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We're back with the rain in So Cal ... but Savant is on a writing vacation for at least a week, doing some serious Xtreme Keyboarding with no distractions. It's a bliss all its own.
Lots of mail about the John Badham Dracula, most of it split on the right thing to do with the film. But better news for the upcoming disc of The Agony and the Ecstasy. Several online listings call it a pan-scan disc. Savant has a soon-to-be-reviewed Fox screener that's both 2:35 and enhanced, exactly what we'd expect from the original format-friendly Fox ("good studio! good studio!").
Other mail mentions include no small level of enthusiasm for Warners' upcoming 'Controversial' film collection. Fox's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn has apparently been pushed back. For all-region fans, there's now apparently a pricey Japanese collection of rare Karel Zeman films - his whole filmography. Fearless leader Geoffrey Kleinman of DVDTalk is renewing efforts to get screeners for Media Blasters' Toho Sci-Fi releases. C'mon, MB, people are waiting for the high sign on quality before buying these, and unless they're upside down and purple, Savant's a sucker for things like Matango: Fungus of Terror, Dagora, Space Monster and Varan the Unreviewable, uh, Unbelievable.
Thanks for reading, Glenn Erickson
Posted by DVD Savant at February 19, 2005 10:34 AM