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Re: Twilight Time
Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2016 10:17 pm
by captveg
domino harvey wrote:What are the four MGM/UA releases that are being reissued? I'm guessing one is the Train?
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot is already coming 4/12, and I believe you are correct in that they confirmed
The Train is getting re-issued.
My guess is that the other two are from the other quick MGM-title sellouts:
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia,
Wild at Heart, and
Rollerball
I just wonder which one is the title not getting the re-issue.
Re: Twilight Time
Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2016 1:18 pm
by domino harvey
I COULD GO ON SINGING (1963) BLU-RAY - May 10th
EUREKA (1983) BLU-RAY - May 10th
GARDEN OF EVIL (1954) BLU-RAY - May 10th
CAT BALLOU (1965) BLU-RAY - May 10th
APPASSIONATA (1974) BLU-RAY - May 10th
ROMEO IS BLEEDING (1993) - June 14th
INSERTS (1975) BLU-RAY - June 14th
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES (1959) BLU-RAY - June 14th
THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING (1952) BLU-RAY - June 14th
THE PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK (1971) BLU-RAY - June 14th
ROLLERBALL (1975) BLU-RAY - June 14th
Inserts is a masterpiece and must-buy.
Re: Twilight Time
Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2016 2:02 pm
by mistakaninja
It's an MGM/UA picture, isn't it? Like The Offence and Eureka. Wonder if Eureka would think about going for it for a region B release. It never got a UK DVD, and I don't think there'd be certificate problems any longer.
Re: Twilight Time
Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2016 5:55 pm
by mfunk9786
How have I never heard of Inserts before? Sounds fascinating.
Re: Twilight Time
Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2016 8:28 pm
by domino harvey
I'm actually working on an audio essay/podcast thing about it and the other films that came out in this period that depicted Classical Hollywood in a sexually explicit fashion, so the timing here is great
Re: Twilight Time
Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2016 9:06 pm
by mizo
Would you be able to post a link on the forum when you're finished? I'd love to hear it!
Re: Twilight Time
Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2016 10:13 pm
by dwk
captveg wrote:domino harvey wrote:What are the four MGM/UA releases that are being reissued? I'm guessing one is the Train?
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot is already coming 4/12, and I believe you are correct in that they confirmed
The Train is getting re-issued.
My guess is that the other two are from the other quick MGM-title sellouts:
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia,
Wild at Heart, and
Rollerball
I just wonder which one is the title not getting the re-issue.
I thought that they said that they will be re-issuing
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, which, with the announcement of
Rollerball, would leave
Wild at Heart as the one not getting re-issued.
Maybe (hopefully) MGM didn't request a Twilight Time re-issue of
Wild at Heart because Lynch wants to work with Criterion on getting the deleted and extended scenes remastered and creating a new 4K transfer of the film.
Re: Twilight Time
Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2016 12:52 am
by Adam X
While we're dreaming a good dream, let's make it the
uncensored version.
Re: Twilight Time
Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2016 1:44 am
by vidussoni
dwk wrote:
I thought that they said that they will be re-issuing Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia,
I remember them saying this on Facebook a few months ago
Re: Twilight Time
Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2016 5:18 pm
by Jack Phillips
vidussoni wrote:dwk wrote:I thought that they said that they will be re-issuing Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia,
I remember them saying this on Facebook a few months ago
This is good news, but anyone who still needs this title on blu-ray--dual format, actually--may want to wait until April for what promises to be the definitive release: a 3-disc mediabook from Koch in Germany.
Re: Twilight Time
Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2016 7:46 pm
by dwk
Just to confirm,
TT posted on the Home Theater Forum the four MGM titles they have to re-issue and said that after this year they are never going to re-issue titles again (which is asinine, as the re-issues of the Sony titles have sold very well)
You might be interested in the fact that we have now publicly stated several times that after this year we are discontinuing our reissue program. Apart from the 4 MGM mandated titles this year - (Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Rollerball, Alfredo Garcia, and The Train) - we have no plans to do another run on previously sold out blu-rays.
