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ONVIDEO'S WEEKLY GUIDE TO HOME VIDEO RELEASES
FOR TUESDAY, March 28 -- MONDAY, April 3
GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN'
Hard-hitting drama directed by six-time
Oscar nominee Jim Sheridan about an orphaned street kid who makes
his mark in the drug trade but finally dares to leave the
violence behind and become the rap artist he was meant to be.
Marcus (50 Cent) has always known he was going to be a rapper,
but when his mother is murdered, he turns to dealing -- hustling
drugs to pay the rent. Only his grandmother (Viola Davis),
girlfriend Charlene (Joy Bryant), and violent-but-loyal friend
Bama (Terrence Howard) keep him grounded as his world spirals out
of control. As Marcus applies the same manic intensity to his
writing as he does to dealing, he finds that writing down his
words helps him to stay sane. For years, he endures this living
hell until a tragedy that nearly kills him forces Marcus to
change his life. Vitals: Director: Jim Sheridan. Stars: 50 Cent,
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Joy Bryant, Omar Benson Miller, Tory
Kittles, Terrence Howard, Bill Duke, Viola Davis. 2005, CC, MPAA
rating: R, 117 min., Drama, Box office gross: $30.818 million,
Paramount, No VHS SRP, Priced for rental.
KING KONG
After his award-winning "Lord of the Rings" trilogy,
Peter Jackson turns his attention to the iconic tale immortalized
in 1933 by adventurers-turned-filmmakers Merian C. Cooper and co-
director Ernest B. Schoedsack, who first conjured the indelible
image of the gigantic ape atop the Empire State Building,
protecting his human companion from an onslaught of attacking
biplanes. Jackson refashions the tragic beauty-and-the-beast love
story and gives us a Kong never before thought possible through
the combined efforts and visual effects wizardry of the multiple-
Oscar-winning Weta Digital Ltd. and Weta Workshop Ltd.
It's 1933, and vaudeville actress Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts) has
found herself without the means to earn a living. Unwilling to
compromise and allow herself to sink into a career in burlesque,
she considers her limited options while aimlessly wandering the
streets of Manhattan. When her hunger drives her to try to steal
an apple from a fruit vendor, she's rescued by filmmaker and
multiple hyphenate Carl Denham (Jack Black).
It seems that Denham has until the end of the day to get his crew
onboard the Singapore-bound tramp steamer, the S.S. Venture, in
hopes of completing his travelogue/action film. With that, the
showman is certain he will finally achieve the personal greatness
he knows awaits him: Denham actually hopes to find and capture on
film the mysterious place of legend: Skull Island.
Unfortunately, his headlining actress has pulled out of his
project, but his search for a size-four leading lady (the
costumes have all been made) has, fatefully, led him to Ann. The
struggling actress is reluctant to sign on with Denham, until she
learns that the up-and-coming, socially relevant playwright Jack
Driscoll (Adrien Brody) is penning the screenplay.
With his newly discovered star and coerced screenwriter onboard,
Denham's "moving picture ship" heads out of New York Harbor ...
and toward a destiny that none aboard could possibly foresee. You
know the rest by now: Once on Skull Island, Ann is kidnapped by
native warriors to use as a sacrifice to Kong. But Kong falls in
love with the woman, and his love for her results in his capture:
he's taken back to New York to be exploited as the Eighth Wonder
of the World. Faced with popping flashbulbs and the loss of Ann,
Kong escapes, finds his love, and eventually winds up at the top
of the Empire State Building, facing off against a fleet of World
War I fighter planes. Sad.
As expected, the special effects are terrific, but the story
takes a bit too long to unfold. Not to be missed: the Kong/Ann
ice skating date in Central Park.
Vitals: Director: Peter Jackson. Stars: Naomi Watts, Jack Black,
Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Colin Hanks, Andy Serkis, Evan
Parke, Jamie Bell, Lobo Chan. 2005, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 187
min., Action adventure, Box office gross: $215.699 million,
Universal, No VHS SRP, Priced for rental.
