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April 25, 2011

Well Hi... I was up pretty late straightening out problems with my remote access for blogging for the TCM fest, but I think it's all solved now. Nothing all that fantastic for me on opening night, as I missed Leslie Caron and only saw The Ghost and Mrs. Muir and a crazy Republic musical with Joe. E. Brown and Dale Evans. I did catch Jamie Lee Curtis going up an escalator at about 10 pm, but only because I saw a crowd of fans all looking in the same direction.

Today should perk up with Bigger Than Life aka "God was Wrong!", and what's billed as a 35mm print of The 7th Voyage of Sinbad. Will it be some special print, or what? Will the baby Roc be white, or baby-chick yellow? These are the vital issues of the day.

So far this blogging business is like the 4-minute mile ... write like hell and spend twice as much time proofreading. I'll try to check back in mid-day (this day will go on through 5 screenings, to midnight) if time allows. Maybe some pictures tomorrow too, if I get inspired. Cheers! -- Glenn Erickson.



Thursday April 28, 2011

The TCM Classic Film Fest starts today on Hollywood Blvd. and runs through Sunday. I'm blogging for the live site off and on so, presuming that everything works the way it should, you can follow the exploits of the various TCM bloggers online starting later this morning (or so I'm told). I'll be drifting over to the Chinese Theater sometime early in the afternoon; the first show I'll be covering tonight is The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, as part of a multi-picture tribute to composer Bernard Herrmann. Last year's TCMfest was a four-day blast capped by the premiere of the restored Metropolis. This year I'm going to be a little busier, methinks -- I have fifteen pictures to cover.


Since that's happening, my normal DVD Savant reviews are going to be set back a few days days. I have several written but the formatting and other baloney (like, fixing typos, misspelling, bad ideas) takes a number of hours that I don't have at the moment. One my plate at the moment are Dementia 13 Blu-ray (Good +), Kino's Our Hospitality (Excellent), Criterion's Blow Out Blu-ray and Kes Blu-ray (both Excellent), and the Warner Archive Collection's Confidential Agent (Very Good). The WAC's 4 Horsemen of The Apocalypse is a fine disc but the movie is on the weak side. Discs in hand but not yet written up are the Cold War spy movie Farewell, an English Arrow disc of Clouzot's chiller Les Diaboliques, a Blu-ray of The Terror, Milestone's very interesting Araya, Olive Films' Otto Preminger movies Hurry Sundown and Such Good Friends, The MGM Limited Edition Collection's The Black Sleep and Criterion's Blu-ray of Jonathan Demme's Something Wild.


Meanwhile, Gary Teetzel sends along this funny Star Wars sendup written by George Lucas and Jean-Paul Sartre: Guerres des étoiles existentielles. I wonder if one in 500 viewers will have any notion what the joke is here, except that it's in French and "makes no sense."


Hope to be back posting late tonight on my first day's adventures at the TCMFest. Thanks for reading! -- Glenn Erickson



Tuesday April 26, 2011

Savant's new reviews today are:

While the City Sleeps
&
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Fritz Lang's last two American films are fascinating crime stories about serious topics and constructed with Lang's usual flair for visual complexity. Dana Andrews stars in both, with Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino, George Sanders, Sally Forest, Barbara Nichols, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price among notable casts. Savant tries to get to the bottom of the touchy aspect ratio debate over these RKO pictures -- were they released flat, widescreen, Superscope, or what? Separate releases from the Warner Archive Collection.
4/26/11

Queen of Blood

Curtis Harrington refurbishes a dreamy Soviet space epic into an A.I.P. horror picture about a green vampire alien with a lethal talent for hypnosis. Quite an accomplishment starring John Saxon, Basil Rathbone, Judi Meredith, Dennis Hopper and the so-weird-it's-creepy Florence Marly. From the MGM Limited Edition Collection.
4/26/11

and

Altin Çocuk
(Golden Boy)

UK correspondent Lee Broughton gives a spirited review of what sounds like a wild & wooly Turkish takeoff on a 007 James Bond adventure. From the import label Onar Film.
4/26/11




Greetings!

Getting ready for the TCM Classic Film Festival means doing some quick research on a stack of films as well as getting up to speed on a new portable device ... but I'm still determined to keep posting at Savant through the week.

