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Noteworthy DVDs released 3/31/09
PICK OF THE WEEK
‘Slumdog Millionaire’ (Fox). It wasn’t the best movie of the year, no matter what the Academy says, but Danny Boyle’s often delightful, oddly old-fashioned romance has charm to burn.
OTHER TOP PICKS
‘Fallen Angels’ & ‘Happy Together’ (Kino). Two of the more accessible outings by style-obsessed Wong Kar-Wai, just out in editions with worthwhile bonus features.
‘Pride and Prejudice’ (1995) (A&E). Colin Firth as Mister Darcy, finally able to agitate Jane Austen fans on Blu-ray.
‘Tell No One’ (MPI). It drops the ball just a tiny bit at the end, when a character stands around and explains secrets that should unveil themselves more cinematically, but this French thriller about a widower who believes his wife isn’t dead gets the job done.
‘Timecrimes’ (Magnolia). The Fantastic Fest fave from Spain, in which a man hops back in time an hour, largely so the filmmakers can include many shots of the same naked woman.
NEW ON BLU-RAY
‘John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars,’ ‘The One’ (Sony); ‘National Geographic: Kingdom of the Blue Whale’ (Warner Bros.); ‘The Robe,’ ‘South Pacific’ (Fox); ‘Two Evil Eyes’ (Blue Underground)
FRESH FROM THE MULTIPLEX
‘Marley and Me’ (Fox); ‘Seven Pounds’ (Sony)
ARTHOUSE/FOREIGN
‘Danton,’ ‘Il Generale Della Rovere’ (Criterion); ‘Same Old Song’ (New Yorker); ‘Tehilim’ (Kino)
BEST OF TV
‘Dennis Miller: The HBO Comedy Specials’ (Kultur); ‘The IT Crowd’ Season 1 (MPI); ‘Ricky Gervais: Out of England’ (HBO)
KIDS’ STUFF
‘Baby Einstein: Baby World Music,’ ‘Hannah Montana: Keeping It Real,’ ‘Schoolhouse Rock: Earth’ (Walt Disney); ‘Goosebumps’: ‘Return of the Mummy’ and ‘The Scarecrow Walks At Midnight’ (Fox); ‘Thomas & Friends: High Speed Adventures’ (Lions Gate)
CULT CORNER
‘The Cremator’ (Dark Sky); ‘Erotic Horror Triple Feature’ (Seduction Cinema); ‘Exposed’ (Synapse)
STRAIGHT(ISH) TO VIDEO
‘The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations’ (Lions Gate)
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