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
Set in a mysterious and exotic world,
"Memoirs of a Geisha" begins in the years before World War II
when a young Japanese girl, Chiyo (Suzaka Ohgo), is torn from her
penniless family to work as a servant in a geisha house. Despite
a treacherous rival, Hatsumomo (Gong Li), who nearly breaks her
spirit, the girl blossoms into the legendary geisha Sayuri.
Beautiful and accomplished, Sayuri captivates the most powerful
men of her day, but is haunted by her secret love for the man,
known as Chairman (Ken Wantanabe), who is beyond her reach.
Sayuri (Ziyi Zhang) is taught that a geisha is not free to love,
or to pursue her own destiny. Her mentor, the legendary geisha
Mameha (Michelle Yeoh), understands the limits of an intimate
relationship with a special patron or danna, and teaches Sayuri
to keep her feelings tightly reined. Mameha knows that a proper
geisha cannot afford to indulge her passion for any man. Yet
Sayuri cannot forget a moment of unexpected kindness she
experienced at an early age. The memory of that moment shimmers
like a mirage, and sustains her through years of suffering.
Looking back at her life, she remembers "a little girl with more
courage than she knew," and reflects, "These are not the memoirs
of an Empress, nor of a Queen. These are memoirs of another
kind." Vitals: Director: Rob Marshall. Stars: Ziyi Zhang, Ken
Wantanabe, Michelle Yeoh, Gong Li, Suzaka Ohgo. 2005, CC, MPAA
rating: PG-13, 145 min., Drama, Box office gross: $53.819
million, Sony, No VHS SRP, Priced for rental.
SOUND OF THUNDER, A
Based on a short story by master of science
fiction Ray Bradbury. Sometime in the future time travel becomes
possible ... and becomes a lucrative monopoly for the rich. It's
especially profitable for Charles Hatton (Ben Kingsley), the
owner of Time Safari Inc., a travel agency that specializes in
escorting wealthy clients on exclusive hunting trips back to the
Prehistoric Age. There are only three essential rules: Don't
change anything in the past; don't leave anything behind; and
most important, don't bring anything back. The slightest
alteration might impact the existing course of evolution in ways
that no one can imagine. Someone breaks the rules -- when an
expedition is compromised and alters the landscape of the future
-- and evolution runs off its tracks, populating the future with
weird animals that threaten to destroy humankind. A seasoned
scout (Edward Burns) teams up with the inventor of the time
travel technology (Catherine McCormack) to unravel the mystery
behind the catastrophic historical changes that are threatening
to erase humanity from existence. Vitals: Director: Peter Hyams.
Stars: Edward Burns, Catherine McCormack, Ben Kingsley. 2005, CC,
MPAA rating: PG-13, 103 min., Science Fiction, Box office gross:
$1.891 million, Warner, No VHS SRP, Priced for rental.
STAY
Where does imagination end and reality begin? A suicidal
college student and his doctor enter a twisted world of
supernatural horror. Dedicated New York psychiatrist Sam Foster
(Ewan McGregor) urgently tries to stop a secretive and unusual
young patient, Henry Lethem (Ryan Gosling), from carrying out a
planned suicide on the eve of his 21st birthday - in three days.
Henry's been hearing disturbing voices and experiencing
horrifying visions. But Sam is thrust into a hellish place
between life and death as he is drawn deeper into the web of
Henry's life -- and then into the labyrinth of his subconscious.
At first it simply puts stress on Sam's relationship with his
artist girlfriend and former patient Lila (Naomi Watts). But soon
Sam's own tightly-held grip on the rational world begins to melt
away. Faced with increasingly surreal encounters and a Manhattan
transformed into a wildly shifting dreamscape, Sam can no longer
figure out what is true and what is happening only in his head,
nor where he begins and Henry ends. Vitals: Director: Marc
Forster. Stars: Ewan McGregor, Ryan Gosling, Kate Burton, Naomi
Watts, Elizabeth Reaser, Bob Hoskins, Janeane Garofalo, B.D.
Wong. 2005, CC, MPAA rating: R, 99 min., Psychological thriller,
Box office gross: $3.626 million, Fox, No VHS SRP, Priced for
rental.
