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Noteworthy DVDs released 5/5/09
PICK OF THE WEEK
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount / Criterion): Some moviegoers felt David Fincher’s sweeping fantasy was too long. Here’s hoping more folks are willing to brave the running time in the comfort of home — a big dose of old-fashioned movie romance awaits those who do.
OTHER TOP PICKS
“Big” (Fox): Who needs “17 Again” when (arguably) the world’s best age-bending comedy has just been upgraded for Blu-ray?
“Wendy and Lucy” (Oscilloscope): One of the year’s most celebrated indie films, made by SXSW alum Kelly Reichardt (“Old Joy”) and starring Michelle Williams as a woman suffering some tough breaks on the way to a job in Alaska.
“Enchanted April” (Walt Disney / Miramax): Well-liked period piece about Brits vacationing in Italian splendor benefits from a cast including Miranda Richardson, Joan Plowright and Jim Broadbent.
“A Grin Without a Cat” (First Run / Icarus): Another previously-unavailable work by film essayist Chris Marker, this one a left-wing globe-trot through Vietnam, Bolivia, and Prague, is finally on disc for adventurous cinephiles.
NEW ON BLU-RAY
“There’s Something About Mary” (Fox); “Dexter” Season 2, “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” “Grease,” “Saturday Night Fever” (Paramount); “Dog Soldiers” (First Look); “It Could Happen to You,” “Roxanne” (Sony); “Twilight” (Summit)
FRESH FROM THE MULTIPLEX
“Incendiary” (Image); “Last Chance Harvey” (Anchor Bay); “Smother” (Universal)
ARTHOUSE/FOREIGN
“A Song of Innocence” (“La Ravisseuse”) (Synkronized USA); “Chandni Chowk To China” (Warner Bros.); “Momma’s Man” (Kino); “Under the Bombs” (Film Movement)
DOCUMENTARIES
“Fashion in Film” (Anchor Bay); “Jack Taylor of Beverly Hills” (Indiepix); “Tony Palmer’s Film of O Thou Transcendent: The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams,” “Tony Palmer’s Film of O, Fortuna” (United States of Distribution)
BEST OF TV
“Bleak House” (2005), Doctor Who: “Battlefield” and “E-Space Trilogy” (BBC); “Boston Legal” Season 5 (Fox); “Crusoe,” “Lipstick Jungle” Season 2 (Universal); “Florence Nightingale” (1985), “Ivanhoe” (1982), “Living Proof” (Sony); “Gigantor,” “A Little Princess” (1987) (E1 Entertainment); “That Girl” Season 5 (Shout! Factory); “Yawara!: A Fashionable Judo Girl” (AnimEigo)
REISSUE/REPACKAGE
“How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days” Deluxe Edition (Paramount)
KIDS’ STUFF
“Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey’s Big Splash,” “Imagination Movers: Warehouse Mouse Edition” (Walt Disney); “A Plumm Summer” (Paramount)
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