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...Western world who had never seen the movie, I had no yardstick to measure the new show by, or to rap it on the knuckles - which some opening-night critics did - for inexcusable infidelity to the original. And when I finally did catch up with the film on DVD, I surprised myself by preferring the show put on by producers Cameron Mackintosh and Disney's Tom Schumacher...
...Most gamers know that the PS3's delay was caused by its Blu-ray drive, and many suggest that the Blu-ray advantage isn't worth the price or the wait. Sure, movies on Blu-ray have a picture quality six times higher than a standard DVD, but the vast majority of so-called high definition TVs don't even have the 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution (known as 1080p) to show Blu-ray's full glory. From a home-theater point of view, though, the PS3 was not only the first Blu-ray player to be priced well under...
...its mid-40s (it made its debut in 1962), the movies' longest-running series faces middle age by both toning up, with the muscular new Casino Royale, and looking back, with this multi-DVD pack of all 20 of the "official" films, with the first five of the superspies. The Bond tropes may be as codified--and believable--as Kabuki, but the films can still shake and stir...
...Janus was a leading distributor of foreign films--such instant classics as Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries, with Bibi Andersson (above), and François Truffaut's Jules and Jim. Janus later spawned the Criterion Collection, the ultra-classy DVD outfit. Now the child is paying tribute to the parent company, with a 13-lb. 12-oz., foot-wide box containing 50 discs of wonderful films once handled by Janus, plus a 240-page, lavishly illustrated book. With important works by Jean Renoir, Sergei Eisenstein and Michelangelo Antonioni, this package really is essential--the perfect starter set for a full film...
...Lubitsch touch"--a deft, vigorous approach to comedy 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...