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Thursday November 19, 2009
Well, I don't know where things are with DVD Savant, exactleeee. A manager at the host site told me he'd have me connected again on Tuesday; when nothing happened yesterday I wrote back. Haven't received an answer yet. I'll write everybody again this morning and see what happens -- I don't think there's much else I can do at the moment. Thanks for all the notes expressing interest. If you'd like to read my review of the Universal Cult Horror Collection, it's up at this link at TCM. I know some readers (I hope I still have a few) were waiting for that one. Cheers ... ? Glenn E.
Tuesday November 17, 2009
Well, tomorrow it will be a solid week of no Savant updates; after 11 years of being prompt and punctual with my reviews this feels very disturbing. I promised the distributors of The Exiles, a really important independent release deserving of exceptional treatment, that their review would be up today -- it was supposed to go up last Saturday.
DVDtalk's site maintenance people have been very attentive and helpful in the past, so I've waited until today to try to contact one of them personally. Maybe he can take a second from putting out programming fires elsewhere, to reconnect DVD Savant to the web. Glenn.
Monday November 16, 2009
Hopefully DVDtalk will put DVD Savant back live today. In general the site maintenance here is excellent and we've never been down this long before. I have reviews ready for The Exiles, Confessions of a Nazi Spy and a Blu-ray of the 1998 Godzilla. Thank you. -- Glenn
Saturday November 14, 2009
Hello -- ! I have reviews ready today but our host site DVDtalk has been experiencing some problems, which include an inability for me to upload any reviews at the moment. I'll check back several times today to see if I can update the site. -- Glenn.
Tuesday November 10, 2009
Savant's new reviews today are
Notes on Marie Menken Icarus Films
Rancho Notorious Warner Archive Collection
It's a Wonderful Life Blu-ray Paramount
and
Wings of Desire Blu-ray Criterion
Greetings! This may classify as truly obscure trivial trivia, but I've received an interesting follow-up to my recent review of Messiah of Evil from a Savant reader who prefers not to be identified: He's compared the "Point Dune" beach house in Messiah with "Monte Baragon's" Malibu beach house in the old Joan Crawford film Mildred Pierce ... and they're the same building! The house number is identical and other angles reveal that the walkway view is the same as well. And the Messiah extras reveal that the scene was filmed in Malibu. I wonder if the filmmakers even knew? Now 50,000 Joan Crawford fans will need to pick up copies of Messiah of Evil!
Yes, that's all the DVD "news" that's cropped up in the last three days. Savant's upcoming reviews will include DVDs of Confessions of a Nazi Spy, The Exiles, Downhill Racer, The Golden Age of Television, Avant-Garde 3 and The Tora-San Collector's Set #1. Upcoming Blu-rays are Gomorrah and My Brilliant Career. Thanks for reading! Glenn Erickson
Notes on Marie Menken
Martina Kudlácek assembles a detailed biography of a famed New York avant-garde filmmaker, a subject that also gives an interesting perspective on Andy Warhol's Manhattan art "Factory". Icarus Films.
11/10/09
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Rancho Notorious
Fritz Lang's emphatic, operatic western is all about Hate, Murder and Revenge! Starring Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Kennedy and Mel Ferrer. Warner Archive Collection.
11/10/09
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It's a Wonderful Life
Let's give a round of applause for the film restorers; this new Blu-ray of America's favorite Christmas film looks splendid in HD. A double Blu-ray disc release with a second Colorized version. Paramount.
11/10/09
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Wings of Desire
Wim Wenders bends his style to embrace old-fashioned German Expressionism in one of the most emotional art films ever: Bruno Ganz's forlorn angel of mercy falls in love with circus aerialist Solveig Dommartin, and chooses to become mortal. With a wonderful appearance by Peter Falk, this looks fantastically good in B&W and Color in HD Blu-ray. Criterion.
11/10/09
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UP
Pixar's latest dazzler comes in a can't-miss all-format 4-Disc Combo Pack: Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy. What, no laserdisc? Carl, Russell, Kevin and Dug the Dog's Lost World adventure is easily the most entertaining picture so far this year. Buena Vista.
11/07/09
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Gabriel Over the White House
Walter Huston's playboy President saves America from the Great Depression by becoming a fascist dictator -- inspired (or possessed?) by the Angel Gabriel. A bizarre political fantasy played straight, with a gangland drive-by shooting at the White House and a Presidential threat for foreign powers to pay their war debts -- or else! Warner Archive Collection.
11/07/09
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Eagles Over London
Blu-ray. Enzo G. Castellari depicts the evacuation of Dunkirk, followed by an undercover Nazi plot to wipe out England's radar warning system to aid the German conquest. Crazy war action from the maker of the original Inglorious Bastards. Severin.
11/07/09
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Zorro Seasons 1 &2
These two elaborate Walt Disney Treasures separate releases give us the full series run of Guy Williams as the masked rebel of Old California, with his trusty wild stallion Tornado! Walt Disney Home Video.
11/03/09
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Gabriel Over the White House
Eagles Over London
Blu-ray
Walt Disney Treasures: Zorro Seasons 1 + 2
From Hell It Came
The Claudette Colbert Collection: Three-Cornered Moon, Maid of Salem, I Met Him in Paris, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, No Time For Love, The Egg and I
Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics 1: The Sniper, The Big Heat, 5 Against the House, The Lineup, Murder by Contract
The Subject Was Roses
North By Northwest
Blu-ray
Howards End
Blu-ray
The Sam Fuller Collection: It Happened in Hollywood, Adventure in Sahara, The Power of the Press, Shockproof, Scandal Sheet
Berlin Express
The Prisoner: The Complete Series
Blu-ray
Messiah of Evil: The Second Coming
"Z"
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Blu-ray
Nothing Like the Holidays
Blu-ray
Jack the Ripper
Death in the Garden
Karloff and Lugosi Horror Classics: The Walking Dead, You'll Find Out, Zombies on Broadway, Frankenstein 1970
Experiment Perilous
Black Rain
Not Quite Hollywood
The Tall Target
Chéri
Monsoon Wedding
Blu-ray
Lightning Strikes Twice
Contact
Blu-ray
The Last Days of Disco
Highway 301
Hardware
Blu-ray
Don't Turn the Other Cheek by Lee Broughton
Esther Williams, Volume 2: Thrill of a Romance, Fiesta, This Time for Keeps, Pagan Love Song, Million Dollar Mermaid, Easy to Love
The Search
Stop Making Sense
Blu-ray
The Gate
Suspense
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Blu-ray
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