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The DVD Dossier is the free newsletter published weekly by DVD Direct 4 Less.
This is the archived issue for October 24, 2004.
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In This Issue
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October 24, 2004
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Here's what's hot and happening this week:
"White Chicks" is a family affair featuring the multitalented Wayans brothers. Marlon and Shawn star and Keenen Ivory directed and co-wrote the screenplay for this gender bending comedy about two male cops who go undercover and pose as two white debutantes.
"White Chicks" is available on Tuesday in both an unrated and uncut edition and also a PG-13 theatrical version.
The reverse plot line can be found in Disney's animated feature "Mulan," a Chinese fable in which a young girl disguises herself as a man to help her family and her country. Voice talent in "Mulan" includes Eddie Murphy and Lea Salonga.
And yet another remake gets the widescreen unrated director's cut treatment this week: Zack Snyder's "Dawn of the Dead."
"Dr. Strangelove," Stanley Kubrick's classic cold war black comedy, gets its third DVD release in five years this week.
Billed as the "40th Anniversary SuperBit Special Edition," the 2-Disc set includes a new documentary featuring interviews with Bob Woodward, Robert McNamara, Roger Ebert and Spike Lee, plus a completely separate in-depth interview with former Secretary of Defense McNamara.
"Strangelove" is just one of seven notable SuperBit Editions out this week. The others include "Bad Boys II," "The Missing," "Once Upon A Time In Mexico," "The Guns Of Navarone," "S.W.A.T." and "Underworld."
With "The Da Vinci Code" flying off bookstore shelves, the new companion DVD, "The Da Vinci Code Decoded" will surely have a built-in audience. This is an exclusive DVD presentation and the definitive documentary exploration of Dan Brown’s novel, answering all the questions everyone is asking!
Bill Hicks, the legendary comedian who died in 1993, has become a powerful cult figure and yet there has never been an official DVD release of his work. That all changes this week with the debut of "Bill Hicks Live: Satirist, Social Critic, Stand-Up Comedian."
The DVD contains over 3 and a half hours of live performance footage, including "One Night Stand" from the Old Vic Theatre in Chicago, "Revelations" from the Dominion Theatre in London and "Relentless," Bill’s breakout performance at the Montreal Comedy Festival.
Also included is a bonus documentary, "Just A Ride," detailing the career of Bill Hicks with insights from fellow comics Brett Butler, Eddie Izzard, Richard Jeni, Jay Leno, David Letterman and Thea Vidale.
From TV this week comes the First Season of "The OC," "That 70's Show," "Viva La Bam," "Wildboyz" and "21 Jump Street," Season Two of "Quantum Leap," Season Four of "Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman" and the recent PBS fundraiser, "Broadway's Lost Treasures 2."
And a really special boxed set collection, "David Macaulay's Building Big" is out this week, with five episodes in which noted author and illustrator David Macaulay takes you behind the scenes to show you how the world's bridges, dams, tunnels, domes and skyscrapers are built.
Please note: "The Stepford Wives," originally planned for release this week, has been postponed to November 9th.
Forgive us for a somewhat late and abbreviated newsletter this week, but we haven't had broadband internet access in our office since last Wednesday. And, as you might expect, this has made it somewhat difficult to complete and deliver the Dossier in a timely fashion.
We're good sports. We don't fault our local cable company for the outage; these things happen.
What we fault them for is their total ineptitude in responding to customer complaints, their inability to diagnose and fix the problem once notified and their outrageously poor customer service.
We won't tell you the name of our cable company; let's just say it rhymes with "Slime Corner."
We'll see you next week.
All the best,
DVD Direct 4 Less
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| This Week's New DVD Releases - Street Date: October 26, 2004 |
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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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Thirty years after the Grateful Dead’s celebrated “Farewell Concerts,” Monterey Home Video has restored the original 35mm film negative of "The Grateful Dead Movie" and will release it as a High Definition widescreen (1.77:1) DVD on November 9th.
Extras include more than 95 minutes of never-before-seen concert footage, a 24 Page collector’s booklet with rare photos and an essay by longtime Grateful Dead historian Dennis McNally, audio commentary with supervising film editor Susan Crutcher and editor John Nutt, a visible lyrics option on all songs and more.
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| Preview of Next Week's Releases - Street Date: October 26, 2004 |
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