Twilight Time Discussion Thread

[tellybox]

Originally Posted by donidarko

Oh they are so lovely to look at...like a pretty colorful car wreck. You are drawn in to the beauty of the sets, the sound, the music....it's almost hypnotic....


YES..I would buy XANADU and SATURN 3 on BluRay in a heartbeat.

Was just talking last night with the boy about how Xanadu is still unreleased on Blu. Maybe this year (we're getting down to the catalogue barrel, right?)

[filmmusic]

Hello.
I received today Enemy Mine and The Rains of Ranchipur and unfortunately I have a problem with the second! :-(
I use my pc to play Blurays, and although I've tried 3 software, it doesn't play at all.
I also tried to use AnyDVD and DVDFab Passkey but they encountered an error too.
I don't know what to do..

I own another 6 TT releases, and I didn't have a problem with any of them..
I should check also with a friend's pc later..

edit: Ok, I updated DVDFab passkey and now it plays fine.
Although it plays only if this software is active.
While all the rest TT releases, played without it too..

[Scooter1836]

I am very dissapointed in the SA web site since they started carrying other titles.

With their current site I don't see a way just to look at the TT releases. The search and filter mechanisms on their site do not lend themselves to having a larger catalogue

[EddieLarkin]

Originally Posted by Scooter1836

I am very dissapointed in the SA web site since they started carrying other titles.

With their current site I don't see a way just to look at the TT releases. The search and filter mechanisms on their site do not lend themselves to having a larger catalogue

http://www.screenarchives.com/displa...25&sort=listed

[Seymour]

Originally Posted by Scooter1836

I am very dissapointed in the SA web site since they started carrying other titles.

With their current site I don't see a way just to look at the TT releases. The search and filter mechanisms on their site do not lend themselves to having a larger catalogue

At the SA site, go to the page of a TT blu, and then click on Twilight Time in the 'Label' box. There you go.

Edit: Or follow Eddie's link.

[filmmusic]

May ask, the 4.0 tracks eg in Enemy Mine and Rains of Ranchipur, is 2 front - 2 rear, or 2 front-one center-one rear?

[EddieLarkin]

Originally Posted by filmmusic

May ask, the 4.0 tracks eg in Enemy Mine and Rains of Ranchipur, is 2 front - 2 rear, or 2 front-one center-one rear?

The latter, LCR and a mono rear.

[rdodolak]

Originally Posted by ROclockCK

...the morning after rankings on SAE's weekly chart seem to confirm what I predicted a few pages back...that the TT title drawing the most pre-order action this month is The Blue Lagoon (#1), followed by Lost Horizon (#3), and then further back, Beloved Infidel (#8). This is the exact opposite order of my own interest in these titles, but no surprise there.

So far, it's not clear how strong the actual numbers are for any of these titles...all of them are still totally non-com in the SAE cart. Have you had any luck getting the new batch to display remaining totals yet rdodolak? BTW, after 4 weeks of The Rains of Ranchipur and Bonjour Tristesse showing no action at all, now suddenly the counts for both titles have become active, displaying 1696 and 1695 remaining respectively.

Accurate? Who knows? I take it all with a grain now...

No the new titles aren't reflecting the actual stock on hand at SAE for me either, ROclockCK.

[ROclockCK]

Originally Posted by rdodolak

No the new titles aren't reflecting the actual stock on hand at SAE for me either, ROclockCK.

Nil. Nada. Nyet. None of them have budged. That's 5 titles in a row that were stillborn in the cart after pre-order date rdodolak. So much for the theory that pre-orders always count down. Unless it's an 80s horror film logging dozens of sales per hour, it looks like we can't expect a legit count for a month or so...or whenever.

