Twilight Time Discussion Thread

[rock, stone]

Rapture really is the jewel in the TT crown, as far as movie and video quality goes.

[Bucky]

Originally Posted by rock, stone

Rapture really is the jewel in the TT crown, as far as movie and video quality goes.

I do not really know anything about this Rapture but am considering blind buying it after hearing positive things about it in this thread.

[ROclockCK]

Originally Posted by rock, stone

Rapture really is the jewel in the TT crown, as far as movie and video quality goes.

Well, following with your "crown analogy", there are lots of jewels up there.

So it's hard for me to pick just one. And it's very subjective. I mean, I was equally impressed by 'Renoir in America' (aka Swamp Water) in terms of both filmmaking craft and video production quality. My hypothetical short list would also include a half dozen other very good to excellent pictures treated with exceptional care and respect via this label...including Curtiz' epic noir, The Egyptian, Lang's classic noir tragedy The Big Heat, Edwards' 'onion-peel' psychological thriller Experiment in Terror, and the just released (and previously underappreciated) Walter Hill gem Hard Times. Heck, I'm still ga-ga what Grover Crisp and his crackerjack Sony team did with Harryhausen's Mysterious Island after 35 years of never-being-quite-right on home video.

In just 3 short years, TT has already covered such an eclectic swath of cinematic turf - and almost uniformly very well. There's something in that library for everyone's tastes...

[krasnoludek]

Originally Posted by ROclockCK

Well, following with your "crown analogy", there are lots of jewels up there.

So it's hard for me to pick just one. And it's very subjective. I mean, I was equally impressed by 'Resnais in America' (aka Swamp Water)

I think you mean `Renoir in America.'

[ROclockCK]

D'oh. Corrected.

FWIW, I just finished watching Alain Resnais' Night and Fog on DVD as a ramp-up to Criterion's recent Blu-ray release of Shoah.

[Sporkies]

Reviews for Sleepless in Seattle and Love is a Many-Splendored Thing, for those intersted:

SiS: https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Sleep.../44129/#Review

LiaMST: https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Love-.../69545/#Review

[NoirFan]

Originally Posted by ROclockCK

I mean, I was equally impressed by 'Renoir in America' (aka Swamp Water) in terms of both filmmaking craft and video production quality.

The Southerner isn't as good as Swamp Water, but still worth seeing. I still haven't gotten around to either Diary of a Chambermaid or Woman on the Beach - really no excuse in the latter case, as it stars two of my all-time favorite actors, Robert Ryan and Joan Bennett. One of the few noirs I haven't viewed.

[ROclockCK]

...just an update to the Twilight Time Score/IST list I compiled around this time last year* (Blu-ray plus DVD) broken down by Composer, and grouped according to their level of representation in the collection:

6
Jerry Goldsmith - Fate is the Hunter [DVD], Stagecoach [DVD], The Flim-Flam Man [DVD], Our Man Flint, In Like Flint, The Other

5
Alfred Newman - The Egyptian (co-scored with Bernard Herrmann), The Song of Bernadette, Leave Her to Heaven, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, Drums Along the Mohawk

4
Bernard Herrmann - The Egyptian (co-scored with Alfred Newman), Mysterious Island, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jane Eyre
Alex North - Bite the Bullet, Désirée, The Sound and the Fury, Pony Soldier

3
Hugo Friedhofer - Violent Saturday [DVD], Woman Obsessed [DVD], The Rains of Ranchipur
Franz Waxman - Demetrius and the Gladiators, My Cousin Rachel [DVD], Beloved Infidel

2
Georges Delerue - Rapture, Steel Magnolias
Maurice Jarre - Enemy Mine, The Only Game in Town
Henry Mancini - High Time, Experiment in Terror

