Twilight Time / Redwind

[Cronenfly]

Anyone had an order from last Wednesday shipped? Mine had no pre-orders, do the signed copies sometimes delay things?

[fdm]

Yes a signed copy can hold up your order for a while (days or possibly a week or two).

[kingofthejungle]

Anyone had an order from last Wednesday shipped? Mine had no pre-orders, do the signed copies sometimes delay things?

Just got a shipping notice (including the signed copy) this morning, so it shouldn't be too long now.

[Black Hat]

Tempted to take the plunge for Wild at Heart but what's the consensus, better to go for the UK BD?

[EddieLarkin]

I would. One of two UK releases has a messed up 5.1 track (there seems to be some confusion over which), though really the 2.0 track included is more authentic anyway. The TT disc has better compression, but not $30 better. The TT disc has supplements more relevant to the film itself, whilst the UK disc comes with the Dumbland mini series and two of Lynch's short films.

[fdm]

More recent pressings of the UK blu do have 5.1 lossless soundtrack (DTS-HD MA). Mine's a bit over a year old, the case artwork still said 2.0 only, but the disc itself has both soundtracks. And newer printings have the corrected info, to match what's on the corrected disc.

[pointless]

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison - Release Date: June 10th, 2014

Pre-order date: Wednesday, May 21st at 4 pm EST.

Special Features:

• Isolated Music & Effects Track
  Fox Movie Tone News
  Original Theatrical Trailer

Cover art:


Additional information from TT's Facebook page:

With a clever script by director John Huston and screenwriting veteran John Lee Mahin, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957) stars Robert Mitchum as a no-nonsense Marine and Deborah Kerr as a dedicated nun: a decidedly odd couple stranded on a South Pacific island overrun by hostile Japanese forces during World War II. Their struggle to survive and their growing friendship are beautifully captured by the camera of superb cinematographer Oswald Morris, and given further support by composer Georges Auric’s lovely score (available on this Twilight Time release as an isolated track).

[pointless]

The Train - Release Date: June 10th, 2014

Pre-order date: Wednesday, May 21st at 4 pm EST

Special Features:

• Isolated Score Track
  Audio Commentary with Film Historians Julie Kirgo, Paul Seydor, and Nick Redman
  Audio Commentary with Director John Frankenheimer
  Original Theatrical Trailer

Cover art:


Description from TT's Facebook page:

John Frankenheimer’s cracking adventure thriller, The Train (1964), stars the one and only Burt Lancaster as a workaday World War II-era French trainman charged with ensuring that a cargo of irreplaceable French art—the pride and heritage of his nation—is not allowed to leave France, despite the machinations of a Nazi officer (the superb Paul Scofield), determined to steal these great works for Germany. Also starring Jeanne Moreau and Michel Simon, and featuring compelling black-and-white cinematography by Jean Tournier and Walter Wottitz and a thrilling score by Maurice Jarre, The Train is one of the icons of Sixties cinema.

[pointless]

Resurrected - Release Date: June 10th, 2014

Pre-order date: Wednesday, May 21st at 4 pm EST

Special Features:

• Isolated Music & Effects Track
  Paul Greengrass on "Resurrected"
  David Thewlis on "Resurrected"

Cover art:


Additional description from TT's Facebook page:

The career-launching movie from director Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Ultimatum) and actor David Thewlis (Naked), Resurrected (1989) is a documentary-style film based on the true story of a Falklands soldier who turns up alive after being presumed dead and accorded a military funeral with full honors. With a tough screenplay by Martin Allen, the film makes no bones about the innocent soldier’s subsequent brutalization by his military comrades and fellow townspeople. A Berlin International Film Festival award-winner.

[pointless]

The Man from Laramie - Release Date: June 10th, 2014

Pre-order date: Wednesday, May 21st at 4 pm EST

Special Features:

• Isolated Music & Effects Track
  Original Theatrical Trailers

Cover art:


Additional information from TT's Facebook page:

Director Anthony Mann’s The Man from Laramie (1955), written by Philip Yordan and Frank Burt and photographed by the incomparable Charles Lang, stars James Stewart in the last of his five-film collaboration with Mann. Here, Stewart is a man with an agenda, determined to avenge the death of his brother and stumbling into a hornet’s nest of family dysfunction when he encounters the troubled Waggoman clan, New Mexico ranchers who make the tale of King Lear look like a children’s story. This Twilight Time version offers a new 4k transfer, re-mastered from the original negative, giving us the film in magnificent 2.55 for the first time since its initial release.

This is the first time this feature has been released in its original full 2.55 aspect ratio. Feature was transferred at 4k from the original negative. The 5.1 is newly mixed from the original ’55 4 track LCRS.

[Drucker]

Excited for The Train and Man From Laramie. How does the former stack up against Seconds and Manchurian Candidate?

