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Tuesday May 6, 2008
Hello! Sorry we're so late. Savant's new reviews today are
Twister (Blu-ray) Warners
La roue Flicker Alley / Blackhawk
and
Merrill's Marauders Warner
An unnamed but well-connected source gave me this amazing link: Animator vs. Animation by Alan Becker. Don't stop, don't ask questions. Just open the window as wide as you can before you press 'Go.' It lasts about 3 minutes.
And when you're finished, check out this even wilder followup, Alan Becker's "Animator vs. Animation II". Thanks, Glenn Erickson
Saturday May 3, 2008
Savant's new reviews today are
Fox Western Classics The Gunfighter, Rawhide, Garden of Evil Fox
The Delirious Fictions of William Klein Who Are You Polly Maggoo?, Mr. Freedom, The Model Couple Eclipse
Irma Vep Second Sight Region 2 PAL review by Lee Broughton
and
Z.P.G. (Zero Population Growth) Legend Films
Hello, short post today: Eight reviews, no waiting! Just thought I'd pass on this link to a UK TV commercial that features our scaly old friends, the Gremlins. It looks very expensive! Thanks for reading, Glenn Erickson
Twister (Blu-ray)
Jan de Bont's tornado-chasing effects extravaganza is the ultimate Spielberg escapism movie, and it plays especially well in the Blu-ray format. With Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Jami Gertz, Cary Elwes and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Warners.
5/06/08
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La roue
Abel Gance's legendary 1923 silent movie surfaces in a magnificent restoration -- all 4.5 hours of it! This story of love and loss in the family of a railroad engineer is a milestone of cinematic innovation, hailed as the next step past D.W. Griffith and a strong influence on the direction of world cinema. From Flicker Alley and Blackhawk.
5/06/08
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Merrill's Marauders
Sam Fuller takes on the Burma campaign in this much admired but little-shown big scale battle epic. It's Jeff Chandler's last film. Warners.
5/06/08
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Fox Western Classics
An excellent and budget priced trio of great 50s' oaters -- a classic, a good suspense picture and a cult oddity blending weird landscapes with the music of Bernard Herrmann: The Gunfighter, Rawhide, Garden of Evil. Fox.
5/03/08
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The Delirious Fictions of William Klein
Art and fashion photographer turned filmmaker made these satirical and often politically daring comedies in France: Who Are You Polly Maggoo?, Mr. Freedom, The Model Couple. Their revival is a major find. Eclipse.
5/03/08
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Irma Vep
Lee Broughton brings us a review of a Region 2 PAL disc of this 1996 Maggie Cheung film about a French director's attempt to remake Feuillade's Les vampires. Second Sight.
5/03/08
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Z.P.G.
In a dystopian future, child-bearing is made a capital offense. Oliver Reed and Geraldine Chaplin star in a Sci-Fi story with good ideas but a murky execution. Legend Films.
5/03/08
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Serial
A bawdy comedy from 1980 that assaults Marin County sexual libertarians with devastatingly funny jokes that don't quite add up to a coherent satire. Yet there's no denying that the farce has its good qualities -- mostly in its laugh quotient. Stars Martin Mull, Tuesday Weld, Bill Macy, Peter Bonerz, Tommy Smothers and Christopher Lee! Legend Films.
4/29/08
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Irma Vep by Lee Broughton
Z.P.G.
Serial
Death of a Cyclist
White Mane
The Red Balloon
The Movie Orgy (Special Screening Notes)
Classic Caballeros Collection: Saludos Amigos & The Three Caballeros
Dangerous Crossing
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead Blu-ray
Bamako
Alain Delon Five-Film Collection Diabolically Yours, La Piscine, The Widow Couderc, Le Gitan, Notre Histoire
Abel Raises Cain
Charlie Wilson's War
A Passage to India Blu-ray
The Rabbit is Me
The Fall of the Roman Empire
The Kite Runner
Cloverfield
John, Paul, Tom and Ringo: The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder
There Will Be Blood
Georges Méliès: First Wizard of Cinema
The Bette Davis Collection Vol. 3: The Old Maid, All This and Heaven Too, The Great Lie, In This Our Life, Watch on the Rhine, Deception
Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Blast of Silence
Don't Drink the Water
Bonnie & Clyde Blu-ray
Churchill's Leopards & Salt in the Wound by Lee Broughton
The Mist
The Ice Storm
DVD Savant 2007 Favored Disc Roundup
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