Savant has two times art, one Hollywood bomb that's a guilty pleasure, and a unique Broadway musical ....
Image's Stephen Sondheim's Passion is yet another rare pleasure to put beside Into the Woods and Sweeney Todd. An Italian soldier learns the meaning of true love, from the unwanted attentions of a woman thought to be insane.
Home Vision has a hit with the truly strange Warm Water Under a Red Bridge, a fanciful drama that combines a fairy story with sex, and lots and lots of water imagery. From master filmmaker Shohei Imamura.
My Night at Maud's is a favorite art film about romance, temptation and the endless complications of love. Eric Rohmer puts hero Jean-Louis Trintignant into a touchy situation ... and we watch him slowly prevail.
Paramount's Popeye has such a lousy reputation, I'm surprised it's out. A big, mismanaged mess from Robert Altman, it still has the pleasures of a perfectly cast Popeye and Olive Oyl - Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall.
The Extended English Language Version of The Good, the Bad & the Ugly makes its LA screen debut tonight at the Nuart in Santa Monica. Savant should be there trying to film the marquee, if the weather's not too bad ... Thanks for reading, Glenn Erickson
Posted by DVD Savant at June 20, 2003 09:56 AM