[warren oates]

Getting Resurrected, The Man From Laramie and The Train. Especially psyched about the new commentary on The Train. It's not as if Frankenheimer's own commentary isn't great, but I can't get enough of Paul Seydor (see all of his Peckinpah tracks plus the excellent TT original he did for Conrack).

As for Drucker's question, The Train is one of those amazing Hollywood happenstances where everything turned out just right against all odds. The pulpy scenario shouldn't work. There's less reason to believe that Burt Lancaster is a member of the French resistance than, say, that he's part of the landed Sicilian gentry. The plot itself is like Monuments Men meets Unstoppable. There's a Nazi art train full of priceless plundered treasures heading from France to Germany, but not if the French Resistance can help it! And, wait, the Allied bombers don't even know the train's full of Picassos instead of war materiel! Double the danger! Did I mention that Arthur Penn got fired from the film early on? And yet? This is a simply a great effing movie. It's full of rip roaring action and suspense set pieces that are just about ten times better than they have any right being. All of the railroad procedural stuff feels dynamic and insidery authentic. Plus there's Jeanne Moreau. Frankenheimer started the show with only days of notice and apparently demanded a new Ferrari as part of his emergency replacement fee. He was obviously worth it.

[Drucker]

You've sold me, Warren. Seconds was obviously great, and I finally saw Manchurian Candidate recently and it surely lived up to the hype.

Also Man From Laramie will likely be my first Mann film I see.

[repeat]

Man, for a fleeting instant I got all excited this was the Granier-Deferre Train with Trintignant and Schneider (there's another war/train film ripe for rediscovery), then for 15 minutes I was disappointed it wasn't, and now having read your description I'm even more excited for this

[Adam X]

I think another thing that helps make The Train really work is its sense of authenticity surrounding the use of trains in the film. Thanks to the use of actual steam trains in all the stuntwork and the fact that the cast members involved in driving the trains were actually taught how to operate them; and getting to see actual replacement parts made in real time.
Despite its pulp historical narrative, this all helps to ground the film and make the world feel more lived in.

Frankenheimer's commentary is really interesting too.

[captveg]

Plus, the ending of The Train, unlike Monuments Men, refuses to answer the question "Is preserving culture and art worth the risk of human lives?", and it non-answers in a truly brutal way, with the question being derisively put forth by the Nazi villain, something modern audiences would possibly protest if done today.

[whaleallright]

:deleted: for being a tangent, sorry

[pointless]

The Mechanic - Release Date: June 10th, 2014

Pre-order date: Wednesday, May 21st at 4 pm EST

Special Features:

• Isolated Score Track
  Audio Commentary with Cinematographer Richard H. Kline and Film Historian Nick Redman
  Original Theatrical Trailer

Cover art:


Additional information from TT's Facebook page:

Director Michael Winner’s The Mechanic (1972) stars his long-term collaborator, the sui generis Charles Bronson, as a hardened professional hitman who’s feeling the strains of his profession. He joins forces with a ruthless up-and-comer (Jan-Michael Vincent) in a partnership that wavers between sustaining and profoundly dangerous. Featuring a spectacular score from the one and only Jerry Fielding, available on this Twilight Time release as an isolated track.

[Zot!]

Seems like TT are finally starting to get this cover art thing. I hope they'll release Mr. Majestyk as well.

edit: Ha! Kino just announced Mr. Majestyk today.

[jindianajonz]

Seems like TT are finally starting to get this cover art thing.

I was thinking the same thing. Resurrected, Man from Laramie, and The Train are the first ones they've done that have caught my eye and didn't feel like generic old film posters.

[pointless]

June titles booklet artwork:

[Black Hat]

Seems like everyday Twilight Time is announcing new releases, what's changed?

I would. One of two UK releases has a messed up 5.1 track (there seems to be some confusion over which), though really the 2.0 track included is more authentic anyway.

More recent pressings of the UK blu do have 5.1 lossless soundtrack (DTS-HD MA). Mine's a bit over a year old, the case artwork still said 2.0 only, but the disc itself has both soundtracks. And newer printings have the corrected info, to match what's on the corrected disc.

Thanks fellas.

[captveg]

Seems like everyday Twilight Time is announcing new releases, what's changed?

They've added three titles a month (2/mo from MGM, 1/mo from Protagonist Pictures).

[Black Hat]

That's all? Seems like a lot more. Also for what it's worth I have to disagree with those liking these covers. Most of them look like they were made at Kinkos around 3am by teenagers taking a break from making fake id's and bong hits.

[Jack Phillips]

Also for what it's worth I have to disagree with those liking these covers. Most of them look like they were made at Kinkos around 3am by teenagers taking a break from making fake id's and bong hits.

The one for The Mechanic has a very period-specific feel. In fact, it should, as it is taken from a poster from the original European release.