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I was surprised and impressed to get a shipping notice on my July 1st order today; I figured it was easily gonna be a couple more weeks.

I wound up getting the four titles I almost bought at the beginning of the sale but had last minute hesitations on: -Inferno 3D -Tall Men -Last Hurrah -Whole Town’s Talking I was given some gift card cash for my first Father’s Day and figured this was as good of a use as any for it. :D

I think “disdain” is the wrong word. Filmmaking is a business, never more so than now when nearly every studio is owned by a giant conglomerate that runs more predictable businesses and want more predictable results. Heaven & Earth was a financial flop in theaters, did not do particularly well...

Exactly. And at that moment in time, Warner had a strict policy against licensing out titles to third party distributors, so it fell in the Warner limbo where they didn’t want to do it but did not want anyone else to either.

I would guess it’s simply a matter of SAE saying, “hey, we think we can make a little extra money with what’s still left” and Jamieson saying, “fine, I’ll sell you the rights to the company but you have to keep me on as a paid consultant for the first year” or something along those lines. That’s...

This is what I believe they mean: -SAE will sell any stock that had remained in TT’s warehouse after the shutdown date -TT typically licenses a title in a limited capacity to release 3000 units. When TT first started, they would print all 3000 copies at once. -In recent years, due to...

Gun Fury is fun. If you like film scores, don’t miss the commentary on Rapid Fire - Nick Redman has a fascinating conversation with the film’s composer about every stage of the process of scoring a movie and it’s fascinating listening.

I’m facing a minor dilemma because I’m somewhat interested in ordering Inferno just so I don’t have to go through the region switching procedure when watching my UK disc, but I’m not sure if $15 plus shipping — $20, really — is worth it. And I’d like to see The Tall Men but could rent that on...

Not counting ones that were sent to me to review (I did the majority of Fox-sourced TT titles from about Jan 2018 through about June 2019), I have about forty that I’ve purchased, and there are maybe another five or so I purchased for my movie fan mother that I can borrow at any time. There are...

Some of the $14.99 titles I’d jump on if they moved down a price bracket.

It’s happening to me as well. There have been plenty of times where the TT version was $30 + shipping, while the same master used to make the disc was onsale at iTunes for $5. I like commentaries and bonus features as much as the next guy, but that’s such a huge disparity that I have to...

Besides the personnel issues, in a way they were victims of both their own success and prisoners of their business model. When they first started up, there was a market for $30 limited editions (really $35 since no free shipping) and the 3000 copy print run encouraged people to purchase sooner...

They haven’t put out any new titles since the middle of last year with no further announcements, their founder has passed away, they’ve alienated the founder’s wife who had previously contributed to every release, and the studio they primarily licensed content from no longer exists. It doesn’t...

My heart goes out to her, and to Brian and the rest of the team. Nick’s passing is a huge loss. Compounding that loss, I’d guess, is that many of the people that Nick had nurtured good business relationships with have been laid off/bought out/forced into early retirement by the spate of...

Maybe it’s just me, but it seems that the recent output has been a little more niche. Moby Dick, if not a blockbuster, is a noteworthy film and that release boasted a unique recreation of its original color scheme that wasn’t going to be available anywhere else. And Mad Magician is a Vincent...

I say this with much love and respect: it is an enormously difficult market out their for physical media. Particularly for catalog titles. Even more so for lesser known catalog titles. Even more so with higher priced releases. Especially when many of the same masters can be streamed digitally...

Some great choices! The surround track on Bandolero! made me really happy. No Down Payment really impressed me as a film.

Can’t go wrong with Bandolero!

Agreed. I learned a valuable lesson - I no longer make blind buys solely because a title that is available in multiple formats (DVD, Blu-ray, streaming, etc) is going out of print in one of those formats.

Yeah, I think maybe “taken advantage of” was harsh on my part. I don’t think they acted in bad faith.

That’s probably an indication at how quickly physical media sales are declining. I remember when TT didn’t have any sales and their rationale was that if they started having sales, then everyone would simply wait for one and people would stop paying full price for their discs. I think that’s...

MGM. The Fox logo is on the case because Fox is MGM’s current home video distributor, so anytime MGM sublicenses something to another distributor, the Fox logo has to be included as well.

Thanks so much! No plans to stop - I’m looking forward to next month’s TT shipment and also working on a Criterion and a Flicker Alley title at the moment. All of these boutique labels are putting out some extremely high quality releases right now. But the TT isolated scores are often a unique...

Absolutely, same here. One of the chief joys of doing official reviews of TT releases is that I get to listen to the isolated scores while I’m writing. Even if I don’t love the movie, the score is almost always worth a second or third listen.

I also picked up Beneath the 12 Mile Reef onsale, among with Best the Devil at full price, and Stand In from ClassicFlix.

Perhaps the street date has been affected by the same replication delays that are currently plaguing the industry. If major studios like Warner have to delay releases, and small labels like Twilight Time are forced to wait, a brand new label with only one title is going to be made to wait even...

I’m perhaps a little late to the party on this, but the new TT release of The Hot Rock looks absolutely phenomenal! https://www.hometheaterforum.com/the-hot-rock-blu-ray-review-twilight-time/

I recently watched the TT disc for All The King’s Men and was very happy with it. I think I watched that and Ace In The Hole back to back, which perhaps was not the most uplifting combination but stellar nonetheless.

I enjoyed the commentary track on that one too.

That was a fun commentary track; both of the guys are fans of the movie and the genre and have a lot of fun discussing it, which makes it even more enjoyable to listen to.