Twilight Time Discussion Thread

[Wizard-of-Wars]

I seriously live Enemy Mine!!! One of my all time favorite movies!

QUESTION;

Is the website for Twilight Time the only place I will be able to get Enemy Mine?

[Scooter1836]

Originally Posted by Wizard-of-Wars

I seriously live Enemy Mine!!! One of my all time favorite movies!

QUESTION;

Is the website for Twilight Time the only place I will be able to get Enemy Mine?

ScreenArchives.com is the only place..unless you want to pay a lot more from an Amazon reseller or on e-bay from people that purposely purchase extra copies to resell

[grrrarg]

Originally Posted by Wizard-of-Wars

I seriously live Enemy Mine!!! One of my all time favorite movies!

QUESTION;

Is the website for Twilight Time the only place I will be able to get Enemy Mine?

You can get it at the Screenarchives site, or if you wait a few weeks after release Screenarchives usually lists titles on amazon.com as a 3rd party seller. The price might be slightly higher to cover the amazon selling fees and you'll still be buying it from the same seller, but if you have an amazon.com gift card you will be able to apply it towards your purchase.

[Telstar]

I completely forgot about my 10% off wishlist code, and it expired last night.

Oh well. Guess I'll have an extra hundred bucks or so to spend now on something other than obscenely overpriced blu-rays.

[Dex Robinson]

A quick and heartfelt shout out to Nick Redman of Twilight Time.

He took note of the fact that I posted about being diagnosed with prostate cancer (the day before getting the BYE BYE BIRDIE Blu-ray) and has taken the time to send me some very encouraging private messages.

For the amount of grousing I do, I don't really expect I warrant such kind attention . He's a real gentleman.

And, hopefully, I'm too mean to die.

[jrsl76]

Sorry to hear about your diagnosis. Best wishes.

[duggie walker]

Originally Posted by NoirFan

Why don't you take a look at my collection before making such sweeping and insulting assumptions about my knowledge of and appreciation for classic cinema. Just because I find Phil Silvers unfunny and tiresome doesn't automatically make me an unsophisticated and uninformed adolescent. I wrote my master's thesis on Joan Crawford, have an entire bookcase of film books and have seen thousands (yes, thousands) of foreign, black and white and silent films.

But have you watched any SGT BILKO? I guess like most of these guys, they're only as good as their material and the Bilko show - written by luminaries like Neil Simon - is terrific material. Silvers fit that character like a glove and I guess it's true that nothing else I've seen him in has been as good.

Also, for much of the series, these shows were filmed in long chunks, live, so there's a lot of ad-libbing. Silvers could really think on his feet. Give Bilko a chance before you write him off.

[Yankees0222]

I just finished watching "Those Magnificent Men" for the first time and thought it was highly enjoyable and entertaining! certainly not my favorite but it has it's charms. I'd probably give the movie itself a 3.5/5.... And, of course, the PQ is top notch

Good job, TT!

[MEB]

We watched Bye Bye Birdie today. Quite enjoyable and excellent image quality! A very nice addition to the Blu-ray move library!

Mark

[spanky87]

I won't be able to order Bye Bye Birdie until late September/October, so should I be worried? I'm always paranoid when it comes to TT.

[ROclockCK]

Originally Posted by spanky87

I won't be able to order Bye Bye Birdie until late September/October, so should I be worried? I'm always paranoid when it comes to TT.

Although Bye-Bye Birdie had a pretty solid month in SAE's 1 or 2 spot during the pre-order period, it was starting to drop-off before release date. However, since the rave reviews hit and SAE offered its 10% 'wish list' sale, this title seems to have bounced back big time (TT Blu-rays bolded):

SAE TOP WEEKLY TITLES

1 BYE BYE BIRDIE (1963)
2 THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS
3 STEEL MAGNOLIAS (1989) (PRE-ORDER)
4 NORTH BY NORTHWEST
5 THE SOUND AND THE FURY (1959) (PRE-ORDER)
6 THE SHADOW (2CD)
7 THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES (1965)
8 HIGH TIME (1960)
9 THE BIG HEAT (1953)
10 STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE (3 CD)

You're probably okay waiting a month or so spanky87, but who knows the actual sales numbers represented by this chart? Hundreds a week? Or mere dozens? I do know SAE has a lot of high profile limited edition CD sets up right now, so for these TT Blu-rays to be making such a strong showing on their current list is rather remarkable.

