You may not be familiar with them but you should be! I'm talking about the Limited Release label Twilight Time who are putting out a wildly eclectic and fascinating line of limited edition (just 3000 copies per title) blu-rays. Their recent releases, Steel Magnolias, The Sound and The Fury, Bye Bye Birdie, and High Time are prime examples of just how different each title is from the next.
I'm reviewing these titles as a whole rather than individually because they all have the same problem, really the only problem but I'll get to that in a minute. What they also have in common is gorgeous transfers and crisp clear sound. Everything you expect from a blu-ray you get with these titles.
Except for special features. I don't know if it's a rights thing or a matter of nothing available but the each of these titles is almost void of special features. You get trailers and isolated audio on Bye Bye Birdie and High Time; Isolated Score and Audio Commentary with Herbert Ross on Steel Magnolias, and only an isolated score on The Sound and The Fury. So basically for the kinda hefty $29.95 price tags you're getting the film (all of which are excellent films) and some cursory features plus the knowledge that only 2999 other people will ever own this blu-ray, which for some people (me i admit) is pretty cool.
Still, in the cases of these releases, the price tag will give some people pause, but if you ask me, they are worth the investment. All four titles here are excellent films and would make great additions to anyone's collection. If you are a supplemental material snob, maybe not so much, but based on the films alone plus the limited number of copies available make these definite purchases for me.
Twilight Time is bringing films to blu-ray that may not have seen an HD format otherwise and this has be excited to see what they come out with next. I'm already chomping at the bit for October's releases: Night of the Living Dead (1990) and Enemy Mine which we hope to have reviews for next month.
So serious blu-ray collectors click your way over to Screen Archives, the official and exclusive home for Twilight Time releases, and pick up your copies of these, and the other excellent titles they have available.
Steel Magnolias, The Sound and The Fury, Bye Bye Birdie, and High Time are all available now at ScreenArchives.com.
Remember these, and all Twilight Time, titles are limited to 3000 copies so once they are gone they are gone and you can ONLY get them from ScreenArchives.com!
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