All of Dick Dinman's DVD Classics Corner popular, interview-driven radio shows are archived at WMPG. He has a new one up that I missed by a couple of days, a show on the Blu-ray debuts of John Huston's The Bible, Nicholas Ray's King of Kings and George Stevens' The Greatest Story Ever Told. Dick's guest Michael Anderson Jr. talks about his thirteen month-long memorable experience playing Little James, one of the Apostles, in The Greatest Story Ever Told. It's called Films of Faith: Three Biblical Blu-ray Blockbusters.

Trailers from Hell is celebrating "Overlooked and Underrated" pictures this week, starting with a coming attraction for a Savant Favorite, Ivan Passer's Cutter's Way with comments by Josh Olson. Joe Dante follows up on Wednesday with Alexander Mackendrick's A Boy Ten Feet Tall.

And Craig Reardon has reminded me of those hilarious commercials for the essential driving accessory, The Trunk Monkey. Thse spots still make me laugh, the third time through. Thanks for reading! --- Glenn Erickson



April 22, 2011

Savant's new reviews today are:

Violent Saturday

The sordid goings-on in a desert mining town are interrupted by a trio of bank robbers, in Richard Fleischer's CinemaScope caper picture / soap opera. Victor Mature has to face off against the killers Stephen McNally and Lee Marvin. Exciting crime action in a thriller that one critic labled as violent pornography! With Richard Egan, Virginia Leith, J. Carrol Naish, Sylvia Sidney and Ernest Borgnine. From Twilight Time.
4/23/11

How I Won the War

Richard Lester goes funny-artsy in this satirical war comedy that's half slapstick and half theater of the absurd. John Lennon is part of a mission behind enemy lines to build a secret Cricket field. With fine clowning by Michael Crawford, Roy Kinnear, Jack MacGowran, Michael Hordern -- and a great many obscure British in-jokes! English subtitles included, to help in understanding all the odd English accents. From the MGM Limited Edition Collection.
4/23/11

Chance at Heaven

Ginger Rogers and Joel McCrea are sweethearts broken up by the intrusion of a rich boyfriend poacher in this interesting comedy-drama somewhat muted by inconsistent characters. Rogers watches McCrea run off with Marian Nixon, and then volunteers to help Nixon learn how to be a middle-class housewife! A Pre-Code oddity from the Warner Archive Collection.
4/23/11

and

El Topo & The Holy Mountain
Blu-ray

Alejandro Jodorowski's top two surreal mind-benders now look spotless on Blu-ray, enhancing the filmmaker's great visual designs as well as his excesses of violence, gross-out imagery, weird ideas ... With commentaries and other extras. Separate releases, from Abkco Films and Anchor Bay.
4/23/11




Greetings!

I attended a screening of Duncan Jones' The Source Code last night, and was very pleasantly surprised. I was preparing to skip this one after hearing the gist of the concept, but various sources and friends said that it was good, and they were right. Almost like an old-fashioned science fiction movie, The Source Code doesn't have that many special effects and is actually fairly small-scale. What it has that seems so unusual these days is a respect and affection for its characters, and a refreshing lack of cynicism and fashionable hopelessness. Although a bomb plot is part of the story there's no political agenda to speak of, either. The movie is so likeable that it didn't matter that its "gimmick" has been lifted from (the examples I could think of) Groundhog Day, Avatar and Philip K. Dick's book Ubik. The movie is a thriller with human interest, and that's becoming a rare find.

Anna Britton contributes a Vimeo link showing a remarkable time-lapse movie by Terje Sorgjerd, The Mountain. We're told that Pico del Teide on the Canary Islands has some of the clearest skies in the world, and Sorgjerd treats us to a little over three minutes of incredible images. Wonderful stuff!

And correspondent Brad Arrington sends along this fascinating Wimp.com link to a short video about Theo Jansen's unique Kinetic Sculptures. We say, 'that's nice' until they start to move ... then, watch out!

