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Re: Twilight Time

#2951 Post by Dylan » Sat Jan 20, 2018 4:25 pm

domino harvey wrote:Wow, No Down Payment and Blue Denim are both dream releases. Well done, TT!
Indeed! It's wonderful that these two rare 1950s Hollywood dramas are being released on blu-ray. I haven't seen No Down Payment, but I've wanted to for years. I have seen Blue Denim a couple times and it's an excellent '50s teen drama with beautiful cinematography and a powerful Bernard Herrmann score.

Also, I adore Model Shop and I'm very happy it's getting a blu-ray release.
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Re: Twilight Time

#2952 Post by domino harvey » Sat Jan 20, 2018 5:03 pm

No Down Payment is, in my opinion, the key film exploration of the post-war 50s American middle class malaise. Tony Randall is especially great (in an inspired casting choice) as a pathetic salesman

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Re: Twilight Time

#2953 Post by pointless » Sun Jan 21, 2018 7:47 pm

Harry and Walter Go to New York (Mark Rydell, 1976)

Release Date: February 20th, 2018.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, February 7th at 4 pm EST.

Special Features:
  • Isolated Music Track
    Audio Commentary with Film Historians Eddy Friedfeld, Lee Pfeiffer, and Paul Scrabo
    Original Theatrical Trailer
    Brand New 4K Transfer
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Re: Twilight Time

#2954 Post by pointless » Sun Jan 21, 2018 7:50 pm

Manhattan Murder Mystery (Woody Allen, 1993)

Release Date: February 20th, 2018.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, February 7th at 4 pm EST.

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    Original Theatrical Trailer
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Re: Twilight Time

#2955 Post by Michael Kerpan » Sun Jan 21, 2018 10:29 pm

Just got Yamada's Yellow Handkerchief -- and can report it looks really gorgeous compared to the ancient HK DVD release.

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Re: Twilight Time

#2956 Post by pointless » Fri Jan 26, 2018 4:08 pm

The Incident (Larry Peerce, 1967)

Release Date: February 20th, 2018.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, February 7th at 4 pm EST.

Special Features:
  • Isolated Music & Effects Track
    Audio Commentary with Director Larry Peerce and Film Historian Nick Redman
    Original Theatrical Trailer
    Brand New 4K Transfer
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Re: Twilight Time

#2957 Post by pointless » Fri Jan 26, 2018 4:11 pm

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (Paul Newman, 1972)

Release Date: February 20th, 2018.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, February 7th at 4 pm EST.

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  • Isolated Music & Effects Track
    Original Theatrical Trailer
    Brand New 4K Transfer
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Re: Twilight Time

#2958 Post by The Elegant Dandy Fop » Fri Jan 26, 2018 6:24 pm

I can almost never justify Twilight Time prices, but those two films are excellent choices that deserve to be pulled from obscurity. They’re doing some real exciting releases as of late.

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Re: Twilight Time

#2959 Post by L.A. » Fri Jan 26, 2018 7:01 pm

The Incident was shown on TV here last year and it sure is awesome. Martin Sheen’s first film. Plus that cover is beautiful.

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Re: Twilight Time

#2960 Post by domino harvey » Sat Jan 27, 2018 2:37 pm

The OOP Birdman of Alcatraz will be rereleased by Olive next month

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Husbands and Wives

#2961 Post by BirdLives » Wed Jan 31, 2018 3:12 pm

Anyone else received their disc of Husbands and Wives? I received mine yesterday and the image is, to me... very disappointing. It's dark and very red. With a lot of fiddling with my TV settings (contrast down, brightness up, saturation [color] down a bit, color shifted toward green/away from red 5 points or so) I can get an ok/acceptable image, but I'm still a bit surprised.

With those adjustments to my TV, outdoor or well-lit scenes look fine. The extra resolution/detail versus DVD is great. But much of the movie takes places indoors at night in dim light, and some scenes really push the amount of light (for instance, the Liam Neeson/Judy Davis lovemaking scene). In those scenes, on my (plasma) TV, the blacks lose all detail and even have a kind of "electronic" look to my eye that makes the black areas seem to "float" in front of other colors. I've never seen this effect before with any disc, and I've got scores of them. (Which makes me think, I should look at some of the opening scenes of the Godfather and compare...)

