Fun City Editions

[jah13]

Settle down, Jobla...I didn't say we were opening up a Ryan O'Neal sub-label or anything.

Originally Posted by Jobla

Oh man---Oh God---Oh man---Oh God!

[bergman864]

Originally Posted by tehthomas

Not sure if I'm overstepping bounds by putting wishlist stuff out there, but wondering:
Any chance FCE could rescue Fever Pitch or Thief Who Came To Dinner from VHS purgatory? Not sure how you feel about Ryan O'Neal but seems like these are both ripe for reappreciation. Even Tough Guys Don't Dance needs a blu .. but now that Amazon is buying MGM not sure how that will effect licensing deals.

Tough Guys Don't Dance is coming from Vinegar Syndrome later this year.

[tehthomas]

Originally Posted by bergman864

Tough Guys Don't Dance is coming from Vinegar Syndrome later this year.

That is awesome news. I bought the dvd last year so you're welcome
..which actually has a really cool bonus feature with Norman Mailer

[bergman864]

Originally Posted by tehthomas

That is awesome news. I bought the dvd last year so you're welcome
..which actually has a really cool bonus feature with Norman Mailer

[bergman864]

I don't know where the slip count was before the sale but they're going pretty good. I Start Counting down to 103. Jeremy at 257. Smile is at 890.

Congrats!

[SpaceBlackKnight]

Originally Posted by tehthomas

Not sure if I'm overstepping bounds by putting wishlist stuff out there, but wondering:
Any chance FCE could rescue Fever Pitch or Thief Who Came To Dinner from VHS purgatory? Not sure how you feel about Ryan O'Neal but seems like these are both ripe for reappreciation.

Thief Who Came To Dinner is with Warner Bros.

Fever Pitch (1985) was a pre-1986 MGM title that is believed to reside with Warner. However, it was never released on DVD and lack of streaming availability anywhere suggests distribution rights might be with the films producers.

[tehthomas]

Originally Posted by SpaceBlackKnight

Thief Who Came To Dinner is with Warner Bros.

Fever Pitch (1985) was a pre-1986 MGM title that is believed to reside with Warner. However, it was never released on DVD and lack of streaming availability anywhere suggests distribution rights might be with the films producers.

Thanks for the info. I recently purchased The Thief Who Came To Dinner on ebay. It's a clamshell VHS! I think this is the ONLY release it has had in VHS, which is crazy to me. I liked the film - as much as you can when viewing on a tape that is over 30 years old.

Fever Pitch can be found occasionally on VHS (Key Video) on eBay. My copy is in decent shape, but still! Richard Brody wrote about it in the New Yorker a while back

[WillieMLF]

Thanks for the suggestions everyone. Ended up ordering 2 of the remaining limited editions, and 2 of the standard.

[jstxanothrxstory]

Not really able to participate in the sale atm, but I did make sure to grab Jeremy before the slip went OOP. I'll keep an eye on Smile, but I'm hoping it'll make it through the sale.

[jah13]

SMILE is selling very well, but I anticipate you’ll be safe.

Originally Posted by jstxanothrxstory

Not really able to participate in the sale atm, but I did make sure to grab Jeremy before the slip went OOP. I'll keep an eye on Smile, but I'm hoping it'll make it through the sale.

[Rayjg]

Originally Posted by bergman864

Tough Guys Don't Dance is coming from Vinegar Syndrome later this year.

This film has a hilarious trailer. I haven't watched my DVD yet so I’ll just wait for the Blu-ray.

[beamish13]

Originally Posted by tehthomas

Thanks for the info. I recently purchased The Thief Who Came To Dinner on ebay. It's a clamshell VHS! I think this is the ONLY release it has had in VHS, which is crazy to me. I liked the film - as much as you can when viewing on a tape that is over 30 years old.

Fever Pitch can be found occasionally on VHS (Key Video) on eBay. My copy is in decent shape, but still! Richard Brody wrote about it in the New Yorker a while back

I like Brody, but he’s off the mark in his reevaluation. Fever Pitch was a terrible way for a great filmmaker like Richard Brooks to go out on. It devolves into camp. A completely ludicrous and insanely stupid work

[A Tortured Duckling]

Can someone sell me on Walking the Edge? I'm really on the fence, and at this point I would be spending the money just for the sake of FCE slipcover completion. Which is not a bad thing, but it would be great if I'd like the actual film, too.

