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The DVD Dossier is the free newsletter published weekly by DVD Direct 4 Less.
This is the archived issue for July 10, 2005.
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In This Issue
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July 10, 2005
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One of the biggest titles on the Summer release calendar hits DVD this week. It's "Million Dollar Baby," this year's Best Picture Oscar® winner.
The movie stars Hilary Swank as a boxer determined not to abandon her one dream, Clint Eastwood (who also directed) as her crusty trainer and Morgan Freeman as the gym caretaker. All three won Academy Awards®, with Swank and Freeman picking up Oscars® for their acting, while Eastwood was honored as "Best Director."
This multi-award-winning tale of heart, hope and family is available five ways:
There's a 3-Disc Collector's Edition that includes a widescreen version of the film, a bunch of extras and behind-the-scenes featurettes and a CD of the film's soundtrack; there's also a 2-Disc version with the same special features, but without the soundtrack - available in both widescreen and full screen editions.
Also available is a widescreen 2-Pack and a full screen 2-Pack, each containing the 2-Disc version of "Million Dollar Baby" along with Eastwood's 1992 Academy Award® winner, "Unforgiven."
The director and star of "Amelie," Audrey Tautou, and Academy Award® nominated director Jean-Pierre Jeunet reunite in the critically acclaimed love story, "A Very Long Engagement." A story of profound love and mystery set in WWI, the film is presented in widescreen in a 2-Disc edition packed with special features, including deleted scenes.
Five seemingly unrelated adults take huge risks with their lives as they search for happiness in "Mind the Gap," a quite ambitious - but overly long - effort from writer/director Eric Schaeffer.
And Shannon Elizabeth frets about the Big Day in an appealing (and utterly forgettable) little TV movie called "Confessions of an American Bride."
"Dracula III: Legacy," the final frightful sequel in Wes Craven’s Dracula trilogy comes to DVD this week. The film adds Rutger Hauer to its returning cast of Jason Scott Lee, Jason London and Roy Scheider.
Dracula leads vampire hunters Father Uffizi (Lee) and Luke (London) back to Eastern Europe and a country plagued by civil war. There they discover powerful local warlords are assisting Dracula by capturing victims and delivering them to feed the vampires residing in Dracula’s castle.
To make matters worse, Father Uffizi must face his own temptations as he struggles to overcome the vampire virus within himself. With better acting than you'd expect in a film of this genre, a riveting story and great special effects, this thriller will satisfy anyone with a taste for terrifying entertainment.
Your favorite grime bandits come to life with all the farts, snot and vomit they can muster in "The Garbage Pail Kids Movie," a cult classic based on the wildly popular and irreverent trading cards.
Johnny Depp is back in a Director's Cut of "Cry Baby," the 1990 comedy from John Waters about a good girl who can't decide if she should stay that way.
French director Jacques Rivette brings us an offbeat look at love and relationships in "The Story of Marie and Julien."
And our favorite film this week is "Boys and Girl From County Clare," which takes us back to 1970. The "English Invasion" has conquered the world and changed the face of popular music... except, apparently, in Ireland, where traditional Irish music still reigns supreme.
But could the unthinkable happen? Could an upstart band from Liverpool win the All Irish Championship for the first time in history? Hey, when enemies fall in love and feuding brothers face off, anything can happen - and does - in this charming film.
TV delivers Season Two of "Wire in the Blood" and Season Three of "Sealab 2021."
Also out are a trio of Disney discs, including "Vintage Mickey," a feature-length compilation of the Mouse's best black and white appearances in Disney films and shorts.
In "The Best of the Mickey Mouse Club," you'll find the original Mouseketeers and a new collection of episodes from the show, one of the highest rated children’s shows in history. It's all here: the mouse-ear hats, the music, the skits, and more.
A visionary show that sparked a renaissance in children’s programming, the "Mickey Mouse Club" featured musical performances, cartoons and even an introduction to “The Hardy Boys” episodes by Annette Funicello.
These nostalgia-soaked classics are everything you remember... and now you can rediscover “Fun With Music Day,” “Guest Star Day,” “Anything Can Happen Day,” “Circus Day” and “Talent Roundup Day” in this one value-priced DVD.