I compared to my old DVD of H&W and the DVD is clearly boosted. It's much brighter. But there is at least some detail in the dark areas. For instance, in the "interview" sections Judy Davis' dark red hair still has detail on the DVD, while on this new blu ray, large areas of her hair fall off to pure black. It's a little distracting.

I have 10 or 12 other Twilight Time releases and have never noticed this before. Bananas looks great, Crimes and Misdemeanors looks great, (which also makes me think, I should look at Purple Rose of Cairo again; that has many dark scenes... ETA: following up, looked at Purple Rose and it looks excellent)... I remember that in the theater H&W was darkish, but I don't remember it being this dark, and I have no other disc in my collection which requires such adjustment to the TV to look acceptable. A bit odd...

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Re: Twilight Time

#2962 Post by domino harvey » Wed Jan 31, 2018 8:55 pm

TT may not even have three year rights anymore: Mill Creek is releasing the Valachi Papers, which only came out from TT a few months ago! (And the set also includes two other TT releases, for half the MSRP of one TT film)

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Re: Twilight Time

#2963 Post by tenia » Thu Feb 01, 2018 4:41 am

Wow, they're really dying now.
On the other hand, it seems all 4 movies are on a single BD. :shock:
BirdLives wrote:Anyone else received their disc of Husbands and Wives? I received mine yesterday and the image is, to me... very disappointing. It's dark and very red. With a lot of fiddling with my TV settings (contrast down, brightness up, saturation [color] down a bit, color shifted toward green/away from red 5 points or so) I can get an ok/acceptable image, but I'm still a bit surprised.
All the Woody Allen MGM titles are from old HD masters. Some are better than others (the B&W ones always seemed slightly better to me, notably), but as a whole, they're visibly dated and I doubt their color-grading is very faithful to the movies' original intentions. It thus isn't surprising to find some disappointing.

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Re: Twilight Time

#2964 Post by dwk » Thu Feb 01, 2018 11:03 am

tenia wrote:Wow, they're really dying now.
On the other hand, it seems all 4 movies are on a single BD. :shock:
The sell sheet says it is two discs, but this is Mill Creek and they jammed four Gamera movies on a single Blu-ray.

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Re: Twilight Time

#2965 Post by domino harvey » Thu Feb 01, 2018 11:09 am

Husbands & Wives (and the forthcoming Manhattan Murder Mystery) aren't MGM, they're Sony

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Re: Twilight Time

#2966 Post by tenia » Thu Feb 01, 2018 11:33 am

My bad. This being said, the same logic sadly applies (though Sony pre-existing HD masters are on average better than that).

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Re: Husbands and Wives

#2967 Post by BirdLives » Thu Feb 01, 2018 1:11 pm

I'm going to be curious to see what the Blu Ray review sites say about this disc. I'm not a professional, although I do know a bit about photography and cinematography, and I've got a lot of experience watching Blu Rays certainly. Something is wrong with the transfer, in my opinion. It shouldn't look so dark that you have to pump up the TV controls just to see the expressions on faces in the interior scenes.

One interesting point though. Last night I was reading the section of the book "Woody Allen on Woody Allen" on H&W and Woody says: "... I said to myself, why not just start to make some films where only the content is important. Pick up the camera, forget about the dolly, just hand-hold the thing and get what you can. And then, don't worry about color correcting it, don't worry about mixing it so much, don't worry about all this precision stuff and just see what happens."

Anyone know if the Woody Allen blu ray sets released in England have been the same transfers that come out on blu ray here? I'm referring to, for instance, "Woody Allen: Seven Films 1986-1991". (That's the last of the sets yet released; thus H&W hasn't yet been released in a set.) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Woody-Allen-Se ... 1517504916

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Re: Twilight Time

#2968 Post by Drucker » Thu Feb 01, 2018 1:27 pm

The Arrow sets and the TT releases (from MGM films) all come from the same masters, just different encodes.

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Re: Twilight Time

#2969 Post by MichaelB » Thu Feb 01, 2018 6:31 pm

There won’t be any more Arrow box sets - they only spanned the UA/Orion years. The most likely label to release Husbands and Wives is Indicator, but although enquiries have been made with Sony they’ve proved fruitless so far.

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Re: Twilight Time

#2970 Post by Ribs » Thu Feb 01, 2018 8:04 pm

Ah, it's a bummer to hear that Sony in the UK is apparently not budging on a release as I hoped Indicator had these on their agenda. I'd been avoiding all TT releases because as soon as Indicator announced themselves it became clear to me that TT's entire business model was a gigantic fraud, but it does seem like this'll be the only way to get these handful of Allens excepting a weird circumstance. (Any chance it's planned for a bare bones Eureka Classics set, I guess?)

