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Noteworthy DVDs released 11/2/10
PICK OF THE WEEK
“The Larry Sanders Show” Complete Series (Shout! Factory): Fans of
Garry Shandling — not to mention of brilliant, self-aware television
— get an unexpected treat, with a comprehensive package that seemed
unlikely ever to be released.
OTHER TOP PICKS
“Toy Story 3” (Walt Disney): One of the incredibly rare instances
(let’s not pick on “The Godfather,” okay?) in which a series’s third
installment lives up to the original.
“The Pacific” (HBO): The big-production sequel to “Band of Brothers”
“Let’s Spend The Night Together” (Lions Gate): Far from the greatest Rolling Stones doc, this curiosity paired them with 70s great Hal Ashby.
“The Goonies” (Warner Bros.): Beloved by a generation of thirtysomethings, the Spielberg-hatched pirate adventure arrives in a “25th Anniversary Collector’s Edition.”
“The Unbelievable Truth”: Hal Hartley, whose brilliant debut is now out-of-print, has reissued it himself via possiblefilms.com — where fans can also find serious obscurities like the book and soundtrack for his play “Soon.”
FRESH FROM THE MULTIPLEX
“Centurion” (Magnolia)
NEW ON BLU-RAY
“The Bridge on the River Kwai” DVD/Blu-ray Combo
(Sony); Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” DVD/Blu-ray combo (MGM);
“Highlander,” “Highlander 2: The Quickening” (Lions Gate); “White
Christmas” (Paramount)
FROM THE VAULTS
“The Bing Crosby Collection” (Universal); Jonathan
Pryce in “Regeneration” (Echo Bridge); “The Rita Hayworth Film
Collection” (Sony); “The Visitor” (1980) (Code Red)
DOCUMENTARIES
“Lady Gaga: One Sequin at a Time” (Echo Bridge);
“Greenlit,” “”The Way We Get By” (Virgil Films); “Van Gogh: Brush With
Genius IMAX” (Image); “Winnebago Man” (Kino)
TV-ON-DVD
“Marple: The Geraldine McEwan Collection,” “Cadfael”
Complete Collection, “Midsomer Murders: Village Case Files” (Acorn
Media); “Beverly Hills 90210” Complete Series, “The Fugitive”
Season 4, Vol. 1 (Paramount); Doctor Who: “Revenge of the Cybermen”
and “Silver Nemesis” (BBC); “The Facts Of Life” Season 5, Frank
Sinatra (Concert Collection, Mad About You (The Complete Fifth
Season) (Shout! Factory); “Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List”
Season 2 (First Look); “Metalocalypse” Season 3, “Nip/Tuck”
Complete Series, “V” Season 1 (Warner Bros.); “Persons Unknown”
Season 1 (Fox)
CULT CORNER
“Not Of This Earth” (1988), “The Terror Within” / “Dead
Space” (Shout! Factory)
STRAIGHT(ISH) TO VIDEO
Amy Adams, Robert Downey Jr., and James Franco
in “Love & Distrust” (Phase 4); Mr. T in “The Toughest Man in the
World” (Echo Bridge); Heather Graham and Jennifer Coolidge in
“Exterminators” (Image); Ed Harris and Amy Madigan in “Once Fallen”
(First Look); Sam Rockwell and Emma Roberts in “The Winning Season”
(Lions Gate)
REISSUE/REPACKAGE
“Cher: The Film Collection” (Fox); TCM Greatest
Classic Films Collections: “Busby Berkeley Musicals” and “Astaire and
Rogers” (Warner Bros.)
KIDS’ STUFF
“Hannah Montana” Vol. 7 (Walt Disney); kaBOOM!: “Let’s
Solve” and “Let’s Learn!” (Phase 4); “LeapFrog Learning” Vol. 2 (Lions
Gate)
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