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Greetings! I was able to correct an error in last Tuesday's post, but it was too late to keep it from being sent out in the newsletter. I reported that the Toho science fiction film Dogora would be released on Blu-ray by Severin in a couple of months; as it turns out this new "Dogora" is a different movie entirely. It never occurred to me that that title might be given to another movie. My apologies.
Savant correspondent and radio producer Dick Dinman was awarded a Golden Minidisk Award back in January and sent me this photo of him receiving the prize at the awards ceremony. His winning program is the DVD Classics Corner on the Air radio show Seeing Red: A Skelton in Your Closet, an interview piece featuring memories of Red Skelton from stars Arlene Dahl, Ann Rutherford and Betty Garrett.
A great link heads-up from David Erickson, about Lockheed's fake camouflage "neighborhood" erected during WW2, to disguise the aircraft plant from Japanese bombers. I remember reading about this while researching 1941; an early Bob Gale-Robert Zemeckis script included a scene where General Stilwell visits the odd construction. The script said that everything on the seemingly endless array of nets was built at a scale smaller than reality, but I can't tell that from these pictures, at the website Think or Thwim.
Universal has announced a Blu-ray release of Apollo 13 on April 13, and a disc of Dune on April 27. Thanks for reading! Glenn Erickson
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Greetings! My review of the Roberto Rossellini War Trilogy is finally up; it's Criterion's 500th spine number and a valuable contribution to film culture all around. Elsewhere, Warners' Goodfellas Blu-ray is indicative of that Studio's commitment to value. It's loaded with the usual WB quality extras including a second disc with a documentary and a selection of vintage cartoons. And I still like the way WB discs let us get into the feature content with a minimum of disclaimers, promos and other diversions.
Correspondent Rob sends me this link to a new horror-related web page called Shadows and Screams, hosted by a cartoon ghoul named Myron Morbidio (right). The graphics are certainly good and I liked the review I read of I Bury the Living. Best wishes!
Correspondent Guido Bibra has forwarded a link to a really interesting U.K. site called Carpool that I hadn't heard of (ignorant me). The nicely produced show presents Robert Llewellyn (from Red Dwarf) interacting with various guests as he drives them around London ... doing interviews on the run. Some are local notables, authoritative experts and a sprinkling of outright celebrities like Patrick Stewart. You'll be surprised at how well-made the shows are and how good are Mr. Llewellyn's talk skills.
Frequent Savant correspondent and pal Gordon A. Thomas informs me that the new issue (#67) of the web zine Bright Lights is up ... it contains Gordon's personal review column Bright Sights and his special piece The Power of Pulp that compares Lang's Dr. Mabuse with Miss Mend, a bizarre America-set silent Soviet thriller newly released by Flicker Alley.
And a final note: Next up is definitely a pair of full reviews on the eight titles in Sony's Bad Girls of Film Noir, Volumes One and Two. Those will be posted bright and early on Saturday the 6th. Thanks for reading, Glenn Erickson
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