Classic Films

Thanks Hariseldon for your prompt response. I have sent Twilight Time an email asking about Suddenly Last Summer.

I got a quick response.

Hi Classic Films

That is our fault and I deeply apologize.​

I just checked with the tech team and they told me there was a mistake adding that title to the eligible list.
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It is now fixed and should work for you.
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Very sorry for the inconvenience.

Best​

​Randy
Twilight Time Movies Support

I placed the order and got the discount.
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hariseldon

Excellent. It almost had to be a mistake -- with all the other confusion about Sunday it would almost be a surprise is something like that didn't fall through the cracks.
I'm pleasantly shocked they responded and fixed it so quickly.

laidbacklarkin

Received an email from SAE last night that they'll take remaining inventory from TT to liquidate on SAE effective 7/1. The current pricing on SAE (which does NOT match TT) will continue until 5/31. Doesn't say what will happen from 6/1 thru 6/30 - my guess is they may throw in some other package offer to maximize returns on their leftover TT inventory.

Classic Films

Email from Twilight Time:

Important Update on Shipping

When we made our store closing announcement on Sunday, we could never have imagined the response from thousands of film collectors who have all come forward to place their final orders with us.

We are incredibly grateful for every one of your orders, and your support of Twilight Time to the bitter end.

As many of you have noted in the past two months, our ability to ship orders in high volume has been impeded by COVID-19, as our warehouse workers are required to follow stringent safety protocols for their protection and yours. This means that we can only process a certain number of shipments per day.

Unfortunately, we have received such a massive influx of thousands of orders in the past 3 days that our warehouse has informed us it will take a few weeks to fully catch up on shipments. All orders are being shipped out in the order received, and our warehouse is working 7 days a week to attempt to get through this backlog as fast as possible.

We ask your patience and understanding while we work diligently to meet this unprecedented demand. Please note that emails to our support staff may also be slightly delayed in receiving a response, as we are also fielding a great number of inquiries at the moment.

Thank you for your support and understanding!

asianxcore

Thanks for the heads up!

I'm not in a hurry. My order will get here when it gets here.

hariseldon

Blood and Gore slowed down a bit yesterday, but still brisk compared to even the beginning of the March sale.

SOLD OUT TUESDAY at TwilightTimeMovies.com - stock still available at SAE
KID GALAHAD (1962)
NO DOWN PAYMENT (1957)
MELVIN AND HOWARD (1980)
SHADOWS AND FOG (1991)
ANASTASIA (1956)
YEAR OF THE COMET (1992)

SOLD out at TTM -- WEDNESDAY
MAN IN THE MOON, THE (1991)
10 RILLINGTON PLACE (1971)
GRAN BOLLITO (BLACK JOURNAL / 1977)
WILD BILL (1995)
3 WORLDS OF GULLIVER, THE (1960)

Low stock at TwilightTimeMovies.com - items with less the 150 units
UPDATE 8pm ET May 13
BLACK STALLION RETURNS, THE (1983) 8
MY SISTER EILEEN (1955) 13
NEXT STOP, GREENWICH VILLAGE (1976) 17
TALK RADIO (1988) 20
STANLEY & IRIS (1990) 25
SAYONARA (1957) 25
WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1970) 25
TOM SAWYER (1973) / HUCKLEBERRY FINN (1974) 30
PIRATES OF BLOOD RIVER, THE (1962) 30
REVOLT OF MAMIE STOVER, THE (1956) 30
CINDERELLA LIBERTY (1973) 35
I COULD GO ON SINGING (1963) 35
JULIA (1977) 35
GLORY GUYS, THE (1965) 45
SWORD OF SHERWOOD FOREST (1960) 55
ANGEL (AKA DANNY BOY / 1982) 100
BULLET TRAIN, THE (AKA SHINKANSEN DAIBAKUHA / 1975 / REGION A ONLY) 100
APRIL LOVE (1957) 105
BROKEN LANCE (1954) 125
GIDGET (1959) 130
CHATO'S LAND (1972) 135
OKLAHOMA CRUDE (1973) 150

Classic Films

Twilight Time website has starting showing some of the items that have sold out mixed in with the items still available. There is no "add to cart" button on the sold out items

https://www.twilighttimemovies.com/a...?sort=priceasc

hariseldon

I'm not sure if they just sold out so fast their pages haven;t caught up or if they'd declined/deleted/cancelled enough purchases there are items being returned.
We'll see but I think most of it is just massive overwhelming of their system. I'm actually shocked it didn't crash with the 36 hr onslaught

by my envelope numbers
Late Sunday Monday -- 40000 disc sold (half their remaining stock)
Tuesday - 5000 units which for most sale is an avalanche
Wed (so far) - 2500 still an extremely busy day in normal terms. I'm still seeing what looks like some small Bulk Buys, but it's 5 discs of the same title and probably several Titles at once, but not 50-100 of multiple items in 5 minutes.

