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Noteworthy DVDs released 8/4/09
PICK OF THE WEEK
“Icons of Screwball Comedy” Volumes 1 & 2 (Sony): Film buffs who know the difference between vintage romantic comedy and dreck like “The Ugly Truth” will find hours of diversion in these two packages, each of which features four little-known films with stars like Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray and Irene Dunne.
OTHER TOP PICKS
“Flight of the Conchords” Season 2 (HBO): Sure, the novelty has dulled and the songs aren’t always brilliant, but there’s enough steam left in this New Zealand import to carry it through a probable third season.
“You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story” (Warner Bros.): Film critic Richard Schickel wrote and directed this documentary portrait of the great studio, which is narrated by Schickel hero Clint Eastwood.
“The Soloist” (Paramount): Oscar winner Jamie Foxx + should-be Oscar winner Robert Downey, Jr. + homelessness and mental illness = prestige tearjerker
“Ulysses” (1954) (Lions Gate): Think Homer, not James Joyce, for this Kirk Douglas sword-and-sandal adaptation.
NEW ON BLU-RAY
“Big Trouble in Little China,” “My Cousin Vinny” (Fox); “Sling Blade” (Walt Disney / Miramax); “Stargate: Atlantis: Fan’s Choice” (MGM); “The Waterboy” (Walt Disney)
FRESH FROM THE MULTIPLEX
“Delgo” (Fox); “Obsessed” (2009) (Sony); “Race To Witch Mountain” (Walt Disney)
BEST OF TV
“Agatha Christie’s Marple” Season 4 (Acorn Media); “Days That Shook the World” Season 2 (BBC); “Elvis Presley: The Ed Sullivan Shows” (Image); “The Love Boat” Season 2, Vol. 2 (Paramount); “Project Runway” Season 5 (Genius); “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” Season 3 (Warner Bros.)
REISSUE/REPACKAGE
“The Last Starfighter” 25th Anniversary Edition, also on Blu-ray (Universal)
ARTHOUSE/FOREIGN
“The Window” (Film Movement)
FROM THE VAULTS
“The Last of the Mohicans” (Serial version starring Harry Carey) (VCI)
STRAIGHT(ISH) TO VIDEO
Val Kilmer in “The Chaos Experiment” (Genius); Forest Whitaker and others in “Fragments” (Sony); “The Greatest Song” (Image); Lindsay Lohan in “Labor Pains” (First Look); the Michael Chabon adaptation “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh” (Phase 4); James Caviezel in “Nature’s Grave” (Universal); “Shadowheart” (Anchor Bay)
CULT CORNER
“Cravings” (Lions Gate); “Demon Warriors,” “Mutant Chronicles” (Magnolia)
KIDS’ STUFF
“Daffy Duck’s Quackbusters” (Warner Bros.); Sid the Science Kid: “Change Happens” and “The Bug Club” (NCircle Entertainment); “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” box set (New Line); “The Tigger Movie” (Walt Disney); “VeggieTales: Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Noah’s Umbrella” (Big Idea)
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