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THE FURY is now SOLD OUT at SAE and fewer than 20 copies remain at TCM

The Way We Were
Release Date: November 12th, 2013
Pre-order date: Wednesday, October 23rd at 4 pm EST.

Cover art:

Wow, isn't Streisand a reliable seller on home video? Another head-shaking toss-off ala Sleepless in Seattle et al

Has the pre-order date for Alfredo Garcia been announced yet?

From TT's Facebook page:

Just posted at SAE:
September 5th - Less than 500 copies remain of Twilight Time's DVD THE EGYPTIAN (1954)!

Drucker, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia hasn't been officially announced, so there is no pre-order date yet.

dwk wrote:Drucker, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia hasn't been officially announced, so there is no pre-order date yet.

My bad, thanks though!

domino harvey wrote:Wow, isn't Streisand a reliable seller on home video? Another head-shaking toss-off ala Sleepless in Seattle et al

This can either mean that:
a) even reliable sellers aren't selling as well as a big studios would expect, or
b) majors are not paying close attention to the titles they are licensing to third parties

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever has just been relegated to the Warner Archive, so one of the above must be true.

TT have clarified exactly what film libaries they have access to due to the MGM deal, they are as follows:

1. The entire United Artists catalogue
2. MGM titles post-1986
3. All Orion titles
4. All Polygram titles
5. All Cannon Films titles

Arrow and Second Sight have already gotten a good head start on getting some of the films included in the above libraries out in the UK, so chances are there might be a few more crossovers next year.

They've also hinted that at least 2, possibly 3 of the titles on this HTF posters wish list have gone to them and will be released next year.

EddieLarkin wrote:TT have clarified exactly what film libaries they have access to due to the MGM deal, they are as follows:

1. The entire United Artists catalogue
2. MGM titles post-1986
3. All Orion titles
4. All Polygram titles
5. All Cannon Films titles

Since that is all of MGM's libraries, that's not exactly narrowing the selection down!

Jameson281 wrote:Since that is all of MGM's libraries, that's not exactly narrowing the selection down!

It wasn't meant to. It was meant to clarify what films MGM currently controls.

In a recent audio interview with Nick Redman of Twilight Time, it was mentioned that Two Rode Together (John Ford, 1961), The Man from Laramie (Anthony Mann, 1955) and The Eddy Duchin Story (George Sidney, 1956) will be released in 2014.

pointless wrote:The Way We Were
Release Date: November 12th, 2013 [...]

Sony will release this title on Blu-ray in Germany October 17th.

Is there a word for the font equivalent of "tin ear"?

I recall ranting briefly to some journalist/editor coworkers ten years ago about how distressed I was about the lazy overuse of distressed typefaces, and yet it still shows no signs of letting up. It shows up on so many genuinely good things that I can't hold it against them. But everywhere I look, spurious, prefab "cool": trying to look grungy, broken in, even slightly rebellious in some vague way. All I can guess is that TT is aware that the principal market for catalog Blu-rays is younger males, so they'll try to play to that even with Jane Eyre.

Speaking of ridiculous, artificially "distressed" things that were a played-out fad a decade ago, anyone get a load of Glenn Beck in the current NYT Magazine? He not only looks like a middle-aged dad trying to hang out with his kids' teenage friends but even funnier is his belief that selling $130 jeans via his stupid denim company is somehow giving a huge middle finger to "progressives" and tyranny. What a rebel.
Now that was a tangent.

INTERVIEW HAS BEEN CONDENSED AND EDITED.

I'm sure this is standard NYT-ese but this made me chuckle. Imagine interviewing Glenn Beck and that brief little interview snippet being the best you had to work with!

Not just the distressed text but the stupid overlapping text bleed just screams "Freshman with PhotoShop"-- seriously, how hard would it be to trawl Tumblr for like five minutes and find some enterprising young kid who could handily make better covers for as much or less than they're paying whoever is getting paid for these things?

I think it's not distressed text as much as it is just slightly transparent text. It doesn't bother me so much (it's so much less offensive to the eye than many of their other covers), and it's actually rather a nice (if probably unintentional) nod to the noirish elements of this particular adaptation. Better this than yet more frilly script and Photoshopped brooding leads.

Those are both awful, sure, but they're effortlessly awful, priding functionality over artistry. The Twilight Time covers look like the worst hits of the Fake Criterion Cover thread, trying hard to emulate neat design and failing miserably

I meant to point more toward the visual tropes associated with book and DVD cover designs for Jane Eyre in general, not necessarily the execution of these example covers. The 1944 Fox adaptation is full of fog and shadows, shot by the same guy who shot Rebecca and Spellbound, and is very Gothic-noirish in style:



I think this is a very fitting cover. I could quibble with the choice of typeface and the leading, but eh...

IMDb pulls up 30 different adaptations of Jane Eyre. Shouldn't the cover at a minimum identify which one you're getting?

The one with young Charlotte Gainsbourg was about as good as the 1944 one and the Mia Wasikowska one was much better than either. I'm not sure I've seen more than those three (unless you count I Walked With a Zombie!) -- Let's take time to acknowledge yet again Fox's bizarre release strategy. This film adaptation of a highly visible and popular piece of literature starring two of the class era's most well-known personalities was less valuable to them for release than On the Riviera or A Letter to Three Wives

It must literally come down to whether or not something was nominated for/won an Oscar. On the Riviera and A Letter to Three Wives were/did, Jane Eyre was/did not.

(I love A Letter to Three Wives, so I'm quite happy I don't have to shell out a TT-sized fee for it.)

Then Fox should have released Leave Her to Heaven, which won one Oscar and was nominated for three more.
Oops, we're discussing business models again—better nip that in the bud.

Matt wrote:It must literally come down to whether or not something was nominated for/won an Oscar. On the Riviera and A Letter to Three Wives were/did, Jane Eyre was/did not.

(I love A Letter to Three Wives, so I'm quite happy I don't have to shell out a TT-sized fee for it.)

I don't think A Letter to Three Wives is a bad film (though I don't much care for it despite Mankiewicz being one of the greatest talents of the era), it just seems weird that it has the continued cultural cachet in the minds of Fox that these other titles lack!