It's Sunday already, and you'll be happy to know that there'll be no food poisoning at the Savant homestead - the refrigerator is now fixed, thank you. Another motley selection of suspicious cinema awaits:
John Carpenter's golden goose Halloween re-emerges from the shadows once more, in a two-disc Anchor Bay special edition in the cool-sounding but otherwise indeterminate Divimax presentation. Jamie Lee Curtis is still the cutest carving knife victim on the block.
Artisan is front and center with a fairly obscure but very satisfying little Western called Four Faces West. Joel McCrea and Frances Dee are at the center of this tough-but-sentimental winner that has the charm of a Western from the silent days.
The Billy Wilder collection has a number of previously-released discs; Savant reviewed The Apartment two years ago but backtracks to touch down on the one-year-old Irma La Douce. Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine re-team in this big color dirty joke about prostitution in Paris. As a fairy tale it's not bad, but it's still funnier when seen before Jean Luc Godard's My Life to Live. Then again, anything is.
That takes up to the new week ... been looking at new episodes of The Outer Limits Season 2, and they're really good! Thanks, Glenn Erickson
Posted by DVD Savant at August 17, 2003 09:16 PM