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Ann Miller passed away today. As an editor, I've run into my share of celebrities now and then but I'll always remember when Ms. Miller called my editing room looking for my producer on the laser show for That's Entertainment 3. "Hi Honey!" she said, with just the Texas drawl you'd expect. She made show business look simple and tap dancing talent seem natural, and I guess the only way she could have lasted so long, so strong is that she really was 13 when she broke into the movies.
I saw one of the MGM Ingmar Bergman discs last night and the transfer was impeccable, besting by far the VHS promos I made ten years ago. I'm looking forward to that set and learning more about the Svensk director in the extras.
I'm sort of waiting on news for a lot of discs right now. Unexpected goodies from Home Vision and Criterion are arriving daily to take up the slack while I wait for the likes of Love at Large, Flesh + Blood, Ed Wood, My Fair Lady, Diary of Anne Frank, Black Widow and Peyton Place. And that just brings us to February.
This is a DVD promotion, but the films being screened are good enough to mention here, in case you've missed any of them. Criterion and the Independent Film Channel (IFC) are holding a Crimewave film series on Friday, January 30 and Saturday January 31, showing a series of top pictures including Tokyo Drifter, Branded to Kill, Man Bites Dog, Honeymoon Killers and Alphaville. There's also a contest promotion called IFC Presents The Criterion Crime Wave Sweepstakes from January 11 to February 16 at www.amazon.com/crimewave. Prizes include a Home Theater System, watches from IFC, DVDs from The Criterion Collection, and Amazon.com gift certificates. Savant is disqualified (snfff!, injustice!) from entering, and is actively pursuing ways of cheating. Thanks for reading, Glenn Erickson
Posted by DVD Savant at January 22, 2004 08:38 PM