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An outfit called Ivy Films surprised me this week with a trio of rare (well, at least in the U.S.) Italian imports, each starring a bombshell Italian sex goddess. All three are good pictures with reasonably good transfers, and I'm happy to billboard them here.
Various other bits of news:
About half a year ago, I couldn't identify some shots from a space movie that showed up in one of those fake sex docus on a Something Weird disc. Martin H. Larsen from Denmark sent me to a website that cleared it all up ... the clips came from a rare German film, subsequently raided to make the kiddie film I once saw them in, The Space Explorers. It's a pretty interesting story. Thanks, Martin.
Some bad news: Fox's DVD of ONE MILLION BC is the 91 minute version, not the extended 100 minute version we were given on laserdisc. I'd hoped that just the box was incorrect, but I measured it. Too bad. I'm reviewing it fairly soon.
For PAL folk, there's an amazing bulletin, another tip, this one from Marshall Deutelbaum. Anchor Bay's DVD of Wim Wenders' ultra-long three-film cut of UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD is nowhere in sight (and may still be in legal limbo) but there's an Italian DVD offered on the web: FINO ALLA FINE DEL MONDO. If anyone gets this I'd be excited to hear about it ... is it complete? - does the music run fast?
And that's it until Sunday. Thanks, Glenn Erickson
Posted by DVD Savant at March 03, 2004 08:45 PM