More overcast LA weather. Savant has three more reviews to slip in before deadline:
Criterion's Night and Fog presents the full 1955 Holocaust essay-film, with additional text essays and an interview with its director Alain Resnais.
Home Vision Entertainment's Black and White in Color is director Jean-Jacques Annaud's hilariously dark look at real events in colonial Africa in WW1. Foolish Frenchmen attack their German neighbors, using native troops to do the fighting, of course. Comes with a complete second feature, the 1962 Oscar-winning The Sky Above, the Mud Below.
Image has come out with a watchable disc of Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once, a tale of injustice, romance and cruel fate for a pair of Bonnie & Clyde-like fugitive lovers. Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney are the unforgettable Taylors, hounded, framed and pursued by society.
Last night Savant attended a Cinematheque screening of Edgar Ulmer's Natalka Poltavka , a Russian-language Ukranian operetta he filmed in New Jersey in 1937. The film was rediscovered only in the past couple of years, so this was something of a party for Arianné Ulmer Cipes, the director's daugher and archivist. Also in the audience was the legendary Ann Savage, star of Ulmer's Detour - quite a treat for us Noir fans. More later, Glenn Erickson
Posted by DVD Savant at June 18, 2003 08:44 AM