New DVD Releases - September 2, 2008
The new releases include Married Life, Then She Found Me and Transformers. In addition to taking a look at these movies on DVD and Blu-ray disc, along , we'll take a sneak peek at next week's movies on video/DVD.
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'Married Life'
This offbeat combination of period melodrama, film noir and dark comedy features
a fine cast that includes Chris Cooper, Pierce Brosnan, Patricia Clarkson and
Rachel McAdams. Read more
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'Then She Found Me'
Helen Hunt stars in this seriocomedy, in which she also makes her directorial
debut. Hunt plays April Epner, a 39-year-old New York City kindergarten teacher
who must deal with major changes in her life. Read more
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Movies can show fierce battles, high-speed chases, and horrific explosions that most of us will never experience in real life, and I think such sequences properly used make films far more emotionally engaging. Here I've selected movies containing action that is well-integrated into the story. This is my personal, idiosyncratic list of favorites, and it doesn’t necessarily reflect the popular wisdom on action movies. For the sake of focus, I've limited my choices to English-language talkies.
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1) 'Lawrence of Arabia' (1962)
David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia chronicles the adventures of eccentric Englishman T.E. Lawrence, who rallied the Arabs to fight the Turks during World War I. What I love about this movie is that it's one of the most cinematic films I've ever seen, while at the same time it creates a nuanced character study of the enigmatic, complex Lawrence. I'll never forget Peter O'Toole's intense performance in the title role—he is the very embodiment of obsession.
2) 'Apocalypse Now' (1979)
Loosely based on Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness, Francis Ford Coppola's dizzyingly cinematic Apocalypse Now brings the horror, chaos, and madness of war to vivid life. During the Vietnam War, Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) travels into the Cambodian jungle with orders to kill Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a man claimed by U.S. military commanders to be insane. In 2001, Coppola released a 49-minute-longer director's cut of the movie under the title Apocalypse Now Redux.
3) 'Paths of Glory' (1957)
I think Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece Paths of Glory is a powerful antiwar film that has heartbreaking battle scenes. During World War I, French generals assign a regiment the task of taking an impenetrable German position. The mission fails, and three enlisted men must face court-martial. I find the performance by Kirk Douglas as a French officer compelling. Also, I can never forget the mood created by the melancholy song sung by Kubrick's wife as the movie winds down.
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