Twilight Time Discussion Thread

[baheidstu]

Originally Posted by Page14

Thank you very much for the response. The reason I asked is because I was at a show today where Caroline Munro was signing autographs. (http://www.ocomiccon.com) Just got back.

I brought my Golden Voyage of Sinbad blu-ray with me. I asked Ms. Munro where people usually have it signed and she replied on the cover, so that was good enough for me. She was also selling At the Earth's Core (among other merchandise), so I bought that one too ... with an autograph.

So jealous, I love her!

[noirjunkie]

Originally Posted by rdodolak

Anyone hear anything about this mysterious end of month announcement?

I'm wondering the same thing. It would be great if TT would finally break free of the SAE shackles and expand the number of places that sell the company's titles -- preferably online retailers whose websites were designed some time after 1998.

[Davidian]

Originally Posted by Page14

Thank you very much for the response. The reason I asked is because I was at a show today where Caroline Munro was signing autographs. (http://www.ocomiccon.com) Just got back.

I brought my Golden Voyage of Sinbad blu-ray with me. I asked Ms. Munro where people usually have it signed and she replied on the cover, so that was good enough for me. She was also selling At the Earth's Core (among other merchandise), so I bought that one too ... with an autograph.

Got any photos there?

[Page14]

Originally Posted by baheidstu

So jealous, I love her!

She struck me as a genuinely nice, sweet person.

Originally Posted by Davidian

Got any photos there?

Photos of the blu-rays? No, but I can take one. I'd have to figure out how to post pics on here though, as I've never done it before.

[cakefactory]

Originally Posted by Page14

She struck me as a genuinely nice, sweet person.

She seems to strike everyone that way. She definitely comes across that way in the interviews I've seen with her (ex on the At the Earth's Core disc). I should probably watch that documentary about her sometime. You're lucky you got to meet her!

I should probably go to some of these events while the people from the older movies I love are still alive, I've never gone to any sort of convention in my life

[omenboy]

Originally Posted by cakefactory

She seems to strike everyone that way. She definitely comes across that way in the interviews I've seen with her (ex on the At the Earth's Core disc). I should probably watch that documentary about her sometime. You're lucky you got to meet her!

I should probably go to some of these events while the people from the older movies I love are still alive, I've never gone to any sort of convention in my life

I once attended a convention in New York City and was seated in the audience waiting for some panel to come on. I realized that Caroline Munro AND Tom Savini were seated together right in front of me and I struck up a conversation and asked them to sign a blank index card for me, which they very generously did. Completely free. They were both extremely nice and she was really just as sweet as can be.

[Page14]

Originally Posted by cakefactory

She seems to strike everyone that way. She definitely comes across that way in the interviews I've seen with her (ex on the At the Earth's Core disc). I should probably watch that documentary about her sometime. You're lucky you got to meet her!

I should probably go to some of these events while the people from the older movies I love are still alive, I've never gone to any sort of convention in my life

This was a first for me, as far as this kind of convention goes. I was thinking along the same lines as you. Now that Ray Harryhausen has passed and I can't meet him anymore, when would I ever get a chance to meet somebody from one of his films (and especially a lovely like Caroline Munro)? This was within driving distance for me, so I thought "What the heck" and went.

[CriterionBlues]

Originally Posted by rdodolak

Anyone hear anything about this mysterious end of month announcement?

I've been watching and haven't seen any mention of it again. I've no doubt that they were angry about the SAE back-up, so maybe this was a threat for them to right the ship. By the end of the month SAE seemed to have gotten nearly caught up and the following month's pre-orders went out without serious delay.

If you remember they also had titles appearing on other retail sites and then they were pulled a couple weeks later.

[docc]

Can anyone recommend The Wayward Bus? I added it to my cart as a blind buy, intrigued by the eclectic cast and hoping that it's a good script

[Aclea]

Originally Posted by docc

Can anyone recommend The Wayward Bus? I added it to my cart as a blind buy, intrigued by the eclectic cast and hoping that it's a good script

It's pretty decent:



“The things I could help you with wouldn’t do you any good at a drive-in, honey.”

