Twilight Time Discussion Thread

[xxnomad]

Man these recent TT covers have been looking pretty great. I mention this because they usually are ugly. Hope this keeps up.

[RCRochester]

Originally Posted by mja345

Bridges' 70s films are pretty underrepresented on BD. Specifically, "Bad Company" (Paramount, so almost zero chance), "Rancho Deluxe" (MGM, so fairly good chance), "Lolly Madonna XXX" featuring an unhinged Rod Steiger and Robert Ryan as warring hillbilly patriarchs (Warner, so a chance), "Hearts of the West" (Warner), and "Winter Kills" (Lionsgate, so very little chance).

Have you (or anyone) ever seen a Bridges film called The Last American Hero? Apparently the soundtrack features a song called "I Got A Name" by Jim Croce which I first heard on the Django Unchained soundtrack and really liked its 70s vibe, so it got me curious about THAT film.

[belcherman]

Originally Posted by RCRochester

Have you (or anyone) ever seen a Bridges film called The Last American Hero? Apparently the soundtrack features a song called "I Got A Name" by Jim Croce which I first heard on the Django Unchained soundtrack and really liked its 70s vibe, so it got me curious about THAT film.

I saw it years and years ago and I honestly don't remember much about it. I remember it as a standard racing biopic in the vein of Greased Lightning and Heart Like a Wheel. I would love to see it again just to find out if there was more to it than that.

[mja345]

Originally Posted by RCRochester

Have you (or anyone) ever seen a Bridges film called The Last American Hero? Apparently the soundtrack features a song called "I Got A Name" by Jim Croce which I first heard on the Django Unchained soundtrack and really liked its 70s vibe, so it got me curious about THAT film.

I haven't. It features Bridges, Gary Busey, Ned Beatty and the beautiful Valerie Perrine though. Bridges evidently transitions from making moonshine to racing cars in it.

[thatguamguy]

Originally Posted by RCRochester

Have you (or anyone) ever seen a Bridges film called The Last American Hero? Apparently the soundtrack features a song called "I Got A Name" by Jim Croce which I first heard on the Django Unchained soundtrack and really liked its 70s vibe, so it got me curious about THAT film.

More specifically, "Last American Hero" has a rare alternate version (I believe that "Django" used the album version).

[billy pilgrim]

Originally Posted by RCRochester

Oh, yeah, Fat City, I forgot about that one, it's great too!

Fat City is John Huston's finest film, IMHO. A young Jeff Bridges is great in this, as he always is, however even better in this is Stacy Keach and Susan Tyrrell, who give one of the finest performances in their careers.

What a beautiful, downer film. I love this thing.

[RCRochester]

Originally Posted by billy pilgrim

Fat City is John Huston's finest film, IMHO. A young Jeff Bridges is great in this, as he always is, however even better in this is Stacy Keach and Susan Tyrrell, who give one of the finest performances in their careers.

What a beautiful, downer film. I love this thing.

Downer film is right, particularly when

[Show spoiler]it seems like Keach's character is going to make a big boxing comeback only for that to fizzle out and he goes back to being a loser.

Such a 70s film.

[oildude]

FYI, for anyone who lives in the Los Angeles area......

Twilight Time: NEWS FLASH! 50 years ago, on February 19, 1968, the nominations for the 40th annual Academy Awards were announced, and to the surprise of many the lavish musical production DOCTOR DOLITTLE was nominated for 9 Oscars including Best Picture. Come see and hear it as it was meant to be seen and heard on Saturday, March 3rd at 3:00 p.m. (That's 3/3 @ 3 on Oscar eve!) when Fox's incredible 4k restoration has its U.S. premiere at the American Cinematheque's Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, co-presented by BAFTA. Joining us will be the film's star, Samantha Eggar, and songwriter/screenwriter Leslie Bricusse, who won the Best Original Song Oscar for "Talk to the Animals." Help us pack the house for this singular 50th anniversary treat!

[Blu MacReady]

Watched Strange Invaders last night, from the SAE sale. Hadn’t t seen this since I rented it aged 10-11. Wow, the acting was generally very poor and a lot of scenes were painful. I loved it. Just exactly as brilliantly bad as I remembered yet it’s so great at the same time. I think I could happily watch it every other month and never bore of it. It’s up there with The Stuff and Class of 1999 as all time guilty pleasures for me.

[RetroGuy]

Originally Posted by oildude

FYI, for anyone who lives in the Los Angeles area......

Thanks for posting that! Turns out I'll be in LA that weekend, so I just purchased tickets to the showing!

[AKORIS]

Originally Posted by Blu MacReady

Watched Strange Invaders last night, from the SAE sale. Hadn’t t seen this since I rented it aged 10-11. Wow, the acting was generally very poor and a lot of scenes were painful. I loved it. Just exactly as brilliantly bad as I remembered yet it’s so great at the same time. I think I could happily watch it every other month and never bore of it. It’s up there with The Stuff and Class of 1999 as all time guilty pleasures for me.

