{"id":9988,"date":"2014-11-04T12:56:01","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T17:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=9988"},"modified":"2014-11-04T12:57:25","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T17:57:25","slug":"twilight-time-goes-to-war-part-2-under-fire-plus-the-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=9988","title":{"rendered":"Twilight Time Goes to War, Part 2: Under Fire, plus The Package"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/OrionPicturesRelease_logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10000\" alt=\"OrionPicturesRelease_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/OrionPicturesRelease_logo.jpg\" width=\"307\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/OrionPicturesRelease_logo.jpg 307w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/OrionPicturesRelease_logo-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \/><\/a>From 1978-1998, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orion_Pictures#Orion_returns:_2013.E2.80.93present\" target=\"_blank\">Orion Pictures<\/a> was a company known for producing and releasing films that were more artistically daring, perhaps not wholly commercial, and a studio where independent-minded filmmakers could see their work come to fruition without heavy executive interference &#8211; the result of which included Oscar-winning, Oscar-nominated, and unusual films with topics and running times with which some studios may have issues.<\/p>\n<p>Among the company&#8217;s high-level roster were <strong>Excalibur<\/strong> (1981), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/v2z\/2145_Wolfen.htm\"><strong>Wolfen<\/strong><\/a> (1981), <strong>Amadeus<\/strong> (1984), <a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=8948\"><strong>Broadway Danny Rose<\/strong><\/a> (1984), <strong>F\/X<\/strong> (1986), <strong>The Believers<\/strong> (1987; my review will appear in an upcoming issue of Rue Morgue magazine), <strong>No Way Ou<\/strong>t (1987), <strong>Robocop<\/strong> (1987), <strong>Colors<\/strong> (1988), <strong>Eight Men Out<\/strong> (1988), <strong>The Hot Spot<\/strong> (1990), <strong>The Addams Family<\/strong> (1991), and <strong>The Silence of the Lambs<\/strong> (1991), to name a selective (and subjectively enjoyed) few.<\/p>\n<p>Another attractive feature of an Orion film was it&#8217;s very cool animated logo:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TJSHCUMrvfU\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/UnderFire1983_poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9995\" alt=\"UnderFire1983_poster\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/UnderFire1983_poster.jpg\" width=\"126\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/UnderFire1983_poster.jpg 350w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/UnderFire1983_poster-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 126px) 100vw, 126px\" \/><\/a>Twilight Time&#8217;s release of <a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=9989\"><strong>Under Fire<\/strong><\/a> (1983) is a prime example of a film that was topical, provocative, extremely well made, not a full box office hit, and a work that over the past 30 years has aged extremely well, if not being a vivid portrayal of a photo journalist in a nasty crisis zone.<\/p>\n<p>When the film was released in theatres, Leonard Maltin gave it and Jerry Goldsmith&#8217;s score high marks, and while I was able to see the film on video, the soundtrack proved much more elusive.<\/p>\n<p>Released on LP via Warner Bros. Records, it was an import no one in Toronto carried, and I lucked out when I visited family friends in Windsor, and found the platter in Detroit, where they had a few great record stores that carried everything.<\/p>\n<p>That album got\u00a0<em>a lot<\/em> of play because it was one of the few Goldsmith scores where the electronics didn&#8217;t overstate themselves and take away from the orchestral elements. You also had Pat Metheny&#8217;s beautiful solos which give the music and the film extra intimacy &#8211; quite important since director Roger Spottiswoode and co-screenwriter Ron Shelton were making a drama with adults caught in an awkward love triangle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Package1989_poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9996\" alt=\"Package1989_poster\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Package1989_poster.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Package1989_poster.jpg 333w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Package1989_poster-207x300.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a>Orion also released a gem that&#8217;s been deserving its own Blu-ray special edition for years:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=9991\"><strong>The Package<\/strong><\/a> (1987), directed by a pre-<strong>The Fugitive<\/strong> Andrew Davis.<\/p>\n<p>One of the last great Cold War espionage films, like <strong>Under Fire<\/strong>, it starred Gene Hackman and Joanna Cassidy. I&#8217;ve added a review of the film to give it a little spotlight, and maybe Twilight Time might snap this one up for a Blu-ray edition when MGM gives it a 2K transfer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Cheers,<\/span><em style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviews of another fine war drama released by Twilight Time on Blu, 1983&#8217;s Under Fire, plus a related Cold War thriller, The Package (1987), produced &#038; released by the sorely missed Orion Pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[2562,2563,3107,3104,3096],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/UnderFire_featured.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-2B6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9988"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10013,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9988\/revisions\/10013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}