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Apr 10
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David Lean focused all his talent as an epic-maker on Boris Pasternak’s sweeping novel about a doctor-poet in revolutionary Russia. The results may sometimes veer toward soap opera, especially with the screen frequently filled with adoring close-ups of Omar Sharif and Julie Christie, but Lean’s gift for cramming the screen with spectacle is not to be denied. The streets of Moscow, the snowy steppes of Russia, the house in the country taken over by ice; these are re-created with Lean’s unerring sense of grandness. The movie is so lush and so long that it becomes an irresistible wallow, even when logic suffers–like Gone with the Wind before it and Titanic after. Sharif, who achieved stardom in Lean’s previous (more…)
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Apr 10
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Apr 10
![Neil Diamond: Hot August Night/NYC - Live from Madison Square Garden [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41HCrfVt6cL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
Recorded live at New York’s Madison Square Garden in August, 2008, the DVD and Blu-Ray include the entire show from beginning to end and feature 25 career-spanning hits from Neil’s phenomenal four-night sold-out run at the fabled concert hall. Also includes the exclusive bonus feature “Welcome Home Neil,” a behind-the-scenes look at Diamond’s pilgrimage to his childhood home in Brooklyn. Blu-ray features full 1080p High Definition Picture, LPCM 2.0 Stereo, and Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Surround Sound (48kHz/24 bit) Track listing: 1.Holly Holy 2.Street Life 3.Beautiful Noise 4.Love On The Rocks 5.Play Me 6.Cherry, Cherry 7.Thank The Lord For The Night Time 8.Home Before Dark 9.Don’t Go There 10.Pretty Amazing Grace 11.Crunch (more…)
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Apr 10
![The Hurt Locker [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XT9SJVA0L._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
The making of honest action movies has become so rare that Kathryn Bigelow’s magnificent The Hurt Locker was shown mostly in art cinemas rather than multiplexes. That’s fine; the picture is a work of art. But it also delivers more kinetic excitement, more breath-bating suspense, more putting-you-right-there in the danger zone than all the brain-dead, visually incoherent wrecking derbies hogging mall screens. Partly it’s a matter of subject. The movie focuses on an Explosive Ordnance Disposal team, the guys whose more or less daily job is to disarm the homemade bombs that have accounted for most U.S. casualties in Iraq. But even more, the film’s extraordinary tension derives from the precision and intelligence of Bigelow’s d (more…)
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Apr 10
![Lost: The Complete Collection [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51kGSlPVMpL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
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Apr 10
![Dune [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51hxL33ZUCL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
Even more than most of David Lynch’s deliberately bizarre and idiosyncratic movies, Dune is a “love-it-or-hate-it” affair. An ambitious, epic, utterly mind-boggling–and, let’s admit it, all-out weird–adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic science fiction novel, Dune remains one of the most controversial films in the director’s exceedingly provocative career. The story (if Dune can be said to have just one story) is complex and convoluted in the epic tradition; it has something to do with political intrigue and a planet that is home to a precious spice and gigantic sand worms. Think Shakespeare’s Henry IV with a dash of Tremors, and set in another galaxy. But despite plenty of strangely whispered voice-overs that explain th (more…)
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Apr 10
![Unforgiven [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51wgkfJoNxL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
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Winner of four Academy Awards, including best picture, director, supporting actor, and best editing, Clint Eastwood’s 1992 masterpiece stands as one of the greatest and most thematically compelling Westerns ever made. “The movie summarized everything I feel about the Western,” said Eastwood at the time of the film’s release. “The moral is the concern with gunplay.” To illustrate that theme, Eastwood stars as a retired, once-ruthless killer-turned-gentle-widower and hog farmer. He accepts one last bounty-hunter mission–to find the men who brutalized a prostitute–to help support his two motherless children. Joined by his former partner (Morgan Freeman) and a cocky greenhorn (Jaimz Woolvett), he takes on a c (more…)
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Apr 10
![Ocean's Eleven [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51qgUPSEUiL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
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Ocean’s Eleven improves on 1960’s Rat Pack original with supernova casting, a slickly updated plot, and Steven Soderbergh’s graceful touch behind the camera. Soderbergh reportedly relished the opportunity “to make a movie that has no desire except to give pleasure from beginning to end,” and he succeeds on those terms, blessed by the casting of George Clooney as Danny Ocean, the title role originated by Frank Sinatra. Fresh out of jail, Ocean masterminds a plot to steal $163 million from the seemingly impervious vault of Las Vegas’s Bellagio casino, not just for the money but to win his ex-wife (Julia Roberts) back from the casino’s ruthless owner (Andy Garcia). Soderbergh doesn’t scrimp on the caper’s comic (more…)
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Apr 10
![Grumpy Old Men/Grumpier Old Men (Comedy Double Feature) [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51q7y0xtb%2BL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
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Apr 10
![Where the Wild Things Are [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61sq679LCeL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
Through his handcrafted ode to the trials of childhood, Spike Jonze puts his own unique imprint on Maurice Sendak’s enduring classic. In the prologue, 9-year-old Max (Max Records) stomps around the house, feeling neglected. When his mom (Catherine Keener) sends him to bed without supper, Max runs away (something he doesn’t do in the book). He finds a boat and sails to a distant land where fuzzy monsters are raising a rumpus in the forest. Since his wolf suit allows him to fit right in, he joins the fray, catching the eye of Carol (James Gandolfini, excellent), who notes, approvingly, “I like the way you destroy stuff. There’s a spark to your work that can’t be taught.” With that, they pronounce the diminutive creature king, (more…)