Savant's new reviews today are
The late winter/early spring genre and special interest DVDs are all being announced, and it's a great crop. Some of these studios are putting top vintage titles out at a dizzying pace. From Criterion alone we have Casque d'Or, Kagemusha, Touchez pas au grisbi, La Commare Secca, Night and the City, Thieves' Highway, Tout Va Bien, My Own Private Idaho, The River, Young Torless, Andrej Wajda's War Trilogy, Sword of Doom, L' Eclisse and Jules & Jim. Warners is racing out with The Letter, Little Caesar, The Public Enemy, Angels with Dirty Faces, The Roaring Twenties, White Heat, Bringing Up Baby, Libeled Lady, Philadelphia Story, To Be or Not to Be, Stage Door, The Band Wagon, Bells are Ringing, Easter Parade, and Finian's Rainbow. Columbia TriStar has Bunny Lake is Missing, We Were Strangers, Twentieth Century, My Sister Eileen, Strangers When We Meet, and Behold a Pale Horse. Fox has The Laughing Policeman, The Agony and the Ecstasy, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Call Northside 777, House of Bamboo, Panic in the Streets and is promising Laura, The Street with No Name and Nightmare Alley in June. MGM lists Raging Bull, Charly, The Barbary Coast, Come and Get It, Dead End, Arrowsmith, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Electra Glide in Blue, Krakatoa East of Java, The Purple Plain, Beach Red, The Quiet American, The Four Feathers and Viva Maria!. Add to that The Mysterians and several other Toho science fiction pictures from Media Schock Blasters and it all adds up to a season that even Savant can't possibly cover in its entirety. But he'll do his best. The Emboldened titles are the ones that excite Savant the most.
Sometimes I wish I were a New Yorker; the Pioneer Theater in the East Village will be having a one-night Barbara Steele triple bill on February 13, showing what are reportedly good prints of The Ghost, Castle of Blood and, of all things, The Horrible Dr. Hichcock!
Thanks again from a soggy California! Glenn Erickson
Posted by DVD Savant at January 08, 2005 01:56 PM