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ONVIDEO'S WEEKLY GUIDE TO HOME VIDEO RELEASES
FOR Tuesday, January 23 -- MONDAY, January 29
GUARDIAN, THE
Story of hardcore courage and selfless sacrifice set inside the
never-before-seen world of Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers -- a special
breed of men and women who risk their lives against the biggest storms
and most monstrous waves in service to the motto: "So that others may
live!" Previously seen by most Americans only as the unsung, daredevil
heroes who saved thousands in the wake of Hurricane Katrina's deadly
floods, the lives and teamwork of Rescue Swimmers come to the fore in
this adventure. Legendary rescue swimmer Ben Randall (Kevin Costner)
becomes the sole survivor of a deadly crash at the height of a massive
storm. In the wake of the accident, he is sent against his will to
teach at "A" School -- the elite training program that turns arrogant
young recruits into the best and bravest of Rescue Swimmers. Reeling
with grief and regret, Ben throws himself into teaching the only way he
knows how, turning the entire program upside down with his
unconventional, out-of-the-box training methods. But Ben understands
exactly what's at stake -- he knows that his students will one day have
to make tough decisions between who dies and who lives. When he knocks
heads with cocky swimming champ Jake Fischer (Ashton Kutcher), Ben sees
someone with what it takes to be the best of the best -- if only he can
combine his raw talent with the heart and dedication necessary and
avoid the mistakes that Ben himself has made. Heading out on his first
treacherous mission, to the fierce, turbulent waters of Alaska's Bering
Sea, Jake will have to put all that he's learned into action as he
discovers just what it means to truly risk everything. Vitals:
Director: Andrew Davis. Stars: Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher, Sela
Ward, Melissa Sagemiller, Clancy Brown, Omari Hardwick. 2006, CC, MPAA
rating: PG-13, 136 min., Action, Box office gross: $54.809 million,
Buena Vista. 2 stars
JESUS CAMP
A growing number of evangelical Christians believe there is a revival
underway in America that requires Christian youth to assume leadership
roles in advocating the causes of their religious movement. The
fascinating and engaging documentary gives a powerful look at the
growing religious movement dedicated to molding children into Christian
soldiers in "God's Army." Follows several children to the "Kids on
Fire" summer camp in Devil's Lake, North Dakota, where kids as young as
six years old are taught to become dedicated Christian soldiers in
"God's army." The film follows these children at camp as they hone
their "prophetic gifts" and are schooled in how to "take back America
for Christ" by Pastor Becky Fischer. The film is a first-ever look into
an intense training ground that recruits born-again Christian children
to become an active part of America's political future. Vitals:
Director: Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady. 2006, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13,
84 min., Documentary, Box office gross: $.753 million, Magnolia Home
Entertainment.
LA MOUSTACHE
Unique exploration of identity and truth. One day, on a whim, Marc
decides to shave off the mustache he's worn all of his adult life. He
waits patiently for his wife's reaction, but neither she nor his
friends seem to notice. Stranger still, when he finally tells them,
they all insist he never had a mustache. Is Marc going mad? Is he the
victim of some elaborate conspiracy? Weaves comedy, drama and
psychological thrills into an intriguing work of cinema. Vitals:
Director: Emmanuel Carrere. Stars: Vincent Lindon, Emmanuelle Devos,
Mathieu Amalric.. 2006, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 86 min., Drama, Koch
Lorber Films. 3 stars
SAW III
Jigsaw has disappeared. With his new apprentice Amanda (Shawnee Smith),
the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified
a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and
vanished. While city detectives scramble to locate him, Doctor Lynn
Denlon (Bahar Soomekh) is unaware that she is about to become the
latest pawn on his vicious chessboard. One night, after finishing a
shift at her hospital, Lynn is kidnapped and taken to an abandoned
warehouse where she meets Jigsaw (Tobin Bell), bedridden and on the
verge of death. She is told that she must keep the madman alive for as
long as it takes Jeff (Angus Macfayden), another of his victims, to
complete a game of his own. Racing against the ticking clock of
Jigsaw's own heartbeat, Lynn and Jeff struggle to make it through each
of their vicious tests, unaware that he has a much bigger plan for both
of them. Ugh! Vitals: Director: Darren Lynn Bousman. Stars: Tobin Bell,
Shawnee Smith, Angus Macfadyen, Bahar Soomekh, Dina Meyer, Donnie
Wahlberg. 2006, CC, MPAA rating: R, 113 min., Horror, Box office gross:
$80.150 million, Lionsgate. 3 stars
SHERRYBABY
Three years after entering prison for robbery as a 19-year-old heroin
addict, Sherry Swanson (Maggie Gyllenhaal) begins her first day of
freedom, clean and sober. A model prisoner who has undergone personal
transformation, she immediately sets out to regain custody of her young
daughter Alexis (Ryan Simpkins), who has been cared for in her absence
by her brother Bobby (Brad William Henke) and his wife Lynn (Bridget
Barkan). Unprepared for the demands of the world she's stepped back
into, Sherry's hopes of staying clean, getting a job, and becoming a
responsible mother are challenged by the realities of unemployment,
halfway houses, and parole restrictions. Bobby and Lynn's concerns
about Sherry's ability to care for Alexis, and her inability to prove
them wrong, threaten to destroy the already delicate relationship she
has with her daughter, as well as her newfound sobriety. Disillusioned
and haunted by wounds from her childhood, Sherry is eventually
confronted with life-altering questions about her own survival and what
it means to be a good mother. Ultimately she learns that as the harsh
realities of life often get in the way of her best intentions,
sometimes it's best to take life one small step at a time. Gyllenhaal
puts in an Academy Award performance. Vitals: Director: Laurie Collyer.
