Happy weekend! I have more Billy Wilder on tap, and a nifty set of Saturday Night Live music performances.
MGM's Avanti! is an unappreciated romantic gem, and the perfect film to show someone who wants to relax. Jack Lemmon and Juliet Mills retrace the steps of their adulterous parents, and discover love, Italian style. With Clive Revill.
MGM's Kiss Me, Stupid, a notorious sex comedy that brought the wrath of the MPAA and the Catholics down on Hollywood and helped precipitate the Valenti ratings system, is an unabashedly lewd morality play that emphasizes Play over Morals. The DVD also reinstates an original censored scene, never shown in the United States. Contrary to rumor, this film is not the final chapter in the Kiss Me Trilogy of Kiss Me Deadly and Kiss Me Kate. But it does have Dean Martin, Kim Novak, Ray Walston and Felicia Farr.
Lion's Gate's Saturday Night Live: 25 Years of Music crams a quarter century of live performances and musical skits onto a 5 disc set. All the suspects are here (Savant includes a listing of songs) plus classic musical sketches like Disco Tut. Golden idols!
Horn-tooting time - Roger Ebert quoted me in his review of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly today!
I'm getting tons of helpful mail on the upcoming Warners' release The Thing from Another World, and already have the review partially written. I can't wait for it either, and won't hold it up. Thanks for reading! Glenn Erickson
Posted by DVD Savant at August 03, 2003 03:51 PM