Thanks for reading! -- Glenn Erickson



April 18, 2011

Savant's new reviews today are:

Ingrid Bergman in Sweden

This box of pre- David O. Selznick Ingrid Bergman greats features the original Swedish versions of Intermezzo and A Woman's Face, plus an excellent drama about love and scandal in the big city, June Night. Ms. Bergman's acting skills are fully formed; she's younger and even lovelier than in her American pictures. Made in the late 1930s, the movies are far more honest about human relationships than movies made under our stringent Production Code. Highly recommended, from Kino.
4/19/11


Silent Naruse: Eclipse 26

Yet another revelation from the vaults of the Eclipse label. Mikio Naruse (When a Woman Ascends the Stairs) knocks us out with five beautifully acted and directed stories of women struggling against the Japanese class system. The films range from soap operas to intense character studies, and have an emotional directness that surprises us. Spoken dialogue would only slow down these silent films: Flunky Work Hard, No Blood Relation, Apart From You, Every-Night Dreams and Street Without End. Eclipse series 26.
4/19/11

Le Cercle rouge
Blu-ray

Jean-Pierre Melville's slick tale of cops and thieves stars Alain Delon, Yves Montand and Gian Maria Volonté as hardened criminals on the run in the French countryside. They're pursued by André Bourvil, a determined policeman who doesn't mind bending the rules. All the sneaking about in the dark to pull off a big robbery looks even more stylish in Blu-ray. From the Criterion Collection.
4/19/11

and

The King's Speech
Blu-ray

Last year's big Oscar winner is a fine entertainment with excellent performances from Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter. It also brings up the question -- why are we so crazy for stories about British royals? Is it the closest thing we can find to fairy tales about nobility? A fine Blu-ray transfer with some historically interesting extras. From Anchor Bay / The Weinstein Company.
4/19/11





Hello!

I've heard some fun disc announcements just in the last day or so. Criterion announced its August titles, which include Blu-ray editions of Kurosawa's High and Low, Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast and Jean-Pierre Melville's Leon Morin, Priest. VCI sent me a very welcome notice saying that they'll be bringing out a DVD of Miranda early in July. It's a very funny comedy starring Glynis Johns as a mermaid that sets her sights on an elegible bachelor. And Legend Films is back on May 3 with a two Blu-ray double bills of their early popular DVD titles. Hammer's The Man Who Could Cheat Death is doubled up with Amicus Films' The Skull, and George Pal's Houdini with Tony Curtis will share a disc with the Brit comedy Those Daring Young Men in their Jaunty Jalopies.

Dick Dinman is back with three more DVD Classics Corner On the Air radio shows, this time under the title The Ten Commandments Are Blu! The 1956 DeMille movie is discussed in talks with biographer/author Katherine Orrison, Paramount Pictures V.P. of Restoration Ronald F. Smith and Paramount Pictures V.P. of Archives Andrea Kalas: Part One, Part Two and Part Three.

I'll try to keep the reviews coming on schedule. In about ten days I'll be working pretty solidly at the 2nd TCMfest, which will take place at the Chinese and Egyptian Theaters April 28 through May 1. As they have me blogging non-stop on the TCM site (I'll post a URL when I know it) I don't know whether I'll be posting daily write-ups at Savant of my experience ... but I'll try. It promises to be a lot of fun -- I'll get to see Hayley Mills, who I think may have been my first 'movie star' heartthrob at 8 years old ... or was it Yvette Mimieux?

Thanks for reading! -- Glenn Erickson



April 15, 2011

Savant's new reviews today are:

Casino Jack
Blu-ray

Director George Hickenlooper's final film is the terrific true story of the super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff's abuse of Washington's arena of influence-peddling. Kevin Spacey scores as a man who tries to game the system into a personal money machine, only to become mired in his own greedy schemes. Co-starring Barry Pepper, Kelly Preston and Jon Lovitz. These crooks laugh and joke their way to scandal and prison, but the movie isn't really a comedy. In Blu-ray, from Fox Home Video.
4/16/11

The Perfume of the Lady in Black

A psychological murder mystery told from the point of view of a troubled heroine played by the wistful, appealing Mimsy Farmer. Italian Francesco Barilli puts a lot of style and color into a series of hallucinations and possible hauntings. RaroVideo's excellent uncut transfer 'premieres' a movie previously unseen on American video.
4/16/11

and

Rope of Sand

Rough tough Burt Lancaster elbows his way back into diamond country against the wishes of corrupt mining officials and a sadistic security chief. A weird capper to Lancaster's early-career string of masochistic rebel roles, this one co-stars Claude Rains, Paul Henreid and Corinne Calvet. A quasi-adventure noir directed by William Dieterle, from Olive Films.
4/16/11




Greetings!

