Apologies from Savant, who's still in a rush with work - one of those jobs where you have to invest every waking hour.

But I do have a short review up for the very good Tarantino film Jackie Brown, that shows that the wunderkind is more than just hip-cynical flash and sharp dialogue. Pam Grier leads a great cast in a gritty, hardboiled crime story with a heart.

This weekend's Criterion Classics shows on The Sundance Cable channel are a pair of dark romances. The sinister The Night Porter screens Saturday night the 24th at 9, and Jean Renoir's La béte humaine Sunday the 25th ant the same time. Both are crazy, doomed love stories, the first between a concentration camp officer and his ex-victim, and the second between a train engineer and a rich man's pet wife.

Well, I'll probably get in a couple more reviews this week - we'll see. Thanks for stopping by! Glenn Erickson Posted by DVD Savant at August 23, 2002 08:11 AM