Twilight Time / Redwind

[TMDaines]

I'd make an order if I could get one of those discount codes for reviewing a purchase you've already made.

[fiddlesticks]

I'd make an order if I could get one of those discount codes for reviewing a purchase you've already made.

In an email blast today, in more or less the fine print, they mentioned they were discontinuing this. They'll honor any codes already issued, but won't be issuing any new ones. Which for me is a shame, as I have an email inviting me to review Three Coins in the Fountain.

[fdm]

If you get the email and do the review you still may get the discount code. The discount code is (now) only good for $2 off one order (not per title). (Courtesy of what I read yesterday at blu-ray.com.)

[domino harvey]

Twilight Time has extended their sale “through April”

And now through May. I'm guessing these will never go off sale unless they sell out...

[EddieLarkin]

I stopped following their new title announcements years ago when I realised the vast majority of their stuff would eventually get Region B releases.

Are there any must have still in print titles that haven't seen an alternative release yet? My Sister Eileen stands out for instance...

[Drucker]

Inserts, I believe.

[Apperson]

I stopped following their new title announcements years ago when I realised the vast majority of their stuff would eventually get Region B releases.

Genuine question, when did they last announce new titles? Feels like they've already closed up shop and are slowly winding down with these sales.

[domino harvey]

I believe these ended up being the final titles:

Perhaps the warnings of TT’s demise are finally coming to fruition, as for the first time that I can remember, less than four titles have been announced:

THE TALL MEN (1955) BLU-RAY -- August 20
WHIRLPOOL (1949) BLU-RAY -- August 20
WILD IN THE COUNTRY (1961) BLU-RAY -- August 20

The end may indeed be nigh for Twilight Time, as this month's announcements are... just delayed titles already previously announced!

THE PRESIDENT'S LADY (1953) BLU-RAY -- August 20
WILD IN THE COUNTRY (1961) BLU-RAY -- August 20
THE TALL MEN (1955) BLU-RAY -- September 17
WHIRLPOOL (1949) BLU-RAY -- September 17

[therewillbeblus]

Guess it might finally be time to take the plunge on Melvin and Howard and Pretty Poison

[knives]

Watch Shout announce them next week.

[FrauBlucher]

Shouldn't this be moved to the passages thread.

[nitin]

I stopped following their new title announcements years ago when I realised the vast majority of their stuff would eventually get Region B releases.

Are there any must have still in print titles that haven't seen an alternative release yet? My Sister Eileen stands out for instance...

Heaps of Fox titles that are unlikely to get another release anytime soon given the moratorium on any new Fox deals until at least 2021.

[therewillbeblus]

I stopped following their new title announcements years ago when I realised the vast majority of their stuff would eventually get Region B releases.

Are there any must have still in print titles that haven't seen an alternative release yet? My Sister Eileen stands out for instance...

Heaps of Fox titles that are unlikely to get another release anytime soon given the moratorium on any new Fox deals until at least 2021.

Another good opportunity to vicariously shake anyone who hasn't picked up Peyton Place yet

[CantelopeSkiz]

From Twilight Time's email:

Special Ten for $115 Through May 17th: Savings are automatically applied when you buy any group of ten from the following 30 titles: Click here to shop all included titles.

Pin Up Girl
Stagecoach [1966]
Mother Wore Tights
The Return of Frank James
Hello, Frisco, Hello
Three Coins In The Fountain
Untamed
The Whole Town's Talking
The President's Lady
The Big Fix
Behold A Pale Horse
The Quiller Memorandum
Yanks
The Snake Pit
The Chairman
Bandolero!
10 North Frederick
Whirlpool
The River's Edge
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
Baby the Rain Must Fall
Talk Radio
Warlock
The Admirable Crichton
The Tall Men
Melvin and Howard
Wild In The Country
Bedazzled
Morituri
Hussy

[soundchaser]

I wish they’d let you pick 10 titles from all the $14.95 titles currently on sale — there are only two on that list I’m interested in.

[therewillbeblus]

There aren't even ten good films on that list, and that's including the titles that have better releases elsewhere. Seems like a desperate ploy.

[knives]

I count at least 15 good ones though I haven't seen all of them. This is not an endorsement of TT.

[senseabove]

If I hadn't already bought at $15 a handful of titles I was impatient for, I could probably make it to ten I'm interested in or curious enough to take a $12 flyer on from that list, but with the ones I already have, it's a stretch.

And if anybody needs one to tip them over, I'll say Lang's The Return Frank James is far better than its reputation. I think it's top-tier Lang, though I think you do have to see Henry King's Jesse James first. The King movie is good fun, if not exactly profound, with a few fantastic set pieces, but I think it's fascinating what Lang picks out of it and responds to. (And it probably wouldn't hurt to see Ford's Young Lincoln, too, as I can't shake the idea that Return is interesting partly because it's a German trying to understand how America talks to itself about its not-so-distant past, and part of that is casting Young Mr. Lincoln himself as an ex-Confederate soldier provoked to honorable action by a black man's suffering.)

[therewillbeblus]

You could also buy ten copies of Whirlpool and gift them to all Region-A bound family and friends under the guise of Robin Hood Santa

[nitin]

There's 10-12 good titles there but I already have all but one or two already (my top picks would be Melvin and Howard and the bizzarely hated Baby the Rain Must Fall).

[KJones77]

Per press release on HTF, physical media has outlasted Twilight Time

All stock to be turned over to SAE on July 1st. Until then, prices lowered again on TT's site which will be closing on July 1st.

[Apperson]

So after finding out at the 11th hour of their existence that TT are for the most part Region Free and coupled with he demise of 20th Century Fox, can anyone recommend any Fox titles in on their website and on Screen Archives for that matter?

I've already ordered Peyton Place, Garden of Evil, The Best of Everything, The Long, Hot Summer and No Dowm Payment from SAE or eBay.

[The Narrator Returns]

If you don't have Two For the Road already, it's an absolute masterpiece.

[Apperson]

If you don't have Two For the Road already, it's an absolute masterpiece.

Region-B motherfucker!

Although it's OOS on Amazon so I've ordered that right away from Eureka. The picture quality seems the same anyways so that's really all that matters.

[Rayon Vert]

Exodus is a favorite of mine, as I just stated yesterday in the 50s list. Like I absolutely love it. But you have to be able to get into the material and you possibly won't if you've got a heavily invested political opinion about the matter and can't just enjoy it as a piece from the period.

I really, really liked also Captain from Castile during the 40s project and the film benefits from this kind of quality image presentation.

Captain from Castile (King 1947). By length alone (2h21) it enters the epic range, but it meets the criteria in most ways as well. In 1518 Spain Tyrone Power is a nobleman who has to escape his country once his family become victims of the Inquisition, and he heads off to join Cortez as he’s about to start his expedition among the Aztecs. This King-and-Power-at-Fox swashbuckler is the polar opposite of The Black Swan: gravely serious and realistic in tone throughout. This was an extremely lengthy and expensive production, with all location shooting done in Mexico, when possible among the original historical sites for the Cortez segments, and it shows on the screen. With a sumptuously sweeping score from Newman, and on the strength of that more serious tone, an imperfect but engaging-enough narrative, pleasing actors like Romero, Cobb and a young Jean Peters in her debut bringing freshness to the romantic lead, and especially those terrific (Technicolor of course) vistas and the stunning beauty that frequently comes across the TT blu ray, this was a definite winner for me in the genre. It sometimes felt a bit out of its era, a bit more modern than the typical 40s adventure films - all that’s missing is the Scope!