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A few extra notes today: Helpful correspondent Jeff Krispow provides the following information about a Criterion replacement disc situation:

Due to an authoring error on the first printing of Criterion's Jigoku, 2m08s of footage was skipped over when the layer change occurs (Ch. 16 @ 65:45). Thankfully, the always-reliable folks at Criterion stick by their promise to provide consumers with a quality product. I spoke with my Criterion contact earlier this week and was informed that Jigoku had been reauthored and repressed, and that the corrected discs were now available. As the replacement discs have only just been received, Criterion has not yet "officially" acknowledged this issue within the Known Problems section of their website, nor was it mentioned in their most-recently email newsletter sent out this past Monday. In the meantime, should you wish to exchange your Jigoku disc for the corrected repressing, you can contact Criterion via the DVD Tech Support form on their website. (Note: It is my understanding that only the disc itself will be exchanged, not the DVD case or booklet.)

Other items of interest: We may all have another good reason to watch the Oscars show this year, as they're going to be giving out a special award to composer Ennio Morricone! That's an Oscar montage I want to see.

Savant finally saw the new transfer of Fritz Lang's Liliom (1934) that comes as an extra on the new Carousel disc set. It's beautiful, and completely outstrips the murky, blurry copy on the old Kino Release. I may re-do the review to reflect this ... a separate review of a DVD extra!

Finally, the odd pop-up Amazon ads on this Savant front page confuse me too. When you click on my name, some product for Glenn Ford invariably pops up! Thanks for reading, Glenn Erickson