Thursday, March 17, 2004

Savant's new reviews today are

The Chaplin Revue, The Kid, A Woman of Paris, The Circus, City Lights,
Monsieur Verdoux, A King in New York, and Charlie - The Life and Art of Charlie Chaplin in

The Chaplin Collection Volume 2 Warner

There was just no way of even beginning to do these discs justice without seeing them all - I'd never seen The Circus before, for instance. This is my only excuse for not having more review variety up today. Reviews will follow, post-haste, for Onibaba, Vanishing Point, The Dresser, and Best of Burlesque. Time Without Pity, Pirates of Tortuga and A High Wind in Jamaica are on their way as well.

Thanks to the many writers who sent me web addresses of sites containing info about the movies Suddenly and The Manchurian Candidate being pulled from release. I'm leaning toward the idea that the biggest influence on the second film being yanked may have been a contractual money dispute, and not the crisis of conscience story - although supposedly banned, it played sporadically anyway, especially on television, during the 25 years it was supposedly unavailable. I myself saw it in 1973 or 1974. Another Hollywood legend that's not entirely accurate. Thanks again, Glenn Erickson

Posted by DVD Savant at March 18, 2004 08:21 PM