In happier news, The Rains of Ranchipur and Bonjour Tristesse arrived just in time to kick off my weekend...and what an odd double bill that was! TROR was definitely a mixed bag, both in terms of content and presentation, but overall a blast...now I understand the guilty allure I believe CinemaScope (or was it Rory?) referred to several pages back. Superficially, this was just another big, splashy, popcorn-munching potboiler, but there was also this curious subtext to it that resonated more than expected. I mean, when was the last time this many A-list actors allowed themselves to play such a collectively tarnished, self-sabotaging bunch of souls? Much like The Egyptian with its ancient riff on Noir trappings, the strange, messy, brooding undertone of TROR made it work really well for me. In fact, I was so enthralled by its 'off-the-wall' vibe that I watched it again on Saturday. Of course, the vintage photo-chemical FX were still all over the map, and pacing was still a problem, but darn, ya gotta give props to all those eccentric characters and peformances...I especially loved Eugenie Leontovich as the Maharani. Also top marks for Friedhoffer's quietly persuasive and inventive score. Just an all round hoot of a night out at the mooovies...circa 1955.

Bonjour Tristesse kicked my night up several notches in terms of picture quality, but wasn't quite as much hog-wallowing fun. Previously, I'd seen this film only on DVD, and although it had made an impression, unfortunately, it wasn't that strong or deep. Yeah, I dug it - still do - but more than ever I think this film suffers from trying just a tad too hard to be "continental"...without giving up its Hollywood glamour...wanting it both ways...ultimately ending up in a kind of pushme-pullyou aesthetic limbo. The French New Wave would eventually get these types of stories right...but somehow the studio gloss here worked against it. BT sure was purrrty to watch though, and I'd forgotten the daft pleasure of Mylène Demongeot stealing every scene as Elsa. She was...sorry, no other word for it..."brilliant".

[benbess]

Originally Posted by ROclockCK

Nil. Nada. Nyet. None of them have budged. That's 5 titles in a row that were stillborn in the cart after pre-order date rdodolak. So much for the theory that pre-orders always count down. Unless it's an 80s horror film logging dozens of sales per hour, it looks like we can't expect a legit count for a month or so...or whenever.

In happier news, The Rains of Ranchipur and Bonjour Tristesse arrived just in time to kick off my weekend...and what an odd double bill that was! TROR was definitely a mixed bag, both in terms of content and presentation, but overall a blast...now I understand the guilty allure I believe CinemaScope (or was it Rory?) referred to several pages back. Superficially, this was just another big, splashy, popcorn-munching potboiler, but there was also this curious subtext to it that resonated more than expected. I mean, when was the last time this many A-list actors allowed themselves to play such a collectively tarnished, self-sabotaging bunch of souls? Much like The Egyptian with its ancient riff on Noir trappings, the strange, messy, brooding undertone of TROR made it work really well for me. In fact, I was so enthralled by its 'off-the-wall' vibe that I watched it again on Saturday. Of course, the vintage photo-chemical FX were still all over the map, and pacing was still a problem, but darn, ya gotta give props to all those eccentric characters and peformances...I especially loved Eugenie Leontovich as the Maharani. Also top marks for Friedhoffer's quietly persuasive and inventive score. Just an all round hoot of a night out at the mooovies...circa 1955.

Bonjour Tristesse kicked my night up several notches in terms of picture quality, but wasn't quite as much hog-wallowing fun. Previously, I'd seen this film only on DVD, and although it had made an impression, unfortunately, it wasn't that strong or deep. Yeah, I dug it - still do - but more than ever I think this film suffers from trying just a tad too hard to be "continental"...without giving up its Hollywood glamour...wanting it both ways...ultimately ending up in a kind of pushme-pullyou aesthetic limbo. The French New Wave would eventually get these types of stories right...but somehow the studio gloss here worked against it. BT sure was purrrty to watch though, and I'd forgotten the daft pleasure of Mylène Demongeot stealing every scene as Elsa. She was...sorry, no other word for it..."brilliant".

Thanks for these reviews!++

[ROclockCK]

Originally Posted by benbess

Thanks for these reviews!++

You're welcome benbess, but I'm not disciplined enough to write actual "reviews"...these are just my random impressions.