Some of the number for certain titles are just baffling honestly. Many good titles that should have sold long ago, but some real scratchers
Melvin and Howard and Bedazzled sold 800 units in less than 48 hrs
Beat the Devil and Birth of a Nation over 600
Lawman 700 units since Sunday
A Man Called Peter 500 and Children of the Huang Shi -- 600 units
The Chase, Wild Bill, and Talk Radio 500
Three Coins in a Fountain with the extra promo around 650

hariseldon

Critical update: Lately when SAE stock drops below 50, sell out is extremely imminent and some disc have only lasted minutes.

ON SAE site -- now sold out unless they find some copies. I missed the below 50 completely on these doing 2 hours of chores
FLAMING STAR -- SOLD OUT
STRANGE INVADERS -- SOLD OUT


EXTREME LOW STOCK AT SAE and already sold out at TTM
UPDATE 11pm ET -- this is how low stock used to act at SAE with a steady decrease instead of 50 to 0. Maybe they finally fixed things.
EYE OF THE NEEDLE -- SOLD OUT
PEYTON PLACE -- SOLD OUT
THEATER OF BLOOD -- SOLD OUT


SAE sent out an email earlier today with these general statements lists -- apparently they weren't kidding
ALAMO BAY (1985 - LOW QUANTITY
ALEXANDER THE GREAT (1956) - LOW QUANTITY
AMERICAN BUFFALO (1996) - LOW QUANTITY
ANASTASIA (1956) - LOW QUANTITY
APPASSIONATA (1974) - LOW QUANTITY
BORN FREE (1966) - LOW QUANTITY
BOXCAR BERTHA (1972) - SOLD OUT
BRUTAL TALES OF CHIVALRY (AKA SHOWA ZANKYO-DEN / REGION A ONLY / 1965) - LOW QUANTITY
CHATO'S LAND (1972) - LOW QUANTITY
CUTTER'S WAY (1981) - LOW QUANTITY
EDGE OF ETERNITY (1959) - LOW QUANTITY
EXODUS (1960) - LOW QUANTITY
GRAN BOLLITO (BLACK JOURNAL / 1977) - LOW QUANTITY
INFERNO 3D/2D (1953) - SOLD OUT
JULIA (1977) - LOW QUANTITY
MOSCOW ON THE HUDSON (1984) - LOW QUANTITY
PEYTON PLACE (1957) - SOLD OUT
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (1995) - LOW QUANTITY
THE BOSTON STRANGLER (1968) - LOW QUANTITY
THE BRIDGE AT REMAGEN (1969) - LOW QUANTITY
THE EMPEROR IN AUGUST (NIHON NO ICHIBAN NAGAI HI KETTEIBAN / 2015 - REGION A ONLY) - LOW QUANTITY
THE HAPPY ENDING (1969) - LOW QUANTITY
THE VALACHI PAPERS (1972) - LOW QUANTITY
THEATRE OF BLOOD (1973) - SOLD OUT
TONY ROME / LADY IN CEMENT (1967 / 1968) - LOW QUANTITY
ZELIG (1983) - LOW QUANTITY

EYE OF THE NEEDLE (1981) - SOLD OUT
COWBOY (1958) - VERY LOW QUANTITY
FLAMING STAR (1960) - SOLD OUT

sleepyhead55

80s Bronson is generally one watch and done for me. Maybe Death WIsh 3 has replay value for comedic reasons. But The Evil that Men Do and Assasination are just forgettable flicks.

​​​​​​Kinda OT, but Eye of the Needle and Theater of Blood can be had elsewhere as long as you're region free or have a player that can play region B discs.

Anyway, I ended up purchasing a bunch of titles On SAE because the shipping was lower and they still had the titles I wanted in stock. That swayed me even though TTM had the lower prices.

hariseldon

Sure -- about 1/3 of the TT titles have International Releases by major labels in the UK. Another 1/3 have releases by less than reliable labels out of France and Germany especially -- some are fine, but many are bad/old transfer, several run at or were based
on 1080/50 transfer, quite a few have forced subs and of course more than a handful are just plain bootlegs.

With the current prices and overall pretty strong presentations the US TT are cheaper and often better or at least the same as the excellent UK releases. Many of the UK discs are technically superior and/or frequently have excellent extras too.

Brian T

Thanks for the heads-up. I've got five titles in my SAE cart – though none of those listed – that I've been hesitating on because of the amount I spent at TT, but now I'm gettin' itchy again. All five are OOS at Twilight Time. One I already own, but I'm tempted to double up the others just to make a little more money to offset my complete lack of willpower over the last couple of days. There seems to be 50 or more in stock for all five, but it's only a matter of time now.

JoeySeven

I think I should have done the same, everybody else in our house watches most movies and tv shows via streaming or digital.
But I buy so little on physical media these day,I kind of go crazy once in awhile on these sales.
Still my digital collection keeps growing.I might skip the CC sales this year and just get the channel.

https://letterboxd.com/jpeg1000/list...2d/by/popular/

received my 10/$115 I ordered from May 10 today.
The final sale order I made a few hours after it went live, I have had 3 items canceled so far.

