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Racing toward the holidays, Savant has a couple of days off to address some neglected discs and think about my 'best of 2004' article, It was a year with lots of goodies but few socko, life-altering releases, an interesting problem, luggage-wise, as they say. Lots of fun things happening on various fronts, some of which I can talk about. Criterion just announced their disc of Jules Dassin's NIGHT AND THE CITY, which will reportedly have my second attempt at an audio commentary. This one has a lot more research put into it; even though I was chosen on the basis of a chapter I wrote about the movie in the first FILM NOIR READER, there was a lot about NIGHT AND THE CITY to be learned, such as the existence of a substantially different English version. Noir guru Alain Silver contributed a commentary to a second Dassin film being released at the same time, THIEVE'S HIGHWAY, and I'll be curious to see what he has to say about it.

Thanks for reading as ever, and especially for the corrections! Glenn Erickson