…that producers of Criterion Closet videos have traditionally kept the hands and arms of assistants or friends or whomever this woman might be…friendly hands and arms aren’t allowed to intrude upon Criterion Closet videos…period and finito.
Secondly, Cavett’s praise of Criterion’s Only Angels Have Wings Bluray is mistaken or under-informed or something, as I pointed out nine years ago in an HE riff called “‘Angels’ Shadowed to Death.” It’s the darkest, inkiest rendering of this 1939 classic ever created. The mine-shaft blacks and haunted-house shadows are thoroughly noirish and gloom-ridden. Somewhere in heaven Gordon Willis is quaking with envy.