For more release info, check out our calendar pages at
<http://www.onvideo.org/calendar.htm>
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NEWS
COMING SOON:
Due May 9 from Fox is sequel "Big Momma's House 2," starring
Martin Lawrence ... On June 6 New Line will release actioner
"Running Scared," starring Paul Walker, Cameron Bright, Vera
Farmiga, Chazz Palminteri and Johnny Messner ... "Kiss Kiss Bang
Bang," starring Robert Downey Jr., Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan,
Corbin Bernsen, Dash Mihok, Larry Miller, Rockmond Dunbar and
Shannyn Sossamon, will arrive June 13 from Warner ... and, on
June 27, Buena Vista will release "Annapolis," starring James
Franco, Tyrese Gibson, Jordana Brewster, Donnie Wahlberg and Chi
McBride.
DVD COLLECTIBLES:
Several fascinating collections are due this week. First off
there's "3 Films by Louis Malle," a four-disc set with "Murmur of
the Heart," "Lacombe, Lucien" and "Au Revoir Les Enfants," plus a
fourth disc of supplements, exclusive to the box set; $79.95 set
or $29.95 each; from The Criterion Collection ... next up is
"Planet of the Apes: The Ultimate DVD Collection," a massive 14-
disc set that includes all five original "Ape" films, the live-
action TV series, the animated TV series, the 2001 "Ape" remake,
plus oodles of extras, $179.98 from Fox ... also from Fox is
"Planet of the Apes: Legacy Edition Box Set," which includes all
five original "Ape" films plus a bonus disc with the documentary
"Behind the Planet of the Apes" and other bonuses, $49.98 ...
"The Horror of Party Beach/The Curse of the Living Corpse Double
Feature" are two wild 1960s exploitation films in one package:
"The Horror of Party Beach" (1963) with John Scott, Alice Lyon,
Allan Laurel, Eulabelle Moore, Marilyn Clarke and Augustin Mayor;
and "The Curse of the Living Corpse" (1963) with Roy Scheider,
Candace Hilligoss, Helen Warren, Margot Hartman, Robert Milli and
Hugh Franklin; from Dark Sky Films/MPI Home Video ... Also due
this week is Vittoria De Sica's 1944)"The Children Are Watching
Us." In his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and
longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, De Sica examines the
cataclysmic consequences of adult folly on an innocent child.
Heralding the pair's subsequent work on some of the masterpieces
of Italian neorealism, "The Children Are Watching Us" is a deeply
humane, vivid portrait of one family's disintegration. In a new,
restored high-definition digital transfer with extras, from The
Criterion Collection.
FROM TV TO VIDEO:
"The Andy Milonakis Show: Season 1" (2005) is a two-disc set of
the MTV2 show, $26.99 from Paramount ... "Dark Shadows DVD
Collection 23" is a four-disc set with 40 episodes, $59.98 from
MPI Home Video... Three "Friends" compilations debut this week:
"Friends: The One With All the Babies," "Friends: The One With
All the Birthdays" and "Friends: The One With All the Weddings,"
each a single-disc with six themed episodes, $14.97 from Warner
... "Invisible Man, Season 1" is a single disc with 13 episodes
of the 1950s TV series; $19.98 from Dark Sky Films/MPI Home Video
... "Knots Landing: The Complete First Season" is a five-disc set
with 13 episodes, $39.98 from Warner ... "Little House on the
Prairie" (2005) is the complete six-hour miniseries in a two-disc
set, $29.99 from Buena Vista ... "Robot Chicken: Season 1" Is a
two-disc set with 20 11-minute episodes, $29.98 from Warner ...
"Tales of the Unexpected Set 4" is a three-volume set with 20
episodes, $39.99 from Acorn Media ... "The Triangle" (2005), the
Sci Fi Channel miniseries starring Eric Stoltz, Catherine Bell,
Lou Diamond Phillips, Bruce Davison and Sam Neill, from Lionsgate
... "Wonder Showzen: Season 1 -- Uncensored" (2005) is a two-disc
set of the MTV2 absurdist comedy/variety show, spiked with a team
of puppets, kids,cartoons and old educational films, $26.99 from
Paramount.
