It's an MGM/UA picture, isn't it? Like The Offence and Eureka. Wonder if Eureka would think about going for it for a region B release. It never got a UK DVD, and I don't think there'd be certificate problems any longer.
I'm actually working on an audio essay/podcast thing about it and the other films that came out in this period that depicted Classical Hollywood in a sexually explicit fashion, so the timing here is great
domino harvey wrote:What are the four MGM/UA releases that are being reissued? I'm guessing one is the Train?
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot is already coming 4/12, and I believe you are correct in that they confirmed The Train is getting re-issued.
My guess is that the other two are from the other quick MGM-title sellouts: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Wild at Heart, and Rollerball
I just wonder which one is the title not getting the re-issue.
I thought that they said that they will be re-issuing Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, which, with the announcement of Rollerball, would leave Wild at Heart as the one not getting re-issued.
Maybe (hopefully) MGM didn't request a Twilight Time re-issue of Wild at Heart because Lynch wants to work with Criterion on getting the deleted and extended scenes remastered and creating a new 4K transfer of the film.
dwk wrote:I thought that they said that they will be re-issuing Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia,
I remember them saying this on Facebook a few months ago
This is good news, but anyone who still needs this title on blu-ray--dual format, actually--may want to wait until April for what promises to be the definitive release: a 3-disc mediabook from Koch in Germany.
Just to confirm, TT posted on the Home Theater Forum the four MGM titles they have to re-issue and said that after this year they are never going to re-issue titles again (which is asinine, as the re-issues of the Sony titles have sold very well)
You might be interested in the fact that we have now publicly stated several times that after this year we are discontinuing our reissue program. Apart from the 4 MGM mandated titles this year - (Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Rollerball, Alfredo Garcia, and The Train) - we have no plans to do another run on previously sold out blu-rays.
Seems like they're shooting themselves in the foot - surely, if the rights become open again later this year, Criterion will put out Body Double themselves?
I realize they take the half-measure of "no plans" rather than totally ruling everything out but this makes me far less interested in quite a bit of their output as it appears to indicate they're happy to let other studios put out superior releases of the same films down the line.
I'm making an assumption here, not speaking with authority, but I assume they mean "we're never again going to re-release a film without adding a new transfer/extras" as opposed to "we're never again doing an updated release of a movie we've already issued."
JMULL222 wrote:I'm making an assumption here, not speaking with authority, but I assume they mean "we're never again going to re-release a film without adding a new transfer/extras" as opposed to "we're never again doing an updated release of a movie we've already issued."
If that's going to be their approach, why would anyone buy from the first round for any release? I think they probably meant what they said...
JMULL222 wrote:I'm making an assumption here, not speaking with authority, but I assume they mean "we're never again going to re-release a film without adding a new transfer/extras" as opposed to "we're never again doing an updated release of a movie we've already issued."
If that's going to be their approach, why would anyone buy from the first round for any release? I think they probably meant what they said...
If you didn't buy the first round wouldn't you have to wait three years for the second release?
Release Date: March 15th, 2016.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, March 2nd at 4 pm EST.
Special Features:
Isolated Score Track
Audio Commentary with Actress Judy Geeson, and Film Historians Lem Dobbs and Nick Redman
Audio Commentary with Actor John Hurt
Original Theatrical Trailer
Booklet cover:
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Lem Dobbs is a brilliant screenwriter and raconteur who knows a lot about film history, but don't you have to have published a work of history or two in order to be referred to as a "film historian"?
"Film connoisseur" or simply "filmmaker" would be more apt for Lem Dobbs (as an aside, I hope Twilight Time can acquire the first film he
has a credit on, the simply insane Gary Busey thriller Hider in the House)
