The holidays are over and Savant's back in action again. Another new disc with a Savant-edited docu is in my hands - so naturally I'll be reviewing it soon. But meanwhile ...

Blue Underground's Quiet Days at Clichy is a raunchy Danish import that is actually a serious attempt to make a quality sex movie. Two randy layabouts run wild in 1969 Paris, and have no trouble at all rounding up partners ... even though many are prostitutes. The film has the feel of a Truffaut film, and the disc backs it up with an excellent interview with the scandalous Henry Miller's longtime publisher.

Columbia TriStar's Tommy, the SuperBit edition, is a diamond-clear version of a musical siege that either has dated poorly, or is just the rock'n roll equivalent of a train wreck. Ann-Margret writhes, Oliver Reed grimaces, but it's up to Tina Turner and Elton John to perk up this oddity.

The new year has plunged Savant into newer and bolder editorial adventures, but this column will still get the attention it needs. With the holidays finally subsiding, the spice, I mean, the reviews, will flow once more.

Here's a note for fans of Fellini and Fellini Satyricon: Last year, Savant reader Gordon Thomas sent me a practically book-length set of essays on the film, and now he's compiled it into a very attractive and informative website called Satyricon Confidential. It's highly recommended for the more ambitious & academic reader. Good graphics, too.

Well, I missed Sergio Leone's The Colossus of Rhodes tonight at the Cinematheque, but will hear about it hopefully from Gary Teetzel tomorrow ... with my luck, it will have been the best print imaginable of an unheralded masterpiece, never to be shown again ... Back soon, Glenn Erickson