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Re: Twilight Time

#2971 Post by dwk » Fri Feb 02, 2018 5:15 pm

Another Twilight Time sale on MGM/UA titles. Get 'em before Olive/Shout/Kino re-release them :P:
TT's MGM/UA Blow-out sale starts today at 4 pm EST - http://www.screenarchives.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; and https://www.twilighttimemovies.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; - 81 titles included - see list below

PRICE BRACKET 1: $6.95

THE SECRET OF SANTA VITTORIA
THE BELIEVERS
AUDREY ROSE
AMERICAN BUFFALO
MISSISSIPPI MERMAID

PRICE BRACKET 2: $9.95

SCORPIO
SOLOMON AND SHEBA
KINGS GO FORTH
THE HAPPY ENDING
THE GLORY GUYS
THE FANTASTICKS
LOVE AND DEATH
ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS
THE WORLD OF HENRY ORIENT
SUMMER LOVERS
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S SEX COMEDY
BOUND FOR GLORY
ALEXANDER THE GREAT
A PRAYER FOR THE DYING
INSERTS
THE BLACK STALLION RETURNS
FROM NOON TILL THREE
EUREKA
STANLEY & IRIS
YEAR OF THE COMET

PRICE BRACKET 3: $14.95

STATE OF GRACE
AT CLOSE RANGE
STRANGE INVADERS
SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN
COUNT YORGA, VAMPIRE
SHADOWS AND FOG
HAWAII
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF / SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL GUNFIGHTER
THE HAWAIIANS
EXODUS
THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT
CHATO'S LAND
CUTTER'S WAY
I COULD GO ON SINGING
ROLLERBALL
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
ROMEO IS BLEEDING
ZELIG
THE RUSSIA HOUSE
THEATRE OF BLOOD
BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA
EYE OF THE NEEDLE
REMO WILLIAMS
MURPHY'S LAW
THE TRAIN
RUNAWAY TRAIN
BOXCAR BERTHA
I WANT TO LIVE!
THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA
NICHOLAS NICKLEBY
STARDUST MEMORIES
COMES A HORSEMAN
CHILLY SCENES OF WINTER
THE QUIET AMERICAN
INTERIORS
BABY BOOM
HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING
ANOTHER WOMAN
THE FORTUNE COOKIE
8 HEADS IN A DUFFEL BAG

PRICE BRACKET 4: $19.95

WHO'LL STOP THE RAIN
THE MAN IN THE MOON
EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX...
THE BRIDGE AT REMAGEN
TOM SAWYER / HUCKLEBERRY FINN
KID GALAHAD
SEPTEMBER
LAWMAN
HOUR OF THE GUN
PLAY DIRTY
WILD BILL
BANANAS
SAYONARA
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
THE HOSPITAL
ALICE

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Re: Twilight Time

#2972 Post by Costa » Fri Feb 02, 2018 6:02 pm

I'd like to get Alexander the Great, but I don't know... such epic films require a 4k scan.
I wonder if there will be another release by someone else in the future.

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Re: Twilight Time

#2973 Post by pointless » Thu Feb 22, 2018 1:00 pm

Underworld U.S.A. (Samuel Fuller, 1961)

Release Date: March 20th, 2018.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, March 7th at 4 pm EST.

Special Features:
  • Isolated Music Track
    Sam Fuller Storyteller
    Martin Scorsese on Underworld U.S.A.
    Original Theatrical Trailer
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Re: Twilight Time

#2974 Post by pointless » Thu Feb 22, 2018 1:03 pm

The New Centurions (Richard Fleischer, 1972)

Release Date: March 20th, 2018.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, March 7th at 4 pm EST.

Special Features:
  • Isolated Music Track
    Audio Commentary with Actor Scott Wilson and Film Historian Nick Redman
    Audio Commentary with Film Historians Lee Pfeiffer and Paul Scrabo
    Original Theatrical Trailer
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Booklet art:
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Re: Twilight Time

#2975 Post by What A Disgrace » Thu Feb 22, 2018 1:05 pm

Well, The New Centurians actually has a few decent supplements.

As for Underworld U.S.A., I'll wait and see what Indicator has to say about that.

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