FOR THE KIDS:
Paramount will release this week three PBS Kids favorites to VHS
and DVD: "Boohbah: Building Blocks," three episodes of magical
adventures, "Caillou: The Everyday Hero," with four episodes
packed with discovery and imagination, and "Teletubbies: Blue
Sky," in which the Teletubbies go outside to play; $9.95 VHS and
$14.99 DVD. Also from Paramount comes two all-time family
favorites: "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" (1969) and "Snoopy, Come
Home," $14.99 each ... Sony has two DVDs of animated Godzilla
adventures for younger boys: "Godzilla: The Series: Monster
Mayhem" and "Godzilla: The Series: Mutant Madness"; each has
three episodes and sells for $9.98.
ON THE INDIE FRONT:
Sony will release this week "The Left Behind Collection," a
three-disc set with all three faith-based films: "Left Behind:
The Movie," "Left Behind II: Tribulation" and "Left Behind: World
at War," $33.95 ... "Arizona" is a slick, award-winning look at
teenage love and redemption as four teenagers -- two brothers and
two sisters -- cross paths and find their lives intertwining; the
directorial debut of Daniel & David M. M. Holechek; from Vanguard
Cinema.
FOREIGN:
"The Gladiators" (1969 -- Sweden) is director Peter Watkins take
on a future in which the U.N. organizes a series of televised
military games -- to maintain international security -- based on
the gladiatorial games of ancient Rome; the DVD includes
commentary, "The Diary of an Unknown Soldier" Peter Watkins short
film, Peter Watkins filmography, and a 12-page booklet with a new
Peter Watkins interview; $29.95 from New Yorker ... "Kibakichi 2"
(2006 -- Japan) is a fantasy horror film about a samurai werewolf
who helps a blind girl and her small village seek revenge on a
murdering madman; $24.95 from MTI Home Video ... "Exils" (2004 --
French) is a seductive road movie about a young Arabic couple who
leave Paris with no money or connections to travel to Algeria in
search of their roots; $24.99 from Home Vision Entertainment.
SPECIAL INTEREST:
"American Muscle Car, Season 1" relieves the glory days of the
most outrageous cars to ever hit the streets in a two-disc set
with 12 episodes, $29.98; single discs are also available with
two episodes at $9.98 each: '64 Pontiac GTO and Pontiac GTO
Judge, '53-'62 Chevrolet Corvette and Chevrolet Camaro SS 396,
'64 Ford Fairlane Thunderbolt and the Shelby Mustangs, Buick Gran
Sport and Oldsmobile 442, Chevrolet Chevelle SS and Chevrolet
Impala 409, Plymouth Hemi 'Cuda/Dodge Hemi Challenger and
Chevrolet Nova SS; from MPI Home Video ... "Galileo's Battle for
the Heavens" is a NOVA documentary on scientist Galileo Galilei's
incredible achievements that forever changed the way we view our
place in the universe, $19.95 from WGBH Boston Video ... "Genius:
The Science of Einstein, Newton, Darwin, and Galileo" is a four-
disc set of NOVA biographies: "Einstein's Big Idea," "Newton's
Dark Secrets," "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" and "Galileo's Battle
for the Heavens"; $49.95 from WGBH Boston Video ... "Plymptons:
The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton" (1990) is a journey
through political-cartoonist-turned-animator George Plympton's
canvas of animation, from his first film created during his
college days, "Self Portrait," to the Academy Award-nominated
"Your Face," his first solo effort; $26.95 from Docurama ...
"TransGeneration" (2005) is an eight-part miniseries on four
students transitioning from their birth sex, $29.95 from Docurama
... "Walking the Bible" (2005) is a PBS documentary series that
follows award-winning author and host Bruce Feiler through 10
countries and four war zones as he searches for traces of the
great biblical heroes, $39.95 from WGBH Boston Video ...
"Ballroom Dancing Made Easy!" is a step-by-step guide to learning
the waltz, quick step, tango, cha cha and jive, hosted by Angela
Rippon and professional dance coach and European champion Ian
Waite, $19.98 from BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Ltd.
