Savant's new reviews today are
The big surprise this week is the KRISTIN LAVRANSDATTER movie which I'd frankly never heard of - it's the best thing I've seen in weeks, a really beautiful Norwegian epic.
I just got a flyer from MGM for a new musical promotion that says that MAN OF LA MANCHA, FOLLOW THAT DREAM, I COULD GO ON SINGING and BILLIE will all be "standard" format, even though all are widescreen or CinemaScope. My word from inside MGM is that two of the DVDs will actually be different - LA MANCHA will be 16:9 only, and I COULD GO ON SINGING will be 2:35 letterbox flat. No news on the other two; supposedly the correct ARs were announced but these pub fliers still have the old news. Since this is word of mouth, I hope I'm not in error - the Judy Garland film looks pretty sad when pan-scanned.
Sometimes whining (politely) pays off - I decried the lack of a MILL OF THE STONE WOMEN screener, and the distributor is generously sending me one to review. Likewise a new disc of HICKEY AND BOGGS, which is on its way after I asked a publicist from whom I normally don't receive screeners. I'll be curious to find out whose disc HICKEY AND BOGGS is; it's a UA picture and I always thought it would be distributed on DVD by MGM.
Thanks for all the letters, and I hope I didn't throw too many out because the subject lines were suspicious .... Glenn Erickson
Posted by DVD Savant at April 08, 2004 07:32 AM