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Written by
Sara Michelle Fetters, Mitchell
Hattaway, Dennis Crane
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Apocalypse Now (Three-Disc Full Disclosure Edition)
(save and buy from Amazon)
As I've said before, I can’t get enough of
this movie, and this set gives you just about everything
there is to be had. You get one of the greatest movies ever
made, one of the best behind-the-scenes documentaries ever
made, and a stellar collection of extras.
Simply put,
it’s a knockout.
-Mitchell
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Alien Anthology
(save and buy from Amazon)
Arguably the high-def release
of this calendar year. Two genuinely great movies, one
fascinating misfire, and one I’d rather not talk about.
An exhaustive, exhausting
collection of extras. One of the best packaging jobs ever.
And you can have it all for roughly twenty bucks a movie (or
less than fifteen bucks a disc), which is a bargain.
-Mitchell
[
Alien Anthology Blu-ray Review ]
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Fox 75th Anniversary Collection
(save and buy from Amazon)
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While a cynic would call Fox’s massive 76-disc
DVD compilation nothing more than an excuse to
package a bunch of old standard definition
titles together in one collection, the cinematic
purist in me can’t help but feel differently.
Yes, 74 of these 75 titles are available
individually. No, Fox isn’t going to be making
1933’s Cavalcade available on its own (at
least not any time soon). Yes, a great majority
of these are also available on Blu-ray. But just
because all of that is true that doesn’t make
this monstrous compilation of one studio’s
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From Miracle on 34th Street
to Home Alone, from Star Wars to Avatar,
from The King and I to Moulin Rouge, from
The Ox-Bow Incident to Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid, from Twelve O’clock High to
M*A*S*H, from The Day the Earth Stood Still to
Alien, pretty much all of the studio’s iconic
seventy-five year history is presented all in one single
place. No studio has ever attempted anything quite like it
before, and I for one sure wouldn’t frown upon receiving
something this extraordinary for Christmas not one single
bit.
-Sara Michelle
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The Elia Kazan Collection
(save and buy from Amazon)
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One of the most celebrated and most
controversial directors of the twentieth
century, Elia Kazan made films that haven’t just
stood the test of time they’ve entered the
zeitgeist. Even people who have never seen A
Streetcar Named Desire or On the
Waterfront can quote from both pictures
liberally, while images of James Dean from
East of Eden are easier to find than the
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With help from Martin
Scorsese, Fox assembles 15 of the director works into a
single collection, five (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Viva
Zapata!, Man on a Tightrope, Wild River and America, America)
for the very first time. Also included in this collection in
Scorsese’s 2010 documentary A Letter to Elia, making
this 18-disc collection a one-of-a-kind tribute to a
controversial, if extremely talented, master of cinema fans
of classic film will be positively drooling to get their
hands on.
-Sara Michelle
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America Lost and Found: The BBS Story
(save and buy from Amazon)
BBS Productions were the
brainchild of Bob Rafelson, Bert Schneider and Steve Blauner,
three men who wanted to make films geared to young people
that Hollywood would never think to produce. Between 1968
and 1972 they had a hand in creating six distinct films that
defied easy categorizing and engaged audiences on levels
fresh and new.
The Criterion Collection
brings all six of these motion pictures together, some
recognizable (Five Easy Pieces, The Last Picture Show,
Easy Rider), other not as much (The King of Marvin
Gardens, Drive He Said, Head, A Safe Place), all of
immense importance to the history of independent cinema
making this as distinctive a Blu-ray box set as any that
will likely get a major release in 2010.
-Sara Michelle
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The Man With No Name Trilogy
(save and buy from Amazon)
Why should you
buy this quintessential Western collection on Blu-ray? Let
me count the reasons for you:
A Fistful of
Dollars
For a Few
Dollars More
The Good, The
Bad & The Ugly
This extremely
reasonably priced set ($25 at the moment) belongs in every
high-def collection. It's a quick-draw scenario. How fast
are you?
-Dennis
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