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Hello again. Savant just celebrated a nice birthday with some friends, 12 year-old style - Chocolate cake! Candles! And had a fine time. I'm a day late because of that and some review scrambling. I wrote up a Warners DVD that doesn't come out for four weeks, and therefore have to hold it off for at least two. I also got halfway through a certain boxed set, the reviews of which might want to be delayed pending more information from the publicity people.
Author Brendan G. Carroll has written me an interesting correction for an error in my Robin Hood review of a while back; Mr. Carroll is a biographer of composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold and the informative letter is there should you care to check it out. Other readers had attempted to clue me to my mistake before, but I didn't catch on.
In Los Angeles, UCLA is holding a screening series of 70s and 80s horror films called Going to Hell this month; it features some Savant faves or wanna-sees like The Vampire Lovers, Bob Clark's Deathdream (planned for DVD release from Blue Underground), Stephanie Rothman's The Velvet Vampire, the countercultural zombie film Messiah of Evil (an early effort from the writing the creatives behind American Graffiti) and The Legendary Curse of Lemora, also slated for DVD.
I'm assured that all prints are 35mm in good physical condition. There'll be some guest appearances as well. More info about Going to Hell for Savant readers in the area can be found at the UCLA Film and TV Archive's website calendar. Thanks, Glenn Erickson.
Frequent Savant correspondent Dick Dinman, a sharply opinionated industry veteran with a keen interest in old movies, has initiated a review site of his own called the DVD Classics Corner. It's nicely laid-out with samples of his poster collection. His reviews are compact and well-written, and he backs them up with shorter notices for other discs. He's a real stickler for detail, as I've found out from his many corrections! I'm going to be watching frequently. Thanks for reading! Glenn Erickson
Posted by DVD Savant at February 08, 2004 04:20 PM