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Suddenly, Last Summer (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1959)

Release Date: August 15th, 2017.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, August 2nd at 4 pm EST.

Special Features:

• Isolated Music & Effects Track
  Original Theatrical Trailer

Booklet artwork:

July 16th - A LIMITED 10 DAY SALE FROM TWILIGHT TIME! Sales starts today, Sunday July 16th at 4pm Eastern and ends Wednesday July 26th at Midnight Eastern. Please note the below titles with their appropriate price bracket, only the below titles are on sale for their noted pricing.

$24.95
YOU’LL NEVER GET RICH
YEAR OF THE COMET
BABY BOOM
ANOTHER WOMAN
THE QUIET AMERICAN

$19.95
STANLEY & IRIS
KISS OF DEATH
INTERIORS
CHILLY SCENES OF WINTER
THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA
HARLOCK SPACE PIRATE
THE BULLET TRAIN
BOXCAR BERTHA
LOVE AND DEATH
STARDUST MEMORIES

$14.95
RADIO DAYS
VIOLENT SATURDAY
THE KILLER ELITE
THE TWILIGHT SAMURAI
FLAMING STAR
THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO
U TURN
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S SEX COMEDY
SCORPIO
NICHOLAS NICKLEBY

$9.95
TITUS
WHEN THE WIND BLOWS
THE RUSSIA HOUSE
CHATO’S LAND
LA MOGLIE PIU BELLA

From Screen Archives (I reformatted it...)

The Emperor in August (Masato Harada, 2015)

Release Date: August 15th, 2017.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, August 2nd at 4 pm EST.

Special Features:

• Isolated Music & Effects Track
  Original Theatrical Trailers

Booklet artwork:

I'm having Wild Bill. Hoping for but not expecting a new transfer. This'll do until a UK company decides to do something with it.

Screen Archives and the TT website are having a sale on selected Sony/Columbia titles starting today and running through the 30th. Here's the titles and the price brackets:

$24.95
The Valachi Papers
The Crimson Kimono
The Stone Killer
You'll Never Get Rich
Snake in the Eagle's Shadow/Drunken Master

$19.95
Edge of Eternity
The Mad Magician
Our Man in Havana
Miss Sadie Thompson
Man in the Dark

$14.95
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
The Chase
Hardcore
Cat Ballou
10 Rillington Place
The Big Heat
The Last Detail
Bunny Lake is Missing
The Night of the Generals
All the King's Men
Moscow on the Hudson
Born Free
Sense and Sensibility
Devil in a Blue Dress
To Sir, with Love
Fat City
Funny Lady
The Remains of the Day
U Turn
The Man from Laramie

$9.95
The Member of the Wedding
Cowboy
Places in the Heart
The Buddy Holly Story
Born Yesterday
The Eddy Duchin Story
The Front
Alamo Bay
Bonjour Tristesse
Bobby Deerfield
In the French Style
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
The Fortune
Mindwarp

Just so you know, La Bamba just sold out; I assume several more from this list will follow too.

Has Born Yesterday already sold out? That is the second Sony title after Major Dundee that went OOP and I regret not buying! Let's hope Indicator or another UK label will release those shortly.

The Man from Laramie has now joined the sold out list; good thing I picked this one up during an earlier sale.

SAYONARA (1957) BLU-RAY - Nov 14th
BANANAS (1971) BLU-RAY - Nov 14th
DR DOLITTLE (1967) BLU-RAY - Nov 14th
GIDGET (1959) BLU-RAY - Nov 14th
THE YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF (1977) BLU-RAY - Nov 14th

Gidget has only been available in widescreen on back channels from its TCM airings, this is good news. Great film, and not as "fun" as it sounds. Haven't seen the original Yellow Handkerchief but I've seen the William Hurt remake and that's enough for me. Bananas is pointless thanks to Arrow. Dr Doolittle and Sayonara are two of the worst films ever nominated for Best Picture

I am actually shocked that Dr. Dolittle wasn't already put out as some cheap studio release a decade ago. It's not good obviously but I'd imagine it has better name recognition than a lot of other stuff from the same period!

Sweet! I've been wanting to marathon all the 1967 Best Picture nominees and Dr. Dolittle was the only one I didn't have on blu. Also always excited to get more Woody.

domino harvey wrote:Bananas is pointless thanks to Arrow.

