Long days and short nights in Savant land - but I'm getting a leg up on the reviews finally. And even getting a chance to make a few non-work phone calls. It's almost like really living.

Columbia's Superbit edition of their tentpole standard From Here to Eternity fares pretty well: these non-discriminating eyes could see the improvement on a large screen, in comparison with the older standard disc.

Retromedia's rather sloppy disc of the Barbara Steele horror vehicle The Faceless Monster is a mostly inferior horror concoction that still deserved better treatment for DVD. It looks like the company found a very clean, uncut print of the rare picture, but then did all it could to make sure it doesn't look very good. Savant doesn't like waxing negative about independent companies, but this one rubs me the wrong way more often than not ...

Some Savant readers have helped out with interesting rebuttal and response letters this week - for those who care, there are brand new footnote additions to the review of Metropolis and the newish 2003 revision of The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. Thanks! Glenn Erickson