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DVD New Releases
Amazon Editor,
Doug
Thomas
Word for Word
"I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I
can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal."
--HAL 9000 (voiced by Douglas Rain) tries to
reassure astronaut Dave Bowman in Stanley Kubrick's touchstone epic
2001: A Space Odyssey. A new anamorphic widescreen version is
available three ways: as a
single DVD, as a
deluxe Limited Edition
Collector's Set, and included in
The New Stanley
Kubrick Collection.
New Releases This
Week
June
12, 2001
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Cast
Away--Tom Hanks teams with his Forrest Gump
director in this epic tale of a man marooned. The double DVD set delves into
the making of this remarkable film.
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The New Stanley
Kubrick Collection--The popular boxed set now includes eight
Kubrick films, many newly remastered, plus a new documentary, Stanley
Kubrick: A Life in Pictures.
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Diva--Dandy French thriller and cult
fave by Jean-Jacques Beineix combines opera and motorcycle chases.
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Mephisto--Oscar®-winning
Hungarian biography stars a mesmerizing Klaus Maria Brandauer as an actor who
sells his soul after the Nazis invade.
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Farscape
4--The Sci Fi Channel series continues on DVD.
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Poirot: The Movie
Collection--Five whodunits featuring Agatha Christie's
supersleuth (played by David Suchet) provide top-drawer
entertainment.
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O Brother, Where
Art Thou?--The Coen brothers update Homer in this wildly
imaginative depression-era comedy starring a sporty George
Clooney.
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list
Editor's Pick
The Dream Is Alive (IMAX)
The best of the initial series of "made in space"
IMAX films, The Dream Is Alive is a wonderful introduction to
space travel for young and old alike. The U.S. space shuttle program was only
four years old when this 35-minute documentary was released in 1985, and the
film emphasizes the differences between the shuttle and conventional rockets.
The film was released a year before the Challenger disaster and played
in rotation after the accident as an emotional plea to return to the heavens.
On that note, the film delivers...
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Book Beat
Which Lie Did I Tell? : More Adventures in the Screen Trade (Vintage)
by William Goldman
Something odd, if predictable, became of
screenwriter William Goldman after he wrote the touchstone tell-all book on
filmmaking, Adventures in the Screen Trade (1983): he became a
Hollywood leper. Goldman opens his long-awaited sequel by writing about his
years of exile before he found himself--again--as a valuable writer in
Hollywood. Fans of the two-time Oscar-winning writer (Butch Cassidy and
the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men) have
anxiously waited this follow-up since his career serpentined into a variety of
big hits and critical...
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