Stars: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ryan Simpkins, Brad William Henke, Bridget
Barkan, Sam Bottoms, Kate Burton, Danny Trejo, Giancarlo Esposito.
2006, CC, MPAA rating: R, 96 min., Drama, Box office gross: $.198
million, IFC. 3 stars
THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED
Unprecedented investigation into the MPAA film ratings system and its
profound impact on American culture. The MPAA, a lobbying organization
for the movie industry, maintains a ratings system first implemented in
1968 by former MPAA president Jack Valenti. This system, with its age
based content classification using letter grades G, PG, PG-13, R, and
NC-17 (formerly X), has become a cultural icon. But behind its simple
facade is a censoring process kept entirely secret. Board members are
anonymous; deliberations are private; standards are seemingly
arbitrary. Thus, the trade organization for the largest media
corporations in America also keeps a trademarked lock on content
regulation over our most unique and popular art form. "This Film Is Not
Yet Rated" asks whether Hollywood movies and independent films are
rated equally for comparable content; whether sexual content in
gay-themed movies are given harsher ratings penalties than their
heterosexual counterparts; whether it makes sense that extreme violence
is given an R rating while sexuality is banished to the cutting room
floor; whether Hollywood studios receive detailed directions as to how
to change an NC-17 film into an R while independent film producers are
left guessing; and finally, whether keeping the raters and the rating
process secret leave the MPAA entirely unaccountable for its decisions.
Vitals: Director: Kirby Dick. Stars:. Interviews with John Waters,
Kevin Smith, Matt Stone, Darren Aronofsky, Kimberly Peirce, Allison
Anders, David Ansen, Atom Egoyan, Steven Farber, more. 2006, CC, MPAA
rating: NR, 97 min., Documentary, Box office gross: $.270million,
Genius Products. 3 stars
For more release info, check out our calendar pages at
<http://www.onvideo.org/calendar.htm>
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NEWS
COMING SOON:
"The mole is an animal that digs tunnels underground searching for the
sun. Sometimes his journey leads him to the surface. When he looks at
the sun, he is blinded." So begins Alejandro Jodorowsky's classic "El
Topo," a surrealistic journey mixing religion, 1960s "Theatre of
Cruelty," Western film motifs and downright craziness into a film that
took the underground by storm and, when it began screening at New
York's Elgin Theater in 1970, sparked the Midnight Movie phenomena.
Long unavailable in any form in the United States, ABKCO Films and
Anchor Bay will finally release "El Topo" and two other mind-bending
Jodorowsky classics, "The Holy Mountain" and "Fando Y Lis," on DVD on
May 1. These astonishing films, which have been fully restored and
remastered, will be available as a special limited edition collector's
box set featuring exclusive rare bonus materials, for $49.98, with "El
Topo" and "The Holy Mountain" also available separately at $24.98 each.
Classic Americana and avant-garde European sensibilities collide with
Zen Buddhism and the Bible as master gunfighter and mystic El Topo
(played by writer-director Jodorowsky) tries to defeat four
sharp-shooting rivals on a bizarre path to allegorical self-awareness
and resurrection. Jodorowsky's high budget follow up effort, "The Holy
Mountain" (1973), takes his psychedelic allegorical mastery to another
level. Grotesque, mystical and sacrilegious, it is an excursion into
the meaning of earthly wealth and immortality. Rounding out the set is
Jodorowsky's first full-length feature film, "Fando Y Lis." Based on
Jodorowsky's memories of a play by surrealist Fernando Arrabal, it
caused an uproar in the avant-garde community when it premiered in 1967
in Acapulco.
