Savant's new reviews today are
Hello - four reviews this day that Savant really put some time into, with help from frequent advisor Gary Teetzel, especially on the confusing series of Hammer films with titles like Dracula Has Graduated Cum Laude. The Frankenstein picture is actually one of Hammer's better efforts.
The coverage of the new "extended version" disc of THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY is here; I've tried to make it more of an overview than a review as I'm far too close to this one to be truly objective about it. But I've included a lot of new information about the disc and the restoration that should prove interesting. I invite notes about what I should do in this situation ... I don't want to ignore good discs, but it might be best to recuse myself from reviewing ones I work on. Or is the whole subject too petty to become an ethics problem? DVD reviews aren't exactly Pulitzer material. My present compromise is to put the situation out in the open.
I'm told that the Disney Treasures discs are on their way .. can't wait to finally see the Tomorrowland space shows that inspired my dreams as a seven year-old.
Sometime correspondent Arianné Ulmer Cipes has given me some information about a project I've heard about for years: here's what she had to say:
"Dear Glenn, We have just completed our principal photography for our Documentary Edgar E. Ulmer The Man Off Screen. The 60 minute TV version will debut on Turner Classic Movies along with a few of the Ulmer films this September. The DVD has already been sold to KINO and will be delivered prior to the end of the year. This is the centennial of Ulmer's birth - September 17, 1904. There will be a retrospective screening series at the National Film Theatre in London the whole month of August - a large number of films -- and the premiere of the English version 90 minute theatrical print."
You can read Savant's article about Arianné and her famous father here at Savant in The Daughter of Director Ulmer.
Thanks for reading, Glenn Erickson
Posted by DVD Savant at May 01, 2004 11:09 AM