Well, I was just getting ready to gripe about some unkept screener promises, when three DVD titles from the MGM Limited Edition Collection came in the door: The Black Sleep, Queen of Blood and the John Lennon/Richard Lester comedy How I Won the War. I'll be reviewing them very shortly. Elsewhere, I've received several happy notes from readers who have learned that the Warner Archive Collection is now listing on their website the entire line of Columbia Classics, sometimes known as Columbia Screen Classics by Request. My email suggests that Savant readers (heavy DVD customers all) are for the most part very satisfied with Warners' website and their follow-through with disc orders.

"Rob" sends along an unusual YouTube link: the appearance of Mad Magazine's Bill Gaines as a mystery guest on the old TV show To Tell the Truth. And Gaines stumps the panel too -- or allows them to stump themselves. It's obvious that none of the panelists read the magazine, because by the time of the show Gaines's image was frequently seen in the pages of Mad, if most often in cartoon form.

Thanks for reading! Glenn Erickson



April 11, 2011

Savant's new reviews today are:

Our Time

Peter Hyams' unsparing drama focuses on two boarding school girls in 1955 who have a strong interest in sex -- and defy the rules to experience it firsthand. An excellent story of life in a repressive society, where ignorance and fear lead worthy kids to terrible decisions. With Betsy Slade, Pamela Sue Martin, George O'Hanlon Jr., and Parker Stevenson. From The Warner Archive Collection.
4/12/11

Keeper of the Flame

Available separately or as part of the 9-film set Tracy & Hepburn: The Definitive Collection, this precocious political thriller from George Cukor gives us Spencer Tracy as an investigative reporter who gets more than he expected when he contacts the new widow (Katharine Hepburn) of an industrialist and patriot with enormous political influence. Made at the start of WW2, the film becomes an unexpected warning about nascent Fascism in America. From Warner Home Video.
4/12/11

and

White Material
Blu-ray

Claire Denis' riveting drama follows Isabelle Huppert as Maria, a holdout French coffee planter in an African nation undergoing a civil war -- in which both sides see nothing wrong with murdering unwanted "white material". As the menace becomes more and more of a certainly, the strong-minded woman remains in denial, even as her plantation and her family crumble around her. In Blu-ray, from the Criterion Collection.
4/12/11




Greetings!

With all my Savant Central cohorts off at the NAB convention in Vegas, I took a vacation from Savant discs on Saturday to go see a film at the American Cinematheque. I mean, on a real movie screen. It was También la lluvia ("The Rain, Too"), a really well-made 2010 Spanish show about a group of filmmakers in Bolivia to film the story of Christopher Columbus. The director of this film-within-a-film is Gael Carcía Bernal, and he's making a revisionist story about the enslavement of the Native Americans by the Conquistadores. They hire impoverished Bolivian Indians to play the natives, and the director chooses a local non-actor with an aggressive attitude (Juan Carlos Aduviri) to play the Indian leader. As it turns out, this fellow is also an activist resisting the Bolivian government and its deals with the IMF and foreign corporations. The oligarchs and the foreign investors have privatized the country's water supply: digging a well of one's own, or even collecting rainwater, is illegal. The filmmakers are dumbfounded when their irreplaceable actor is leading mass demonstrations and being beaten by the police. The director complains to the politicians, who remind him that his film also exploits cheap Indian labor. When the entire city is shut down in bloody rioting, the cast and crew want to leave ... but the producer feels committed to stay and help the activist-actor, whose family is in grave danger.

Director Icíar Bollaín's También la lluvia was filmed in Bolivia and its water riots are real, exactly the kind of anti- status quo news that goes underreported here in the United States. The film is funny, entertaining and extremely suspenseful, and less polemical than earlier movies about terror exported to Latin America, like Costa-Gavras' Missing. It has some similarities to Dennis Hopper's The Last Movie, of all things. The drunken actor playing Columbus shouts his dialogue about Castillian superiority to the Indian waiters hired to work a lawn party ... and everyone present realizes that attitudes haven't really changed since the 16th century. I'll be looking for this one on disc.