Some interesting trivia in the features of both discs though:

1. For some strange reason, all of the Trailers and TV spots for The Rains of Ranchipur excerpted Bernard Herrmann's score for Garden of Evil. What gives with that...was Herrmann originally expected to do this one too? Or was someone in Fox Marketing just infatuated with Hermann's score for GOE, and thought it would work for TROR too? I mean, it's one thing to repurpose an earlier score by the same composer, but to drop in one from a peer competitor? Rather weird.
2. For a good yuck, be sure to watch the extended Bonjour Tristesse trailer with Francoise Sagan interview. Almost all of the young writer's responses were terse denials of every single angle the interviewer seemed to be taking to steer their conversation towards promotion of the movie. Just hilarious!

[Page14]

Originally Posted by ROclockCK

....... For a good yuck, be sure to watch the extended Bonjour Tristesse trailer with Francoise Sagan interview. Almost all of the young writer's responses were terse denials of every single angle the interviewer seemed to be taking to steer their conversation towards promotion of the movie. Just hilarious!

FWIW, I saw Bonjour Tristesse listed on TCM's schedule last week (or maybe it was the week before). I set my DVR to record it so I could check it out. I was able to skim through it a few days ago. I wasn't able to watch a big chunk of it, but I thought what I saw looked very interesting.

EDIT: An afterthought ... I had never seen (or even heard of) Jean Seberg before, until I saw the movie Breathless ... also on TCM 2 or 3 weeks ago. So I was pleasantly surprised to see her in this film as well ... and so soon after seeing Breathless.

[ROclockCK]

Originally Posted by Page14

FWIW, I saw Bonjour Tristesse listed on TCM's schedule last week (or maybe it was the week before). I set my DVR to record it so I could check it out. I was able to skim through it a few days ago. I wasn't able to watch a big chunk of it, but I thought what I saw looked very interesting.

Well it is Page14...especially if you've never seen it. I'm just being a bit grumpy about its hybrid 'caught in limbo' style. To me, BT just played a bit too 'Hollywood' for a story of this type, even though you could appreciate Preminger and company's attempt at more authenticity by filming on location in France. I just would have preferred this film in its native language with subtitles, even though I realize such a thing would have been unthinkable for any A-list American production back in '58.

[bluknight1]

I'm not seeing any unit counts on SAE's website for The Rains of Ranchipur.

[rdodolak]

Originally Posted by bluknight1

I'm not seeing any unit counts on SAE's website for The Rains of Ranchipur.

1661 units currently in stock.

[bluknight1]

Originally Posted by rdodolak

1661 units currently in stock.

Thank you. Wow, I wasn't expecting half of the units to be sold in the first month of release.

EDIT:
Wait, are those the number of copies remaining in the 3,000 unit pressing or are they just the number ledt at SAE with the potential for more on the way?
What I'm saying is: Is the entire 3,000 unit pressing shipped to stock at SAE immediately after release?

[Member-222782]

So how soon can we expect TT to start shipping Blue Lagoon? I've got several of their Blu-rays but can't remember if they ship early. Not that I'm in any kind of hurry

BTW, what's this "Blue Lagoon: Awakening" all about? Streets on 12/18, on DVD only. Never knew there was a "sequel" coming out.

[AndersonVision]

Originally Posted by cine74

So how soon can we expect TT to start shipping Blue Lagoon? I've got several of their Blu-rays but can't remember if they ship early. Not that I'm in any kind of hurry

BTW, what's this "Blue Lagoon: Awakening" all about? Streets on 12/18, on DVD only. Never knew there was a "sequel" coming out.

It was Lifetime's attempt at a revamp that never really took off. I thought NOTLD only shipped early because all of the copies sold out so fast.

In terms of other times, it's been the end of the week before release date.

[Clark Kent]

Originally Posted by cine74

BTW, what's this "Blue Lagoon: Awakening" all about? Streets on 12/18, on DVD only. Never knew there was a "sequel" coming out.

It was a Lifetime movie of the week a few months back. If you love Blue Lagoon, it's worth one viewing. It is a remake that changes a few of the plotlines.

[lefty23]

Anyone think Blue Lagoon is likely to sell out before release? I would prefer to wait until review was available on the picture quality before buying.