I realize you like the film but I don't know if I entirely agree with your comments. This was a clear homage to cheesy 50's sci-fi films so it was never meant to be taken seriously.... and none of the cast were shooting for Academy Awards here. For what the movie set out to do, I think it's a good (legitimately) film and I was very pleased to get it on blu ray

[AKORIS]

Originally Posted by mja345

Bridges' 70s films are pretty underrepresented on BD. Specifically, "Bad Company" (Paramount, so almost zero chance), "Rancho Deluxe" (MGM, so fairly good chance), "Lolly Madonna XXX" featuring an unhinged Rod Steiger and Robert Ryan as warring hillbilly patriarchs (Warner, so a chance), "Hearts of the West" (Warner), and "Winter Kills" (Lionsgate, so very little chance).

Those could be good Warner Archive choices!! I remember seeing Lolly Madonna several times on TV as a kid... pretty grim movie from what I recall...

[DukeTogo84]

Does anyone know if Twilight Time has sales often? I want to get a few of their Japanese titles, but they are a little "pricey" at the moment.

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by duketogo84

Does anyone know if Twilight Time has sales often? I want to get a few of their Japanese titles, but they are a little "pricey" at the moment.

Depends. They first started having sales in 2014, and they had one that year. In 2015, they had two. In 2016, they had three.

In 2017, they had eight, three of which were studio specific: MGM/UA in March, Fox in June, and Sony in August. The current February sale is another MGM/UA, and I presume they'll have another one for Fox and for Sony. And probably another couple of non-specific sales.

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by jayembee

Within the last hour, on their Facebook page, they've mentioned that Audrey Rose is now down to 5 copies (only at SAE) and Love and Death is down to 70 copies (also only at SAE).

They didn't say anything more about Summer Lovers, but it doesn't come up on a search at TT, so...gone?

Audrey Rose and Summer Lovers are now officially OOP.

They haven't yet officially called Love and Death OOP, but nothing turns up on a search at SAE, so it looks like that's gone as well.

[oildude]

Here are the Twilight Time release announcements for May 2018, courtesy of the Home Theater Forum. As always, out of respect for HTF's exclusive announcement window, I will not be updating the first post of this thread until TT makes an official announcement later today.

GERONIMO: AN AMERICAN LEGEND (1993) BLU-RAY - May 22nd

NEXT STOP, GREENWICH VILLAGE (1976) BLU-RAY - May 22nd (Brand New 4K Transfer)

HILDA CRANE (1956) BLU-RAY - May 22nd (New 2K Transfer)

THE BIRTH OF A NATION (1915) (The Kevin Brownlow / Photoplay Restoration; 2015) BLU-RAY - May 22nd

[thatguamguy]

It is kind of weird to have one company focusing on Woody Allen *and* Walter Hill. Can't wait till they get Crossroads.

[Brad1963]

Originally Posted by oildude

Here are the Twilight Time release announcements for May 2018, courtesy of the Home Theater Forum. As always, out of respect for HTF's exclusive announcement window, I will not be updating the first post of this thread until TT makes an official announcement later today.

GERONIMO: AN AMERICAN LEGEND (1993) BLU-RAY - May 22nd

NEXT STOP, GREENWICH VILLAGE (1976) BLU-RAY - May 22nd (Brand New 4K Transfer)

HILDA CRANE (1956) BLU-RAY - May 22nd (New 2K Transfer)

THE BIRTH OF A NATION (1915) (The Kevin Brownlow / Photoplay Restoration; 2015) BLU-RAY - May 22nd

Count me in for Next Stop, Greenwich Village.

[The Great Owl]

I'm in for Geronimo: An American Legend and Hilda Crane.

I already own the Kino Blu-ray of The Birth of a Nation, but I would like to see how much the 2015 Photoplay restoration improves upon the presentation.

The Birth of a Nation is not exactly a movie that I am eager to pop in the player on a frequent basis, but I am interested in upgrading if the end result is more visually impressive on the upcoming Twilight Time disc.

[dwk]

Originally Posted by dwk

I contacted SAE and they aren't going to do anything until the 1st of March, when they said they'll reship the items still in stock and refund me for the items that are sold out. I went ahead and ordered a copy of Summer Lovers from Twilight Time.

As for the tracking, the order was in and out of a distribution center about 82 miles from me on the 11th (so it should've arrived on the 12th or 13th*) and it hasn't been scanned in or out of any location since then.

[*I had another package, sent media mail, go through the same location on the 18th and it arrived on the 20th.]

I've filled out the missing mail search from the Post Office, but I haven't heard anything yet.

Update to this mess, my package seems to have been found and is scheduled for delivery today.

Assuming everything is fine in the order, I'm going to have a 2nd copy of Summer Lovers that I have to deal with.