Re: Twilight Time
Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2016 10:37 pm
by Ribs
Seems like they're shooting themselves in the foot - surely, if the rights become open again later this year, Criterion will put out Body Double themselves?
I realize they take the half-measure of "no plans" rather than totally ruling everything out but this makes me far less interested in quite a bit of their output as it appears to indicate they're happy to let other studios put out superior releases of the same films down the line.
Re: Twilight Time
Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2016 12:07 am
by Feego
Re: Twilight Time
Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2016 2:20 pm
by JMULL222
I'm making an assumption here, not speaking with authority, but I assume they mean "we're never again going to re-release a film without adding a new transfer/extras" as opposed to "we're never again doing an updated release of a movie we've already issued."
Re: Twilight Time
Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2016 5:11 pm
by neal
JMULL222 wrote:I'm making an assumption here, not speaking with authority, but I assume they mean "we're never again going to re-release a film without adding a new transfer/extras" as opposed to "we're never again doing an updated release of a movie we've already issued."
If that's going to be their approach, why would anyone buy from the first round for any release? I think they probably meant what they said...
Re: Twilight Time
Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2016 6:04 pm
by Arrow
neal wrote:JMULL222 wrote:I'm making an assumption here, not speaking with authority, but I assume they mean "we're never again going to re-release a film without adding a new transfer/extras" as opposed to "we're never again doing an updated release of a movie we've already issued."
If that's going to be their approach, why would anyone buy from the first round for any release? I think they probably meant what they said...
If you didn't buy the first round wouldn't you have to wait three years for the second release?
Re: Twilight Time
Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2016 9:32 pm
by pointless
Exodus (Otto Preminger, 1960)
Release Date: March 15th, 2016.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, March 2nd at 4 pm EST.
Booklet art:
Re: Twilight Time
Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2016 9:35 pm
by pointless
Lillies of the Field (Ralph Nelson, 1963)
Release Date: March 15th, 2016.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, March 2nd at 4 pm EST.
Special Features:
- Isolated Score Track (with some effects)
Audio Commentary with Film Historians Lem Dobbs, Julie Kirgo, and Nick Redman
Original Theatrical Trailer
Booklet art:
Re: Twilight Time
Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2016 9:38 pm
by pointless
Alexander the Great (Robert Rossen, 1956)
Release Date: March 15th, 2016.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, March 2nd at 4 pm EST.
Booklet art:
Re: Twilight Time
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2016 4:31 am
by pointless
10 Rillington Place (Richard Fleischer, 1971)
Release Date: March 15th, 2016.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, March 2nd at 4 pm EST.
Special Features:
- Isolated Score Track
Audio Commentary with Actress Judy Geeson, and Film Historians Lem Dobbs and Nick Redman
Audio Commentary with Actor John Hurt
Original Theatrical Trailer
Booklet cover:
Re: Twilight Time
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2016 5:18 am
by whaleallright
Lem Dobbs is a brilliant screenwriter and raconteur who knows a lot about film history, but don't you have to have published a work of history or two in order to be referred to as a "film historian"?
Re: Twilight Time
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2016 5:22 am
by flyonthewall2983
Merriam-Webster defines "historian" as someone who writes or studies about history, so it's either or I guess.
Re: Twilight Time
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2016 5:38 am
by FrauBlucher
Re: Twilight Time
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2016 7:42 am
by Gregory
flyonthewall2983 wrote:Merriam-Webster defines "historian" as someone who writes or studies about history, so it's either or I guess.
I don't know which Merriam-Webster that could be, but that makes my six-year-old niece a historian.
Re: Twilight Time
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2016 7:47 am
by beamish13
"Film connoisseur" or simply "filmmaker" would be more apt for Lem Dobbs (as an aside, I hope Twilight Time can acquire the first film he
has a credit on, the simply insane Gary Busey thriller Hider in the House)
