Another very important release from Twilight Time, Martin Ritt's take on William Faulkner's The Long, Hot Summer, with a screenplay by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, Jr., a married screenwriting team, that seems to be able to create magic in their words.
Ms Frank recently turned 100.
This...
Filmmaker Joseph Mankiewicz is known for the literary value, and intelligence of his films, and his 1959 production of Tennessee Williiams' Suddenly, Last Summer, with a screenplay aided and abetted by Gore Vidal, is another winner.
It's also an oddity, which in some strange ways reminds me of...
Year of the Comet concerns the antics surrounding the discovery of a huge bottle of wine, apparently from Napoleon's cellar, and a multitude of secondary plots that surround it.
By the numbers, alone, and by that I mean looking at the credits, this should be an extraordinary film.
Directed by...
Matt Hough
8 Heads in a Duffel Bag Blu-ray Review
The blackly comic idea at the heart of Tom Schulman’s 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag gets only a moderate execution (no pun intended) in this out-of-control farce that is equal parts funny and tedious.
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Matt Hough
The Long, Hot Summer Blu-ray Review
A southern fried melodrama based on characters and situations from a series of William Faulker stories, Martin Ritt's The Long, Hot Summer offers romance and drama in equal measure filled with a brilliant cast and lush location photography that...
Twilight Time has given us an exclusive early look at these November Announcements. Enjoy!
If you see these titles posted elsewhere within 8 HOURS without credit being given to HTF, rest assured it came from us first!
Note: Moving forward we are going to announce our schedule ONE month at a...
I don''t know if this will apply at TwilightTime.com but most of these sales seem to be be SAE exclusive with TT matching some of the prices
TWILIGHT TIME LIMITED SALE
SONY / COLUMBIA SALE!
NOTE: DIFFERENT PRICE BRACKETS PER TITLE.
ORDERS MUST BE PLACED DURING THE SALE PERIOD TO OBTAIN THE SALE...
None of their August 2nd titles (8 Heads In A Duffel Bag, Kid Galahad, Long Hot Summer, Suddenly Last Summer, Emperor In August) have commentary tracks and I would have thought at least Long Hot Summer and Suddenly Last Summer would have been ideal fodder for a Nick and Julie commentary. I know...
Richard Gallagher
The Valachi Papers Blu-ray Review
The Valachi Papers, an intriguing but flawed inside look at the workings of the Cosa Nostra in the United States, arrives on Blu-ray from Twilight Time with a very nice transfer from Sony.
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Matt Hough
Tom Sawyer/Huckleberry Finn Blu-ray Review
The Reader’s Digest adaptations of two Mark Twain classics – Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn – may not match one another in quality, but both offer tuneful versions of the familiar stories that fans of the songwriters or the original...
I'd never seen these two APJAC productions. Arthur P. Jacobs was best known for a little series entitled Planet of the Apes, which arrived in 1968.
Tom Sawyer was released in 1973, and Huck Finn a year later. Produced in concert with Reader's Digest, and with quality casts and crew, they're...
Matt Hough
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex* Blu-ray Review
Woody Allen's sketch comedy offshoot from the best-selling David Reuben's sexual query digest Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* But Were Afraid to Ask not only proved to be as popular as the book that...
Matt Hough
State Fair (1962) Blu-ray Review
Having already won viewers’ hearts in the early 1930s as a Will Rogers comedy vehicle and in the lavish 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical adaptation, the 1962 remake of State Fair offers a very starry cast, most of the tuneful melodies from the...
Everyone knows that Woody Allen's Eyawtkas* was based upon a humorous self-help book by Dr. David Reuben, which topped the best-seller lists back in 1969.
Peopled with some of the tops names in the acting profession, Mr. Allen's take on the book, which is more a series of vignettes than a...
5 Reasons To Own Twilight Time's
JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH 1959:
... A gorgeous 4K Color Timed Transfer and Sound with exceptional detail and clarity.
It elevated this viewer to a brand new level of enjoyment.
... JAMES MASON at his befuddled (& rare romantic) best;
ARLENE DAHL's most...
It may come as a new factoid to some, that Jose Ferrer (actor) - Lawrence, Caine Mutiny, Ship of Fools, Cyrano - also directed eight films between 1955 and 1962, State Fair being the last.
Rogers and Hammerstein's State Fair began as a non-R&H film, entitled State Fair in 1933, with Janet...
Twilight Time has given us an exclusive early look at these October Announcements. Enjoy!
If you see these titles posted elsewhere within 8 HOURS without credit being given to HTF, rest assured it came from us first!
Note: Moving forward we are going to announce our schedule ONE month at a...
In 1954, Sam Fuller was given CinemaScope by Fox, and my standards, wastes the technology on a film that's probably far less believable today than it was back in the early days of wide screen cinema.
I've always felt that Richard Widmark, who is a superb actor, looked as if he's wandered onto...
Matt Hough
The Bridge at Remagen Blu-ray Review
An overlooked action-filled war film which fell midway between the big hits The Longest Day in 1962 and A Bridge Too Far in 1977, John Guillermin’s The Bridge at Remagen deserves to be better known.
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Matt Hough
The Quiet American Blu-ray Review
A gnawingly bitter love triangle and some enigmatic political posturing unfolding against the backdrop of escalating turmoil in 1950s Southeast Asia give Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s The Quiet American a most unique personality.
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Matt Hough
Hell and High Water Blu-ray Review
A popcorn thriller from the Hollywood studio years, Samuel Fuller’s Hell and High Water offers underwater submarine face-offs and on land action scenes all in the service of a Cold War scenario that’s even more devious and nihilistic than much...
Richard Gallagher
The Stone Killer Blu-ray Review
The Stone Killer, an above-average cops and mob film starring Charles Bronson, comes to Blu-ray from Twilight Time with an excellent high-definition transfer courtesy of Sony.
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Twilight Time has given us an exclusive early look at these September Announcements. Enjoy!
If you see these titles posted elsewhere within 8 HOURS without credit being given to HTF, rest assured it came from us first!
Note: Moving forward we are going to announce our schedule ONE month at a...
I've just this morning completed watching the above title.
It is always a joy when a product achieves the level of perfection and satisfaction that this title has provided
I particularly want to emphasize the audio aspects of this release.
The staff at Twilight Time, and I want to mention two...
I love The Man in the Moon. It's one of the consummate films about growing up, and a child on the edge of adulthood.
It's one of those virtually perfect films, along with the fact that we now have a bit better idea of the talents of that 14 year-old girl, who made her first appearance in...
Matt Hough
The Man in the Moon Blu-ray Review
A poignant coming of age story set in the late 1950s and concerning sisters vying for the attention of the same boy, Robert Mulligan’s The Man in the Moon treads a careful path between straight out romance and family drama.
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Matt Hough
Who'll Stop the Rain Blu-ray Review
The utter disillusionment and nihilistic attitudes that were products of the Vietnam War are quite palpably and violently represented in Karel Reisz’s Who’ll Stop the Rain.
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All are opened, only watched once. Otherwise perfect condition
id prefer to sell as one lot but will consider selling them individually. I travel alot for work so please be patent with me on shipping times. Looking at amazon, the cheapest you can get all of these for used is around $700...
Matt Hough
Year of the Comet Blu-ray Review
A romantic caper film that’s lighter on the caper and the romance than it should have been, Peter Yates’ Year of the Comet offers charming parts for its two young leads but trips heavily when its footing should be feather light as the battle for a...