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This is also the time to purchase The Yellow Handkerchief, both due to its reduced price and its reported dwindling stock.

Appreciate any other recommendations from this list.

Not sure where did you get this list of titles, many of them were long gone (OOP), especially some from the PRICE BRACKET #5 $5.95 like -
ALAMO BAY (1985)
AMERICAN BUFFALO (1996)
BANDIT QUEEN (1994)
BELOVED INFIDEL (1959)
CHE! (1969)
THE FANTASTICKS (1995-2000)
THE FIRM (2009)
PONY SOLDIER (1952)
RESURRECTED (1989)
RIFF-RAFF (1991) / RAINING STONES (1993)
RITA, SUE AND BOB TOO (1987)
ROYAL FLASH (1975)
SAVE YOUR LEGS! (2012)
THE VANISHING (1993)
It must be a list from long long time ago.

chatterjees wrote: Tue Sep 03, 2019 12:07 am Not sure where did you get this list of titles, many of them were long gone (OOP), especially some from the PRICE BRACKET #5 $5.95 like -
ALAMO BAY (1985)
AMERICAN BUFFALO (1996)
BANDIT QUEEN (1994)
BELOVED INFIDEL (1959)
CHE! (1969)
THE FANTASTICKS (1995-2000)
THE FIRM (2009)
PONY SOLDIER (1952)
RESURRECTED (1989)
RIFF-RAFF (1991) / RAINING STONES (1993)
RITA, SUE AND BOB TOO (1987)
ROYAL FLASH (1975)
SAVE YOUR LEGS! (2012)
THE VANISHING (1993)
It must be a list from long long time ago.

The list comes straight from Twilight Time and SAE... and you can add them to your cart on both sites. So definitely not a mistake.

My bad then, my server is probably not acting straight, because I can't find them on TT site. I didn't check SAE though. Sorry!

fiddlesticks wrote: Mon Sep 02, 2019 7:06 pm This is also the time to purchase The Yellow Handkerchief, both due to its reduced price and its reported dwindling stock.

Appreciate any other recommendations from this list.

Anything else running low? I kinda wish they had a stock counter like Vinegar Syndrome.

According to the email announcing this sale, the following titles are running low:
Bandit Queen (<5 remaining; gotta figure this is gone by now)
Places in the Heart (175)
Devil in a Blue Dress (15)
Baby Boom (150)
The Boston Strangler (50)
Boxcar Bertha (150)
Inserts (75)
Sense and Sensibility (75)
The Yellow Handkerchief (150)
Bananas (20)
The Barefoot Contessa (11)
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (65)
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (115)
Captain from Castile (75)
Doctor Doolittle (40)
Don't Bother to Knock (100)
Exodus (125)
Forever Amber (150)
The Incident (175)
Lawman (150)
My Cousin Rachel (115)
Our Man in Havana (125)
Play Dirty (175)
Sayonara (40)
Snake in the Eagle's Shadow / Drunken Master (125)
Stardust Memories (40)
Suddenly, Last Summer (125)
Tom Sawyer / Huckleberry Finn (50)
Wild Bill (75)

Hopefully Beat the devil is coming from Indicator.TT´s disc is region A-locked so someone in region B land must release this transfer.

fiddlesticks wrote: Tue Sep 03, 2019 3:22 am According to the email announcing this sale, the following titles are running low:

These are the quantities available at Twilight Time's site, but there are (unknown) quantities of these titles at Screen Archives.

I guess I should finally pull the trigger on Chilly Scenes of Winter. I adore that film so much, but I kept hoping Indicator would take it on.

Does anyone have opinions or recommendations on the following:
La Bambola di Satana/Satan's Doll
Gran Bollito/Black Journal
La Moglie Piu Bella/The Most Beautiful Wife
La Corta Notte della Bambole di Vetro/Short Night of Glass Dolls

The only one I have watched is the last one, Short Night of Glass Dolls. I have the 88 Films release. It's a decent giallo with less gore in it, but it is a good thriller. I like works of Sorel, Ingrid Thulin and Aldo Lado, and the best part is the Morricone score. So that was enough for me to blind buy it, and I don't regret.