And geeez, will you look at The Big Heat climbing back in there! Actually, I think that's the title I'd be more worried about selling out.

[whitesheik]

Originally Posted by ROclockCK

Although Bye-Bye Birdie had a pretty solid month in SAE's 1 or 2 spot during the pre-order period, it was starting to drop-off before release date. However, since the rave reviews hit and SAE offered its 10% 'wish list' sale, this title seems to have bounced back big time (TT Blu-rays bolded):



You're probably okay waiting a month or so spanky87, but who knows the actual sales numbers represented by this chart? Hundreds a week? Or mere dozens? I do know SAE has a lot of high profile limited edition CD sets up right now, so for these TT Blu-rays to be making such a strong showing on their current list is rather remarkable.

And geeez, will you look at The Big Heat climbing back in there! Actually, I think that's the title I'd be more worried about selling out.

Again, while it's nice for those who like such things the chart is arbitrary. I know this - I've been on it.

[ROclockCK]

Originally Posted by whitesheik

Again, while it's nice for those who like such things the chart is arbitrary. I know this - I've been on it.

I recognize that SAE chart is flawed whitesheik - the major problem with it is we don't see the actual numbers. But if it was total science fiction, The Wayward Bus would be in top spot, and it isn't, hasn't been, and won't be.

Also, post-Journey, this list pretty clearly reflected the steady, renewed buyer interest in Mysterious Island until that TT title finally sold out too. So I was being very careful to note that this is only an indicator of relative buyer interest, which indeed, appears to be true.

And yes, I do think it's "interesting" that The Big Heat keeps popping in there. If that was a TT title I didn't already have, I would be thinking seriously about adding it to my cart sooner rather than later.

[ROclockCK]

Out of idle curiosity, I compiled the following list of all Twilight Time titles to date* (Blu-ray plus DVD) broken down by Composer, and grouped according to their representation in the collection:

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Hugo Friedhofer - Violent Saturday (DVD), Woman Obsessed (DVD), The Rains of Ranchipur
Jerry Goldsmith - Fate is the Hunter (DVD), Stagecoach (DVD), The Flim-Flam Man (DVD)
Bernard Herrmann - The Egyptian (co-scored with Alfred Newman), Mysterious Island, Journey to the Center of the Earth
Alex North - Bite the Bullet, Désirée, The Sound and the Fury
Franz Waxman - Demetrius and the Gladiators, My Cousin Rachel (DVD), Beloved Infidel

2
Georges Delerue - Rapture, Steel Magnolias

1
Malcolm Arnold - The Roots of Heaven
Georges Auric - Bonjour Tristesse
Burt Bacharach - Lost Horizon (1973)
David Buttolph - Swamp Water
Robert Drasnin - The Kremlin Letter (DVD)
George Duning - Picnic, Bell Book & Candle
Ira Gershwin - Cover Girl (co-scored with Jerome Kern)
Ron Goodwin - Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
Leigh Harline - The Wayward Bus
Lorenz Hart - Pal Joey
Maurice Jarre - Enemy Mine
Jerome Kern - Cover Girl (co-scored with Ira Gershwin)
Henry Mancini - High Time
Paul McCullough - Night of the Living Dead (1990)
Arthur Morton - The Big Heat
Alfred Newman - The Egyptian (co-scored with Bernard Herrmann)
Basil Poledouris - The Blue Lagoon
Richard Rogers - Pal Joey
Charles Strouse - Bye-Bye Birdie
Henry Vars - The Big Heat
Victor Young - The Left Hand of God (DVD)
Hans Zimmer - As Good As It Gets

Interesting breakdown. Some 'hero' Composers for this label (2 - 3 titles) have already begun to emerge.

