Release Date: May 22nd, 2018.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, May 9th at 4 pm EST.
Special Features:
- Isolated Music Track
Audio Commentary with Writer/Director Paul Mazursky and Actress Ellen Greene
Original Theatrical Trailer
Booklet art:
They’re both outdated, useless, and controversial?domino harvey wrote:I don't get it?
The film is still widely taught, it's of a special historical importance, and there are many thrilling and beautiful moments in it. Its overall thrust and argument is of course abominable (and in its own way it's more morally degenerate than Triumph of the Will). It's not at all hard for me to understand why someone should want a good copy of it and there should be no shame in releasing it, presuming the accompanying material doesn't endorse the film's vision of apocalyptic race war ending in the subjugation of an entire race (of course, the film insists this is for its own benefit, which is one of the most awful things about it).Big Ben wrote:Birth of a Nation was one of those things I watched as a right of passage through film history. It's an abominable historical document that exists in moral abyss. Outside of people who REALLY want this I cannot fathom why Twilight Time would think this would be worth producing.
Whether we like the movie or not, it is an important part of movie history (and history itself). If there is a market in the UK for TWO different fully-fledged BD releases, I don't see why there wouldn't be 3000 potential sales in the US.Big Ben wrote:Who knows though. Perhaps there is a market for it and I'm just an idiot.
Exactly. The Blu editions released by Kino and Twilight Time in the States are now basically the same (give or take a few extras/booklets) as the editions released by MoC and BFI in the UK. I don't recall anyone having a cow when the BFI released their edition, even though there was already a perfectly good one available, so I'm not getting the shock and awe this seems to be inspiring. Not that I'm the biggest fan of Twilight Time's model, but this is a situation where most people buying it will probably be collectors specifically doing so for the Photoplay restoration, which is said to be better than that used for the Kino/MoC editions. And I don't see anything wrong with that restoration being made available to the U.S. market.tenia wrote:If there is a market in the UK for TWO different fully-fledged BD releases, I don't see why there wouldn't be 3000 potential sales in the US. But it probably is a different "market" than for regular movies, in the way that it doesn't mean buyers are necessarily buying it because they like the movie.
I mean, this release is frankly less questionable than some of their more populist releases like Steel Magnolias and As Good As It Gets on that front. Who else would release this restoration, outside of another boutique label? Would it make you any happier if Criterion or Cohen Films were releasing it?Ribs wrote:But the sheer audacity of Twilight Time, whose entire mission is "we're releasing the things no one else would for so they'll have a BD when the home video market disappears in *checks calendar* 18 months" to release a movie with several perfectly good releases due to being PD already in its same, ridiculously unnecessary $35 format is basically a new level for them.
Um, yes to every single title TT has released. (This fantastical scenario imagines Criterion having unlimited resources)Feego wrote:Exactly. The Blu editions released by Kino and Twilight Time in the States are now basically the same (give or take a few extras/booklets) as the editions released by MoC and BFI in the UK. I don't recall anyone having a cow when the BFI released their edition, even though there was already a perfectly good one available, so I'm not getting the shock and awe this seems to be inspiring. Not that I'm the biggest fan of Twilight Time's model, but this is a situation where most people buying it will probably be collectors specifically doing so for the Photoplay restoration, which is said to be better than that used for the Kino/MoC editions. And I don't see anything wrong with that restoration being made available to the U.S. market.tenia wrote:If there is a market in the UK for TWO different fully-fledged BD releases, I don't see why there wouldn't be 3000 potential sales in the US. But it probably is a different "market" than for regular movies, in the way that it doesn't mean buyers are necessarily buying it because they like the movie.
I mean, this release is frankly less questionable than some of their more populist releases like Steel Magnolias and As Good As It Gets on that front. Who else would release this restoration, outside of another boutique label? Would it make you any happier if Criterion or Cohen Films were releasing it?Ribs wrote:But the sheer audacity of Twilight Time, whose entire mission is "we're releasing the things no one else would for so they'll have a BD when the home video market disappears in *checks calendar* 18 months" to release a movie with several perfectly good releases due to being PD already in its same, ridiculously unnecessary $35 format is basically a new level for them.
Twilight Time's Art Department wrote:What's our quota on giant legs for the month?