Ads have depicted the rather forbidding place from the air, the beach and the deck, sometimes at twilight, when sunset rays helpfully tint the concrete golden-pink.
(Twilight Time, Blu-ray $29.95, screenarchives.com) ALSO OUT THIS WEEK THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN Steven Spielberg's motion-capture adaptation of the celebrated comic book series stars a digitally transformed Jamie Bell as a boy reporter and Andy Serkis as his bearish protector, Captain Haddock.
"Swamp Water" has been issued in a limited-edition Blu-ray by Twilight Time, a boutique label (sold through screenarchives.com) that mostly specializes in color films of the widescreen era licensed from Fox and Columbia.
As presented in the new restoration prepared by Sony Pictures and offered as a limited-edition Blu-ray from Twilight Time, Ann-Margret's rendition of "Bye Bye Birdie" stops the show before it has even begun.
("The Deadly Companions": VCI Entertainment DVDD, $14.99; not rated. "Major Dundee": Twilight Time; screenarchives.com; Blu-ray, $34.95; PG-13) COMING SOON JACK REACHER Tom Cruise stars as the title character, a military policeman turned private investigator who is at the center of popular novels by Lee Child.
Released in the fall of 1975, and appearing this month as a limited edition Blu-ray from Twilight Time, "Hard Times" was the first film directed by Walter Hill, who was then making a name for himself as an author of unusually literate screenplays (among them the scripts that became "The Getaway," from Sam Peckinpah, and "The Mackintosh Man," from John Huston).
Here's my confession: I own the Twilight Saga on Blu-ray.
This article originally appeared on VICE CA. Here's my confession: I own the Twilight Saga on Blu-ray.
(Twilight Time, distributed through Screen Archives Entertainment; screenarchives.com; Blu-ray, $29.95; PG).
As the new limited-edition Blu-ray of "Our Man Flint" from Twilight Time makes eye-searingly clear, Flint also has appallingly bad taste.
