Press Release HTF EXCLUSIVE! Twilight Time August 2018 Release Announcements (1 Viewer)

[Elizabeth S]

The Hot Rock! Haven't seen this in a very long time. Westlake was one of my favorite authors -- sure miss his Dortmunder novels.

 

[RolandL]

Nothing for me. Waiting for 3-D or 50's scope titles.

 

[Malcolm R]

I'm hoping for some more horror or sci-fi. Maybe in October.

 

[Dave Lawrence]

That's great news about Gloria !

I'm hoping for some more horror or sci-fi. Maybe in October.

I wonder if TT has any additional Vincent Price films under consideration.

 

[RolandL]

Wow. All impressive but REALLY looking forward to watching the Hot Rock with Q's isolated score!

Are all titles with isolated score synced to what's on the screen? I find some with many minutes of no sound.

 

[Ed Lachmann]

Nothing for me. Waiting for 3-D or 50's scope titles.

Still hoping and dreaming that Barabbas, Salome, The Long Ships, The Story of Ruth, Esther and the King or Francis of Assisi might make it somehow someday. Still, Genghis Khan was an utterly fantastic surprise. So VERY grateful for that one!

 

[PMF]

Gloria Hallelujah !!!

 

[RBlenheim]

I LOVE "Gloria"!!!!!

 

[RolandL]

Still hoping and dreaming that Barabbas, Salome, The Long Ships, The Story of Ruth, Esther and the King or Francis of Assisi might make it somehow someday. Still, Genghis Khan was an utterly fantastic surprise. So VERY grateful for that one!

If Genghis Khan had stereo sound I would be interested but, that's not going to happen.

 

[BarryR]

GLORIA and HOT ROCK for me also. Curious about possible extras.

 

[phillyrobt]

Are all titles with isolated score synced to what's on the screen? I find some with many minutes of no sound.

Good question. I have never watched any yet. Looking forward to watching Man In The Dark, Inferno, Miss Sadie Thompson, Mad Magician, Gun Fury and Harlock score only so I can focus on the 3D.

Virgin Soldiers has an early Bowie appearance!

 

[Quatermass II]

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GLORIA (1980) BLU-RAY - August 21st

THE VIRGIN SOLDIERS (1969) BLU-RAY - August 21st

THE HOT ROCK (1972) BLU-RAY - August 21st

RAPID FIRE (1992) BLU-RAY - August 21st

The Hot Rock will definitely be one for me.

 

[BRAD1963]

 

[Ronald Epstein]

“Tough, sweet and goofy” (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times)– and charging with guns blazing

at long last onto hi-def Blu-ray! The peerless pair of star Gena Rowlands and writer/director (and spouse) John Cassavetes upends traditional streetwise Mob movies with the gritty action tale of

a former gun moll who gets tough to extremes in order to protect a targeted young boy.

Academy Award® and Golden Globe Best Actress nominee “Rowlands gives a dynamic performance playing a woman unique to the cinema” (Danny Peary, Guide for the Film Fanatic).

Gloria

Limited Edition BLU-RAYRelease

Only 3,000 units available atwww.twilighttimemovies.com& www.screenarchives.com

Once they are gone – they are gone!


RELEASE DATE: TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2018​

“It’s clear from the opening montage that we’re in the hands of a master… Rowlands is typically superb…Cassavetes and the two leads keep maudlin sentimentality at bay.” – Time Out London


“Cassavetes films Rowlands, his wife, with self-deprecating adoration; the demanding man likens himself to the defenseless boy, and both are saved by this gloriously burdened woman who would kill for them.” – Richard Brody, The New Yorker



Writer-director John Cassavetes’ “most mainstream” film, Gloria(1980), is the story of the eponymous gangster’s moll (the stunning Gena Rowlands), forced to go on the run with a young boy, Phil (John Adames), who may or may not have information that the Mob deems vital. Along the way, the initial antagonism between woman and boy develops into grudging affection, and Gloria discovers reserves of inner strength to complement her tough-gal persona. Featuring a spectacularly beautiful orchestral/jazz score by Bill Conti, available on this Twilight Time release as an isolated track.

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[Ronald Epstein]

A priceless gem of a comedy thriller now sparklingly polished in a brand-new 4K restoration transfer to make hi-def Blu-ray home theater screens gleam! “Offers four crime capers

for the price of one, six beautifully characterized criminals and metropolitan

New York settings of splendid definition” (Archer Winsten, New York Post), all adding up

to “the most hilarious cops and robbers yarn in years” (Jeffrey Lyons, WPIX-TV/New York).

The Hot Rock


Limited Edition BLU-RAYRelease

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Once they are gone – they are gone!


RELEASE DATE: TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2018
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“Bless it, has two or three scenes good enough for any caper movie ever made.” – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times



“What’s not to like? The picture has two adorable stars and a writing pedigree reaching back to thriller favorite Donald Westlake through top writer William Goldman. As Variety would put it, all tech credits are tops.” – Glenn Erickson, DVDTalk.com


The Hot Rock(1972) is a clever caper film with multiple capers, but all focused on a single, elusive object: the Sahara Stone, long a hot potato between two African countries, now about to be snagged out of its spot at the Brooklyn Museum by a quartet of capable but luckless thieves. The extraordinary cast is led by Robert Redford, George Segal, Ron Leibman, and Paul Sand, supported by the dazzling likes of Moses Gunn and Zero Mostel. Adapted from one of Donald Westlake’s delightful John Dortmunder novels by the singular William Goldman, the film is directed with panache by the great Peter Yates, and features a sensational Quincy Jones score.