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THIS WEEK'S DVD RELEASES:
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** Alchemy (2005) Thomas Cavanagh, Sarah Chalke, James Barbour.
(Monarch Home Video).
** American Muscle Car, Season 1. Two-disc set with 12 episodes,
$29.98. (MPI Home Video).
** The Andy Milonakis Show: Season 1 (2005) Two-disc set of the
MTV2 show, $26.99. Extras: Optional Commentary by Andy, Larry,
Ralphie, and Rivka and NY Daily News reporter Richard Huff on
select episodes; "Andy Goes Hollywood" featurette, cast
interviews; un-aired skits; Ralphie outtakes; extended scenes.
(Paramount).
** A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969) Animated, $14.99.
(Paramount).
** The Children Are Watching Us (1944) Dir.: Vittoria De Sica;
Emilio Cigoli, Luciano De Ambrosis, Isa Pola, Adriano Rimoldi,
Giovanna Cigoli. New, restored high-definition digital transfer.
Extras: New video interviews with star Luciano de Ambrosis and De
Sica scholar Callisto Cosulich, booklet featuring film scholar
Robert Cardullo and Stuart Klawans on screenwriter Cesare
Zavattini. (The Criterion Collection).
** The Cutting Edge: Going for the Gold (2006) Christy Carlson,
Romano Scott, Thompson Baker, Ross Thomas. Direct-to-video
sequel. Extras: Commentary by director Sean McNamara and the
cast, movie montage with music by Romano, photo gallery. (Sony).
** Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King (2004 -- TV) Benno Furmann,
Kristanna Loken, Alicia Witt, Julian Sands, Max von Sydow.
Extras: Making of featurette, behind-the-scenes featurette, cast
featurette, visual effects featurette, "Swords"-- A Stunts and
Swords" featurette. (Sony).
** Dark Shadows DVD Collection 23. Four-disc set with 40
episodes, $59.98. (MPI Home Video).
** Exils (2004 -- French) Romain Duris, Lubna Azabal, Leila
Makhlouf, Habib Cheik. (Home Vision Entertainment).
** Friends: The One With All the Babies. Single-disc compilation
with six themed episodes, $14.97. (Warner).
** Friends: The One With All the Birthdays. Single-disc
compilation with six themed episodes, $14.97. (Warner).
** Friends: The One With All the Weddings. Single-disc
compilation with six themed episodes, $14.97. (Warner).
** Galileo's Battle for the Heavens. NOVA documentary; $19.95.
(WGBH Boston Video).
** Genius: The Science of Einstein, Newton, Darwin, and Galileo.
Four-disc set of NOVA biographies: "Einstein's Big Idea,"
"Newton's Dark Secrets," "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" and "Galileo's
Battle for the Heavens"; $49.95. (WGBH Boston Video).
** Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005) Dir.: Jim Sheridan; 50 Cent,
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Joy Bryant, Omar Benson Miller, Tory
Kittles, Terrence Howard, Bill Duke, Viola Davis. Extras: "A
Portrait of an Artist -- The Making of Get Rich or Die Tryin'."
(Paramount).
** The Gladiators (1969 -- Sweden) Dir.: Peter Watkins; Arthur
Pentelow, Frederick Danner, Hans Bendrik, Daniel Harle. (New
Yorker).
** Godzilla: Monster Edition (1998) Dir.: Roland Emmerich;
Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, Maria Pitillo, Hank Azaria, Kevin
Dunn, Michael Lerner, Harry Shearer, Doug Savant. Extras:
"All-Time Best of Godzilla Fight Scenes" featurette, production
art gallery, three Episodes from "Godzilla: The Series,"
"Godzilla Takes New York" (before and after) photo gallery,
special effects supervisor commentary, "Heroes" music video by
the Wallflowers. (Sony).
** Godzilla: The Series: Monster Mayhem. Three episodes, $9.98.
(Sony).
** Godzilla: The Series: Mutant Madness. Three episodes, $9.98.
(Sony).