DVD COLLECTIBLES:
It's a great week for Golden Oldies on DVD. First up, Warner will
release "Robert Mitchum: The Signature Collection," a six-disc set with
"Angel Face," "Macao," "Home From the Hill," "The Sundowners," "The
Good Guys and the Bad Guys" and "The Yazuka"; $59.92 or $19.97 each ...
Add to that "Monsters and Madmen," a four-disc box set with two
"drive-in" double-bills that take us from a grave past to a space-age
future, spinning classic tales of hair-raising homicidal mania and
intrepid, death-defying exploration: "The Haunted Strangler" (1958)
starring Boris Karloff, "Corridors of Blood" (1958) starring Boris
Karloff and Christopher Lee, "First Man Into Space" (1959) starring
Marshall Thompson, and "The Atomic Submarine" (1959) starring Arthur
Franz and Dick Foran; in all new, restored high-definition digital
transfers; $79.95 ... Also from Criterion comes "Yojimbo/Sanjuro: Two
Films by Akira Kurosawa," the classic films starring Toshiro Mifune and
Tatsuya Nakadai, available as a two-disc set ($69.95) and individually
($39.95 each); lavishly packaged with informative extras ... Sony has
two killer double features from rock's past: "Don't Knock the Rock/Rock
Around the Clock Double Feature," both from 1956, with "Don't Knock the
Rock" starring Alan Dale, Patricia Hardy, Alan Freed, Fay Baker, Little
Richard and Bill Haley & His Comets; and "Rock Around the Clock"
starring Alan Freed, Bill Haley & His Comets, The Platters, Johnny
Johnston, Tony Martinez and Frankie Bell and the Bellboys; $19.94; and
"Twist Around the Clock/Don't Knock the Twist Double Feature," with
"Twist Around the Clock" (1961) starring Chubby Checker, Dion DiMucci,
Vicki Spencer and "Don't Knock the Twist" (1962) starring Chubby
Checker, Gene Chandler,Vic Dana, Linda Scott; $19.94 .. Lastly, MGM
will release a two-disc set of "Fiddler on the Roof," starring Topol,
Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, Paul Mann, Rosalind Harris,
Michele Marsh, Neva Small and Paul Michael Glaser, with commentary by
director Norman Jewison and Topol, featurettes, an Easter egg, photo
galleries, and more.
FROM TV TO VIDEO:
Due this week: "Hopeless Pictures -- Season One" (2005), a two-disc set
of the animated satire from IFC; $26.95 from Genius Products and IFC
Television ... "Walker, Texas Ranger: The Complete Second Season"
(1994-95), is a seven-disc set with 23 episodes, $54.99 from Paramount
... "The Waltons: The Complete Fourth Season" is a five-disc set with
25 episodes, $39.98, from Warner.
BUZZIN' THE 'B's:
In "Night Skies" (2006), six strangers have a harrowing experience with
an unidentified flying object in Phoenix; stars Jason Connery, A.J.
Cook and George Stults, from Sony ... In "Relative Strangers" (2006),
starring Danny DeVito, Kathy Bates, Ron Livingston and Neve Campbell, a
tightly wound professional on a mission to locate his biological
parents finds that the couple who conceived him aren't exactly
upper-class, from First Look Home Entertainment ... In "Troubled
Waters"(2006) Jennifer Beals stars as an FBI agent whose investigation
of a kidnapping uncovers a terrible murder plot; co-stars Shauna Black,
Stewart Arnott and Olivia Ballantyne, from Genius Products.
ON THE INDIE FRONT:
"Cowboy Del Amor" (2006) is a comic documentary that follows
self-proclaimed "Cowboy Cupid" Ivan Thompson as he finds Mexican brides
for disillusioned American men searching for the perfect wife, from
Genius Products ... "The Puffy Chair" (2005) is an indie comedy about a
cross-country mission by a young man who wants to deliver to his father
a perfect birthday gift -- a giant purple LazyBoy; stars Mark Duplass,
Kathryn Aselton and Rhett Wilkins, from Genius Products.
