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Noteworthy DVDs released 2/23/10
Other top picks
‘The Damned United’ (Sony). The playwright behind ‘The Queen’ and ‘Frost/Nixon’ finally tackles a really history-worthy topic: British football.
‘Make Way for Tomorrow’ (Criterion). An elderly couple look for a new place to live in this underexposed film by comic genius Leo McCarey (‘The Awful Truth,’ ‘Duck Soup’).
‘Eclipse Series 20: George Bernard Shaw on Film’ (Criterion). All the movies producer Gabriel Pascal made with the famed playwright, minus ‘Pygmalion,’ which is already out on disc.
‘Alexander the Last’ (IFC). The latest from one of those filmmakers who hates being called ‘mumblecore,’ Joe Swanberg.
New on Blu-ray
‘The Box’ (Warner Bros.); ‘The Crazies’ (Blue Underground); ‘Poultrygeist: Attack of the Chicken Zombies!’ (Troma)
Fresh from the multiplex
‘The Box’ (Warner Bros.); ‘Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant’ (Universal); ‘Everybody’s Fine’ (Walt Disney/Miramax); ‘Motherhood’ (E1 Entertainment)
Arthouse/foreign
‘$9.99’ (E1 Entertainment); ‘Dead Snow,’ ‘Flame & Citron’ (IFC); ‘For Fun,’ ‘Palermo or Wolfsburg,’ ‘Salto,’ ‘Segment ‘76’ (Facets); ‘Shall We Kiss?’ (Music Box)
From the vaults
‘Blank Generation’ (MVD); ‘British Film Noir: Twilight Women/The Slasher,’ ‘Forgotten Noir Vol. 13: Breakdown/Eye Witness,’ ‘No Orchids for Miss Blandish’ (VCI)
Documentaries
‘The Cool School,’ ‘The End of the Line,’ ‘Jack Smith & the Destruction of Atlantis’ (Docurama); ‘Crude’ (First Run Pictures); ‘Examined Life’ (Zeitgeist); ‘The September Issue’ (Lionsgate)
Best of TV
‘Adam-12’ Season 4 (Shout! Factory); ‘Dirty Jobs: Something Fishy’ (Docurama); ‘Flashforward’ Volume 1 (Walt Disney); ‘G.B.H.,’ ‘Midsomer Murders’ Set 14, ‘Wartime Britain’ (Acorn Media); ‘Man vs. Wild with Bear Grylls’ (Image); ‘My Three Sons’ Season 2, Vol. 1 (Paramount); ‘Night Court’ Season 3 (Warner Bros.); ‘Nurse Jackie’ Season 1 (Lionsgate); ‘Project Runway’ Season 6 (Weinstein Co.); ‘Stargate Universe’ (MGM)
Reissue/repackage
‘The Films of Amos Gitai’ (Kino); ‘Howard’s End’ (Criterion); ‘Triad Underworld’ (Palisades Tartan)
Straight(ish) to video
Val Kilmer in ‘Double Identity’ (First Look); ‘Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths’ (Warner Bros.); Eliza Dushku in ‘Open Graves’ (Lionsgate); Melissa Leo in ‘Stephanie’s Image’ (Vanguard); Lukas Haas in ‘Swedish Auto’ (IFC)
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