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New DVD releases
The best of the new DVD releases
Pick of the week:
‘Magnolia’ (New Line). Love its deus-ex-machina flourishes or loathe them, Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic does right by the interlocking-narratives format in a way later movies like “Crash” only wish they could.
Other top picks:
‘Che’ (Criterion). In more than four hours, Steven Soderbergh’s epic film about Che Guevara doesn’t even pretend to cover the icon’s whole life, much less to address all the controversies around him, but what it does do, it does eloquently.
‘The Invention of Lying’ (Warner Bros.). Ricky Gervais invents God, and people adore him for it. Too bad he doesn’t believe it himself.
Fresh from the multiplex. “Gamer” (Lionsgate); “Pandorum” (Anchor Bay); “Whiteout” (Warner Bros.)
Arthouse/foreign. “Eclipse Series 19: Chantal Akerman in the Seventies” (Criterion); “My Fuhrer,” “Red Cartoons: Animated Films from East Germany” (First Run Pictures) From the vaults. “Streamers” (Shout! Factory)
Documentaries. “No Impact Man” (Oscilloscope); “Outrage” (Magnolia); “Whisper & SHOUT!” (First Run Pictures)
Best of TV. “Ali Rap,” “Ali’s 65,” “Ali’s Dozen” (Virgil Films); “Aziz Ansari: Intimate Moments for a Sensual Evening,” “The Game” Season 2, “Girlfriends” Final Season (Paramount); “Dallas” Season 12 (Warner Bros.); “Damages” Season 2 (Sony); “Defying Gravity” Season 1 (Walt Disney); “Dorf - The Superfan Collection,” “Hunter” Season 1 (Mill Creek); “Fraggle Rock: The Complete Animated Series,” “Weeds” Season 5 (Lionsgate); “Ironside” Season 3, “Thirtysomething” Season 2 (Shout! Factory); “Law & Order” Season 7 (Universal); “Return To Cranford,” “Waking the Dead” Season 4 (BBC)
Cult corner. “Martial Arts Essentials Vol. 6: Drunken Masters” (First Look)
Straight(ish) to video. Hilary Duff in “According to Greta” (Anchor Bay); the late Brittany Murphy in “Across the Hall” (Image); Joel Schumacher’s “Blood Creek” (Lions Gate); Trekkers Walter Koenig and Marina Sirtis in “Inalienable” (Anchor Bay) and William Shatner in “Kingdom Of The Spiders” (Shout! Factory); Steven Seagal in “The Keeper” (Fox); “Smokin’ Aces 2: Assassins’ Ball” (Universal)
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