FOR THE KIDS:
"The Invincible Iron Man" (2006) is the third movie in the Marvel
animated feature series, $19.98 from Lionsgate ... "Alvin and the
Chipmunks: A Chipmunk Valentine" (1983) gathers together four
Valentine-themed episodes from the "Alvin and the Chipmunks" TV series;
$14.99 from Paramount ... "The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss: The Cat's
Family and Friends" features three episodes from the Nickelodeon TV
series, $9.95 from Sony.
SPECIAL INTEREST:
"The 2006 FIFA World Cup Film: The Grand Finale" (2006) is the official
FIFA sanctioned documentary overview of all the tournament's action and
drama; $24.96 from Sony ... For diehard Chicago Bulls fans Warner will
release "NBA Chicago Bulls 1991 Champions: Learning to Fly," a six-disc
set packed with 10 hours of material covering the five-game Bulls' win
over the Los Angeles Lakers, $49.95 ... "Cocaine Cowboys" (2005) is a
documentary on the cultural explosion sparked by the drug trade in
1980s Miami that still echoes as Hollywood myth today, $26.98 from
Magnolia Home Entertainment ... "Tactics: Volume 3" features Chapters
11 through 15 of the incredible anime series, $24.98 from Manga
Entertainment ... "Avatar: The Last Airbender -- Book 2: Earth --
Volume 1 features five episodes from the Nickelodeon Home Entertainment
series, $16.99 from Paramount.
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THIS WEEK'S DVD RELEASES:
Weekly listings of DVD releases can now be viewed on mobile
devices at www.tagtag.com/onvideo
** Alvin and the Chipmunks: A Chipmunk Valentine (1983) Four Valentine-themed episodes from the "Alvin and the Chipmunks" TV series; $14.99. (Paramount).
** Avatar: The Last Airbender -- Book 2: Earth -- Volume 1. Five
episodes of the Nickelodeon Home Entertainment series. Extras: Original
uncut animatic of the season's premiere episode, "The Avatar State."
(Paramount).
** Brokeback Mountain Collector's Edition (2005) Dir.: Ang Lee;
Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Linda Cardellini, Anna Faris, Anne
Hathaway, Michelle Williams, Randy Quaid. Two-disc collector's edition.
Extras: "On Being a Cowboy" behind-the-scenes featurette, "Directing
From the Heart: Ang Lee" featurette, "From Script to Screen: Interviews
With (writers) Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana," "Sharing the Story:
The Making of Brokeback Mountain," collectible postcards, more.
(Universal).
** Cocaine Cowboys (2005) Documentary on the cultural explosion
sparked by the drug trade in 1980s Miami that still echoes as Hollywood
myth today, $26.98. Extras: Commentary by director-producer Billy
Corben and producer David Cypkin, "Hustlin' With the Godmother: The
Charles Cosby Story," deleted scenes. (Magnolia Home Entertainment).
** Cowboy Del Amor (2006) Comic documentary that follows
self-proclaimed "Cowboy Cupid" Ivan Thompson as he finds Mexican brides
for disillusioned American men searching for the perfect wife. Extras:
Cowboy Cupid "Ivanisms," deleted scenes, commentary. (Genius Products).
** Don't Knock the Rock/Rock Around the Clock Double Feature.
"Don't Knock the Rock" (1956) starring Alan Dale, Patricia Hardy, Alan
Freed, Fay Baker, Little Richard and Bill Haley & His Comets; "Rock
Around the Clock" (1956) starring Alan Freed, Bill Haley & His
Comets, The Platters, Johnny Johnston, Tony Martinez and Frankie Bell
and the Bellboys; $19.94. (Sony).
** Fiddler on the Roof (1971) Dir.: Norman Jewison; Topol, Norma
Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, Paul Mann, Rosalind Harris, Michele
Marsh, Neva Small, Paul Michael Glaser. Two-disc set. Extras:
Commentary by director Norman Jewison and Topol , "The Songs of Fiddler
on the Roof" featurette, "Interview With John Williams: Creating a
Musical Tradition," "Interview With Tevye's Daughters" (with cast
members), "Set in Reality" production design featurette, deleted scene:
deleted song "Any Day Now," documentary: "Norman Jewison, Filmmaker,"
Easter egg: "Tale of the Beggar," featurette: "Historical Background"
read by Norman Jewison with photographs by Ann Weiss, featurette:
"Norman Jewison Looks Back," featurette: "Tevye's Dream in Full
Colour," featurette: "The Stories of Sholam Aleichem" read by Norman
Jewison, photo galleries, original production notes, production design
and storyboards. (MGM).