"The New Mickey Mouse Club: The Best of Britney, Justin and Christina" compiles episodes from the latter day Disney Channel incarnation of the show. Collected here are the most entertaining episodes from the shows that featured the childhood performances of Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera.
And that wraps up another week of new DVD releases for you, my friend. But we'll be back next Sunday to do it all again; we'll see you then.
Regards,
DVD Direct 4 Less
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| This Week's New DVD Releases - Street Date: July 12, 2005 |
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Visit us online to see a comprehensive list of new DVD releases for the next six weeks.
Links above are for Region 1 (USA) Editions. Availability and release dates elsewhere may vary.
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In the popular "Thin Man" film series, the irresistible William Powell and Myrna Loy are husband and wife sleuths - Nick and Nora Charles - who solve murders with the aid of their wire-haired terrier, Asta.
Set in the glamorous world of 1930's upper-class Manhattan, "The Thin Man" - and its sequels - established the standard for witty comedy, clever dialogue and urbane one upmanship.
"The Complete Thin Man Collection" comes to DVD for the first time ever on August 2nd.
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This new 7-Disc set includes "The Thin Man," "After the Thin Man," "Another Thin Man," "Shadow of the Thin Man," "Song of the Thin Man," "The Thin Man Goes Home" and a bonus documentary disc, "Alias Nick and Nora."
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Get ready to spend some quality "slime-time" with "Ghostbusters" and "Ghostbusters 2," together for the first time in a new DVD gift set, available on August 2nd.
Both of these spooktacularly successful films captured the imagination of audiences around the world - and redefined the action-comedy genre in the process.
When parapsychologist Dr. Peter Venkman (Bill Murrary) and a trio of his university colleagues (Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson) lose their research grant, they decide to open their own business, as spirit exterminators.
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There are few customers at first, but when they advertise on television ("Who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters!"), they're soon catching ghosts for fun and profit.
They are summoned by a beautiful cellist, Dana Barrett (Sigourney Weaver), to investigate the strange happenings in her Central Park West apartment and discover that all of Manhattan is being besieged by other worldly demons.
In "Ghostbusters 2," the boys return to save New York from an underground river of ghoulish goo that threatens to rot the Big Apple to its core.
The original "Ghostbusters" hit theatres in 1984 and became one of the most successful comedies of all time. In addition to its 1989 sequel, it also spawned a Saturday morning animated series, two episodes of which are included in this new DVD boxed set.
The gift set includes both films, each presented in widescreen. Extras include deleted scenes, director's commentary, behind-the-scenes featurettes and a deluxe "Collector's Scrapbook" loaded with production notes, character sketches, insider info and more.
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"The Brown Bunny," available on DVD August 16th, is both a love story and a haunting portrait of a lost soul unable to forget his past.
After finishing a motorcycle race in New Hampshire, Bud Clay (Vincent Gallo, who also wrote the screenplay and directed) loads his racing bike into the back of his van and begins a cross-country odyssey to Los Angeles, where he is to compete in another race.
During his trip, he meets three very different women: Violet (Anna Vareschi), a wholesome all-American gas station attendant; Lilly (Cheryl Tiegs, in her feature-film debut as a fellow lost soul Bud connects with at a highway rest stop); and Rose (Elizabeth Blake), a Las Vegas prostitute.
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Throughout his journey, Bud can never escape his intense feelings for the love of his life, Daisy (Chloë Sevigny), so he plans to reconcile with her when he reaches Los Angeles.
Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, "The Brown Bunny" is made up mostly of dull and self-indulgent scenes with little or no dialogue, but ends with a very powerful release of pent-up emotion that may or not be worth the ride (depending on your personal tolerance for the aimless wandering that precedes it).
For the record, you should know that this unrated film contains one of the frankest portrayals of male sexuality ever seen in American cinema. It is this graphic scene (at the end of the film) that earned a heck of a lot of publicity for "The Brown Bunny" and it is this scene - rightly or wrongly - which overshadows everything else that comes before it.
Pre-order "The Brown Bunny" now and save 30%.
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| Preview of Next Week's Releases - Street Date: July 19, 2005 |
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