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July 13, 2004
DVD Savant: The Butchering of Castle Keep
This week The DVD Savant is up in arms!
A favorite Savant war time film Castle Keep has been butchered on DVD with a pan-scan version that destroys the film - read his complete review. Savant has also been hard at work with reviews of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold - Richard Burton mopes, drinks and tries to put a fast one over on the entire Soviet Bloc, The Deli - Twenty amusing New York characters revolve around Mike Starr's deli, which he's about to lose unless his gambling luck changes very soon, The Lower Depths '36 & '57 - Criterion doubles up on a classic play by Maxim Gorky: a depression-era French version by Jean Renoir, and a '50s Japanese interpretation from Akira Kurosawa, The Roger Donaldson Collection: Sleeping Dogs & Smash Palace - Director Roger Donaldson shows his early-career stuff in a pair of excellent dramas from New Zealand, The Driller Killer - Abel Ferrara's sleazoid horror item rubs Savant the wrong way, The Assassination Bureau - Basil Dearden's spoofy antique spy tale is a lot less fun than it thinks it is and F-86 Sabre - normally a modest collection of docu short subjects about a jet fighter would rate a minor review, but this disc is a great find for aviation lovers. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.
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