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Noteworthy DVDs released 10/27/09
PICK OF THE WEEK
“The Sam Fuller Collection” (Sony): Beloved B-movie auteur (“Shock Corridor”) Fuller is featured in this very welcome box collecting seven underexposed features (some familiar here from Austin Film Society screenings) like “The Crimson Kimono” and “Underworld.”
OTHER TOP PICKS
“Z” (Criterion): Costa-Gravas’s tense1969 drama about a political leader’s assassination in Greece struck chords for viewers who saw in its real-life subject an echo of coverups and government misdeeds all over the globe.
WARNER ARCHIVE
A fresh batch of WB’s new no-frills, manufacture-on-demand DVDs is now available at www.wbshop.com, with highlights like the “Joe McDoakes” short film series, Michael Caine hunting “Jack The Ripper,” Cary Grant in “Every Girl Should Be Married,” and Eve Arden’s “Our Miss Brooks.”
“Monty Python: Almost The Truth” (Eagle Rock/IFC): A new six-hour doc about the groundbreaking comic troupe pairs new interviews with appreciations from such fans as Eddie Izzard and Dan Aykroyd.
“Death In The Garden” (Microcinema): The first DVD release of this little-seen Luis Buñuel film starring Simone Signoret.
ON BLU-RAY
“The Prisoner” (A&E); “The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue” (Blue Underground); “Highlander: The Series” Season 1 (LegendaryHeroes); “Stargate” (Lions Gate)
FRESH FROM THE MULTIPLEX
“Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs” (Fox); “Nothing Like The Holidays” (Anchor Bay); “Orphan” (Warner Bros.); “Whatever Works” (Sony)
ARTHOUSE/FOREIGN
John Malkovich in “Afterwards” (Weinstein Co.); “Il Divo,” “Fear(s) of the Dark” (MPI); “Don’t Die Without Telling Me Where You’re Going,” “The Saragossa Manuscript” (Facets); “Sauna” (IFC)
DOCUMENTARIES
“The Achievers: The Story of the Lebowski Fans” (K-Man Productions); “The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins” (Indiepix); “Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soapbox” (Passion River); “Election Day,” “Lioness,” “Soldiers of Conscience” (Docurama); “You Weren’t There: A History Of Chicago Punk 1977-1984,” “High School Record Starring Members Of No-Age And Miko Mika,” “All The Way From Michigan Not Mars With Rosie Thomas And Sufjan Stevens” (www.factorytwentyfive.com)
BEST OF TV
“The Barbara Stanwyck Show” Vol. 1 (E1 Entertainment); “Battlestar Galactica: The Plan” (Universal); “The Diary of Anne Frank” (2009) (Well Go USA); “Expedition: Africa” (A&E); “The Fugitive” Season 3, Vol. 1, “The Guardian” Season 1, “Mannix” Season 3, “Tales from the Darkside” Season 2 (Paramount); “Hell’s Kitchen” Season 2 (Visual Entertainment); “Monty Python: Almost the Truth (Eagle Rock)
CULT CORNER
“I Can See You” / “The Viewer” (Kino); “Night of Death!” (Synapse); “Night of the Creeps” (Sony); “Stan Helsing” (Anchor Bay)
STRAIGHT(ISH) TO VIDEO
Morgan Freeman, Christopher Walken, and William H. Macy in “The Maiden Heist” (Sony); the “Daily Show“‘s Wyatt Cenac in “Medicine for Melancholy” (MPI); “The New Year Parade” (Carnivalesque); F. Murray Abraham in “Perestroika” (Strand)
KIDS’ STUFF
Two volumes titled “Saturday Morning Cartoons,” one for the ’60s and one for the ’70s, plus “The Secret Saturdays” Vol. 2 (Warner Bros.); “Tinkerbell and the Lost Treasure” (Walt Disney)
REISSUE/REPACKAGE
“Adult Swim In A Box,” “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” (Warner Bros.); “Monty Python: The Other British Invasion” (A&E)
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By tom
November 6, 2009 10:00 AM | Link to this
thanks for the plug for The New Year Parade : )