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Noteworthy DVDs released 9/7/10
TOP PICKS
“Playing For Time” (Olive Films): Vanessa Redgrave stars as a cabaret
singer interned at Auschwitz in this highly regarded 1980 telefilm.
“Prime Suspect” The Complete Collection (Acorn Media): Helen Mirren’s classic British detective series, which ran seven seasons and sometimes co-starred folks like Ralph Fiennes and Tom Wilkinson, is reportedly being remade for American TV.
“The Player” (New Line): Robert Altman’s 1992 satire of Hollywood is still scathing on a new Blu-ray.
FRESH FROM THE MULTIPLEX
“Killers” (Lions Gate); “MacGruber”
(Universal); “Solitary Man” (Anchor Bay)
NEW ON BLU-RAY
“The Black Dahlia,” “The Skeleton Key” (Universal);
“Charlie Brown Holiday Collection,” “Forbidden Planet,” “Lost in
Space,” “Mars Attacks!,” “The Matrix Reloaded,” “THX-1138:
Director’s Cut” (Warner Bros.); “In Cold Blood,” “Tommy” (Sony); “Jim
Gaffigan: Beyond the Pale” (Image); “Stardust” (Paramount)
ARTHOUSE/FOREIGN
“A Call Girl” (Film Movement); “Caravaggio” (2007)
(E1 Entertainment); “The Exploding Girl” (Oscilloscope); “I Am From
Titov Veles,” “The Photograph” (Global Film Initiative); “John Rabe”
(Strand); “Kung Fu Master” (Phase 4); “L’origine de la tendresse and
Other Tales” (New Yorker); “That Evening Sun” (Image)
DOCUMENTARIES
“Blood Into Wine” (True Story Films); “Charles
Bukowski: The Last Straw” (Infinity); “Fixer” (Passion River); “Snow
Blind” (Lightyear); “Soundtracker,” “Wade In The Water, Children”
(Indiepix); “Videocracy” (Kino)
TV-ON-DVD
“Ed Sullivan Starring The Beatles” (Universal Music);
“Chuck” Season 3, “Smallville” Season 9, “Supernatural” Season 5
(Warner Bros.); 3 “Doctor Who” titles, “Last of the Summer Wine,”
“Wonders of the Solar System” (BBC); “Criminal Minds” Season 5,”The
Guardian” Season 2 (Paramount); “Kevin Pollak: The Littlest Suspect”
(Image); “The Norm Show” Complete Series (Shout! Factory); “The
Office” Season 6 (Universal); “Persons Unknown” Season 1 (Fox);
“Thirtysomething” Season 4 (Shout! Factory, only at Amazon.com)
STRAIGHT(ISH) TO VIDEO
Val Kilmer and others in “American Cowslip”
(E1 Entertainment); “Being Michael Madsen” (Midnight Releasing); the
neo-Spaghetti Western “Doc West” and Griffin Dunne’s “Fierce People”
(Lions Gate); Tennessee Williams’s “The Loss Of A Teardrop Diamond”
(Screen Media Films); Matthew Perry in “Numb” (Image); Wiley Wiggins
and Andrew Bujalski in “Sorry Thanks” (Cinema Epoch)
REISSUE/REPACKAGE
“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” two “TCM
Greatest Classic Films Collection” boxes, “Gangsters” and “Hammer
Horror” (Warner Bros.); “Wall Street” (Fox)
KIDS’ STUFF
“Bugs Bunny’s Howl-oween” (Warner Bros.); “Camp Rock
2: The Final Jam” (Walt Disney); Goosebumps: “Go Eat Worms!” and “The
Blob That Ate Everyone” (Fox); “Shaun The Sheep: Party Animals,”
“Thomas & Friends: Misty Island Rescue” (Lions Gate)
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