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[domino harvey]

No Down Payment is a big yes, Blue Denim is just okay but interesting from a contextual perspective. Neither of these will ever, ever be released by another label even if Fox starts licensing again

[HinkyDinkyTruesmith]

I second the big yes for No Down Payment. A great, great film.

[beamish14]

I've never seen either of the Ken Loach films they've been trying to unload for a long time. Worth $10 together?

Also, I really recommend Neil Jordan's Angel, especially at this price.

[knives]

No Down Payment is a big yes, Blue Denim is just okay but interesting from a contextual perspective. Neither of these will ever, ever be released by another label even if Fox starts licensing again

I could see an Olive or Kino tackling them though I agree we can assume them dead for now.

[Apperson]

Has anyone here seen either 10 North Fredrick or Anastasia and have thoughts for someone on the fence?

[knives]

Anastasia is okay. One of those pleasant enough prestige films that are common enough.

[domino harvey]

Here’s my thoughts on the Litvak

Anastasia (Anatole Litvak 1956) Ingrid Bergman returns from her Hollywood exile and gets her second (and first of two undeserved) Oscar for playing the is she or isn't she titular heir to the Tsar. Bergman beat, among others, Caroll Baker in Baby Doll, in which actual and memorable acting in a still-relevant film occurs, so I guess that was an easy decision for voters trying to ensure the question-mark reputation of the awards survives and thrives 4ever. On that note, this film is so stagebound and dull that it's kind of amazing in how misguided it is-- after opening with a promising glimpse at the Russian Orthodox celebration of Easter, we then are shoved inside a cellar for like twenty minutes for a seemingly endless scene of talk talk talk in the drabbest locale imaginable, despite the best efforts of the 'Scope frame to show us more indistinguishable gray slate wall than ever before! Eventually Yul Brenner, as the military leader who's organized the scam to pass Bergman off as Anastasia, falls in love, which is barely indicated until the cop-out ending, where the movie just sort of fizzles out and ends. One of the biggest "How did this movie get so far with so many talented people without someone pointing out all of the obvious problems in the material" head-scratchers of the studio era.

[beamish14]

Final Haul:

Talk Radio
No Down Payment (thanks for the rec! I like Ritt's other films but have never seen this)
Carla's Song
Fatherland
Geronimo
Wild Bill
Melvin & Howard
The Hot Rock
Cutter's Way

[bluesforyou]

Maybe the label would still be alive if I had done this earlier.

from Twilight Time website:

Broken Lance
Garden of Evil
Two For The Road
My Sister Eileen
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
Melvin and Howard
The Tall Men

From Screen Archives:

Cutter's Way
The Long Hot Summer
No Down Payment
Peyton Place
Pretty Poison
Gloria
The Hot Rock
Inferno

[therewillbeblus]

I just got my order from their sale last week, but placed another one for No Down Payment, The Hospital, Adventures of Hajji Baba and Broken Lance all of which are blind except the last - though domino had to remind me of its existence (I remember liking it)

I'm particularly excited for No Down Payment given it being mentioned in the same breath as my favorite melodrama more than a few times, and I must have blindly glanced past it countless times until now

[domino harvey]

No Down Payment has more in common with the Lonely Crowd or a movie like the Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (which surely must have been on TT's radar but which will no doubt never be released now) in showing how the middle classes processed the fifties

And, uh, I hated the Hospital. It operates on a very specific wavelength that those attuned to will love. But it's a big "Oof" from me

[domino harvey]

Also can't believe I scrolled right past Baby the Rain Must Fall and the L-Shaped Room. L-Shaped Room has a Blu-ray from Studio Canal in the UK and seems likely to be grabbed by Kino Lorber, at least, and Baby the Rain Must Fall would be right at home at Indicator and is Sony so it could be

[beamish14]

I was tempted to blind buy L-Shaped Room, as I've read the novel and enjoyed it, but I wouldn't be surprised if the BFI or
someone else eventually puts out a more comprehensive release. TCM airs it a lot, and I think it's still somewhere on my DVR, anyway.

I also passed on Beat the Devil due to the BFI disc.

[domino harvey]

Again, the L-Shaped Room already has a fairly recent UK release, so it won't be coming from the BFI. It's a very good film, of a piece with all the other colorful locals inhabiting an apartment building movies/shows

[Reverend Drewcifer]

No Down Payment has more in common with the Lonely Crowd or a movie like the Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (which surely must have been on TT's radar but which will no doubt never be released now) in showing how the middle classes processed the fifties

And, uh, I hated the Hospital. It operates on a very specific wavelength that those attuned to will love. But it's a big "Oof" from me

Not a lot of love for The Hospital as a whole, but I will go to bat for long Chayefsky speeches. I eagerly await a supercut of Charles Haid from Altered States. A side-to-side with Britannia Hospital shows the flaws of both, especially considering Arthur Hiller is merely a serviceable peddler of the material.

[Finch]

Managed to get Cutter's Way from the Screen Archive link. Thanks dom.

[HinkyDinkyTruesmith]

I ended up picking up Forever Amber and Bound for Glory from SAE, and My Sister Eileen and No Down Payment from TT. As much as I enjoyed Eileen on the old DVD, I'm absolutely stoked to see it on blu-ray.

[britcom68]

I am just curious, has anyone else received any emails from TT with their shipping confirmation or email notice of payments received but still processing for shipping? Normally I feel I do not wait over 24-hours for an email, but I wonder if they are just getting too slammed at moment to keep up.

[Glowingwabbit]

I am just curious, has anyone else received any emails from TT with their shipping confirmation or email notice of payments received but still processing for shipping? Normally I feel I do not wait over 24-hours for an email, but I wonder if they are just getting too slammed at moment to keep up.

Not yet. I imagine they've never dealt with so many orders at once before plus everything is slower right now anyway because of COVID. I wouldn't worry.

Edit: oops it looks like I did get payment confirmation emails for both orders I placed. But no shipping confirmation yet.

[fiddlesticks]

I am just curious, has anyone else received any emails from TT with their shipping confirmation or email notice of payments received but still processing for shipping? Normally I feel I do not wait over 24-hours for an email, but I wonder if they are just getting too slammed at moment to keep up.

I placed two orders with two different payment methods, and I received order and payment confirmation emails for both very soon after placing the orders. Neither have shipped, if that's what you are asking.

[senseabove]

I placed an order very quickly, after KJones77 posted about the HTF post and before the email went out, and I got a shipping notice last night.

[L.A.]

Bless you all for the recommendations. From the $8.95 price bracket, how about Short Night of the Glass Dolls and The Doll of Satan, any fans?

[soundchaser]

Short Night of Glass Dolls is...ok. Not crazy about most of it, but the ending’s cool. If you like other gialli, you probably can’t go wrong for $8.95.

[fdm]

I put an order in last night. Thought about Glass Dolls as a double dip, but by then it was already sold out at TT. In the end I didn't double-dip on anything I already had from elsewhere, just picked up a few that I'd relegated to maybe whenever this situation finally arose, plus a couple more.

[Apperson]

Got a couple of potential reach titles sitting in my wishlist over at SAE, but for now these are my last orders.

Yesterday at Screen Archives:

The Bravados
Pretty Poison
Inferno
The Hot Rock
Cutter's Way (as a MGM title if this gets announced later by a UK boutique label you're welcome)

And today from TwilightTimeMovies aka the wild-card round:

Blue Denim
The Revolt of Mamie Stover
Julia
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
Three Coins in the Fountain