John Berendt's 1993 book "Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil" may not have displayed the finest narrative skill, yet it was intriguing nonetheless.
But Clint Eastwood's attempt to film it was a disaster. A competent director, it was apparently just a vanity project for him, and one that missed the sleepy, macabre potential of the material completely --- even the scene for which the title was derived, the hoodoo moment in the cemetery, was botched.
On the other hand, this 1997 A&E doc "Midnight in Savannah" is everything the movie was not, and in some ways surpasses even the book.
But why isn't it out on DVD?? By 1997, they were already turning everything into DVDs! Why not this? --
But Clint Eastwood's attempt to film it was a disaster. A competent director, it was apparently just a vanity project for him, and one that missed the sleepy, macabre potential of the material completely --- even the scene for which the title was derived, the hoodoo moment in the cemetery, was botched.
On the other hand, this 1997 A&E doc "Midnight in Savannah" is everything the movie was not, and in some ways surpasses even the book.
But why isn't it out on DVD?? By 1997, they were already turning everything into DVDs! Why not this? --