Savant's new reviews today are
Well, the above looks like only two entries but Savant went through ten pictures in the last couple of days, so I done my duty, sergeant. The campy horror gem The Flesh Eaters is a pleasant surprise because the semi-obscure movie looks so good on DVD ... we're used to seeing movies of its ilk given flea-bite transfers and other signifiers of low respect. I hope MPI / Dark Sky / Monsters HD finds more of these gems.
Reader Gregory Nicoll forwarded Savant the press release on Warners' Sam Peckinpah's Legendary Westerns Collection, which is indeed coming in January, as Savant's earlier information had claimed. (Finally, a rumor that turned out accurate). All the films will have commentaries and extras in addition to docus and featurettes old and new. Ride the High Country and The Ballad of Cable Hogue will be included in addition to two-disc special editions each of The Wild Bunch and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Pat Garrett will be presented in two versions, the 1988 Turner Preview version (122 min., presumably the one released on laserdisc) and a newly re-edited 2005 version (115 min.) -- 'based on the director's notes and insights from his colleagues.' We'll have to wait and see what this new re-cut is. Note that it is actually seven minutes shorter than the previous cut.
That will be a disc set worth waiting for (January 10) , especially to see a new enhanced transfer of The Wild Bunch. Thanks again for reading, Glenn Erickson
Posted by DVD Savant at October 10, 2005 04:48 PM