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pointless wrote:...Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex*...*But were afraid to ask (Woody Allen, 1972)...
Special Features:
Isolated Music Track...

This is one "isolated music track" that is going to be mighty underwhelming - the film has very little score and only a small number of songs (IMDb lists three, and a quick check of an on-line version reveals only three or four short sequences accompanied by music). I'm not certain if Allen was attempting to emulate the dryness of public information films, but I always felt the sparseness of the soundtrack hampered the effectiveness of the film.

The Tom Sawyer/Huckeberry Finn cover art is their best in a long time, though almost assuredly by accident more than intent.

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pointless wrote:...Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex*...*But were afraid to ask (Woody Allen, 1972)...
Special Features:
Isolated Music Track...

This is one "isolated music track" that is going to be mighty underwhelming - the film has very little score and only a small number of songs (IMDb lists three, and a quick check of an on-line version reveals only three or four short sequences accompanied by music). I'm not certain if Allen was attempting to emulate the dryness of public information films, but I always felt the sparseness of the soundtrack hampered the effectiveness of the film.

The film's composer, Mundell Lowe, wrote some material for the film that went unused, including an original Main and End Title that were replaced by the song "Let's Misbehave." My guess is that, as with a lot of their isolated scores, Twilight Time have restored where the original music was so we can see/hear how it played before cues were deleted/shortened/replaced.

Without specifically naming Mundell Lowe, Allen has referenced this collaboration in interviews. Allen felt terrible about not using a lot of the music Lowe wrote, and this was part of the driving force of Allen's - for many years after, at least - never wanting to hire a composer to score a film of his again.

Years ago, the music for Everything... was released on CD by Kritzerland (coupled with Marvin Hamlisch's Bananas), now out of print. This release featured the aforementioned unused Main and End Title as well as additional music that wasn't used. It's all good music, some of it very "Golden Age" sounding, and it would've fit the film just fine. Twilight Time's track is likely derived from the same source, and presumably with composer notes and cue sheets Twilight Time have re-tracked these cues as originally intended by the composer. This is what they have done with other scores that were largely or completely rejected, and in the case with Used Cars, there are two isolated tracks, one from a completely rejected score by Golden Age composer Ernest Gold (Exodus).

I'd say more than anything else that the way the Everything... score plays in the film now is the earliest indication that Allen was becoming less and less at ease with having a composer write original scores for his films. The music is indeed very sparsely used, almost as if (and indeed it seems this was the case) Allen tried to drop as much as possible. Marvin Hamlisch did a really great job with Allen's first two films, with none of his cues being deleted or moved around, but I think Hamlisch was on those films largely because of their producers, and Allen was probably still getting his feet wet and wasn't as concerned about the music. By the time we get to Everything... Allen has more control and his willingness/interest in working with a composer on original music was going out the door. Although The Purple Rose of Cairo has some original score music, it's all rather light and the music everybody remembers from that film is the song "Cheek to Cheek." It really isn't until Cassandra's Dream in 2007 that Allen would have a large-scale original orchestral score for a film of his again.

"Dylan" - Thanks for the info; I've never read anything regarding the scoring of Everything... or how existing cues were dropped. A reconstructed score (if that, indeed, is what turns up on the disc) would be very interesting.

The Crimson Kimono (Samuel Fuller, 1959)

Release Date: July 18th, 2017.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, July 5th at 4 pm EST.

Special Features: TBD.



Booklet artwork:

State Fair (José Ferrer, 1962)

Release Date: July 18th, 2017.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, July 5th at 4 pm EST.

Special Features:

• Isolated Music Track
  Audio Commentary with Actor Pat Boone
  From Page to Screen to Stage: State Fair
  State Fair TV Series Pilot
  Original Theatrical Trailer

Booklet artwork:

Holy cow, that cover....

Someone on the Blu-ray forum said the cover for the Crimson Kimono was one of the five best covers he'd ever seen for a Blu-ray. Can the death of Net Neutrality somehow result in that forum being inaccessible so I don't keep touching the plate that is hot?

That someone must have been locked in a room with Redman and a loaded firearm.

Artwork is based on Belgian poster. It's definitely better than US poster. Italian posters are always unique.

Now that Belgian poster is beautiful. The TT cover looks like they literally Xeroxed it in black and white.

That top tagline on the American poster is incredible and better than the actual movie

September titles announced at HTF, arriving 9/19:

Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953) (Fox)
Gun Fury (3D) (1953) (Sony)
Hour of the Gun (1967) (MGM)
Lawman (1971) (MGM)
September (1987) (MGM)


September is a pass for me (not a film I'll rewatch), while Gun Fury is a blind buy because of being vintage 3D. The other three go on the "need to see first" list.

I've actually seen all of these and they are all forgettable and absolutely not worth $30 a pop (or $25/20 on sale)

TT's title announcements have been awful lately even for Twilight Time. Olive has more exciting announcements!

domino harvey wrote:That top tagline on the American poster is incredible and better than the actual movie

Switch out "American" for "French" and you could have a lurid poster tagline for Hiroshima Mon Amour.

I found some screenshots from How To Steal A Million:

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They looked a bit peculiar to me (color wise), so I tried to directly compare with some from the Czech Bluray:
(not exact shots):
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As you see, the TT is more on the pale-yellowish/greenish side, and the czech on the redish side.
I don't know what is more accurate, but my personal preference is the czech bluray.
The TT colors look a bit sickly to me.. :-k

Costa wrote:I found some screenshots from How To Steal A Million:
As you see, the TT is more on the pale-yellowish/greenish side, and the czech on the redish side.
I don't know what is more accurate, but my personal preference is the czech bluray.
The TT colors look a bit sickly to me.. :-k

The TT looks more like I remember it when seen in the theater. The faces look overly ruddy (red) on the Czech edition to me.

The Czech edition shows heavy grain and pink color (good sign of *color fading*, especially old prints). I'm guessing it's a direct scan off of a 35mm print, without any meaningful digital restoration. TT is superior.

Man Hunt and Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison have sold out.

WILD BILL (1995) BLU-RAY - Oct 17th
PLAY DIRTY (1968) BLU-RAY - Oct 17th
THE CAPTAIN FROM CASTILE (1947) BLU-RAY - Oct 17th
THE PIRATES OF BLOOD RIVER (1962) BLU-RAY - Oct 17th

Play Dirty's already out in the UK. Wild Bill and Castille are films that KL should and would have put out for less. Will confess to never having heard of Pirates, but a cursory Google search doesn't convince me I'm missing much

The Long, Hot Summer (Martin Ritt, 1958)

Release Date: August 15th, 2017.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, August 2nd at 4 pm EST.

Special Features:

• Isolated Music Track
  Hollywood Backstories: The Long, Hot Summer
  Fox Movietone Newsreel
  Original Theatrical Trailer

Booklet artwork:

8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (Tom Schulman, 1997)

Release Date: August 15th, 2017.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, August 2nd at 4 pm EST.

Special Features:

• Isolated Music Track
  Original Theatrical Trailer

Booklet art:

Kid Galahad (Phil Karlson, 1962)

Release Date: August 15th, 2017.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, August 2nd at 4 pm EST.

Special Features:

• Isolated Music & Effects Track
  Original Theatrical Trailer

Booklet art: