MORE ABOUT TRAVIS’ DATE WITH BETSY
In your editorial for VIDEO WATCHDOG #147, you men- tioned, “New York’s Variety Photoplays Theatre, which earned its place in cinema his- tory when Robert De Niro took Cybill Shepherd there to see THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE in TAXI DRIVER.”
I’d wanted to see THE LAN- GUAGE OF LOVE ever since reading about it in John Trev- elyan’s autobiography WHAT THE CENSOR SAW, and last year I finally got the opportunity when it was released in the UK as part of a three disc set called the SWEDISH EROTICA: COL- LECTION 1 (the other two films in the set are ANITA - SWEDISH NYMPHET (the softcore version) and EXPOSED (recently issued by Synapse FIlms in a much bet- ter print). The packaging also says how the film is best known as the “first date” movie in TAXI DRIVER, but the problem is, it’s not! The film it might be is MORE ABOUT THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE which has just been re- leased in the UK as part of SWED- ISH EROTICA: COLLECTION 2, but I have yet to buy that. Revela- tion films—the label behind these DVD sets (
www.revfilms.com)—li- censed these films from Klubb- Super8 who were responsible for releasing SWEDEN, HEAVEN AND HELL, covered so exten- sively in VIDEO WATCHDOG #145. A UK release for this title could be a possibility in the near future. Daniel Stillings e-mail
PRIVILEGE REVOKED I was so happy to read the
review of PRIVILEGE in VW 147 and learn the film is finally avail- able, and in an excellent DVD
package at that. But what hap- pened? It’s vanished off the Ol- ive Films site and appears on Amazon only under “used and new” for $149 and up. Is it sold out already? OOP? Ohmygosh! I’ll never hesitate to order a disc again!
Steve Pake Los Angeles CA
The disc’s distributor, New Yorker Films, has sadly gone out of business, making PRIVI- LEGE and many other impor- tant films by director Peter Watkins, Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer and others more difficult to find.
ERRATA Two small errors in VW
148:11... SECRET THINGS [Choses secrètes] is by Jean- Claude Brisseau, not Jean- Pierre Brissaud, and Roger Miramont is actually Roger Miremont. It was one of my 10 favorite films of 2002.
Raymond Scholer Lausanne, Switzerland
ERRATA II
On your recommendation I rushed out and rented SYN- ECDOCHE NEW YORK. While I enjoyed it less than you did, in your review you say the Philip Seymour Hoffman character stages Tennesse Williams’ A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. I could have sworn that the play he stages in that film is Arthur Miller’s DEATH OF A SALES- MAN. Are you right or am I wrong?
—Greg Goodsell Bakersfield CA
You are right and I was wrong about the play, but my opinion of SYNECHDOCHE NEW YORK was absolutely correct.
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