Twilight Time Discussion Thread

[oildude]

Pre-orders begin Wednesday, Oct 28 @ 4pm EST

Special Features: Isolated Music & Effects Track

[Ruined]

I think I'll get vampires and all of the 9/30 releases, that should put me over the $150 for state of grace.

[oildude]

Very excited to get Scorpio. A Burt Lancaster movie I have never seen.

I just realized it also stars the great Paul Scofield (A Man for All Seasons).

[oildude]

Originally Posted by tylerdurden10

Well, looks like they are going back to their old format of film releases, all older titles that most average people (under the age of 40) won't care about or even heard of.

And before anybody jumps all over me, I'm not saying that ANY of these are bad films, just not anything I'm even remotely interested in. Glad for those that these titles will appeal to.

Originally Posted by Blu MacReady

Same here, 80s&90s all over it, 70s&00s get interest as well. This stuff, easy pass.

Just curious if you guys have seen any of these films you seem to so easily dismiss? More than that, the attitude sounds more like not interested in most pre-1970s films in general, as if the majority are too old to be any good. Not trying to "jump all over you"...LOL. Also not trying to read too much into what you wrote, but I have read similar posts all over this forum. I hear it from 20- and early 30-somethings at work. My own brother, who is in his 40s, doesn't care for a movie if it's black and white (which further supports my suspicions he is a changeling left in the crib).

So I will take a moment to stand on my soap box and shout to anyone who will listen. Not to condemn those who cannot see but to enlighten and generate some wonder of new discovery in those who are willing to hear.

There are many reasons I LOVE 50s and 60s movies. Here are a few:

Billy Wilder, Samuel Fuller, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Anthony Mann, Alfred Hitchcock, Richard Burton, Robert Mitchum, Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Cary Grant, Steve McQueen, Marlon Brando, Elia Kazan, James Stewart, John Ford, John Huston, John Wayne, William Holden, Kim Novak, Jean Simmons, Glenn Ford, Rock Hudson, Montgomery Clift, James Dean, Humphrey Bogart, Katherine Hepburn, Fred Zinnemann, Bernard Herrmann, William Wyler, Ray Harryhausen, Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly, Charlton Heston, Shirley McClaine, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Gregory Peck, Kirk Douglas, Ida Lupino, Vincent Price, Elizabeth Taylor, Debbie Reynolds, Doris Day, Shirley Jones, Natalie Wood, Ava Gardner, Ruth Roman, Alec Guinness, James Mason, Joanne Woodward, Martha Hyer, Jeanne Moreau, David Niven, Eva Marie Saint, Anne Baxter, Yul Brenner, Alan Ladd, Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Judy Holliday, Sterling Hayden, Lee Van Cleef, Peter Sellers, Paul Newman, Robert Ryan, Van Heflin, Lee Marvin, Hope Lange, Geraldine Page, Mercedes McCambridge, Simone Signoret, Bibi Andersson, Gloria Grahame, Sidney Poitier, David Lean, Otto Preminger, Nicholas Ray, Stanley Kubrick, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Omar Sharif, Robert Shaw, Robert Wise, Clint Eastwood, George Stevens, George Pal, Paul Scofield, Alain Delon, Henry Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Raquel Welch, Catherine Deneuve, Diana Rigg, Nancy Kwan, Peter O'Toole, Anthony Quinn, Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Jack Hill, Curtis Harrington, John Cassavetes, Spencer Tracy, Gene Kelly, Rex Harrison, Dick Van Dyke, Ann Margret, Julie Andrews, Blake Edwards, Gary Cooper, Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg, Max von Sydow, Ingmar Bergman, Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Jean Pierre Melville, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Alain Resnais, Francois Truffaut, Jean Luc Godard, Jacques Demy, Jacques Tati, Mikhail Kalatozov, Kenji Mizoguchi, Akira Kurosawa, Yasujiro Ozu, Masaki Kobayashi, Nagisa Oshima, Kinuyo Tanaka, Tatsuya Nakadai, and the great Toshiro Mifune......

The list goes on and on.

Thus endeth the lesson for today.

[JaseT]

Originally Posted by duggie walker

Unfortunately, according to the Kino rep, TT are in violation of their licence so I fully expect the company to soon be raided by the FBI and shut down for good.

So thanks TT. It was great while it lasted.

Who? What? Where? Obviously I have missed something...