** The Guardian (2006) Director: Andrew Davis. Stars: Kevin
Costner, Ashton Kutcher, Sela Ward, Melissa Sagemiller, Clancy Brown,
Omari Hardwick. Extras: Commentary, alternate ending, "Making Waves"
behind-the-scenes featurette, "Unsung Heroes" featurette, deleted
scenes. (Buena Vista).
** Hopeless Pictures -- Season One (2005) Two-disc set of the
animated satire from IFC; $26.95. Extras: Commentary with director Bob
Balaban, deleted scenes, storyboard gallery. (Genius Products and IFC
Television).
** The Invincible Iron Man (2006) Third movie in the Marvel
animated feature series, $19.98. Extras: Alternate opening sequence,
"The Original Iron Man" featurette, "The Hall of Iron Man Armor," Iron
Man concept art, "A Look at Doctor Strange." (Lionsgate).
** Jesus Camp (2006) Documentary. Extras: Commentary by
directors Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, deleted scenes. (Magnolia Home
Entertainment).
** La Moustache (2006) Vincent Lindon, Emmanuelle Devos, Mathieu
Amalric. Extras: Making-of featurette, interview with director Emmanuel
Carrere and editor Camille Cotte. (Koch Lorber Films).
** Marvel Animated Features Collector's Gift. SetThree-disc set
with the three Marvel animated features: "Ultimate Avengers: The
Movie," "Ultimate Avengers 2" and "The Invincible Iron Man," $59.98.
Extras: Iron Man "Marvel Icons" bust. (Lionsgate).
** Monsters and Madmen. Four-disc box set with two "drive-in"
double-bills that take us from a grave past to a space-age future,
spinning classic tales of hair-raising homicidal mania and intrepid,
death-defying exploration: "The Haunted Strangler" (1958) starring
Boris Karloff, "Corridors of Blood" (1958) starring Boris Karloff and
Christopher Lee, "First Man Into Space" (1959) starring Marshall
Thompson, and "The Atomic Submarine" (1959) starring Arthur Franz and
Dick Foran. All new, restored high-definition digital transfers.
$79.95. Extras: Commentaries by producers Alex and Richard Gordon and
writer Tom Weaver; new interviews with actors, directors, and
screenwriters who worked on the films; original trailers; radio spots;
stills galleries; publicity and production photos; booklets featuring
Fangoria's 1984 interview with producer John Croydon about Boris
Karloff; new essays by Bruce Eder, Michael Lennick, and Maitland
McDonagh. (The Criterion Collection).
** Night Skies (2006) Jason Connery, A.J. Cook, George Stults.
On March 13, 1997, several thousand people witnessed an unidentified
flying object in Phoenix. On one desolate road, six strangers had a
particularly harrowing experience with what became known as the
"Phoenix Lights." Inspired by real events. (Sony).
** The Puffy Chair (2005) Mark Duplass, Kathryn Aselton, Rhett
Wilkins. Indie comedy about a cross-country mission by a young man who
wants to deliver to his father a perfect birthday gift -- a giant
purple LazyBoy. Extras: Commentary by director Jay Duplass and writer
Mark Duplass, outtakes, deleted scenes, short films, Duplass brothers
skits, interview with the Duplass brothers. (Genius Products).
** Relative Strangers (2006) Danny DeVito, Kathy Bates, Ron
Livingston, Neve Campbell. On a mission to locate his biological
parents, a tightly wound professional finds that the couple who
conceived him aren't exactly upper-class. (First Look Home
Entertainment).
** Robert Mitchum: The Signature Collection. Six-disc set with
"Angel Face," "Macao," "Home From the Hill," "The Sundowners," "The
Good Guys and the Bad Guys" and "The Yazuka"; $59.92; $19.97 each.
(Warner).
-- Angel Face (1952) Dir.: Otto Preminger; Robert
Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Herbert Marshall, Leon Ames. Extras: Commentary
by author and historian Eddie Muller.
-- Macao (1952) Dir.: Josef von Sternberg; Robert
Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix, Gloria Grahame. Extras:
Commentary by author and historian Eddie Muller, screenwriter Stanley
Rubin and actress Jane Russell; TCM Private Screenings with Robert
Mitchum and Jane Russell, hosted by Robert Osborne.
-- Home From the Hill (1960) Dir.: Vincente Minnelli; Robert Mitchum, George Peppard, George Hamilton, Eleanor Parker.
