a TT release. Big fan of that film and happy to now own it!

[fnmore1]

Woah..caught sale just in time, looked at the last time I ordered from them, 2018..
Picked up:
Whirlpool
Sword of Sherwood Forest
Bandolero
Black Widow
Didnt realize some of these are still available.

[MifuneFan]

Great sale, but worst timing. It's so annoying that so many companies have their sales around the same time

(First world probs, I know I know)

[Bradsdadg]

Originally Posted by HarryAlbright89

If you could give any feedback on The Quiet American that would be great. I've been interested in the title for sometime, but just haven't gotten around to it. Joseph Mankiewicz is one those directors who've I've never been disappointed in, though I admit I'm relatively unfamiliar with Murphy and Redgrave. My best hope for the film is a careful blending of tragic romance with healthy dose of political intrigue a la The Ides of March.

Definitely will when I give it a watch. They just shipped out my order which was pretty fast! I don't know much about this one in particular~but since it had Audie Murphy, I figured it was a safe bet. I can't get enough of his films~and his true-life story. I just find that he was a very interesting person that led a sad life outside of his service and acting career.

[JupiterMission]

Anybody here ever pick up The Fantasticks? I've been curious about that one because I generally like Michael Ritchie, but I've never really heard anything about it. Screenshots look pretty cool.

[McCrutchy]

Thanks for the appreciation, everyone.

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Great sale, but worst timing. It's so annoying that so many companies have their sales around the same time

(First world probs, I know I know)

Tell me about it. A few days after posting about this sale, I had to make a UK order because a BFI release is probably close to selling out. And this was also after I bought several titles from the Barnes and Noble Criterion sale.

[HarryAlbright89]

Yeah this sale really blindsided me, but I suspect Screen Archives might have something in store for Labor Day weekend. At the moment I've allocated my budget for WAC titles, but I'll be better primed to nab Husbands and Wives, Mother Wore Tights and Kid Galahad later this year. Cheers to all the great titles purchased.

[McCrutchy]

The sale has now been extended to July 7th:

https://www1.screenarchives.com/disp...TWILIGHT-TIME/

To kick off the summer season,
we decided to extend the

BIG 30% off sale!

**TWILIGHT TIME**

until MONDAY, JULY 7th at midnight Eastern!


Must use code TWILIGHT0725 at checkout.

[Brad1963]

Screen Archives should be more of a presence on this website and remind people about these titles are still available, and especially all the 20th Century Fox titles.