A busy week for Savant, with lots of exciting discs coming up. Here's the next installment in the Summer of Horror DVD parade:
Anchor Bay's Demons of the Mind and Straight on Till Morning can be kindly described as two 'lesser efforts', but not this pair of picture-perfect discs, armed with excellent commentary tracks. A gothic potboiler, Demons is discussed by its director, screenwriter and an actress, while Straight has a rare full-length interview from Rita Tushingham.
Criterion's Le trou is a gripping, unique prison break movie released last year and being reviewed now because it will be shown this coming Sunday night, August 3 at 9PM on the Sundance cable channel. On Saturday the 3rd, the Criterion Sundance Classics presentation will be Akira Kurosawa's unparallelled Rashomon.
Also to be noted in the television viewing schedule, this Thursday (Aug.1), TCM will premiere the 90 minute documentary on Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star, a show that Savant edited last year for producer-director Peter Fitzgerald. The whole wild and weird life of this notorious actress is covered, with some very intimate interviews with Christina Crawford, the daughter who wrote Mommie Dearest, many of the actors, and even a director Crawford worked with. It's a big undertaking and has already won a lot of press attention, and TCM is giving it a big sendoff. So wish us luck!
Thanks for reading! More Horror, toot sweet. Glenn Erickson
Posted by DVD Savant at July 30, 2002 11:36 AM