CineSavant Column
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The new Trailers from Hell podcast The Movies That Made Me has snagged the director and home video entrepreneur David Gregory for their newest interview show of career highlights and film favorites.
We first met Mr. Gregory years ago, when his Severin Films was turning out DVDs; he directed his first feature around 2008 and has continued to several documentary pieces. We’ll be looking for his newest, a feature documentary on the history and legacy of the Paris Grand Guignol theater. According to TFH, David is tasked with profiling his 5 fave Severin releases, and 5 dream titles he’s like to someday release.
25 years ago, when editing a TCM documentary about Joan Crawford, there was one movie we couldn’t see, called Letty Lynton. Correspondent Richard Coombs sent in this link to an article in The Guardian detailing the legal conflict that took Letty Lynton off screens just four years after its premiere.
Writer Pamela Hutchinson gives the pertinent facts. The story was based on a real-life murder, that later became a very different movie by David Lean. The movie created a fashion fad over an Adrian-designed ‘Letty Lynton’ dress style that became very popular. Crawford’s grandson Casey LaLonde took part in the effort to clear Letty Lynton to be screened again. It is going to be shown at the TCM Fest in May, and then be released on disc by The Warner Archive Collection.
90 years on, we can finally see Joan Crawford’s wildest film
Oh, and one more thing. We love living in California, but all those poor commuters are really in a rough spot right now … here’s the bad news at the pump this morning.
Let’s hope for the best for all of us.
Thanks for reading! — Glenn Erickson