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What's outrageous=no DVD!!


Not according to IMDB, anyway. That's criminal. I remember seeing this on the big screen when I lived in Paris in the 80's & many times, since. Yoipes, it just works on so many levels, I'd get in a lather raving about the the awesome performances of the three leads, not to mention Tennessee Williams' way with words and between-the-lines lyricism/double-entendre. Plus Elia Kazan--at the peak of his powers w/this & a couple better-known flicks of the same decade (letsee: there's Streetcar, Waterfront, East of Eden and his untouchable, visionary masterpiece A Face in the Crowd. (Baby Doll was released a year before AFITC, which it trails, BY A HAIR, in my book, in the greatest-movie-ever department) Then there's the soaring soundtrack by the accomplished Kenyon Hopkins...As for the ratings brou-ha: I understood there to have been much more of a fuss made over Lolita, which I caught in Paris around the same time (I was a teenager intrigued by the nymph thing, so sue me) and which seemed so much lEss, I dunno, subversive or carnal or just plain inTeNSe than Baby Doll (which had its share of controversy, don't get me wrong) and the Nabokov book/screenplay upon which it was based. That seemed so tame to me initially. Stanley Kubrick was just plain over my head at the time, and now that & Paths of Glory are another two favorites.

See? I got lathered up, anyway...I'm still dumbstruck this hasn't been DeeVeeDee'd! What's with the holdup? It's a work of art, for crying out loud. My two cents, I guess. Thoughts?

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I think if Warner Bros. releases an Elia Kazan collection they should release it.

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This DVD will be released in the US on 5/2/06.

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