The Devil's Daughter is such a wonderful film, so stylish and with wonderful witty dialogue.  Abe Vigoda has a great cameo appearance, and then of course there's the mute, tragic chauffeur who communicates such poignant sorrow with nary a word of dialogue.  I was thinking of it yesterday because I just watched "The Initiation of Sarah" from 1978 and that was a much less polished, banal production... Winters seemed strangely off-key and under-rehearsed, disappointingly, in the latter film.

I'm very disappointed if Pierson flatly stated that there are "no plans" to release the films now.  It would have been reassuring if he had told us that "there are no current plans, but we are confident that WB will order the release of the films."  I wonder whether with their DVD-R on demand program in place, they're even less interested than ever in spending money to do decent editions of classic films. e. g. the 50th anniversary of Horror of Dracula came and went without an upgrade DVD release...

G.

If there's an announcement regarding a date for the projected hoDS/NoDS DVD release at the Festival, can somebody please, please PLEASE post it here?

Thanks,

G.

Many thanks to Philippe for the fascinating write-up.  But an hour long wait in the 90 degree LA sun without shelter... I would have melted away by the time I got up to the theatre.

G.

Thanks to MB and to Joe for those links.

I would love any thoughts from anyone who has notes to share about the visual impact of the screening and any related technical reviews about the sound, etc.  I just read an article in a Video Watchdog of a few issues back about "Wild Billy" Friedkin's havoc-wreaking "experiments" with the color settings on the French Connection DVD and what a mess he made of it (apparently, he made less of a mess with playing around with the "Cruising" DVD release).  The French Connection disc was such a horror that the cinematographer who is still alive apparently tried to have his name removed from it.

Darren's thoughtful comments about the color palette and "murkiness" effects in the print previously screened were so apt and fascinating to read.

I am trying to accept the reality that I will probably never, ever see hoDS again looking the way it did when I saw it in the movie theatre back in 1970.

G.

Wishing everyone who attends a marvelous time!

G.

I just loved Grayson's radiant smile in her entrance (in the film as we have it now) as Carlotta.  For some reason, proably the angle of the shot, her smile made me think of the young Diane Keaton, which was a big surprise--they certainly bore no resemblance to one another.

It isn't really the right thead for this, but the portrait of Liz doing her Big Reveal from a day or two ago was awesome. And of course I love today's two-shot of PT Ange and PT Roger.  What a wonderful moment, and how artful of you to capture it.

G.

Oh, it's there.  I think it is in the episode when [spoiler] Barn rings Collinwood and tells Julia she needs to come to Dr Lang's house and bring her medallion... to hypnotise Jeff and make him forget that Lang was going to cut off his head to serve as Adam's face[/spoiler].  I can give you the episode number later this evening, if somebody else doesn't get to it beforehand.

If I'm remembering correctly, however, in the above Julia and Cassandra are on their way to have lunch with Stokes.  It's in a later episode that Julia refers to the conversation about the occult.

Ah, an excuse to re-watch some Cassandra episodes!  Happy!

cheers, Steve