Here in filmtown, ‘Slacker’ is on DVD (finally) and ‘Louisiana Boys’ is on ‘SXSW Presents.’ Meanwhile, despite the lack of a Hussein connection, the Iraq war is a triumph for the 9 / 11 terrorists and their co-conspirators.
Numbers 215 and 218 of the Criterion Collection DVD series were more celebrated recently, Roman Polanski’s Knife in the Water and Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Cercle Rouge, yet the unheralded No. 214 was the true devil in the woodpile.
