10.13.09 | Irv Slifkin | Coming Attractions, DVD BeatPrint this Post
Feelin’ Groovy: Going deep, deep, deep into their library to issue the next wave in their “Martini Movies” series, Sony has plucked some fascinating obscurities for public DVD screenings. They are from the 1960s and 1970s, which designates them as Groovy Movies of sorts.
In this batch of titles are:
Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (1973): An exquisitely filmed romantic drama in which sheltered Timothy Bottoms meets older Maggie Smith during a bicycle journey through Spain. The two carry on a romance, but Smith eventually gets ill. Alan J. Pakula helmed this change-of-pace effort.
Model Shop (1969): The first English-language effort fromJacques Demy is an unusual music-filled romancer starring Gary Lockwood as a bored Los Angeles resident who gets romantically entangled with older French model Anouk Aimee while awaiting his call to Vietnam.
The Pursuit of Happiness (1971): Michael Sarrazin is the disenchanted college student arrested for vehicular homicide of an old woman, and opts for prison rather than participate in his own defense. While serving his sentence, Sarrazin gets involved with jailhouse violence, and plots an escape—to Canada with girlfriend Barbara Hershey. Robert Mulligan directs.
Summertree (1971): As soldier Michael Douglas lies wounded in Vietnam, he recalls his life, girlfriend Brenda Vaccaro, his battles with his parents and his childhood in this sensitive counterculture drama directed by Anthony Newley (!?).
The Buttercup Chain (1970) : Odd (to say the least) look at relationships from England stars Hywel Bennett as a young man who frets that his bond with cousin Jane Asher is getting unhealthily close, so he fixes her up with Swedish architect Sven-Bertil Taube, and turns to promiscuous American student Leigh Taylor-Young for himself. It gets even more complicated from there in this memorable roundelay from director Robert Ellis Miller.
when oh when are Arthur Hailey's "Hotel" and the tv series of "The Ghost & Mrs. Muir" ever going to be introduced on DVD?
Can you tell me when Love American Style will be on DVD.
Hi Margaret:
Love American Style has been released on DVD. I bought Season One, Volume one, but have not looked to see if other volumes are out. I believe I got this at Sam's Club or BJ's. in the spring. Try looking it up on Amazon.com too.
When will "Rich Man Poor Man" come out on DVD?
I'm surprised that The Reckoning (1971) is not available. This film has a refreshing plot (perhaps typical for early 70s), and Nicol Williamson is terrific. Might it become available?
When will 52 movie "Lydia Bailey" starring Dale Robertson & Ann Francis be available?
When will 52 movie "Lydia Bailey" starring Dale Robertson & Ann Francis by available?
what an interesting movie you ask about especially with the recent focus of Haiti on the news. the film is owned by Fox, and, sadly,the company has been really slow of late to put out older films on DVD. A recent call to someone in the know there yields just what we suspected: No date in the near future for this film in which Dale Robertson plays a lwyer who heads to war-torn Haiti to find a woman whose estate has to be settled. Thanks for the question, though.
I would like to see "Diary of a Mad Housewife" on DVD. I thought that when Carrie Snodgress passed away it may be finally released. Another film I remember seeing in the 70's was "The Reincarnation of Peter Proud" with Michael Sarrazin. There are so many films from my teenage movie going days that I would love to own on DVD.
Diary, one of the landmark films of the films of the era, is being held by Universal for soem reason, but they have been licensing soem movie sof late, so this is a prime candidate to come out from another company. Peter Proud, a popular reincarnation tale during its time, is tied up in different licensing complications. Beleiv eit or not, Bing Crosby Productions produced the film.
Why, oh why, oh why does no one ever think of releasing 1963's Oscar-nominated film by Elia Kazan "America, America"? He always said it was not necessarily his best film; but it was his favorite...one of mine as well. Someone please release this on DVD.