Hello!

After Michael McQuarrie cued us to those Li’L Abner wrap party home movies the other day, the ones with Julie Newmar on the sailboat, we sent out a request in case any readers could identify any of the other party guests. Correspondent Walt House came back with one we should have caught, the famed songwriter Johnny Mercer.

That’s the only new I.D. so far, but friend and correspondent Rick Crawford sent along another YouTube link we enjoyed, by Cool Classics. It’s a long-form video show on the full career of Julie Newmar, extremely well documented with rare images and well-chosen film clips. She’s really a talent to admire … the link:

The relatively new branded line Janus Contemporaries works on a Criterion level with new titles — we reviewed their Christian Petzold film Afire back in February.

They’ve just announced, for July 23, the release of Wim Wenders’ 2023 film Anselm, a documentary portrait of the painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer. The interesting thing is that the disc will be released in a 3-D Blu-ray + 2-D Blu-ray combo.

It ought to be a very special disc for 3-D fans — Criterion’s disc of Wim Wenders’ 2011 dance film Pina is one of the best 3-D demo discs on our ‘depth’ shelf. A Janus page describing the film (for theatrical bookings) is here.

Thanks for reading! — Glenn Erickson