Originally intended as a Marlon Brando-Henry Hathaway vehicle (the script even retains a joke about Brando), The Wayward Bus is one of those ensemble dramas that’s part-Stagecoach without the Indians and part-disaster movie where the character scenes are more important than the various disasters – mud slide, collapsing flooded bridges, failing brakes – that befall Rick Jason’s rundown bus. With Brando out of the picture, Fox evidently opted to save some money on the cast, with novelist John Steinbeck getting more prominent above the title billing than Joan Collins, Jayne Mansfield or Dan Dailey (well, it was, surprisingly, his biggest selling novel in his lifetime). The two Js are clearly going for a bit of career credibility, Collins appearing with little makeup as the money-grabbing, selfish and greedy roadside café-owning wife that Jason still loves because nobody else does while Mansfield, presumably hoping for a Bus Stop of her very own, is rather more cast-to-type as a stripper on the convention circuit who never married because all the right guys had the wrong ideas but falls for travelling salesman Dan Dailey’s line of patter, all too aware of how long their relationship will last if he finds out how she earns her living. Also along for the bumpy ride are star-struck waitress Betty Lou Keim, Dee Pollack’s teenage handyman, Will Wright’s parsimonious grouch and Larry Keating and Kathryn Givney’s Mr and Mrs Middle America and their nymphomaniac daughter Dolores Michaels.

Everyone in the film is driven by lust, but this being 1957 that means more innuendo than action, and what action Jason gets is kept offscreen and implied. While the film definitely has the feeling of the studio eventually deciding to finally get it out of the way after all those years of thwarted development without spending too much money on it (it may have got CinemaScope but the budget didn’t stretch to colour), the B-list casting tends to work in the film’s favour: a cast trying to work its way up or manage its way down is a better match for the assembled losers than a big name cast with more overpowering personalities. Victor Vicas pretty much conned his way into the director’s chair on this one by convincing Darryl F. Zanuck he was a major European director in those pre-IMDB days, and he does a capable enough job and throws in a couple of decently staged moments without ever elevating the picture enough to surprise you that he only made one more American picture. Like its characters, it’s nothing special, but like the rundown bus it gets there in the end.

Aside from a rather ropey looking title sequence, it's is an impressive transfer in the original widescreen ratio.

[Tom Monahan]

I'm very happy with my blind buy purchase.

[bruceames]

I loved The Wayward Bus. It's a very odd kind of movie that somehow worked for me. It gets a bad rap because of how everything is resolved, but the characters and acting I think is great, as well as the cinematography of course. The commentary is pretty good too. I would say it's a top ten TT movie in my collection.

[Page14]

Originally Posted by Page14

Thank you very much for the response. The reason I asked is because I was at a show today where Caroline Munro was signing autographs. (http://www.ocomiccon.com) Just got back.

I brought my Golden Voyage of Sinbad blu-ray with me. I asked Ms. Munro where people usually have it signed and she replied on the cover, so that was good enough for me. She was also selling At the Earth's Core (among other merchandise), so I bought that one too ... with an autograph.

Originally Posted by Davidian

Got any photos there?

Okay, here we go!

[Tom Monahan]

Any idea when SA is going to have another free authograph offering to the first 100 buyers? I want to place an order but am waiting for this deal.

Thanks,
Tom

[Blu Titan]

Originally Posted by Page14

Okay, here we go!

Any pics of Caroline?

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by Tom Monahan

Any idea when SA is going to have another free authograph offering to the first 100 buyers? I want to place an order but am waiting for this deal.

When they post an announcement on Facebook, it'll be repeated here. They haven't even yet posted anything to indicate what it might be (usually in the form of a photo of a particular person doing a signing) let alone when.

And strictly speaking, it's actually Twilight Time that offers the signed promos, not Screen Archives. That's why the offer only applies when you buy $X worth of TT product.

[seagal]

When does Twilight announce their September/October titles?

[captveg]

Originally Posted by seagal

When does Twilight announce their September/October titles?

They said they'll be announcing them this Saturday

[seagal]

Originally Posted by captveg

They said they'll be announcing them this Saturday

Thanks for the information

[Page14]

Originally Posted by Blu Titan

Any pics of Caroline?

I attached a couple of pictures. One is of Caroline and Bruce Crawford, which was taken during the Q&A session following a screening of "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad". This picture wasn't actually taken by me (it's one of Bruce's, who gave me permission to post it here), but it's very similar to some of my own, only in better focus. Bruce served as moderator for the Q&A session and I believe was responsible for bringing Caroline to the "O Comic Con" event, as well as being an organizer/promoter of the event. He did a wonderful job! (as did Caroline). His website can be found here: http://www.omahafilmevent.com.

The 2nd pic is one of my own. I always feel funny about posting pics of other people in a public forum (whether they're famous or not), but I think Ms. Munro would be okay with me posting this (crossing fingers).

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