Eh, sadly some of us are still region locked and often depend on these Twilight Time releases. I want to say I read on this board once the rumor that Criterion could get Bananas and Take the Money and Run; I guess that speculation is over? Is Take the Money and Run his only film to not be available on blu ray whatsoever? One of my favorites from the early years.

If something's coming from Criterion at this point it's either one of the unaccounted for 90s titles from Sony or the 4K versions of Manhattan or Annie Hall, but I'd say it's very likely neither is coming. Take the Money and Run is releasing in October - Criterion *had* it, but let it lapse and Kino picked it up, for whatever reason (it wouldn't surprise me if once the Kino release comes it shares similar source problems to the recent releases, considering that's a big reason Criterion might pass if no features are allowed!).

The Twilight Time releases are so expensive that just the cost difference of three of them vs the Arrow releases covers the cost of a decent region-free player.

I've been lucky enough to pick up most of the Twilight Time releases of Allen films that I like during half off sales or heavy discounts. Are the Arrow transfers better? Can't imagine them being much different with the source issues you mention.

If Criterion doesn't release these new transfers of Manhattan or Annie Hall, will it just be MGM again?

They probably just won't be released on disc, to be honest. I guess it's not out of the question Kino'd be interested in a bare-bones re-release, considering they've been doing a lot of that.

The Arrow transfers are better in that they're better encoded but it's an incredibly minor difference as the sources are still the same and TT's never really had a problem with encoding. I just think if you care about this stuff enough to be on this forum it's really not inconvenient at all or a massive expense to go region free!

Gun Fury 3D (Raoul Walsh, 1953)

Release Date: September 19th, 2017.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, September 6th at 4 pm EST.

Special Features:

• Isolated Music Track (Partial)
  Original Theatrical Trailer

Booklet:

Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (Robert D. Webb, 1953)

Release Date: September 19th, 2017.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, September 6th at 4 pm EST.

Confirmed on TT's Facebook to be the 2.55:1 AR version with stereophonic sound.

Special Features:

• Isolated Music Track
  Robert Wagner: Hollywood's Prince Charming

Booklet:

Lawman (Michael Winner, 1971)

Release Date: September 19th, 2017.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, September 6th at 4 pm EST.

Special Features:

• Isolated Music Track
  Original Theatrical Trailer

Booklet:

Wait, that Lawman cover is not terrible, what happened?

Hour of the Gun (John Sturges, 1967)

Release Date: September 19th, 2017.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, September 6th at 4 pm EST.

Special Features:

• Isolated Music & Effects Track
  Original Theatrical Trailer

Booklet:

That one isn't terrible either! Stop this ride, I don't know if my system can withstand this

September (Woody Allen, 1987)

Release Date: September 19th, 2017.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, September 6th at 4 pm EST.

Special Features:

• Isolated Music & Effects Track
  Original Theatrical Trailer

Booklet:

domino just loves seeing people get gunned down.

domino harvey wrote:Haven't seen the original Yellow Handkerchief but I've seen the William Hurt remake and that's enough for me.

I haven't seen, and indeed wasn't aware of, a remake, but I'll stand up for The Yellow Handkerchief. It's a pretty simple story, which is actually very similar to and based on the same source as the 1973 pop single "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" (the source is a short story published in 1971 in the New York Post entitled "Going Home" by columnist Pete Hamill.) If a two-hour feature with the same theme as a cheesy 3-minute pop tune sounds perfectly awful, you're in for a pleasant surprise. Yamada Yoji is a master at the quiet character-driven melodrama (when he's not cranking out Tora-San movies, that is), as the many fans of The Twilight Samurai know. Even though most viewers will never be in much doubt about what's going to happen, Takakura Ken and Baisho Chieko (Yamada's muse) make you care and keep you deeply engaged in the movie. I'm really looking forward to this release as my copy of The Yellow Handkerchief is a dismal Panorama DVD, part of a marvelous 5-film boxset of Yamada films with woeful transfers and terrible subtitles (Beaver), all of which (most especially the wonderful A Distant Cry from Spring) I'm now hoping will show up in upgraded editions from this or another label.