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[Ronald Epstein]

“BrandonLee's fisticuffs…are fluid and exhilarating, and the fight scenes have an inventiveness not often seen outside Hong Kong kung-fu movies. The screenplay is intelligently written and leavened with humor – so much so, in fact, that this could stand up with or without martial arts scenes. Thumping good fun” (Marcus Trower, Empire). The fondly remembered action thriller finally explodes onto hi-def Blu-ray, with an all-new Audio Commentary with composer Christopher Young.

RAPID FIRE

Limited Edition BLU-RAYRelease

Only 3,000 units available atwww.twilighttimemovies.com& www.screenarchives.com

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RELEASE DATE: TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2018
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“A handsome, quality production anchored by solid performances right down the line…launches Brandon Lee as a new martial-arts star who conceivably could move beyond the orbit of action films.” – Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times


“Brandon Lee’s easy likability jumps off the screen, and his fighting is always impressive…Hugely entertaining fun with plenty of action.” – theactionelite.com



The film that introduced Brandon Lee (son of the one and only Bruce) as an action star, Rapid Fire(1992) focuses on Jake Lo (Lee), a Los Angeles art student who unwittingly gets involved with a deadly Mafia drug distributor (the marvelous Nick Mancuso). He is then recruited by a police lieutenant (Powers Boothe) and his tough but attractive partner (Kate Hodge) to help nab both the Mafioso and his deadly associate, Kinman Tau (Tzi Ma). Directed by Dwight H. Little and jam-packed with martial arts sequences choreographed by Lee, the film also features a spectacular Christopher Young score, available on this Twilight Time release as an isolated track.

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[Ronald Epstein]

Now deploying for reappraisal and rediscovery maneuvers on hi-def Blu-ray: “A remarkably pertinent, unpretentious film that creeps up on its terrifying climax with near-comedic ease” (Judith Crist, New York),with “an ample supply of barracks humor, leavened by sensitivity and an appealing cast. Highly effective, memorably intelligent” (William Wolf, Cue),resulting in “rich, very real and compassionate entertainment. As much an antiwar film as M*A*S*H!The most motley crew of sad-funny characters since Mister Roberts” (Bernard Drew, Gannett News Service).



The Virgin Soldiers

Limited Edition BLU-RAYRelease

Only 3,000 units available atwww.twilighttimemovies.com& www.screenarchives.com

Once they are gone – they are gone!


RELEASE DATE: TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2018
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“A bright and affectionate peek at the trials and tribulations of young National Service rookies…violence in the jungle and streets of terrorist-infested Malaya is in striking, effective contrast to the boisterous, bawdy, barrack-room atmosphere.” – Variety


“At its best, the movie really does become involved, in small and private ways, with the question of imperialism…Evokes an awareness a little deeper and sharper and more moving than the film’s tired genre requires.”

– Roger Greenspun, The New York Times



Set in 1950 during the Malayan Emergency, The Virgin Soldiers(1969) is part service comedy, part serious look at the end of the British Empire, as seen through the eyes of more or less innocent recruits to the National Service. Brilliantly navigating the shifting tone are the divine Lynn Redgrave, Hywel Bennett, Nigel Davenport, Nigel Patrick, Rachel Kempson, and Jack Shepherd; directed by John Dexter, the film was shot on location in Singapore and Malaya by one of the great British cinematographers of the 1960s, Kenneth Higgins (Georgy Girl, Darling).

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A priceless gem of a comedy thriller now sparklingly polished in a brand-new 4K restoration transfer to make hi-def Blu-ray home theater screens gleam! “Offers four crime capers

for the price of one, six beautifully characterized criminals and metropolitan

New York settings of splendid definition” (Archer Winsten, New York Post), all adding up

to “the most hilarious cops and robbers yarn in years” (Jeffrey Lyons, WPIX-TV/New York).

The Hot Rock


Limited Edition BLU-RAYRelease

Only 3,000 units available atwww.twilighttimemovies.com& www.screenarchives.com

Once they are gone – they are gone!


RELEASE DATE: TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2018
​

“Bless it, has two or three scenes good enough for any caper movie ever made.” – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times



“What’s not to like? The picture has two adorable stars and a writing pedigree reaching back to thriller favorite Donald Westlake through top writer William Goldman. As Variety would put it, all tech credits are tops.” – Glenn Erickson, DVDTalk.com


The Hot Rock(1972) is a clever caper film with multiple capers, but all focused on a single, elusive object: the Sahara Stone, long a hot potato between two African countries, now about to be snagged out of its spot at the Brooklyn Museum by a quartet of capable but luckless thieves. The extraordinary cast is led by Robert Redford, George Segal, Ron Leibman, and Paul Sand, supported by the dazzling likes of Moses Gunn and Zero Mostel. Adapted from one of Donald Westlake’s delightful John Dortmunder novels by the singular William Goldman, the film is directed with panache by the great Peter Yates, and features a sensational Quincy Jones score.

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Will definitely pre-order this tomorrow when pre-orders start - One of my all-time favorites.

 

[Osato]

Love The Hot Rock!

I can’t wait to see this one on blu ray!!

Thank you!!

 

[BRAD1963]

The Hot Rock and Gloria ordered.