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...unlike movies, is more a writer's and producer's than a director's medium: there's more power and glory behind the keyboard than behind the camera. That makes this three-disc, 15-episode sampler of TV's long-running western, focusing on the work of the series' best-known directors, all the more fascinating and revealing. The set collects episodes and commentary from movie directors including Arthur Hiller (Love Story) and Mark Rydell (On Golden Pond) as well as actor-directors like Dennis Weaver and William Conrad. In his commentary, Weaver explains why Gunsmoke used more long...
...Marx Brothers--like comedy, a tense war comedy, a sex farce and a liberal soapbox. But from its acerbic early years to its earnest latter seasons (starring--above, from left--Alan Alda, Harry Morgan and Mike Farrell), it was a tour de force of TV writing. This 36-disc set offers it all, plus documentaries, a trivia game and the 1970 movie by the late Robert Altman. (The spin-off AfterM*A*S*H is thankfully omitted.) Fire up the still and settle in for a long, hilarious...
...similar as they are in movie playback, the two platforms are very different in other areas. The PS3 thinks locally - it handles content best when it's on its hard drive, or on a disc in its drive, or on a memory card or USB keychain that's plugged in directly. The Xbox 360 is all about the network...
...that graced Hollywood romances like Trouble in Paradise, Ninotchka and Heaven Can Wait. But before Ernst Lubitsch arrived in the U.S., he had helped establish the infant German cinema as a beacon of sophisticated drama and innovative technique. Kino, the top DVD label for silent films, offers a four-disc sampler of the director's early work, all from 1919 to 1921, including lavish historical dramas (Anna Boleyn), mountain films (The Wildcat, with a very feral Pola Negri) and delightful comedies. Best is The Oyster Princess, "a grotesque in four acts," in which the director sets a pinwheeling series...
Long term, the idea isn't just to sell the machine to gamers. Sony envisions PS3 as an entertainment command center that will appeal to a mass market. The box features a ferociously fast computer chip, the Cell, a high-definition Blu-ray disc player, a hard drive and Web browser. In Sony's view, you'll use the PS3 to play games, watch movies and surf the Web. You'll be so dazzled by the hi-def images that you'll want to upgrade your TV with a new Bravia set that can display full 1080p resolution. Says Stringer...