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DVDS Worth Watching, Nov 17, 2006

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• Featured Title(s)
• Recommended Titles
• Classics
• Worth a Mention
• Overlooked Comedy
• Better Mainstream
• Our Boxed Set Pick(s)

As we draw closer to Christmas, there are more releases, which has resulted in a really BIG newsletter this week -- don't worry, once we get to Christmas and New Year's, there will be almost no releases, so it will all even out. Bearing in mind that you may want to buy DVDs as gifts, we've included a larger than usual selection of Box Sets. And remember, if you are planning to purchase DVDs for the holiday season, they will likely take a while to come, so this is reminder to make your choices now and order soon. In the vision of the season! Angela Pressburger Editor-in-Chief Moonrise Movies

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Featured Title(s)

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WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR?, 2006, 92 min., Color

Genre: Documentary
Release Data: November, 2006
Director(s): Chris Paine

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A quietly shocking indictment of our fas-guzzling auto companies and the petro-politicians who love them Karen Durbin, Elle Magazine

What It's About: An information-packed documentary on the effort to introduce – and keep – electric vehicles on the road – a story which turns out to have all the plot twists of a first-rate mystery thriller. In response to California’s Zero Emissions legislation, GM created the EV1, an electric car that was fast, took three dollars to fill up on electricity, required no gas, no oil changes, no mufflers, and rare brake maintenance. In the marketplace, it found devoted drivers who fell for its stylish contours, quiet engine, smooth ride, and eco-friendly credentials. Nonetheless, six years later, all the electric cars were gone, recalled and destroyed, despite their popularity. This film tells the story of what happened and why we seem to prefer to keep improvements in the future in favor of a present defined by resource wars and potential environmental nightmares.

What to Look For: Basically, it seems that electric cars were here, in the present, and people liked them, but they’ve been replaced by hydrogen fuel cell cars, which we don’t know much about and which won’t be a reality for the general public for at least another twenty years – so they’re no threat and the future can be kept where it belongs: way, way out in the future. Once that future arrives, there will be big changes in transportation and service infrastructure causing the current automobile/gasoline cash cow to shrink and vanish while our air quality will improve. Our unwillingness to face the challenge of change creates a lot of suffering, and this film will definitely make you weep at our desire to ignore impermanence and fixate on what we know and are familiar with – even if that change would allow our planet and our children to breathe better.

Why It Matters: The clean feeling of the cars, in both their design and maintenance: quick acceleration, futuristic lines, low sound and no exhaust; now, why wouldn’t you want a car like that? Pay attention to the facts: the car couldn’t go that far – about 60 miles – on a single charge, but better batteries were available, although Detroit chose not to use them. You could charge an electric car at home in your garage, but hydrogen fuel cells, like gasoline, will require an infrastructure of service stations. And finally, note how the automobile industry has done its best to destroy completely any evidence that there ever was a workable electric car that many, many people actually wanted to own and drive.

Notes: More information from: www.evconfidential.com

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Recommended Titles

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49 UP, 2005, 180 min., Color

Genre: Documentary
Release Data: November, 2006
Director(s): Michael Apted

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…an inspired, almost noble use of the film medium. Roger Ebert

What It's About: The latest (seventh) installment in one of the most remarkable experiments in the history of cinema. Based on the Jesuit maxim: “Give me the child until he is 7, and I will show you the man”, the filmmaker checks into how this assumption is playing out, every seven years. We follow real people through life-changing decisions, shocking revelations, and how they face issues related to love, marriage, career, class, and prejudice in this fascinating portrait of human development. Most amazingly, since the first installment, 7 Up, was shot in 1963, only two of the original 14 have dropped out.

This edition seems less dramatic without the major changes and life reversals of the earlier films. Despite a divorce, a remarriage, a bout of depression, and the threat of a lost job, the overall mood hovers somewhere between resignation and contentment. Forty-nine, it seems, is not an age for hatching big plans or foreseeing major changes, but rather a time for taking stock, getting comfortable and keeping an eye on the next generation.

We’ll tell you that the twelve remaining from the original fourteen are: Tony, Suzy, John, Jackie, Andrew, Bruce, Sue, Simon, Paul, Lynn, Nick and Neil, but to find out what has happened to whom, you’ll have to watch!

What to Look For: The central point of these films seems to be the community that arises from entering into an ongoing familiarity with the banal, everyday details of the group’s lives. Although these details are really none of our business, the sharing of them sets our own lives into relief and makes us question our own progression through the years. One of the great imaginative leaps in film, it’s become addictive to those of us who started watching early and have grown older along with it.

