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That same scratch filter was used for TT's original DVD release of My Cousin Rachel with the Princess Leia image:



It appears now that they are trying to evoke The Dark Mirror. And yes, that Gulliver's Travels, er Dragonwyck cover is awful.

ALSO A SIGNED PROMOTION, WHILE SUPPLIES LAST!

PLEASE NOTE: THIS ITEM IS ONLY AVAILABLE TO THOSE CUSTOMERS WHO SPEND $149.75 OR MORE ON TWILIGHT TIME PRODUCT BEFORE SHIPPING. THIS OFFER IS STRICTLY LIMITED TO ONE PER CUSTOMER. YOU MUST HAVE THE QUALIFYING TWILIGHT TIME ITEMS WITHIN YOUR CURRENT ORDER ALONG WITH THE SIGNED COPY, NO PREVIOUS, CURRENTLY PENDING OR FUTURE ORDERS QUALIFY!



WILD BILL (1995)
SIGNED BY DIRECTOR WALTER HILL

Via Screen Archives, not TT's site

From Screen Archives:

A SPECIAL TWILIGHT TIME SALE! 15 TITLES FOR 15 DAYS! $6.95 each! The Sale begins Wednesday, January 17th at 4pm Eastern and ends Thursday, February 1st at 4pm Eastern. Orders must be placed during the sale period to obtain the sale pricing. No past, currently pending or future orders will qualify.

ANGEL
AUDREY ROSE
BANDIT QUEEN
THE BELIEVERS
CARLA'S SONG
FATHERLAND
FEVER PITCH
THE FIRM
MINDWARP
A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY
RESURRECTED
RIFF-RAFF / RAINING STONES
RITA, SUE AND BOB TOO
SAVE YOUR LEGS
THE SECRET OF SANTA VITTORIA

MODEL SHOP (1969) BLU-RAY - April 17th

AUTO FOCUS (2002) BLU-RAY - April 17th

NO DOWN PAYMENT (1957) BLU-RAY - April 17th (Brand New 4K Transfer)

BLUE DENIM (1959) BLU-RAY - April 17th (Brand New 4K Transfer)

Model Shop is Columbia, so there's still a chance for an Indicator release. Whew.

Wow, No Down Payment and Blue Denim are both dream releases. Well done, TT!

I liked Auto Focus when it came out (which I'm realizing now is eligible for the current list project), so that'll be three for me.

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.

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

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

Booklet art:

Manhattan Murder Mystery (Woody Allen, 1993)

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

Special Features:

• Isolated Music & Effects Track
  Original Theatrical Trailer

Booklet art:

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

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

Booklet art:

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.

Special Features:

• Isolated Music & Effects Track
  Original Theatrical Trailer
  Brand New 4K Transfer

Booklet art:

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.

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

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

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...

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)

Wow, they're really dying now.
On the other hand, it seems all 4 movies are on a single BD.

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.

tenia wrote:Wow, they're really dying now.
On the other hand, it seems all 4 movies are on a single BD.

The sell sheet says it is two discs, but this is Mill Creek and they jammed four Gamera movies on a single Blu-ray.

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

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

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

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