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A pleasant enough week squeaking into the holidays in L.A., where we're not suffering through the weather as most of the midwest and east seem to be. Was a little late last night, as I stayed up to see FACE OF ANOTHER (Tanin no kao) on Turner Classic Movies. It's a Hiroshi Teshigahara horror film about a man wearing a false mask over a ruined face. I'd read about it in Sci-Fi books for 35 and this has been my first chance to see it. Judging from the perfect transfer and the JANUS logo, I wouldn't be surprised if it turned up on DVD in a year or so. It was very talky but the makeup work was impressive. I've seen the next movie, FACE BEHIND THE MASK with Peter Lorre so I called it a night around 1:30 AM. According to Mike Schlesinger, the Lorre film will be showing up from Sony sooner than later, which is very good news. Then again, there's no counting the number of unofficial announcements, wishful-thinking guesses and rumors that haven't panned out!

Thanks for reading! Glenn Erickson