[HorrorBlu]

Earlier it was said RANCHO is next. Will that be June, or later?

[defile959]

Originally Posted by A Tortured Duckling

Can someone sell me on Walking the Edge? I'm really on the fence, and at this point I would be spending the money just for the sake of FCE slipcover completion. Which is not a bad thing, but it would be great if I'd like the actual film, too.

I haven't seen the movie yet, but Robert Forster, Joe Spinell, and Fun City Editions was enough to convince me that I needed to pick it up.

[nitin]

Picked up Smile, Alphabet City and Jeremy in the VS sale, Looking forward to Smile the most

[BIGXWHIFF]

Picked up the 2 newest releases with my sale order
FCE is the only label that I plan on picking up every new release from. The releases have all been stellar so far. Excited to check out these 2 and can't wait for Rancho.

[repulsed]

Walking the Edge is Out for Delivery!! along with 7 exciting but not as important VS partner label releases. Watching it tomorrow as fedex won't show up until 6pm.

Honestly, thinking of a rewatch of I Start Counting today. It's already overdue!

[latehong]

I want to repost my comment from the Vinegar Syndrome Discussion Thread earlier, because it is also relevant to Fun City Edition and I believe more people should appreciate what they do (and perhaps jah13 and his partners, more than anyone else, should give more publicity to this aspect):

Originally Posted by Sommerswerd

Does Vinegar Syndrome tend to include English subtitles for their English special features?

Originally Posted by latehong

This is an important question and I'm happy to confirm that YES, THEY SEEM TO HAVE BEEN DOING THAT FROM THEIR NOVEMBER 2019 RELEASES AND MORE PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW AND TALK ABOUT IT!

I repeat: From the November 2019 releases on, Vinegar Syndrome has included English subtitles for their English special features except for feature audio commentaries (and maybe some other audio-only extras). This is nothing less than a heroic act, something that almost no other boutique label cares to do. And it's doubly heroic, considering the amounts of their supplements. I mean, these crazy people subtitled the entire six-part new documentary on The Beastmaster as well as the 55-minute archival making-of! And they've been doing it for every release for the last year and a half. Imagine the workload.

And what's crazy is, as far as I know, VS has never boasted that they're doing it, so many people probably don't even aware of this.

I myself have been steadily following and collecting VS releases from the mid-2017, but just found out about it early this year, thanks to their partner label Fun City Edition release of Alphabet City, which was the label's first release as well as my introduction to them. On the main menu, there's an option to watch the feature with the director's intro. I selected that and pressed the sub button on my remote immediately without much thinking, just to watch the feature with subtitles, not the intro. And voila, the intro also had subtitles! At first, I just thought 'well, it's only about 30 seconds and attached to the main feature, so...' But that lucky accident led me to try the same button for the other supplements and to my surprise, 22-minute director interview and 5-minute video essay also had subtitles!

What's funny about it was, the subtitles for the supplements were better-timed than those on the main feature, which were slightly but annoyingly off as many VS releases usually do. So my guess at first was that Fun City Edition added their own efforts for the supplements while VS only did the main feature. I vividly remember thinking, 'wow, this Fun City Edition guy went a step further than Vinegar Syndrome!' lol

Of course, 'but maybe...?' followed soon enough and my jaw dropped when I tried the same with the supplements on the Martial Law 1&2 disc. 'When did they start doing this? Why didn't they say anything!?'

From then on, I backtracked their releases I had and found that The Angel Collection, released in November 2019, had subtitles, while Beyond the Door III, released in October 2019, didn't. So I guess they've been doing it since November 2019. Of course, I couldn't check every single supplement on every single disc, and I found one exception of the audio essay by Rachael Nisbet on The Police Are Blundering in the Dark of Forgotten Gialli: Volume 1 (Jan, 2020), but I can say I checked enough and the results were more than promising.

Of course I checked I Start Counting after Alphabet City, and it also has subtitles on its supplements. I don't have Jeremy, Smile and Walking the Edge yet (just ordered from the sale!) but I guess it's safe to assume the same.

[hungrywives]

Originally Posted by latehong

Of course I checked I Start Counting after Alphabet City, and it also has subtitles on its supplements. I don't have Jeremy, Smile and Walking the Edge yet (just ordered from the sale!) but I guess it's safe to assume the same.

Walking the Edge doesn't even have subtitles on the main feature let alone the supplements. I'm hoping this was just a one time misstep from an otherwise excellent new company.