Greetings! Savant's new reviews today are
Black Sunday, The Girl Who Knew Too Much,
Black Sabbath, Knives of the Avenger, Kill, Baby ... Kill!
Anchor Bay
and
Muriel, ou Le temps d'un retour
Koch Lorber
Plus an article:
The Color of Peter Pan
by Benoît A. Racine
This is worth repeating for an update: It's been leaked that the three Sergio Leone special editions will be coming out on June 5: Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and Duck You Sucker (Fistful of Dynamite). Note that Duck You Sucker is coming out under the preferred original American title, the one that works with the film's final gag. Also The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is being reissued and bundled with the other three in a package called The Sergio Leone Anthology. Configuration-wise, this new GBU will be identical to the fancy 2004 Extended Version.
I'm also happy to have gotten a screener of The Mario Bava Collection in such a timely fashion (thank you Anchor Bay) ... and pleased to find out that all of the transfers look so good. I've received a number of inquiries wanting to know how the AB copy of Kill, Baby ... Kill! measures up to Dark Sky's delayed Kill, Baby ... Kill! and am happy to oblige. I happily gave my review copy of the Dark Sky disc to Savant's #1 research aide and anti- foot-in-mouth advisor, who liked the movie more than I did and surely deserves it. The Dark Sky disc has great extras but I think it's a little crazy to pay $260 on Ebay for something that may be $17 at Amoeba in a few months ... on the other hand, I'll bet knowing they're selling that high is a good ego payoff for Tim Lucas and David Gregory. Now, the idea of getting my hands on a loose copy of Fox's cancelled disc of Boomerang!, that's a different story! Thanks for reading, Glenn Erickson
Posted by DVD Savant at March 25, 2007 10:49 PM