[Martin_31]

Originally Posted by oildude

Just curious if you guys have seen any of these films you seem to so easily dismiss? More than that, the attitude sounds more like not interested in most pre-1970s films in general, as if the majority are too old to be any good. Not trying to "jump all over you"...LOL. Also not trying to read too much into what you wrote, but I have read similar posts all over this forum. I hear it from 20- and early 30-somethings at work. My own brother, who is in his 40s, doesn't care for a movie if it's black and white (which further supports my suspicions he is a changeling left in the crib).

So I will take a moment to stand on my soap box and shout to anyone who will listen. Not to condemn those who cannot see but to enlighten and generate some wonder of new discovery in those who are willing to hear.

There many reasons I LOVE 50s and 60s movies. Here are a few:

Billy Wilder, Samuel Fuller, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Anthony Mann, Alfred Hitchcock, Richard Burton, Robert Mitchum, Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Cary Grant, Steve McQueen, Marlon Brando, Elia Kazan, James Stewart, John Ford, John Huston, John Wayne, William Holden, Kim Novak, Jean Simmons, Glenn Ford, Rock Hudson, Montgomery Clift, James Dean, Humphrey Bogart, Katherine Hepburn, Fred Zinnemann, Bernard Herrmann, William Wyler, Ray Harryhausen, Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly, Charlton Heston, Shirley McClaine, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Gregory Peck, Kirk Douglas, Ida Lupino, Vincent Price, Elizabeth Taylor, Debbie Reynolds, Doris Day, Shirley Jones, Natalie Wood, Ava Gardner, Ruth Roman, Alec Guinness, James Mason, Joanne Woodward, Martha Hyer, Jeanne Moreau, David Niven, Eva Marie Saint, Anne Baxter, Yul Brenner, Alan Ladd, Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Judy Holliday, Sterling Hayden, Lee Van Cleef, Peter Sellers, Paul Newman, Robert Ryan, Van Heflin, Lee Marvin, Hope Lange, Geraldine Page, Mercedes McCambridge, Simone Signoret, Bibi Andersson, Gloria Grahame, Sidney Poitier, David Lean, Otto Preminger, Nicholas Ray, Stanley Kubrick, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Robert Wise, Clint Eastwood, George Stevens, George Pal, Paul Scofield, Alain Delon, Henry Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Raquel Welch, Catherine Deneuve, Peter O'Toole, Anthony Quinn, Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Max von Sydow, Ingmar Bergman, Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Jean Pierre Melville, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Alain Resnais, Mikhail Kalatozov, Kenji Mizoguchi, Akira Kurosawa, Yasujiro Ozu, Kinuyo Tanaka, and the great Toshiro Mifune......

The list goes on and on.

Thus endeth the lesson for today.

My sister, in her early 20's, cannot and will no watch a movie from the 80's and under. She rarely makes an exception. Only if enough word of mouth convinces her like The Breakfast Club. Black and white films are out of the question. She considers them too old. That's my generation for you. The oldest movie she has seen is The Exorcist! And that's cause she was too young to even realize it was an old movie. She does enjoy watching it though every October.

[mja345]

Originally Posted by Martin_31

My sister, in her early 20's, cannot and will no watch a movie from the 80's and under. She rarely makes an exception. Only if enough word of mouth convinces her like The Breakfast Club. Black and white films are out of the question. She considers them too old. That's my generation for you. The oldest movie she has seen is The Exorcist! And that's cause she was too young to even realize it was an old movie. She does enjoy watching it though every October.

That's depressing man. I'm 28 and have a few buddies around my age who watch older films and we have our film nerd conversations, but, unfortunately, most "millenials" tend to have the attitude you stated above. It's a real shame because the vast majority of films released today really are pure shit. A person misses out on so, so much if he or she refuses to watch films made prior to 1990.

[Aclea]

Originally Posted by oildude

Just curious if you guys have seen any of these films you seem to so easily dismiss? More than that, the attitude sounds more like not interested in most pre-1970s films in general, as if the majority are too old to be any good. Not trying to "jump all over you"...LOL. Also not trying to read too much into what you wrote, but I have read similar posts all over this forum. I hear it from 20- and early 30-somethings at work. My own brother, who is in his 40s, doesn't care for a movie if it's black and white (which further supports my suspicions he is a changeling left in the crib).

So I will take a moment to stand on my soap box and shout to anyone who will listen. Not to condemn those who cannot see but to enlighten and generate some wonder of new discovery in those who are willing to hear.

