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I always remember May 10 because of the Travis Bickle quote from Taxi Driver, and here we are again. Some day a real rain ...

Some interesting news this week. Criterion has announced that sometime this fall, they'll begin releasing some of their discs in the Blu-ray format, and they've put out a brief list, which contains The Third Man, The Last Emperor, The Wages of Fear, Bottle Rocket, Walkabout, El Norte, Gimme Shelter and many others, including a few new titles. I've also heard that Blu-ray production is stepping up at all the studios, with many titles now in the pipeline at Fox. So I would think that the flood would be beginning around August.

The disc finders at DVDTalk have dispatched screeners for me of The Major and the Minor and Easy Living, so reviews of those favorites will be up fairly soon, if after street date. I'm hitting more titles earlier now thanks to better relations with the distributors. Still sticky are MGM and Fox films, which will already means that the highly desirable May 13 MGM films will be late: Man of the West, Carve Her Name with Pride, The One That Got Away, The Secret Invasion, The Day of the Outlaw, Navajo Joe. No matter how late they are, I'll want to review them. Thanks for reading, Glenn Erickson