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A lot of reviews this weekend, along with the extra fun of digging through some Hammer pictures I haven't seen in years - and one good one that almost nobody has seen, Night Creatures. Savant's also received the Universal Bela Lugosi Collection and should have it up on the weekend. It was one or the other - they both arrived last Saturday.
Savant wrote the Canadian DVD company called Project X to find out when Punishment Park will officially be released in the United States. Project X's slate of releases is impressive enough to reprint "Oliver's" entire letter of response:
"Hi, Glenn, thanks for your interest. I've finally got a sales service deal in place for the States: with New Yorker. So I'll be putting together the releases in consultation with New Yorker and Morningstar, who'll be handling the distribution in the States and Canada respectively.
Punishment Park is the first out of the gate in the States on 22nd November. It'll be nice finally to get this out south of the border!
Mai Zetterling's Loving Couples (1964) will follow on 29th November. It's already out here in Canada but I'm making some changes for the US release. I'm about to start authoring The Gladiators (Peter Watkins, 1969). Joe Gomez (who did the Punishment Park commentary) has just recorded one for this. Then I have other Watkins titles which are set for release in the early part of next year: Edvard Munch (1974), Culloden (1964), The War Game (1965) and The Freethinker (1994).
Mixed in with those are The Girls (Mai Zetterling, 1968) and Hunger (Henning Carlsen, 1966). Most of these are at various stages of preparation. Best wishes, Oliver"
A tangential but pleasing thought to the horrors of the Bayou State: Great news item today. The Louisiana zoo can account for all of its animals except one large alligator. I'd like to see a Gorgo -like docu about a twenty-foot happy gator ambling his way to freedom through a destroyed city, and never looking back! Quote: And she turns back - turns with her young - leaving the prostrate city, and leaving man to ponder the proud boast that he alone is Lord of all creation."
Friend Avie Hearn suggests that the gator that got away is heading to Southern California, for a romantic reunion with the sexy Latin caiman that nobody seems to able to catch. --- Thanks for reading, Glenn Erickson
Posted by DVD Savant at September 06, 2005 03:53 PM