There many reasons I LOVE 50s and 60s movies. Here are a few:

Billy Wilder, Samuel Fuller, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Anthony Mann, Alfred Hitchcock, Richard Burton, Robert Mitchum, Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Cary Grant, Steve McQueen, Marlon Brando, Elia Kazan, James Stewart, John Ford, John Huston, John Wayne, William Holden, Kim Novak, Jean Simmons, Glenn Ford, Rock Hudson, Montgomery Clift, James Dean, Humphrey Bogart, Katherine Hepburn, Fred Zinnemann, Bernard Herrmann, William Wyler, Ray Harryhausen, Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly, Charlton Heston, Shirley McClaine, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Gregory Peck, Kirk Douglas, Ida Lupino, Vincent Price, Elizabeth Taylor, Debbie Reynolds, Doris Day, Shirley Jones, Natalie Wood, Ava Gardner, Ruth Roman, Alec Guinness, James Mason, Joanne Woodward, Martha Hyer, Jeanne Moreau, David Niven, Eva Marie Saint, Anne Baxter, Yul Brenner, Alan Ladd, Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Judy Holliday, Sterling Hayden, Lee Van Cleef, Peter Sellers, Paul Newman, Robert Ryan, Van Heflin, Lee Marvin, Hope Lange, Geraldine Page, Mercedes McCambridge, Simone Signoret, Bibi Andersson, Gloria Grahame, Sidney Poitier, David Lean, Otto Preminger, Nicholas Ray, Stanley Kubrick, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Omar Sharif, Robert Shaw, Robert Wise, Clint Eastwood, George Stevens, George Pal, Paul Scofield, Alain Delon, Henry Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Raquel Welch, Catherine Deneuve, Diana Rigg, Nancy Kwan, Peter O'Toole, Anthony Quinn, Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Jack Hill, Curtis Harrington, John Cassavetes, Spencer Tracy, Gene Kelly, Rex Harrison, Dick Van Dyke, Ann Margret, Julie Andrews, Blake Edwards, Gary Cooper, Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg, Max von Sydow, Ingmar Bergman, Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Jean Pierre Melville, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Alain Resnais, Francois Truffaut, Jean Luc Godard, Jacques Demy, Jacques Tati, Mikhail Kalatozov, Kenji Mizoguchi, Akira Kurosawa, Yasujiro Ozu, Masaki Kobayashi, Nagisa Oshima, Kinuyo Tanaka, Tatsuya Nakadai, and the great Toshiro Mifune......

The list goes on and on.

Thus endeth the lesson for today.

You had me at Anthony Mann...

I know I'm an anomaly, but I don't know anyone among my friends and family who imposes quite such arbitrary limits on what they'll watch - but I do know swathes of people in the industry and publishing in particular who believe that cinema began with Taxi Driver and then went into hibernation until Reservoir Dogs.

[Blu MacReady]

No not at all, love all the Bond films, grew up with those and the first ones are pre70s. Have watched and enjoyed many Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin. Pink Panther, Hitchcock films and many others.

I just enjoy and can rewatch mainstream 70s-90s. They're just more 'my era'. I'm late 30s, so my teenage rentals were all horror, sci-fi, comedy etc from those years. Those are my nostalgic films and ones I'd want to collect and own. I was lucky to grow with some of the best, Star Wars, Jaws, Rocky, The Terminator, Omen ANOES, F13th, Breakfast Club, Indiana Jones, Get Carter etc etc. These I just never get bored of. They don't even seem to 'date' to me.
My TT titles are The Blob, Black Widow, Vampires as to pay $30 plus postage they have to be films I really want, enjoy and can watch many times over, over time. I would have got Fright Night & Christine if I had been importing when they come out, but now have those via Australia.

No hate towards films previous to 70s and have a good few in my collection Bonds, Hitchcock, Spagetti Westerns, 2001, Univeral Monsters etc Will add if I think it's worth the cost to me and those recent announcements really don't float my boat.

Kino and Olive seem to be grabbing my wallet and at around $14.99, much better too

[Blu MacReady]

Originally Posted by duggie walker

Yes, my thanks too; received mine here in the UK. Nice to see a company with some class and some respect for its overseas customers.

Unfortunately, according to the Kino rep, TT are in violation of their licence so I fully expect the company to soon be raided by the FBI and shut down for good.

So thanks TT. It was great while it lasted.

More info please...

[ol_Dut]

Originally Posted by Blu MacReady

More info please...