-- The Sundowners (1960) Dir.: Fred Zinnemann; Robert
Mitchum, Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov, Glynis Johns, Dina Merrill,
Michael Anderson Jr. Extras: Vintage featurette "On Location With The
Sundowners."
-- The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969) Robert Mitchum,
George Kennedy, David Carradine, Tina Louise, Martin Balsum. Extras:
Vintage featurette: "The Good Guy From Chama."
-- The Yakuza (1975) Dir.: Sydney Pollack; Robert
Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith Extras: Commentary by Pollack,
vintage featurette "Promises to Keep."
** Saw III (2006) Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Angus Macfadyen,
Bahar Soomekh, Dina Meyer, Donnie Wahlberg. In rated and unrated
versions. Extras: Commentary by director Darren Lynn Bousman and writer
Leigh Whannell, commentary by editor Kevin Greutert and Bousman,
commentary by the producers, deleted scenes. (Lionsgate).
** Sherrybaby (2006) Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ryan Simpkins, Brad
William Henke, Bridget Barkan, Sam Bottoms, Kate Burton, Danny Trejo,
Giancarlo Esposito. (IFC/Universal).
** This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006) Dir.: Kirby Dick;
interviews with John Waters, Kevin Smith, Matt Stone, Darren Aronofsky,
Kimberly Peirce, Allison Anders, David Ansen, Atom Egoyan, Steven
Farber, more. Investigation into the MPAA film ratings system and its
profound impact on American culture. Extras: Deleted scenes, Q&A
with Kirby Dick, filmmaker's commentary. (Genius Products).
** Troubled Waters (2006) Jennifer Beals, Shauna Black, Stewart
Arnott, Olivia Ballantyne. Thriller with twists and turns about an FBI
investigation into a kidnapping. (Genius Products).
** Twist Around the Clock/Don't Knock the Twist Double Feature.
"Twist Around the Clock" (1961) starring Chubby Checker, Dion DiMucci,
Vicki Spencer; "Don't Knock the Twist" (1962) starring Chubby Checker,
Gene Chandler, Vic Dana, Linda Scott; $19.94. (Sony).
** The 2006 FIFA World Cup Film: The Grand Finale (2006)
Official FIFA sanctioned documentary provides an overview of all the
tournament's action and drama. Also includes behind-the-scenes,
off-the-field footage of the teams and fans, and exclusive interviews
with key World Cup players; $24.96. (Sony).
** Walker, Texas Ranger: The Complete Second Season (1994-95) Seven-disc set with 23 episodes, $54.99. (Paramount).
** The Waltons: The Complete Fourth Season. Five-disc set with 25 episodes, $39.98. (Warner).
** The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss: The Cat's Family and Friends. Three episodes from the Nickelodeon TV series, $9.95. (Sony).
** Yojimbo/Sanjuro: Two Films by Akira Kurosawa. Available as a two-disc set ($69.95) and individually ($39.95 each). (The Criterion Collection).
-- Yojimbo (1961) Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai.
All-new, restored high-definition digital transfer. Optional Dolby
Digital 3.0 soundtrack preserving the original Perspecta Stereophonic
simulated-stereo effects. Extras: Commentary by noted film historian
Stephen Prince ("The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa");
45-minute documentary on the making of "Yojimbo," created as part of
the Toho Masterworks series "Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to
Create," featuring director Akira Kurosawa, actor Tatsuya Nakadai,
production designer Yoshiro Muraki, and longtime Kurosawa collaborator
Teruyo Nogami; notes and statements by Kurosawa, actor Tatsuya Nakadai,
cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa, and longtime Kurosawa associate Teruyo
Nogami, and an essay by film scholar Alexander Sesonske.
-- Sanjuro (1962) Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai.
All-new, restored high-definition digital transfer. Optional Dolby
Digital 3.0 soundtrack preserving the original Perspecta Stereophonic
simulated-stereo effects. Extras: Commentary by Stephen Prince, noted
film historian and author of "The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira
Kurosawa"; 35-minute documentary on the making of "Sanjuro," created as
part of the Toho Masterworks series "Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to
Create," featuring Kurosawa, actor Tatsuya Nakadai, production designer
Yoshiro Muraki, and longtime Kurosawa collaborator Teruyo Nogami; notes
and statements by Kurosawa, art director Yoshiro Muraki, actor Keiju
Kobayashi, and longtime Kurosawa collaborator Teruyo Nogami, and an
essay by film critic Michael Sragow.
For more DVD info, check out our DVD calendar pages at
<http://www.onvideo.org/calendar/cal_dvd.htm>
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