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LONE WOLF'S REVIEWS IN ASSOCIATION WITH AMAZON.COM DELIVERS
DVD New Releases
Amazon.com Editor,
Doug Thomas
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Pride and Prejudice (BBC TV Miniseries) - The Special Edition
"In vain have I struggled, it will not do. You must
allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love
you."
--The romantic Mr. Darcy (Colin Firth) in BBC's
lauded version of
Pride and
Prejudice. The five-hour miniseries comes to DVD
in a special edition featuring a newly remastered widescreen
anamorphic print.
New on DVD This
Week
October 2, 2001
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The Mummy
Returns--Brendan Fraser joins forces with the
Rock and takes on his undead rival in this action-filled
sequel.
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Heartbreakers--Four top
performances propel this comedy of a devilish
mother-and-daughter con team.
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Fiddler on the
Roof (Special Edition)--The extras abound in this
new edition of the classic musical, including a deleted song and
lots of historical notes.
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The
Terminator (Special Edition)--Interviews--old and
new--deleted scenes, and a new 5.1 stereo mix prove that Arnold
has come back.
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Colors--Steeped in
controversy when it premiered, Dennis Hopper's film about L.A.
cops and gangs is still an absorbing and powerful film,
featuring ace turns from Robert Duvall and Sean
Penn.
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The
Greatest--Muhammad Ali plays Muhammad Ali in this
1977 biopic. It comes to DVD just before Will Smith appears in
this fall's Ali.
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Prancer--One of the
better recent Christmas films comes to DVD in plenty of time for
the kids to catch multiple viewings before the
holidays.
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See complete
list
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Editor's
Pick
Citizen Kane (Special Edition)
On nearly everyone's short list for the best film
ever made, Orson Welles's 1941 masterpiece premieres on DVD in
high style. This two-disc set features a sparkling transfer, two
ace commentaries (including one from Roger Ebert), and a
plethora of interviews and galleries. Included is the
full-length (and Oscar®-nominated) documentary The
Battle over Citizen Kane. A wonderful partner to the
movie, it traces William Randolph Hearst's fight to destroy the
picture once he found out that the exploits of Charles Foster
Kane recalled his own life. The battle between Hearst and
Welles--two of the greatest egos of their time--is an amazing
story in its own right.
More Hot New
Releases
Popular Titles in Recent
Weeks
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The Simpsons: The
Complete First Season--Bart, Marge, Homer, and
Lisa come to the digital age in this sweet boxed
set.
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A Knight's
Tale--Rock music and knights in armor make for a
surprisingly agreeable, breezy action flick.
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The French
Connection--The 1971 Oscar winner looks great in
its DVD debut, loaded with a second disc tackling the facts of
the case and the decade-long struggle to make the
film.
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The Fifth
Element (Superbit Collection)--Here's a thrilling
way to sample Columbia's new DVD line that utilizes a special
high-bit-rate digital encoding process that optimizes video
quality. See the
entire
collection.
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Along Came a
Spider--Morgan Freeman returns to the screen as
detective Alex Cross in this prequel to Kiss the
Girls.
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Heathers--The raucous
dark comedy returns to DVD with a bevy of extras.
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Amores
Perros--This extremely gritty--and great--Mexican
drama serves as the answer to the question "Which film would
have won the Foreign Language Oscar if Crouching Tiger,
Hidden Dragon had never been made?"
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New York
(Seven-Episode PBS Boxed Set)--Ric Burns's essential look
at NYC makes a timely return to PBS and DVD with two new
episodes.
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Spy
Kids--Filmmaker Robert Rodriguez mixes great
gadgets and plenty of thrills in this top entertainment for kids
of all ages.
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titles
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Wherefore Art Thou, Oh
DVD?
All movie fans want their favorite film on
DVD. Problem is, there are only a few thousand titles out now. But don't fret,
Amazon.com has come to the rescue. We've added hundreds of currently
unavailable titles to our DVD catalog. When you go to the product information
pages for these DVDs, you can sign up for free notification service, and
voilà!--an e-mail will be sent to you when the DVD is available for
purchase. Now, we don't have every title out there, but you'll find great films
like the original
Star Wars,
The Lion
King, and
The Treasure of the
Sierra Madre in the catalog. Plus you can sign up for any new
theatrical film by going to our
In Theaters section.
Also, we update a list of the
50 most requested titles
so you can see what everyone else is dreaming about.
See our top 50 most requested
DVDs
Featured Bargain of the
Week
Barbarians at the Gate
James Garner stars in one of the best made-for-TV
films ever produced. During the cutthroat days of 1980s big
business, two corporate kings both tried to take over RJR
Nabisco. Writer Larry Gilbert (Tootsie) adapts
the bestselling nonfiction book of the same name and explains
the delicate business dealings with great clarity. Whereas
Wall Street and other films of the time play it
close to the chest, Barbarians at the Gate is a
wicked comedy--and probably a truer version of corporate
America. The 1993 movie took away top honors at the Emmys and
Golden Globes and now premieres on DVD for under $15.
Hot Future
Releases
October 9
October 16
October 23
DVD News Flash: DVD Players On Special
Still Digital After All These
Years
OK, so it
hasn't been so many years. But if you were one of the prescient
few who ran out and bought the first DVD player you could get
your hands on back in 1997, you might just want to take a peek
and see how much the format has evolved since its introduction.
Many of the latest-generation
DVD players,
besides costing a fraction of what they used to, offer features
like MP3-CD compatibility, DVD-Audio capability (for
high-resolution stereo and surround sound music), and
progressive-scan video outputs for filmlike (scan-line-free)
images on a
high-definition TV
set.
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Home Entertainment
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