Yeah, really. There's some stuff I still need to get from them. What's up?

[filmmusic]

I don't understand either. What happened?
Or this was a joke?

[Arawn]

Originally Posted by filmmusic

I don't understand either. What happened?

They used the wrong email.

[bubuwest]

Originally Posted by oildude

Just curious if you guys have seen any of these films you seem to so easily dismiss? More than that, the attitude sounds more like not interested in most pre-1970s films in general, as if the majority are too old to be any good. Not trying to "jump all over you"...LOL. Also not trying to read too much into what you wrote, but I have read similar posts all over this forum. I hear it from 20- and early 30-somethings at work. My own brother, who is in his 40s, doesn't care for a movie if it's black and white (which further supports my suspicions he is a changeling left in the crib).

So I will take a moment to stand on my soap box and shout to anyone who will listen. Not to condemn those who cannot see but to enlighten and generate some wonder of new discovery in those who are willing to hear.

There many reasons I LOVE 50s and 60s movies. Here are a few:

Billy Wilder, Samuel Fuller, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Anthony Mann, Alfred Hitchcock, Richard Burton, Robert Mitchum, Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Cary Grant, Steve McQueen, Marlon Brando, Elia Kazan, James Stewart, John Ford, John Huston, John Wayne, William Holden, Kim Novak, Jean Simmons, Glenn Ford, Rock Hudson, Montgomery Clift, James Dean, Humphrey Bogart, Katherine Hepburn, Fred Zinnemann, Bernard Herrmann, William Wyler, Ray Harryhausen, Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly, Charlton Heston, Shirley McClaine, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Gregory Peck, Kirk Douglas, Ida Lupino, Vincent Price, Elizabeth Taylor, Debbie Reynolds, Doris Day, Shirley Jones, Natalie Wood, Ava Gardner, Ruth Roman, Alec Guinness, James Mason, Joanne Woodward, Martha Hyer, Jeanne Moreau, David Niven, Eva Marie Saint, Anne Baxter, Yul Brenner, Alan Ladd, Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Judy Holliday, Sterling Hayden, Lee Van Cleef, Peter Sellers, Paul Newman, Robert Ryan, Van Heflin, Lee Marvin, Hope Lange, Geraldine Page, Mercedes McCambridge, Simone Signoret, Bibi Andersson, Gloria Grahame, Sidney Poitier, David Lean, Otto Preminger, Nicholas Ray, Stanley Kubrick, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Omar Sharif, Robert Shaw, Robert Wise, Clint Eastwood, George Stevens, George Pal, Paul Scofield, Alain Delon, Henry Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Raquel Welch, Catherine Deneuve, Diana Rigg, Nancy Kwan, Peter O'Toole, Anthony Quinn, Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Jack Hill, Curtis Harrington, John Cassavetes, Spencer Tracy, Gene Kelly, Rex Harrison, Dick Van Dyke, Ann Margret, Julie Andrews, Blake Edwards, Gary Cooper, Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg, Max von Sydow, Ingmar Bergman, Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Jean Pierre Melville, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Alain Resnais, Francois Truffaut, Jean Luc Godard, Jacques Demy, Jacques Tati, Mikhail Kalatozov, Kenji Mizoguchi, Akira Kurosawa, Yasujiro Ozu, Masaki Kobayashi, Nagisa Oshima, Kinuyo Tanaka, Tatsuya Nakadai, and the great Toshiro Mifune......

The list goes on and on.

Thus endeth the lesson for today.

Great post, oildude! I feel less of an alien when I read such things... Personally (but I realize I'm quite an exception!), I am in my late twenties right now and grew up with 1940s, 1950s and 1960s American films, watching them mainly on public television (I should state beforehand that I'm Italian and didn't have the chance to go to the movies that often as a kid). I probably don't have any single 1980s or 1990s title in my top-20 list...but several by Ford, Hitchcock, Mann and the likes! [emoji6]

[NoirFan]

Apparently Broken Lance is a remake of the Noir House of Strangers, which is interesting. Dmytryk directed several excellent noirs himself, so I'm curious to see how he transposes the material to a Western setting.

[Blu MacReady]

Originally Posted by Arawn

They used the wrong email.

Expand?