Anyway, this is for the Score fans among us. Just file under: "dog days of summer, with too much time on my hands..."

* Through the end of the year and current range of announcements, listed in alphabetical order. DVD only titles in (brackets).

[ROclockCK]

To my surprise, I did receive a magnet with Bye-Bye Birdie and High Time, but it was one I've never seen before:



Is this generic TT collection 'roll-up' magnet something new?

[Chadhobbick]

I'm a long time lurker and newbie member of the site, but I have a question in regards to the releases. There are a few that I want to get, mainly Picnic, Bye Bye Birdie, and Steel Magnolias, so far but i'm hesitant b/c of the price and the idea that they may be released later on like The Grapes of Wrath. I just can't see Bye Bye Birdie and Steel Magnolias not being moderate sellers out in the main market. Is there a time frame set on these, or is it just a buyer beware situation where it could be possible that they could be released mainstream in a few months to a year of so?

[#Darren]

Three Years - in the US. They can be released O/S.

Originally Posted by Chadhobbick

I'm a long time lurker and newbie member of the site, but I have a question in regards to the releases. There are a few that I want to get, mainly Picnic, Bye Bye Birdie, and Steel Magnolias, so far but i'm hesitant b/c of the price and the idea that they may be released later on like The Grapes of Wrath. I just can't see Bye Bye Birdie and Steel Magnolias not being moderate sellers out in the main market. Is there a time frame set on these, or is it just a buyer beware situation where it could be possible that they could be released mainstream in a few months to a year of so?

[Blu Titan]

Originally Posted by Chadhobbick

I'm a long time lurker and newbie member of the site, but I have a question in regards to the releases. There are a few that I want to get, mainly Picnic, Bye Bye Birdie, and Steel Magnolias, so far but i'm hesitant b/c of the price and the idea that they may be released later on like The Grapes of Wrath. I just can't see Bye Bye Birdie and Steel Magnolias not being moderate sellers out in the main market. Is there a time frame set on these, or is it just a buyer beware situation where it could be possible that they could be released mainstream in a few months to a year of so?

The Grapes of Wrath is not a Twilight Time release. It is a Fox title that was initially only sold through Screen Archives.

[ROclockCK]

Originally Posted by Chadhobbick

I'm a long time lurker and newbie member of the site, but I have a question in regards to the releases. There are a few that I want to get, mainly Picnic, Bye Bye Birdie, and Steel Magnolias, so far but i'm hesitant b/c of the price and the idea that they may be released later on like The Grapes of Wrath. I just can't see Bye Bye Birdie and Steel Magnolias not being moderate sellers out in the main market. Is there a time frame set on these, or is it just a buyer beware situation where it could be possible that they could be released mainstream in a few months to a year of so?

Although both Grapes of Wrath and Zorba the Greek were sold via SAE prior to general release by Fox, neither was a Twilight Time exclusive like Bye-Bye Birdie or Steel Magnolias. You'll find a complete list of TT titles in the OP for this thread Chadhobbick.

As for availability, TT has a minimum 3 year window of exclusivity for its titles, at least domestically. Actually, we have an interesting quality comparison coming up with The Rains of Ranchipur, which will also be released by Fox Germany (Region B locked?) at roughly the same time as TT's domestic market edition. For most TT titles though, there are no comparable Blu-ray editions from other companies or regions.

[Yankees0222]

Originally Posted by ROclockCK

To my surprise, I did receive a magnet with Bye-Bye Birdie and High Time, but it was one I've never seen before:



Is this generic TT collection 'roll-up' magnet something new?

Yea, I got a couple of them a little while back with some of my orders.