Tobias March
05-10-2007, 02:24 AM
This is a damn fine month for me. Not only is Alejandro Jodorowsky having his first three films released as a set, but Sayles' collection includes The Return of the Secaucus Seven and Brother from Another Planet - two films I have been desperately trying to see since I was 18.
Secaucus especially. Ever since I learned it was the original blueprint of the Big Chill, I've hoped to see it.
In many ways this is what dvds mean to me - rediscovering films which have been ignored for years and introducing them to a new audience.
Secaucus... follows a group of college graduates meeting up again for the first time in years, trying to reclaim some of their lost youth together. Brother From Another Planet has a black alien arrive in contemporary and be lumped into the same racial bracket as other blacks - think The Man That Fell To Earth, but remove the humans gentle tolerance of Bowie because he's 'English'.
Can't wait.
Secaucus especially. Ever since I learned it was the original blueprint of the Big Chill, I've hoped to see it.
In many ways this is what dvds mean to me - rediscovering films which have been ignored for years and introducing them to a new audience.
Secaucus... follows a group of college graduates meeting up again for the first time in years, trying to reclaim some of their lost youth together. Brother From Another Planet has a black alien arrive in contemporary and be lumped into the same racial bracket as other blacks - think The Man That Fell To Earth, but remove the humans gentle tolerance of Bowie because he's 'English'.
Can't wait.