Another Woman
Inferno
Gun Fury

hariseldon

SOLD OUT at SAE /NOW OOP
INFERNO 3D
PEYTON PLACE
THEATRE OF BLOOD
EYE OF THE NEEDLE


SOLD OUT WEDNESDAY at TTM
MAN IN THE MOON, THE (1991)
10 RILLINGTON PLACE (1971)
WILD BILL (1995)
GRAN BOLLITO (BLACK JOURNAL / 1977)
3 WORLDS OF GULLIVER, THE (1960)


SOLD OUT THURSDAY at TTM
MY SISTER EILEEN (1955)
NEXT STOP, GREENWICH VILLAGE (1976)
BLACK STALLION RETURNS, THE (1983)
TOM SAWYER (1973) / HUCKLEBERRY FINN (1974)
TALK RADIO (1988)
SAYONARA (1957)
REVOLT OF MAMIE STOVER, THE (1956)
STANLEY & IRIS (1990)
CINDERELLA LIBERTY (1973)
PIRATES OF BLOOD RIVER, THE (1962)

LOW STOCK AT TTM
7pm ET May 14
JULIA (1977) 10
WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1970) 13
I COULD GO ON SINGING (1963) 13
GLORY GUYS, THE (1965) 24
SWORD OF SHERWOOD FOREST (1960) 27
BULLET TRAIN, THE (AKA SHINKANSEN DAIBAKUHA / 1975 / REGION A ONLY) 70
GIDGET (1959) 70
ANGEL (AKA DANNY BOY / 1982) 80
APRIL LOVE (1957) 95
CHATO'S LAND (1972) 100
BROKEN LANCE (1954) 105
WHIRLPOOL (1949) 110
OKLAHOMA CRUDE (1973) 120
CAPTAIN FROM CASTILE (1947) 135
GARDEN OF EVIL (1954) 135
TRUE STORY OF JESSE JAMES, THE (1957) 145
QUIET AMERICAN, THE (1958) 150
LAWMAN (1971) 155

laidbacklarkin

One last 'will take what's remaining' order with TT on all those previously considered 'not must haves' turned 'must haves' Fox titles. Ashamed, restraint ain't a virtue still :-) But regret's for a later day and then there's YOLO

Brian T

Stuck a copy of INFERNO in my cart late last night – just in case (even though I already own it) – and noticed it was gone this morning. The others (HELL AND HIGH WATER, RAPID FIRE x2, HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS, HOUR OF THE GUN and UNDERWORLD USA) still seem to be hanging in there with 50+ copies, but that itch is getting stronger by the minute. I think only Rapid Fire is a full-on Fox-only title, so maybe there's a chance the others might get picked up by Kino or whomever if I did miss out.

laidbacklarkin

Is the TT 'Birth of a Nation' the same restoration as the Region B Centennial BFI edition from a few years before ?

Brian T

Another e-blast announcement. Could be interesting:

hariseldon

Based on the same base elements from reading the Bluray and HTF threads. Teh extras are similar, but TT adds a couple new items

Several people who have seen both discs think the TT disc is a better encode (some say significantly so) and overall presentation of the underlying transfer.

laidbacklarkin

'....along with reprint rights....' sounds interesting

laidbacklarkin

Thanks, added to cart. Will be the 3rd edition to own after the Kino and BFI

Classic Films

I guess any existing period where Twilight Time has exclusive rights to a title will remain and so Sony for example won't be able to put out its own version of "Gidget" until Twilight Time exclusive rights expire. Big question will be will SAE license additional films under the Twilight Time banner or will they just continue to sell current stock and print additional copies of existing titles if they have a long enough window to sell them. I don't know the answer.

On another topic . I noticed on my yet to ship order from Twilight Time this notice below a number of titles ordered.
"Unfortunately this product is no longer for sale so it cannot be reordered."
I assume this means I will still get my blu rays and that this means I won't be able to order additional copies.
I will know for sure when the order ships.

Why So Blu?

I use this site (there's an app version, too) to see where films to stream are available:

https://www.justwatch.com/us

Saves so much time and money. It also does tv shows. What I have noticed is that it doesn't pull from certain sites like Criterion Channel, Kanopy, etc.

Brian T

Slight change to the wording of the first paragraph of SAE's email blast. Mention of the reprint rights and the TT website have been removed.

MooMooMooMoo

By the time I looked, all the Woody Allen's were long gone. The only thing left of interest to me was an Edward G Robinson film I wasn't familiar with. Unfortunate with there 1 item shipping price & sales tax, it would have been close to $20. Hopefully SAE will price them low.

Edit: I just looked at their site. High prices, & total rip off shipping rates. I have all the Woody's on DVD; I'll survive!