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Is the March sale at screen archives something that happens more than once a year?

JohnShade wrote:Is the March sale at screen archives something that happens more than once a year?

I think they tend to have some sort of sale in November.

Ashirg wrote:Seeing how Thunderbirds double feature ended up with Kino Lorber and the Sony titles getting released in superior region Free editions from Powerhouse/Indicator Series, I no longer see the need to support this label, at least until the prices drop below $14.95...

I feel the same way, though I broke down and bought two MGM titles during this sale for $14.95. To buy any more Sony TT titles would be the definition of insanity.

Broadway Danny Rose has sold out.

Less than 30 copies left of Lilies of the Field (at Twilight's site only)

Announcements are now going to be for one month (3 months out) every month rather than two months worth of titles (3 & 4 months out) every other month.

Titles for July per HTF announcement:

TOM SAWYER (1973) / HUCKLEBERRY FINN (1974) BLU-RAY - July 18th

EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX* (*but were afraid to ask) (1972) BLU-RAY - July 18th

STATE FAIR (1962) BLU-RAY - July 18th

THE CRIMSON KIMONO (1959) BLU-RAY - July 18th

Oh goody, I can see more announcements of nothing I will buy.

Is it likely that Twilight Time will release Take the Money and Run or will that be the first Woody Criterion?

JohnShade wrote:Is it likely that Twilight Time will release Take the Money and Run or will that be the first Woody Criterion?

That's an ABC Pictures title, so it's either with Kino or Criterion.

Fox has truly given up if they relinquished a R&H musical

Kinda figured that Criterion had The Crimson Kimono (and Underworld USA.) Hopefully the good folks at Indicator have it/them, so I can avoid having to buy them from TT.

The Man in the Moon (Robert Mulligan, 1991)

Release Date: May 16th, 2017.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, May 3rd at 4 pm EST.

Special Features:

• Isolated Music Track
  Original Theatrical Trailer

Booklet artwork:

Who'll Stop the Rain (Karel Reisz, 1978)

Release Date: May 16th, 2017.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, May 3rd at 4 pm EST.

Special Features:

• Isolated Music Track
  Supervising Editor John Bloom Talks About Who'll Stop the Rain
  Original Theatrical Trailer

Booklet artwork:

Inferno 3D (Roy Ward Baker, 1953)

Release Date: May 16th, 2017.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, May 3rd at 4 pm EST.

Special Features:

• Isolated Music Track
  Audio Commentary with Film Historian Alan K. Rode, Robert Ryan’s Daughter Lisa Ryan, and Actress Rhonda Fleming
  A New Dimension of Noir: Filming Inferno in 3D
  Original Theatrical Trailer

Booklet artwork:

The Stone Killer (Michael Winner, 1973)

Release Date: May 16th, 2017.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, May 3rd at 4 pm EST.

Special Features:

• Isolated Music Track
  Audio Commentary with Bronson Biographer Paul Talbot
  Original Theatrical Trailer

Booklet artwork:

Brutal Tales of Chivarly (Shôwa zankyô-den) - (Kiyoshi Saeki, 1965)

Release Date: May 16th, 2017.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, May 3rd at 4 pm EST.

Region A only

Special Features:

• Brutal Tales of Filmmaking: Toei Producer Toru Yoshida

Booklet artwork:

Underwhelming cover art for Brutal Tales

htdm wrote:Underwhelming cover art

Stop right there and apply to all covers past, present, and future in this thread

Now now, quite a few of them are overwhelming(ly awful).

Good point. It is remarkable how consistently awful their covers are, though. Has there ever been a good one?

Some of the ones based on poster art (e.g. The Driver, Bound for Glory) are goodish I guess.

Guys stop criticizing the art historian's judgement.

Twilight Time always manage to screw up the design on covers that use the original poster. Indicator does it so elegantly with perfect font placement, but Twilight Time feels sloppy. And the worst of their covers look like those old airbrushed, Turner VHS covers from their old RKO and MGM catalog. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

The Elegant Dandy Fop wrote:And the worst of their covers look like those old airbrushed, Turner VHS covers from their old RKO and MGM catalog. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

Yep.

Though I did actually like TT's cover for Bell, Book and Candle:

pointless wrote:

That title font and color scheme is basically a Newsweek cover from back in the day. It just needs a tagline, something like "Generation Samurai: What can it mean when our children and their video games and shows idolize ruthless warriors of a bygone age?"