August 15, 2005
Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Savant's new reviews today are

The Complete Thin Man Collection  Warners
The Thin Man  Warners and
The Barkleys of Broadway  Warners

The UKA Press is doing something Savant thinks is special. They've reissued Kevin Brownlow's How it Happened Here, the story of the making of one of Savant's favorite films (and one of the first reviewed at DVD Savant), It Happened Here. It's an intensely good read, especially for those interested in making their own independent movies. If you remember, Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo made this amazing wartime recreation on weekends as a quasi amateur endeavor. It ended up looking more real than most big-budget films on WW2. This new edition has a droll update chapter from Brownlow on the eventual fate of the 1964 UA release.

Am still expecting the full disc of Major Dundee, and the First Run DEFA sci-fi films ... hopefully one of these will be represented in the next batch of reviews ... Glenn Erickson

Posted by DVD Savant at August 15, 2005 09:31 PM