[atfree]

Originally Posted by oildude

Just curious if you guys have seen any of these films you seem to so easily dismiss? More than that, the attitude sounds more like not interested in most pre-1970s films in general, as if the majority are too old to be any good. Not trying to "jump all over you"...LOL. Also not trying to read too much into what you wrote, but I have read similar posts all over this forum. I hear it from 20- and early 30-somethings at work. My own brother, who is in his 40s, doesn't care for a movie if it's black and white (which further supports my suspicions he is a changeling left in the crib).

So I will take a moment to stand on my soap box and shout to anyone who will listen. Not to condemn those who cannot see but to enlighten and generate some wonder of new discovery in those who are willing to hear.

There many reasons I LOVE 50s and 60s movies. Here are a few:

Billy Wilder, Samuel Fuller, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Anthony Mann, Alfred Hitchcock, Richard Burton, Robert Mitchum, Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Cary Grant, Steve McQueen, Marlon Brando, Elia Kazan, James Stewart, John Ford, John Huston, John Wayne, William Holden, Kim Novak, Jean Simmons, Glenn Ford, Rock Hudson, Montgomery Clift, James Dean, Humphrey Bogart, Katherine Hepburn, Fred Zinnemann, Bernard Herrmann, William Wyler, Ray Harryhausen, Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly, Charlton Heston, Shirley McClaine, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Gregory Peck, Kirk Douglas, Ida Lupino, Vincent Price, Elizabeth Taylor, Debbie Reynolds, Doris Day, Shirley Jones, Natalie Wood, Ava Gardner, Ruth Roman, Alec Guinness, James Mason, Joanne Woodward, Martha Hyer, Jeanne Moreau, David Niven, Eva Marie Saint, Anne Baxter, Yul Brenner, Alan Ladd, Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Judy Holliday, Sterling Hayden, Lee Van Cleef, Peter Sellers, Paul Newman, Robert Ryan, Van Heflin, Lee Marvin, Hope Lange, Geraldine Page, Mercedes McCambridge, Simone Signoret, Bibi Andersson, Gloria Grahame, Sidney Poitier, David Lean, Otto Preminger, Nicholas Ray, Stanley Kubrick, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Omar Sharif, Robert Shaw, Robert Wise, Clint Eastwood, George Stevens, George Pal, Paul Scofield, Alain Delon, Henry Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Raquel Welch, Catherine Deneuve, Diana Rigg, Nancy Kwan, Peter O'Toole, Anthony Quinn, Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Jack Hill, Curtis Harrington, John Cassavetes, Spencer Tracy, Gene Kelly, Rex Harrison, Dick Van Dyke, Ann Margret, Julie Andrews, Blake Edwards, Gary Cooper, Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg, Max von Sydow, Ingmar Bergman, Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Jean Pierre Melville, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Alain Resnais, Francois Truffaut, Jean Luc Godard, Jacques Demy, Jacques Tati, Mikhail Kalatozov, Kenji Mizoguchi, Akira Kurosawa, Yasujiro Ozu, Masaki Kobayashi, Nagisa Oshima, Kinuyo Tanaka, Tatsuya Nakadai, and the great Toshiro Mifune......

The list goes on and on.

Thus endeth the lesson for today.

+1....Great post.

[Aclea]

Originally Posted by oildude

Pre-orders begin Wednesday, Oct 28 @ 4pm EST

Glad to see they got Earl Holliman to do an audio commentary: he's a great interview, so it should be a good one.

[belcherman]

Originally Posted by oildude

Just curious if you guys have seen any of these films you seem to so easily dismiss? More than that, the attitude sounds more like not interested in most pre-1970s films in general, as if the majority are too old to be any good. Not trying to "jump all over you"...LOL. Also not trying to read too much into what you wrote, but I have read similar posts all over this forum. I hear it from 20- and early 30-somethings at work. My own brother, who is in his 40s, doesn't care for a movie if it's black and white (which further supports my suspicions he is a changeling left in the crib).

My wife, who is older than that:

1. Won't watch any movie with subtitles.
2. Won't watch any silent movies.
3. Will watch black-and-white movies only under extreme duress.
4. Will watch color movies from the previous century only under extreme duress.
5. Does not see the point of watching any movie more than once. Ever.

It takes all kinds.

[filmmusic]

Originally Posted by belcherman

My wife, who is older than that:

1. Won't watch any movie with subtitles.
2. Won't watch any silent movies.
3. Will watch black-and-white movies only under extreme duress.
4. Will watch color movies from the previous century only under extreme duress.
5. Does not see the point of watching any movie more than once. Ever.

It takes all kinds.

Well, I think you described the majority of film viewers.