1
Malcolm Arnold - The Roots of Heaven
Daniele Amphitheatrof - Major Dundee (1965 Theatrical)
Georges Auric - Bonjour Tristesse
Burt Bacharach - Lost Horizon (1973)
Roque Baños - Sexy Beast
Richard Rodney Bennett - Nicholas and Alexandra
David Buttolph - Swamp Water
Christopher Caliendo - Major Dundee (2005 Restoration)
John Carpenter - Christine (co-scored with Alan Howarth)
Ry Cooder - Alamo Bay
Pino Donaggio - Body Double
Barry De Vorzon - Hard Times
Robert Drasnin - The Kremlin Letter [DVD]
George Duning - Picnic, Bell Book & Candle
Robert Farnon - The Disappearance
Brad Fiedel - Fright Night
Jerry Fielding - Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia (Announced, No Date Yet)
Ira Gershwin - Cover Girl (co-scored with Jerome Kern - IST N/A)
Ron Goodwin - Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
Mark Governor - Mindwarp
Johnny Green - Oliver!
Marvin Hamlisch - The Way We Were
Leigh Harline - The Wayward Bus
Michael Hoenig - The Blob '88 (Announced, No Date Yet)
Alan Howarth - Christine (co-scored with John Carpenter)
Lorenz Hart - Pal Joey
Laurie Johnson - First Men In The Moon (Announced, No Date Yet)
Jerome Kern - Cover Girl (co-scored with Ira Gershwin - IST N/A)
Paul McCullough - Night of the Living Dead (1990)
Arthur Morton - The Big Heat (together with Henry Vars)
Basil Poledouris - The Blue Lagoon
Richard Rogers - Pal Joey
Marc Shaiman - Sleepless in Seattle
Howard Shore - Philadelphia
Michael Small - The Driver
Charles Strouse - Bye-Bye Birdie
Henry Vars - The Big Heat (together with Arthur Morton)
John Williams - The Fury
Victor Young - The Left Hand of God [DVD]
Hans Zimmer - As Good As It Gets

With 6 titles, Jerry Goldsmith has pulled ahead of the pack now, followed closely by Alfred Newman with 5. Both Bernard Herrmann and Alex North have 4, and Hugo Friedhofer and Franz Waxman have 3. Georges Delerue, Maurice Jarre, and Henry Mancini now have 2 apiece. The rest are all one-offs.

Among the former MIAs entering the collection since last year: John Williams, Michael Small, Marc Shaiman, John Carpenter + Alan Howarth, Michael Hoenig, Howard Shore, Barry De Vorson, and Robert Farnon (already released), Pino Donaggio and Roque Baños (next month), Marvin Hamlisch, Johnny Green, Marc Governor, and Ry Cooder (later this year), Jerry Fielding (in 2014), and Laurie Johnson (in 2015).

* Through November 2013 listed in alphabetical order, and including announced titles that do not yet have a release date. DVD only titles are shown in [brackets].

[HyperRealist]

Glad I didn't already order The Driver.

[davidthenikonuser]

Originally Posted by HyperRealist

Glad I didn't already order The Driver.

Body Double is mine. May get the 2 Walter Hill titles also if they are not sold out.

[Page14]

Originally Posted by HyperRealist

Glad I didn't already order The Driver.

Thanks for the heads up!

[SolidBlu]

Originally Posted by HyperRealist

Glad I didn't already order The Driver.

great!

[BluPat]

Has anyone had an item ship over the weekend from Screen Archives? I ordered 'Leave Her To Heaven' on Blu from TT 2 days ago ( well, Thursday morning) and the payment has showed up in my bank account but Order Status says 'Pending' on Screen Archives site.

Maybe I'm just being impatient.

[Member-222782]

No shipping notifications yet for THE DRIVER? I thought 7/23 was the release date.

[PowellPressburger]

Originally Posted by cine74

No shipping notifications yet for THE DRIVER? I thought 7/23 was the release date.

They usually ship the Monday before the date during the release week. Although if a title sells out they usually ship those early. As long as I get my copy before the weekend I don't mind - I don't want to watch it till Friday or Saturday nite. I just have to remember I don't have Prime shipping with SAE.

[Old Geezer]

Originally Posted by BluPat

Has anyone had an item ship over the weekend from Screen Archives? I ordered 'Leave Her To Heaven' on Blu from TT 2 days ago ( well, Thursday morning) and the payment has showed up in my bank account but Order Status says 'Pending' on Screen Archives site.

Maybe I'm just being impatient.

The first time I ordered from Screen Archives I had the same experience. If I remember correctly I was informed that they are a small company and they don't ship on weekends and I should be patient. My order did ship a day or two latter and arrived fairly quickly. I've ordered from them several times since with absolutely no problems. Patience is a virtue and the reward is great.

[GxyExpress999]

Originally Posted by cine74

No shipping notifications yet for THE DRIVER? I thought 7/23 was the release date.

According to TT facebook:

The Driver probably won't ship until Tuesday.

[BluPat]

Originally Posted by Old Geezer

The first time I ordered from Screen Archives I had the same experience. If I remember correctly I was informed that they are a small company and they don't ship on weekends and I should be patient. My order did ship a day or two latter and arrived fairly quickly. I've ordered from them several times since with absolutely no problems. Patience is a virtue and the reward is great.

Thank you for your response Old Geezer I appreciate it.

[pedromc69]

Release Labamba dammit lol.

[Sinbad75]

Which part of HARRYHAUSEN does Twilight Time not get???