** The Horror of Party Beach/The Curse of the Living Corpse
Double Feature. The Horror of Party Beach (1963) John Scott,
Alice Lyon, Allan Laurel, Eulabelle Moore, Marilyn Clarke,
Augustin Mayor. The Curse of the Living Corpse (1963) Roy
Scheider, Candace Hilligoss, Helen Warren, Margot Hartman, Robert
Milli, Hugh Franklin. (Dark Sky Films/MPI Home Video)
** Invisible Man, Season 1. Single disc with 13 episodes of the
1950s TV series; $19.98. (Dark Sky Films/MPI Home Video).
** Julius Caesar (1971) Charlton Heston, Jason Robards, John
Gielgud, Richard Johnson, Robert Vaughn, Richard Chamberlain,
Diana Rigg, Christopher Lee. (Paramount).
** Kibakichi 2 (2006 -- Japan) Ryuji Harada, Miki Tanaka,
Masakatsu Funaki, Yoko Kamon, Aimi Nakamura, Masato Ibu. (MTI
Home Video)
** King Kong (2005) Dir.: Peter Jackson; Naomi Watts, Jack Black,
Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Colin Hanks, Andy Serkis, Evan
Parke, Jamie Bell, Lobo Chan. Single-disc and two-disc special
edition. Extras: Special Edition: Introduction by Jackson, post-
production diaries, "Skull Island: A Natural History" featurette,
"Kong's New York, 1933" featurette that explores vaudeville, the
skyscraper boom, the construction of the Empire State building
and more. (Universal).
** King Kong (1933) Dir.: Ernest B. Schoedsack, Merian C. Cooper;
Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher, Sam
Hardy. Single-disc with feature only to supplement the Two-Disc
Special Edition and Two-Disc Collectors Editions already
available. (Warner).
** Knots Landing: The Complete First Season. Five-disc set with
13 episodes, $39.98. Extras: Commentary on select episodes, "Gary
and Val: Together Again" featurette. (Warner).
** The Left Behind Collection. Three-disc set with all three
faith-based films: "Left Behind: The Movie," "Left Behind II:
Tribulation" and "Left Behind: World at War," $33.95. (Sony).
** Little House on the Prairie (2005 -- TV) Complete six-hour
miniseries, two-disc set, $29.99. Cameron Bancroft, Erin
Cottrell, Kyle Chavarria, Danielle Ryan Chuchran, Barbara
Kozicki, Gregory Sporleder, Dorian Harewood. (Buena Vista).
** Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) Dir.: Rob Marshall; Ziyi Zhang, Ken
Wantanabe, Michelle Yeoh, Gong Li, Suzaka Ohgo. Extras:
Commentary by director Marshall and choreographer John DeLuca;
production commentary by Colleen Atwood (costume design), John
Myhre (production design) and Pietro Scalia (editor); 11 in-depth
featurettes: "Sayuri's Other Journey: From the Novel to the
Screen," "The Road to Japan," "Geisha Bootcamp," "Building the
Hanamachi," "The Look of a Geisha," "The Music of Memoirs," "A
Geisha Dance," "The World of Geisha," "The Way of the Sumo," "Rob
Marshall - An in-depth look at Director Rob Marshall," "A Day
with Chef Nobu Matsuhisa." (Sony).
** Northern Exposure: The Complete Fourth Season. Twenty-five
episodes, $59.98. (Universal).
** Planet of the Apes: The Ultimate DVD Collection. Fourteen-disc
set, $179.98. Includes all five original "Ape" films, the live-
action TV series, the animated TV series, the 2001 "Ape" remake,
plus oodles of extras. (Fox).
** Planet of the Apes: Legacy Edition Box Set. Includes all five
original "Ape" films plus a bonus disc with the documentary
"Behind the Planet of the Apes" and other bonuses, $49.98. (Fox).
** Plymptons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton (1990)
$26.95. (Docurama).
** Quantum Leap: The Complete Fourth Season. Twenty-two episodes,
$49.98. Extras: "The Great 80's TV Flashback" featurette.
(Universal).
** Robot Chicken: Season 1. Two-disc set with 20 11-minute
episodes, $29.98. Extras: Deleted scenes, animation meetings,
FX/Wire to episode comparisons, alternate audio takes, deleted
animatics, photo gallery, gag reel. (Warner).