Short Night of Glass Dolls is worth picking up, especially at the sale price. Unfortunatly, I believe the other three titles have those awful scanner noise transfers that were/are all too common among Italian HD masters.

Pony Soldier and State of Grace are sold out at Screen Archives, if anyone's wondering.

A request to the collective minds of this board : could you give me some examples of TT releases that either have cheaper/more complete counterparts elsewhere (like UK or France) or have been re-released in the US in cheaper/more complete counterparts ?
I have Christine, The Fury, Hussy, Vampire, The Blob (1988), Fright Night, and Night of the Living Dead (1990) but I know there are others, except my memory is failing me.

I'll be covering Lyon Lumière Film Festival this year, and they'll have a roundtable about the future of home video physical format with labels reprensentative, including a TT one and I'd like to challenge them about how the right-holding current system over-compartiment the market to the point it's detrimental to some consumers who might be stuck with over-priced / under-developped releases, and these comparisons with TT make them a very concrete example of this opportunism.

Indicator: Dragonwyck, Effect of Gamma Rays..., the Snake Pit, probably more

The Incident, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, and Hardcore come to mind.

Taking a glance at their releases, I spot:

10 to Midnight (Shout Factory)
The Incident (Eureka)
Woody Allen films (Arrow)
Model Shop (Arrow)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Arrow)
The New Centurions (Indicator)
Dragonwyck (Indicator)
Hardcore (Indicator)

I would say Arrow, Indicator and Eureka are releasing TT titles in the UK in better packages in every way imaginable, even if using the same transfer. Kino and Shout are relaxing them in the US. And while Kino seems to release things with similar quality/effort as TT, they sell it for half the price. Combined with the fact TT has rereleased some of their bestsellers with improved transfers, I don’t see why anyone would order anything from them frankly.

1984 (Criterion)
10 to Midnight and Wild at Heart (Shout! Factory)
Steel Magnolias and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Sony, the latter is missing the commentary but is certainly cheaper)
Thunderbirds Are Go/Thunderbird 6 (Kino, missing a couple of featurettes but again cheaper)

Body Double: Indicator added a couple of interviews
Bunny Lake Is Missing: Indicator added a couple of interviews with actors who were still around
Fat City: TT release had only the usual isolated score/commentary/trailer; Indicator added numerous great audio and video supplements—archival stuff plus a new documentary
The Incident: Eureka added an exclusive commentary
A Man for All Seasons: MoC added a Neal Sinyard interview
Man from Laramie: TT had only the isolated score and trailer; MoC added an Adrian Martin commentary and Kim Newman interview
Man Hunt: TT included commentary and featurette; Signal One release added two new interviews
Riff-Raff / Raining Stones: TT only included isolated scores; BFI set containing these two films plus Ladybird Ladybird contained extensive supplements about Loach's life and work

Underworld USA, Crimson Kimono

I remembered one more:
Birdman of Alcatraz: MoC added more than an hour's worth of new video supplements

A few that haven't been mentioned:

Arrow Academy put out Woman on the Run and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (the TT edition of the latter actually has some decent extras with two commentaries, but Arrow replaced one with an Adrian Martin commentary - I can't speak to whether the replacement is superior, but I'm going to bet on it).

Indicator also put out Suddenly, Last Summer and The Stone Killer.

Woman on the Run (and Too Late For Tears) was Flicker Alley, not TT, and they were the exact same discs as the Arrows (with different branding coming up solely based on the region of the player)

True, an oversight on my end. Scrolling through their site I forgot about the inclusion of Flicker Alley titles (and actually knew this to be true when failing to change regions on my own Arrow copy the first time, and being perplexed at the foreign style of the menu).

Thanks for all these everyone ! I should be more than able to illustrate my point.