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Isolated Music & Effects Track
Audio Commentary with Writer-Director Randal Kleiser
The Making of "Summer Lovers"
Screen Tests
Basil Poledouris: His Life and Music
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Audio Commentary with Film Historians Eddy Friedfeld, Lee Pfeiffer, and Paul Scrabo
Introductions by Karen Kramer, Steven Spielberg, Tom Brokaw and Quincy Jones
A Love Story for Today
A Special Kind of Love
Stanley Kramer: A Man’s Search for Truth
Stanley Kramer Accepts the Irving Thalberg Award
2007 Producers Guild Stanley Kramer Award Presentation to An Inconvenient Truth
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Audio Commentary with Film Historians Julie Kirgo and Nick Redman
Audio Commentary with Film Historians Alain Silver and James Ursini
Fox Movietone Newsreels
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giovannii84 wrote:
Once a release sells out, does that mean another label can license it out for their own release, or does it remain out of print indefinitely?
Twilight Time's licenses are for 3 years, so it would remain out of print until that license expires. Twilight Time can try to renew it for another 3 years, or the licensing label can make other arrangements instead.
Christine will apparently be the first title that Sony will be releasing in the US instead of Twilight Time getting a license to re-release it.
The following is Twilight Time's insurrection into a TT thread on HTF about Christine....
It is, and the only one thus far that the majors have shown any interest in - Sony/Columbia asked if they could have it back and we were happy to exchange it for some other films...that is exactly how the model was set up to work in the first place, as spelled out in the interview we did with HTF in December, 2011....
My question is why would Sony have to ask for it back. Redman makes sound like he allowed Sony to take it back. Sounds like spin to me.
EddieLarkin wrote:Presumably because Sony wanted to release it in time for Halloween, which is well before the end of TT's licence period.
Also, contracts are contracts. Sony can't just violate it at will. Negotiating its early return and allowing TT to select a few titles they prefer for it is a win-win for both parties that have had a successful relationship.
Some recent Facebook confirmations of titles on the schedule for 2016:
Fallen Angel (1945) (Fox)
Lilies of the Field (1963) (MGM) - no surprise since Kino is releasing it DVD-only
Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) (Fox)
Previously confirmed upcoming (but not formally street date announced) titles for late 2015/sometime in 2016 are:
Bound for Glory (1976) (MGM)
Captain Harlock: Space Pirate 3D (2013) (Toei Animation) - Dec 2015
Cutter's Way (1981) (MGM)
Exodus (1960) (MGM)
Fatherland (1986) (Protagonist Pictures)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) (MGM)
Moby Dick (1956) (MGM)
Runaway Train (1985) (MGM)
Stardust Memories (1980) (MGM)
Zelig (1983) (MGM)
And other Kino DVD-only releases that are probably with TT for Blu-ray:
I Want to Live! (1958) (MGM)
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985) (MGM)
Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971) (MGM)
Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969) (MGM)
Really hope they don't get Somewhere in the Night and Nightmare Alley. Though I don't know who else has a deal with Fox other than Criterion, and that doesn't seem likely.
Seeing the forthcoming Preminger titles I am now deeply torn between a potential commentary from Film Historian Nick Redman and the BFIs Adrian Martin option.
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Criterion focuses on 'important films'. What would you say Twilight Time's focus or agenda is?
Well, the first agenda was to get the films we could get! When it became clear that the studios were really going to be on board with this and that they were going to give us films we had never dreamed we could get, the second agenda became choosing titles that reflect the taste of the people who work at Twilight Time - Brian and I, and Julie Kirgo, who writes the essays in the booklets and does some of the commentaries with me. That's not to say that we love each and every title that we put out. They're not all our personal favourites. But we feel that all of the titles in some shape or form fit the Twilight Time brand, just as Criterion focuses on 'important films' as you said. Although I look at a lot of their titles and I think they're not important at all. What they really focus on is esoteric movies that can all come under the generalised banner of 'art.' They have been around for thirty years but they have released titles in the last few years that they never would have even looked at ten years earlier. That is a concession to reality. The films might not be all that good but they might sell well. Any company that wants to stay in business and wants to keep growing and evolving in some way has got to keep refining what it's doing and reinvest in itself. I started interacting with Criterion in the 1980s when they were based in Santa Monica on PCH. They were a small group of IT nerds. They weren't even really like film people. They were much more about the gadgetry than they were about the movies. Then they evolved into a real repository of international film history, and today they think about things commercially in a way that perhaps they didn't twenty years ago. I think this is good for everybody because it shows you that it is not just about obscure art. It can also be about commercial movies. The line is becoming blurred. All of us that are older are going to think more fondly about the movies we loved when we were young than we are about the movies made today, which are made to be disposed of as quickly as possible. They're not even designed to have any life at all, beyond their immediate life. They have the life cycle of a tsetse fly. They come out, they burn very brightly for five seconds and then they're gone. We are more interested in the movies that have lingered, the ones that you can't shake, the ones that you keep thinking about forty years after you saw them. The ones that you watch over and over again.
