Cinema Paradiso (Limited Collector's Edition) (1989) - A charming, bittersweet tribute to the power of movies which won 1989's Best Foreign Film Academy Award. A filmmaker returns to his Sicilian hometown for the first time in 30 years and looks back on his life, including the time he spent helping the projectionist at the local movie theatre. Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin and Marco Leonardi star. Limited edition includes the original theatrical version and director Giuseppe Tornatore's extended 2002 re-release, the soundtrack CD, and collectible one-sheets and lobby cards. 123 min./174 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: Italian Dolby Digital 5.1; Subtitles: English, Spanish; audio commentary; featurettes; "making of" documentary. In Italian with English subtitles. Two-disc set.
Gary Cooper: The Signature Collection - Former Confederate officer Gary Cooper poses as a U.S. marshal to bring down some outlaw brothers in the rough-and-tumble Texas town of Dallas (1950). Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran co-star. Coop is a disgraced Union officer who joins up with a band of horse rustlers working for the Confederacy, but whose side is he really on, in Springfield Rifle (1952). With Phyllis Thaxter, Lon Chaney, Jr. Charlton Heston co-stars with Cooper in The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959), the story of a ship salvager who helps the lone remaining crew member of a grounded boat who is accused of destroying the vessel. This five-disc set also includes Sergeant York and The Fountainhead. 9 hrs. total. Soundtrack: English.
The Marlon Brando Collection - First, Teahouse of the August Moon (1956) is a whimsical, poignant adaptation of the hit Broadway play about an American G.I.'s experiences in Okinawa in 1944. Marlon Brando plays the slick native interpreter with a way of getting what he wants. Glenn Ford, Paul Ford, Eddie Albert and Machiko Kyo offer memorable supporting turns. Brando stars as a homosexual army officer based in Georgia in the controversial, action-packed tale Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967), adapted from Carson McCullers' explosive novel. Elizabeth Taylor, Brian Keith and Julie Harris star; directed by John Huston. And, while investigating a friend's murder, a detective (George C. Scott) learns the dead man possessed a world-shaking secret from the last days of the Third Reich: a plan for creating cheap, pollution-free synthetic fuel, in The Formula (1980). Brando, Marthe Keller, John Gielgud co-star. Five-disc set also includes Julius Caesar (1953) and Mutiny on the Bounty (1962). 11 hrs. total.
All previous new DVD reviews
