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Thomas Haden Church's performance in Sideways, just released on DVD, won him an Oscar nomination and a role as the villain in 2007's Spiderman...
That is what it's like to experience an opera the DVD way--in this case, on a three-disc set released by BBC/Opus Arte. And we haven't even mentioned the surround sound, the subtitles in your choice of four languages, the plot synopses--all only a click or two away on your remote. No wonder conductor James Levine says that of all recording technologies, "this medium is, up to now, the best. DVD gives a really amazing, thrilling and altogether remarkable result...
Precise figures are hard to come by, but Tower Records, the nation's largest independent music retailer, reports that since September, classical-DVD sales have been running at least 12% ahead of the previous year's, whereas classical-CD sales in the same period have been more or less flat. With DVD players now in 70 million U.S. households and more and more people hooking up high-quality speakers or surround sound to their entertainment systems, the appeal of DVDs can only grow...
...ambitious porn films of the early 70s have basically gone missing. Deep Throat is available (though not through amazon.com) on DVD, and Alice in Wonderland on VHS, but most of the others I've mentioned required a video-store or mail-order scavenger hunt to track down. Some, like It Happened in Hollywood and Damiano's The Story of Joanna, I couldn't find even at my refuge for all things weird and esoteric, Kim's Music and Video in the East Village. Even the major research website makes it difficult to find 70s-porno data...
...Granted, its characters swear more and bathe far less often. But both series take two mythic American settings--the frontier and the suburbs--and expose their ugly secrets. In the second season, the arrival of corporate interests in a gold-rush town gives viewers a fresh starting point (a DVD of Season 1 is also out). It's an engrossing story of how the West was won--or bought...