Savant's new reviews today are
It's a high-powered Saturday at Savant with five titles that actually span 9 reviewed films in one go: the Cassavetes boxed set consists of SHADOWS, FACES, A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE, THE KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE and OPENING NIGHT. If you've been waiting since Thursday to find out if a bus ran me over, I've been making a serious effort to refresh the column every Saturday and Tuesday, so that my weekly Wednesday Newsletter won't appear to be three or four days late.
The DVD Savant count will soon pass the 1400 mark, which means I've written about 1250 DVD reviews, with I don't know how many contributed from the PAL Region 2 world of Lee Broughton and other more occasional contributors. So far I'm ready to keep it up indefinitely, as the freedom to review mostly what I want has personally been very rewarding. As of August, I've also been writing for the TCM website, an agreeable arrangement that by no means threatens my relationship with DVD Talk. At the worst, a disc like THX 1138 has to wait before being posted here, because it came from TCM. Then again, I can only do so many reviews anyway.
I've been told that a screener of Warners' THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS is flapping its bat-wings on its way to the Savant mailbox. That title will be easy to write about, mainly because one of my more successful early articles (1998) investigated the two versions of this classic horror picture. If you already have the disc and want to read about the film now, the essay is Here. Don't worry, I'll have plenty new to write about Polanski's movie when it comes in.
Oh, the very political film THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS has a very political review, so if politics and DVDs don't mix for you, don't read it. Notice respectfully given.
Note ... anybody else been receiving mass emailings of spurious CITIBANK requests for account passwords and other information? I don't even have a Citibank account and I get a minimum of two emails to this effect a day. I wonder how many unsuspecting senior citizens are being robbed by these people, and why we don't sic Homeland Security on them. Let the offenders spend a few days in the Ministry of Fear, sayest I. Vigilante committee meets at seven for cookies and coffee. Thanks for reading! Glenn Erickson
Posted by DVD Savant at October 09, 2004 07:00 PM