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Feego wrote:

tenia wrote:If there is a market in the UK for TWO different fully-fledged BD releases, I don't see why there wouldn't be 3000 potential sales in the US. But it probably is a different "market" than for regular movies, in the way that it doesn't mean buyers are necessarily buying it because they like the movie.

Exactly. The Blu editions released by Kino and Twilight Time in the States are now basically the same (give or take a few extras/booklets) as the editions released by MoC and BFI in the UK. I don't recall anyone having a cow when the BFI released their edition, even though there was already a perfectly good one available, so I'm not getting the shock and awe this seems to be inspiring. Not that I'm the biggest fan of Twilight Time's model, but this is a situation where most people buying it will probably be collectors specifically doing so for the Photoplay restoration, which is said to be better than that used for the Kino/MoC editions. And I don't see anything wrong with that restoration being made available to the U.S. market.

Ribs wrote:But the sheer audacity of Twilight Time, whose entire mission is "we're releasing the things no one else would for so they'll have a BD when the home video market disappears in *checks calendar* 18 months" to release a movie with several perfectly good releases due to being PD already in its same, ridiculously unnecessary $35 format is basically a new level for them.

I mean, this release is frankly less questionable than some of their more populist releases like Steel Magnolias and As Good As It Gets on that front. Who else would release this restoration, outside of another boutique label? Would it make you any happier if Criterion or Cohen Films were releasing it?

• Isolated Music Track
  Original Theatrical Trailers

• Isolated Music Track (with some dialogue and effects)
  Original Theatrical Trailer

Twilight Time's Art Department wrote:What's our quota on giant legs for the month?

pointless wrote: Wed May 23, 2018 7:28 pm My Sister Eileen (Richard Quine, 1955)

Release Date: June 19th, 2018.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, June 6th at 4 pm EST.

Special Features:

• Isolated Music Track (with some dialogue and effects)
  Original Theatrical Trailer

Feego wrote: Wed May 23, 2018 7:38 pm

Twilight Time's Art Department wrote:What's our quota on giant legs for the month?

Gregory wrote:But since they seem to have reproduced the image with the aid of a cheap early-1990s color printer, details like the confetti become unrecognizable.

• Isolated Music Track

• Isolated Music Track
  Original Theatrical Trailer

• THE EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS ON MAN-IN-THE-MOON MARIGOLDS
  THE INCIDENT
  THE SEVEN-UPS
  DON'T BOTHER TO KNOCK
  NO DOWN PAYMENT
  BLUE DENIM

• INFERNO 3D - LOW QUANTITY
  HELL AND HIGH WATER
  STATE FAIR
  THE LONG, HOT SUMMER
  BENEATH THE 12-MILE REEF
  CAPTAIN FROM CASTILE
  DOCTOR DOLITTLE
  FOREVER AMBER
  DRAGONWYCK
  MMY COUSIN RACHEL

• HOUSE OF BAMBOO - LOW QUANTITY
  BLACK WIDOW
  BROKEN LANCE
  THE DETECTIVE
  FROM THE TERRACE
  WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS
  ANASTASIA - LOW QUANTITY
  JULIA - LOW QUANTITY
  GARDEN OF EVIL
  THE PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK
  THE GANG'S ALL HERE
  TONY ROME / LADY IN CEMENT
  HUSH... HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE - LOW QUANTITY
  THE BOSTON STRANGLER
  PRETTY POISON
  KEYS OF THE KINGDOM
  TWO FOR THE ROAD
  KISS OF DEATH - LOW QUANTITY
  PEYTON PLACE
  HOW TO STEAL A MILLION

• FLAMING STAR
  THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE
  STORMY WEATHER
  THE ST. VALENTINE'S DAY MASSACRE
  THE YOUNG LIONS - LOW QUANTITY
  THE BEST OF EVERYTHING

• RAPTURE - LOW QUANTITY
  THE ROOTS OF HEAVEN - LOW QUANTITY
  DESIREE - LOW QUANTITY
  BELOVED INFIDEL - LOW QUANTITY
  PONY SOLDIER
  ROYAL FLASH
  VIOLENT SATURDAY - LOW QUANTITY
  CHE!
  THE VANISHING
  APRIL LOVE

• VIOLENT SATURDAY
  WOMAN OBSESSED