** Sliver (1993) Dir.: Phillip Noyce; Sharon Stone, William
Baldwin, Tom Berenger, Polly Walker, Colleen Camp, Amanda
Foreman, Martin Landau, CCH Pounder, Nina Foch. Unrated and
uncensored. (Paramount).
** Snoopy, Come Home (1972) Animated, $14.99. (Paramount).
** A Sound of Thunder (2005) Dir.: Peter Hyams; Edward Burns,
Catherine McCormack, Ben Kingsley. (Warner).
** Stay (2005) Dir.: Marc Forster; Ewan McGregor, Ryan Gosling,
Kate Burton, Naomi Watts, Elizabeth Reaser, Bob Hoskins, Janeane
Garofalo, B.D. Wong. Extras: Scene specific commentary by
director Forster, "Departing Visions" featurette. (Fox).
** The Story of Qiu Ju (1992 -- China) Dir.: Zhang Yimon; Li
Gong, Peiqi Liu, Liuchun Yang. (Sony)
** Tales of the Unexpected Set 4. Three-volume set with 20
episodes, $39.99. (Acorn Media).
** 3 Films by Louis Malle. Four-disc set with "Murmur of the
Heart," "Lacombe, Lucien" and "Au Revoir Les Enfants," fourth
disc of extras. $79.95 set or $29.95 each. New, restored
high-definition digital transfers. Extras: "Murmur": New essay by
film critic Michael Sragow; "Lacombe": Pauline Kael's 1974 New
Yorker review; "Revoir": New essay by film critic Philip Kemp;
Fourth Disc: New interviews with actor and Louis Malle widow
Candice Bergen and biographer Pierre Billard; excerpts from a
French TV program featuring the director on the sets of "Murmur
of the Heart" and "Lacombe, Lucien"; audio interviews with Malle
from 1972, 1980, and 1988; "The Immigrant," Charlie Chaplin's
1917 short comedy, featured in "Au revoir les enfants"; profile
of the provocative character of Joseph from "Au revoir les
enfants," created by filmmaker Guy Magen in 2005; Louis Malle
filmography. (The Criterion Collection).
** TransGeneration (2005) Eight-part miniseries on four students
transitioning from their birth sex. $29.95. (Docurama).
** The Triangle (2005) Eric Stoltz, Catherine Bell, Lou Diamond
Phillips, Bruce Davison, Sam Neill. Sci-Fi Channel miniseries.
Extras: "Sci-Fi Inside: The Triangle." (Lionsgate).
** Violent Midnight (1964) Lee Philips, Shepperd Strudwick, Jean
Hale, Lorraine Rogers, Margot Hartman, James Farentino, Dick Van
Patten, Sylvia Miles. (Dark Sky Films/MPI Home Video).
** Walking the Bible (2005) PBS documentary; $39.95. Extras:
Behind-the-scenes photos, Q&A with Bruce Feiler on turning his
book into the television series, slide show featuring selected
images from the companion book "Walking the Bible: A Photographic
Journey," excerpt from the companion book "Walking the Bible: A
Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses." (WGBH Boston
Video).
** Wonder Showzen: Season 1 -- Uncensored (2005) MTV2 absurdist
comedy/variety show, spiked with a team of puppets, kids,
cartoons and old educational films. Two-disc set, $26.99. Extras:
Easter Eggs, auditions and outtakes, "Storytime With Flava Flav,"
"Sneek Peek" cartoon, special guest commentaries by Gordon Lish,
Dick Gregory, and others. (Paramount).
For more DVD info, check out our DVD calendar pages at
<http://www.onvideo.org/calendar/cal_dvd.htm>
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THIS WEEK'S VHS SELL-THROUGH RELEASES:
** Walking the Bible
(2005) PBS documentary series follows award-winning author and
host Bruce Feiler through 10 countries and four war zones as he
searches for traces of the great biblical heroes (WGBH Boston
Video): $39.95
For more sell-through info, check out our Sell-Through/Repriced
pages at <http://www.onvideo.org/reprice.htm>
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