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Amazon.com Editor,
Doug
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Word for Word
Ben Rumson: "Now, don't tell me you've never been with a
woman."
Horton Fenty: "No, sir, I haven't."
Rumson: "Well, that, that's terrible! Did you know
you could go blind?"
--Frontier wisdom from Ben Rumson (Lee Marvin) in
Paint Your
Wagon, now on DVD for first time
New Releases This
Week
July
24, 2001
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Pollock--Director and star Ed Harris
took a decade to bring the life of painter Jackson Pollock to the screen. An
Oscar® for costar Marcia Gay Harden was just one of the
rewards.
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Sweet
November--Keanu Reeves is the hard-nosed exec who has his heart
pierced by Charlize Theron's love-'em-and-leave-'em lifestyle.
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Valentine--A group of movie babes and hunks set up a Valentine's Day party to
trap a killer in the Scream-ish horror flick.
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Akira--The landmark anime film comes to DVD with a new translation and a
vastly improved print.
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Bagdad
Cafe--Percy Adlon's art house favorite stars Marianne
Sägebrecht as a woman plunged into an eccentric community at a remote
café.
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Hatari!--John Wayne is at his best in
this sunny adventure of wild-animal trappers in Africa.
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La Cage aux
Folles--The popular 1978 French comedy spawned two sequels, a
Broadway show, and the American remake, The
Birdcage.
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Theremin: An
Electronic Odyssey--A documentary about the eccentric Russian
inventor of the electronic instrument that bears his name (made famous by the
Beach Boys, among others) becomes an unexpected and entertaining
mystery.
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list
Editor's Pick
Ultraviolet
Simply put, it's The X-Files meets
Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This dandy six-hour British miniseries
finds a secret government agency tracking down vampires with all the slick
coolness of Mulder and Scully. The conspiracy is a whole lot easier to follow
than The X-Files, although the thick accents take a wee bit of
patience. Familiar vampire lore is cleverly updated, but it's the plausibility
of the series that makes it so satisfying. By the second episode, you should be
hooked.
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More Hot New
Releases
Popular Titles in Recent
Weeks
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The Family
Man--Nicolas Cage shines in this agreeable comedy about a Wall
Street "Master of the Universe" who is allowed to see what his life would have
been like if he had taken a more domestic route.
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The
Gift--Cate Blanchett stars as a mystic who holds the key to a
murder in director Sam Raimi's bayou thriller.
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Notting
Hill (Ultimate Edition)--A new double-DVD collection piles on
the extras for the Julia Roberts-Hugh Grant romantic comedy.
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The Caveman's
Valentine--The latest film from Kasi Lemmons (Eve's
Bayou) stars Samuel L. Jackson as a homeless man who tackles a murder
case.
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A Life Apart:
Hasidism in America--This PBS documentary looks at how the
strict Hasidic Jewish sect came to America and thrived.
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Saving
Silverman--Jason Biggs (American Pie) tosses
around the universal question: Is love worth losing your friends and burning
your Neil Diamond records?
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Snatch--Brad Pitt teams up with the
director of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels for another
cockney-gangster flick.
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Die Hard: The
Ultimate Collection--One of the most consistent thrill machines
comes to DVD with loads of goodies attached. Yippee-ki-yay!
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Book Beat
If Chins Could Kill : Confessions of a B Movie Actor
by Bruce Campbell
Though it offers few revelations about the details
of actor Bruce Campbell's personal life, this entertaining and witty Hollywood
memoir combines his life story with how-to guidance on making independent films
and becoming a cult hero. Campbell began working in show business as a teenager
and in high school became friends with future director Sam Raimi, with whom he
eventually coproduced the 1982 cult horror hit Evil Dead, in
which Campbell starred. Despite his wry...
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