Coming Soon From Olive Films

Unless something is seriously wrong with them, I will definitely buy Twilight's Last Gleaming and Fedora. I look forward to the opinions of DVD reviewers.

I'll also be a purchaser of "Twilight's Last Gleaming."

 

Bob Engleman

 

Warner Brothers is licencing this out? 

 

I remember about a year or two ago on this forum, an editor who had worked on Fedora had some outtake material, particularly the original, untampered soundtrack.  I hope he gets this material to Olive films.

Have to share in the excitement for Twilight's Last Gleaming and Fedora. 

 

If I'm remembering correctly, the hard-to-find laserdisc of Fedora was quite the disappointment when I finally nabbed one, with a dismal pan-and-scan picture.  Haven't seen the film properly since 1978 when I went to it two or three times.  Strange flick, great cast, and of course Wilder.

 

Fantastic news - along with TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING and FEDORA I am extremely happy to see fairly obscure titles like DEAD PIGEON, one of Sam Fuller's rarest movies, also being made available - this is really great.

Can't wait for Fedora!!!  I have the Laserdisc, but haven't watched it for quite some time.....and honestly can't remember if it was Pan & Scan or not.  Either way, I will finally be able to retire it!!!

 

Now if only Universal would release "5 Graves to Cairo" & "A Foreign Affair" and whomever owns "Buddy, Buddy" would get moving, I could have the entire Wilder directorial filmography on shiny discs!!! 

Wow, THE HELLSTROM CHRONICLE! Sweet!

ELVIRA MADIGAN was a stunningly beautiful film.  I would love to see all those pastel colors in a BD edition. 

For anyone interested,  The Adalen Riots was one of cinematographer Conrad Hall's favourite films. The film was shot in 2 perf. Techniscope, over exposed by two stops, and then pulled back to a correct exposure by the lab. Hall thought it was one of the best looking films he had ever seen.

 

It would've been nice if all the Bo Widerberg films were released by Criterion in an Eclipse set. If so I would've ordered it immediately, but they are going to be expensive at $25 each.

I've gotten most of the Olives at $18-$20 on Amazon, still expensive but not MSRP.

 

 I'd love to have this, but since when is Sony licensing titles to Olive? They have a very active MOD program. Unless they lost the rights to it since 1971, perhaps...?
 

 

They did.  THE HELLSTROM CHRONICLE was originally released by Cinema V, who had a deal with Columbia's home video label at the dawn of the format.  But their deal with Columbia expired, and then Cinema V went out of business and HELLSTROM reverted back to its producers. 
 

 

Has anybody found Fedora listed anywhere?

Any recent news with respect to "Twilight's Last Gleaming?"

Any news on THE SAVAGE INNOCENTS?

And any news on upcoming Blu-ray titles?

Two titles I would love on Blu from Olive Films are The Mountain and Escape From Zahrain. Just got done watching Sands of the Kalahari - while not a great film, I was thoroughly entertained. Zahrain was such a hoot. All of these would look terrific in hi-def.

I was thinking about Twilight's Last Gleaming recently,

and had sought to find the last current thread we were

discussing the film in, but with this horrible search engine

on this platform, I was unable to locate it.

 

I am happy to hear that we are close to a DVD release --

perhaps (if we are lucky) even a BD release.  As of yet,

I don't see any official announcement but I am guessing it

won't be long.

 

I suppose I can talk about this film a lot more openly than

I could when it was under Warner's control.

 

As you all are aware, the studio wanted to get this film out

but much to the dismay of everyone, was holding on to it.

All I could do was give you a generalized reason behind the

delays.

 

Truth be, the film had a lot of red tape behind it.  The rights

to the film were connected to many different entities including

banks.  The studio was having a rather difficult time clearing

all the legal hurdles, and it is my guess, that at some point,

they just let their holdings to the film lapse altogether.  The fact

that Olive films had obtained the rights came as a complete

surprise to some.

 

It was also my understanding that there was additional footage

that the studio was trying to obtain, which ultimately held up

progress.   Whether Olive Films was successful in nabbing that

footage is yet to be seen.

 

I think Warner gave its all in trying to release this film.  However,

I think that at the same time, Twilight's Last Gleaming fell into the

same unfortunate circumstances of The Bowery Boys where the

DVD buying climate was rapidly changing to the point where studios

were having a tough time selling classic titles like these through retail.

Of course, eventually the studio rolled out an archive collection where

I think most likely, this film would have ended up if still under their ownership.

 

 

 

We haven't heard anything positive since May on TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING.  Now I wonder if Olive still trying to get through the red tape. 

First title announced for November is Despair blu-ray.... Sigh! And to think I recently picked it up on DVD. I guess, I won't be buying Olive's DVDs anymore since eventually they might release it on blu...

This policy of Olive of announcing films several months before availability is getting frustrating and looks like it may cause blowback. Warner Archive, for whatever criticisms you want to lob at them and the MOD format, promises no more than a few weeks in advance and delivers.

And of course Universal practically does neither.

Olive's Blus haven't been stellar. DVD might suffice.

I thought the Blu transfer of Sands of the Kalahari  was quite good.  But this is the only Blu from them that I have gotten.  I did not see any reason to upgrade Crack In The World.  I might for The Mountain if it goes Blu for that looks great on DVD.  I have been selective on Olive's titles to only the ones I really want for as always stated they are a little high without extras, even a trailer.  But I am happy to have the titles I have purchased.

 

Oh, I'm not complaining about Olive (other than the as-yet-unexplalned BREAKING GLASS botch). It's done good work with a number of titles that had slipped through the crack of the home video world, so to speak. But I've felt no great urgency to have any of them in Blu. That said it should make it clear from the outset which we'll go Blu, unless it's looking at the DVD sales figures to see if something might move a few units in BD.

I'm happy with their quality too -- very pleased with my purchases of MAN WHO COULD CHEAT DEATH, THE SKULL, CRACK IN THE WORLD and now COLOSSUS OF NEW YORK. Quality's excellent across the board. And I realize I shouldn't expect DVDs off the press within a few weeks of a licensing announcement. But Olive does need to be mindful of managing expectations (as do other distributors).

For clarification, those two are from a separate distributor company called Legend Films.

And I lucked out in putting off buying Despair on DVD, with a blu just recently announced. Though, aside from Atomic City, I'm not sure what else Paramount-related is coming out of Olive in the future.