Jigsaw may have been dead at the close of SAW IV, but don’t be too quick to exclude him from SAW V.


DEADLY SWEET is presented in an anamorphic 1.85:1 ratio that is accurate by measure but looks overscanned, too tight on the tops and sides, especially obvious in splitscreen composi- tions. The image is colorful and sharp enough, but has a moder- ately stale veneer with mildly pasty contrast. The two-channel mono audio is acceptable. It’s a shame that the original English dub sanctioned by Paramount could not be included, as the actors appear to be speaking English. Italian audio only is of- fered, with accurate English subtitles.


Brass’ commentary, deliv- ered in a sometimes thick ac- cent but with an expansive English vocabulary, recalls the ease and pleasure of working with Trintignant and Aulin, who also had an offscreen relation- ship and went on to immediately


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co-star in a second giallo, Giulio Questi’s equally inventive La morte ha fatto l’uovo (DEATH LAID AN EGG, 1968). He draws attention to Trintigant’s Bogart mannerisms, and to his own stylistic and literal quota- tions from his varied inspira- tions at the time, ranging from Richard Lester to Lao Tse, from Antonioni to Mao Tse-tung. He also reflects warmly on shoot- ing on busy London streets without permits, and tells the story of how Nerosubianco came about when he told Dino De Laurentiis that he could make entire features with the money he lost at gambling in a single evening. In a curious sidebar, he recalls DEADLY SWEET bringing him to the at- tention of Warner Bros., who invited him to direct A CLOCK- WORK ORANGE, years before Kubrick took over the property,


an offer he turned down prefer- ring to follow his own muse. The other supplements consist of a modest lobby card gallery consisting of only a half- dozen unremarkable French cards in black-and-white and a 3m 25s trailer that manages to collect all the visual high- lights in a kind of textless video accompanied by Mel Ryder’s theme song “Love Girl,” composed by Armando Trovajoli.


SAW V: UNRATED DIRECTOR’S CUT


2008, Lionsgate, $29.95, 94m 25, DVD By Shane M. Dallmann


While no longer the hottest commodity in the horror market, the Saw franchise (originally planned as a three-film series) continued to pull in healthy box


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