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Tuesday February 9, 2010
Savant's new reviews today are
Onimasa
Animeigo
The Deadly Tower
Warner Archive Collection
and
The Internecine Project
Scorpion Releasing
Greetings! I know things are late but I just got back this afternoon and it was raining and -- you know the drill. No special notes or links today -- sorry -- but will do my best for Friday. I have had it confirmed, I'm sorry to say, that Universal's DVD of Matinee will carry no extras at all ... just a trailer, perhaps.
Thanks for reading! Glenn Erickson
Saturday February 6, 2010
Savant's new reviews today are
Bad Girls of Film Noir Volume 1
The Killer that Stalked New York,
Two of a Kind, Bad for Each Other, The Glass Wall
Sony
Bad Girls of Film Noir Volume 2
Night Editor, One Girl's Confession,
Women's Prison, Over-Exposed
Sony
The Last Stage
Facets Video / Polart
and
Countdown
Warner Archive Collection
Greetings! I was able to correct an error in last Tuesday's post, but it was too late to keep it from being sent out in the newsletter. I reported that the Toho science fiction film Dogora would be released on Blu-ray by Severin in a couple of months; as it turns out this new "Dogora" is a different movie entirely. It never occurred to me that that title might be given to another movie. My apologies.
Savant correspondent and radio producer Dick Dinman was awarded a Golden Minidisk Award back in January and sent me this photo of him receiving the prize at the awards ceremony. His winning program is the DVD Classics Corner on the Air radio show Seeing Red: A Skelton in Your Closet, an interview piece featuring memories of Red Skelton from stars Arlene Dahl, Ann Rutherford and Betty Garrett.
A great link heads-up from David Erickson, about Lockheed's fake camouflage "neighborhood" erected during WW2, to disguise the aircraft plant from Japanese bombers. I remember reading about this while researching 1941; an early Bob Gale-Robert Zemeckis script included a scene where General Stilwell visits the odd construction. The script said that everything on the seemingly endless array of nets was built at a scale smaller than reality, but I can't tell that from these pictures, at the website Think or Thwim.
Universal has announced a Blu-ray release of Apollo 13 on April 13, and a disc of Dune on April 27. Thanks for reading! Glenn Erickson
Onimasa
AnimEigo has come up with something special, a really good 1980s yakuza story told through the eyes of a ganglord's adopted daughter. The director is Hideo Gosha, the star Tatsuya Nakadai, and the subtitle is A Japanese Godfather.
02/09/10
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The Deadly Tower
One of the more controversial TV movies of the 1970s, a dramatization of the Charles Whitman sniper shootings in Austin, Texas in 1966. Kurt Russell is the deranged rifleman with the telescopic aim. Also stars John Forsythe and Richard Yniguez. Warner Archive Collection.
02/09/10
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The Internecine Project
Offered a high-profile job in the public sector, slick spy James Coburn must first rid himself of his four associates in espionage, so as to leave nobody to tell the truth about his past. Co-stars Lee Grant, Ian Hendry, Harry Andrews, Michael Jayston, Keenan Wynn and Christiane Krüger. From Scorpion Releasing.
02/09/10
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Bad Girls of Film Noir Volume 1
Columbia reaches into its "B" noir racks to come up with a fistful of femmes, some more fatale than others: Evelyn Keyes, Lola Albright, Lizabeth Scott and Gloria Grahame. The films in question are The Killer that Stalked New York, Two of a Kind, Bad for Each Other and The Glass Wall. Sony.
02/06/10
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Bad Girls of Film Noir Volume 2
Reaching deeper into its bag of murderous noir babes, Columbia uncovers Janis Carter, Ida Lupino and Jan Sterling; and discovers the sultry 50s bombshell Cleo Moore. The lineup of guilty titles: Night Editor, One Girl's Confession, Women's Prison and Over-Exposed. Sony.
02/06/10
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The Last Stage
Wanda Jakubowska's harrowing tale of Auschwitz is probably the earliest and certainly one of the most graphic -- it was filmed in the actual concentration camp just three years after the close of the war. This is a problem picture: influenced by pro-Soviet propaganda, it's accurate in some details and shamefully deceitful in others. Facets Video/ Polart
02/06/10
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Countdown
Robert Altman's first major studio feature gives us a superior suspense film about the space race to the moon, with good performances from James Caan, Robert Duvall, Barbara Baxley and Joanna Moore. The film is all the more daring, considering that it was made the year before the Apollo moon landing. Warner Archive Collection.
02/06/10
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Roberto Rossellini's War Trilogy
Criterion celebrates its 500th spine number with restored presentations of Rossellini's Rome Open City, Paisan and Germany Year Zero, together with numerous authoritative key-source interviews and docu extras.
02/02/10
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