I've received discs of Casino Jack and The King's Speech but also some more interesting Criterion titles, Blu-rays of a pair of Alejandro Jodorosky shockers and the fascinating Araya from Milestone Films. First up on Friday will be a Kino Ingrid Bergman in Sweden set. Thanks for reading! Glenn Erickson



April 08, 2011

Savant's new reviews today are:

Off Limits

One of Bob Hope's funnier '50s comedies teams him with Mickey Rooney. Hope is a boxing manager tricked into enlisting and Rooney an aspiring fighter: they become maladroit military policemen. Some good jokes in what, for Hope, is a less silly story than usual. With Marilyn Maxwell and Eddie Mayehoff. From Olive Films.
4/09/11

Arthur
&
Arthur 2: On the Rocks

Blu-ray

The original Dudley Moore wildly non-PC alcoholic fairy tale is basically silly, yet scores bigtime thanks to the great chemistry of an often hilarious cast -- Liza Minnelli, John Gielgud, Geraldine Fitzgerald. It's paired with its somewhat anemic sequel for a Blu-ray timed to hit with the new theatrical remake. From Warner Home Video.
4/09/11

and

Upperworld

The hypocritical Production Code strikes -- or does it? Warren William, Ginger Rogers and Mary Astor star in a tale of adultery, police corruption and blackmail that appears set to give the privileged class a hotfoot -- and then wraps up in a big hurry, abandoning its own themes. Savant wants some help on this one! A borderline Pre-Code / Code release, from the Warner Archive Collection.
4/09/11




Greetings!

Olive Films wasn't kidding last year -- they're set to release Crack in the World on Blu-ray on July 5! This is an interesting turn of events -- fans are still waiting for Olive's promised disc of the elusive Sands of the Kalahari, one of several hot titles announced about a year ago. I certainly don't mind, as fate and the U.S. Mail conspired to send my screener of the Crack DVD in the condition you see on the left. It did provide me with a humorous post for the Savant column.

Craig Reardon pointed me to an entertaining hour-long interview with Joe Dante over at This Week In Horror. Joe and his partner Elizabeth Stanley tell the story of his site Trailers from Hell as well as his own early-career adventures cutting coming attractions for Roger Corman.

On the disc front, Blu-rays of Casino Jack and The King's Speech have arrived, as well as Kino's Ingrid Bergman in Sweden and Gaumont Treasures Volume 2 disc sets. So far promised discs from both the Sony and MGM burn-on-demand programs haven't been forthcoming, and neither has a specially- offered disc of MGM's How I Won the War. It does look as though Savant will be able to review the intriguing new Twilight Time releases, for which I'm grateful. Next up from Twilight should be the crime caper pitchfork picture Violent Saturday.

Finally, Savant has again been tapped to blog for Turner Classic Movies' TCMFest at the end of April. I helped out as sort of a 'guest Morlock' last year but for the 2011 festival they'll have me contributing a lot more. It looks like I'll get to see Hayley Mills and Barbara Rush, among others, and I've been assigned some perfect titles, like the bizarro war film Went the Day Well? and big screen presentations of Bernard Herrmann pictures like The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Trouble With Harry and The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. Other reviewers get to see Roger Corman introduce the original Little Shop of Horrors and Ron Perlman host The Tingler (what will they be doing to those theater seats?) but I'll probably do myself more good by attending the big silent-with-orchestra presentation of Erich Von Stroheim's classic The Merry Widow. I, uh, dodged a screening of this in film school and have never seen it.

The full (or almost full) schedule for TCMFest is now up at this link.

Thanks for reading! Glenn Erickson



April 04, 2011

Savant's new reviews today are:

Taxi Driver
Blu-ray

Bickle's Back and Shepherd's got him! Join the mirthful & gory adventures of everybody's favorite fun-loving psycho shooter in Martin Scorsese's eccentric, still-powerful poetic ode to urban alienation and the male territorial imperative. Robert De Niro looks impossibly young, while a new HD transfer finds new beauty in Michael Chapman's hellish images of the city. With a magnum load of quality extras. In Blu-ray from Sony.
4/05/11

Noah's Ark

A wild and crazy -- but ultimately sweet and good-natured -- epic combines the Bible story with a romance in the middle of WW1, which is presented as a wave of blood drowning Europe. The spectacle of the Great Flood is jaw-dropping, especially when one knows that Hollywood extras drowned during the filming. Buff George O'Brien and gorgeous Dolores Costello star. A terrific Part-Talkie Silent epic from the Warner Archive Collection.
4/05/11

The Mountain

Saintly mountaineer Spencer Tracy helps his rotten ghoul of a brother Robert Wagner climb ev'ry mountain, especially the one leading to a plane wreck carrying plenty of dead bodies to loot. Fate, destiny and rampant moralism meet on the tall French peaks, in VistaVision and Technicolor. From Olive Films.
4/05/11

and

Teen Wolf
Blu-ray

The beloved Michael J. Fox is the whole show in this retro teen comedy, where the Big Werewolf On Campus becomes not a killer but a superstar basketball player. A very old story with furry new twists. On Blu-ray from MGM, distributed by Fox.
4/05/11




Greetings!

I think that today's Noah's Ark review finishes the batch of classic Easter-themed releases I've looked at in the last two weeks. It's perhaps the biggest surprise. The only title I didn't rustle up was Fox's The Bible, and I'm told that it looks splendid in Blu-ray.

The next trend coming our way will be the Father's Day war, western and action pictures; if I'm lucky I'll hook up with some of VCI's English war thrillers being released on May 3, like Above Us the Waves and The Malta Story. Several readers are also interested in the Warner Archive Collection's upcoming release of PT-109. It is said to be newly remastered. For me the big want-to-see discs coming out are Blu-rays of American Graffiti, Grand Prix, The Big Country and, still a ways off in June, The Man Who Would be King.

Thanks for all the notes and information about The Kremlin Letter and King of Kings -- And thanks for reading. -- Glenn Erickson



April 01, 2011

Savant's new reviews today are:

The Kremlin Letter

The new label Twilight Time picks an unfairly maligned winner for its first release, John Huston's complex and uncompromising spy thriller about a team of agents that steals into Moscow to retrieve a dangerous document. Terrific work by a great cast: Patrick O'Neal, Bibi Andersson, Richard Boone, Barbara Parkins, Max von Sydow, George Sanders, Nigel Green, Orson Welles, Dean Jagger .. and many more. With an isolated music track.
4/02/11

Stars (Sterne)

The DEFA Film Library at the University of Amherst Massachusetts releases another important Soviet-bloc production from the Cold War era, an East German-Bulgarian tale of a German soldier who tries to intervene on behalf of a Greek Jew en route to a concentration camp. The award-winning 1959 release was considered sufficiently propaganda-free to be released both in East and West Germany at a time when tensions were very strained. DEFA's restored transfer is a beauty.
4/02/11

The Greatest Story Ever Told
Blu-ray

What happened? George Steven's somewhat misconceived story of the life of Christ is staggeringly beautiful on the big Screen in Ultra Panavision 70. The new Blu-ray just plain doesn't look good. With a hundred name actors and a fine score by Alfred Newman. From MGM.
4/02/11

and

Primrose Path

Ginger Rogers pulls off another fine performance in Gregory La Cava's easygoing, impressively sympathetic comedy-drama about a girl from the wrong end of the wrong side of tracks. She falls in love with Joel McCrea, the first man who kisses her, knowing he'll eventually find out that her mother is a woman of easy virtue and her family life a shameful disaster. Marjorie Rambeau, Henry Travers and Queenie Vassar co-star. This is one of those unassuming great pictures that people fall in love with. From the Warner Archive Collection.
4/02/11




Greetings!

Spring finally came to Southern California, as it's pushing 90° and everybody's back in shorts and sandals again. But the weatherman says more rain for the weekend. If they can just keep the radiation count out of the weather reports, I won't complain, promise.

Otherwise, just fun and silly stuff this week. Brian Saur has been experimenting with various kinds of lists, and over at his Rupert Pupkin Speaks page, he's offering a personal Alphabetical approach to favorite film tallies. You'll have to scroll down to the March 29 listing to find his Cinematic Alphabet.

This is totally non-film related but I almost fell off my chair watching. Craig Reardon sent it along and I notice that it already has 2 million hits. Statistically speaking, that means that every last one of you should already have seen it. But for the .000024 percentile person who has not .... here's this week's most essential comment on the human condition: Two Dogs Dining.

Some interesting disc announcements: the Warner Archive Collection has announced, among a long list of new titles, Alexander Mackendrick's Don't Make Waves and Fritz Lang's Beyond a Reasonable Doubt and While the City Sleeps. Warners is announcing a big Superman Blu-ray box for June, while MGM is putting out The Long Riders, Vera Cruz, The Horse Soldiers, The Big Country and Quigley Down Under in their budget Blu-ray line.

Thanks for reading! I'll be back on Monday or Tuesday -- Glenn Erickson


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