Why It Matters: First, you should know that you do not have to have seen any of the earlier films to understand this one, as the long-running production team thoughtfully provide flashbacks that will fill in any blanks you may have. You are unlikely to feel uncomfortable as you get deep into the private lives of the subject, but interestingly, this edition reveals that the same is not true for the participants, a number of whom feel being part of the show has deeply affected their lives along the lines of “Big Brother”. So one of the challenges here is to consider what might be ethically troubling about the project altogether – will there ever be a 56 Up?

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CHRISTMAS IN THE CLOUDS, 2001, 96 min., Color

Genre: Drama
Release Data: November, 2006
Director(s): Kate Montgomery

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"Christmas In The Clouds is my new favorite movie!" John Trudell, Native American Poet & Activist (See our review: Trudell

What It's About: A delightful comedy of errors that takes place at an up-scale but struggling Native American ski resort, over the Christmas season. Ray-Clouds-on-Fire, the handsome and well-educated manager is dreaming of sold out suites and 4-star reviews when an exclusive travel guide announces a surprise visit. He wants to get everything just right and impress the reviewer – but first he has to figure out who it is. He focuses in on Tina Pisati, who eventually turns out to be his father’s online “pen pal” – and she’s not Italian either, but Native. Meanwhile, the real reviewer, a grumpy old man who is left to fend for himself, begins to question his own sanity. Since none of the characters have ever met before and they all have certain expectations, mistaken identity plays a big part in what unfolds, while the style of its unfolding definitely owes a lot to the Christmas spirit.

What to Look For: Good Christmas movies are rare and precious, and we liked this one so much that we’ve been watching for the dvd release for five years….

Why It Matters: Graham Greene’s exquisitely nuanced performance as the resort’s vegetarian chef who refers to the animal dishes on the menu with sorrowful loving kindness as a way to discourage the meat-eating guests from ordering turkey. Enjoy the film’s delightful brand of American Indian humor as the plot unfolds, Ray and Tina fall in love, and Ray’s father become the real critic’s best friend.

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SOPHIE SCHOLL: THE FINAL DAYS, 2005, 117 min., Subtitles, Color

Genre: Drama
Release Data: November, 2006
Director(s): Marc Rothemund

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What It's About: Based on a true story, the film follow Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans, members of the University of Munich anti-Nazi student resistance. Their group "Weiße Rose" (White Rose) prints and distributes leaflets urging their fellow Germans to reject the oppression of the Nazi party and seek a less militaristic regime. Caught in the act, the pair are arrested and interrogated by the Gestapo. The film focuses on the last six days of Sophie’s life when, despite being sentenced to death she refuses to betray either her ideals or her friends.

Apprehended by an alert janitor, in February, 1943, just as they are blending into a milling crowd of students, Sophie and Hans are arrested and taken to Gestapo headquarters. Initially, Sophie manages to come up with a plausible story and is about to be released when investigators searching her apartment find additional incriminating evidence. The pressure mounts, and when Hans confesses Sophie admits her own complicity. Despite her pending execution, Sophie’s strength of character is such that even the interrogator, Robert Mohr, is impressed. He has a son roughly Sophie's age, and is not entirely unmoved by her arguments, so that near the end he offers her an unacceptable deal to save her own life.

What to Look For: Sophie is an optimistic, life-loving student, with a boyfriend, a loving family, and a promising future, the kind of decent, principled person we would all like to be. We can only marvel at where she gets her strength of character and her idealism in a situation like Nazi Germany, where no dissent was tolerated. If you found yourself in similar circumstances, would you be able to knowingly take on that much risk? How would you behave if caught and interrogated? And if the price was death, would you still consider your resistance to have been worth it? These are questions with a modern edge in the face of the ongoing debate in the United States regarding the overriding of certain civil liberties deemed necessary to combat terrorism. Watch this film and consider your own courage in the face of your ideals.

Why It Matters: Much of the material the director uses to recreate his heroine’s journey is based on documents and court transcripts that lay hidden in East German archives until 1990. The siblings arrest took place shortly after Germany's defeat at Stalingrad and we taste the political climate of panic as the Nazi attitude toward the reversal of Germany's fortunes manifests in enraged denial at their treason. Sophie meanwhile remains unwavering in her loyalty and convictions so that her situation quickly escalates into a test of wills with the Gestapo interrogator. Deeply religious, she prays to God for help in maintaining her passionate call to freedom and sense of personal responsibility for the state of her country. Look for the scenes where we meet Sophie's sympathetic cellmate, Else Gebel, an avowed Communist, and her supportive parents, who give her their admira

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THE WILD BLUE YONDER, 2005, 81 min., Color

Genre: Drama
Release Data: November, 2006
Director(s): Werner Herzog

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What It's About: A wonderfully alien film from master-of-the-imagination, Werner Herzog presented in the form of an alternate history of American space travel. In a time when the Earth is a place of dying societies, space races and possible interstellar plague, NASA sends a group of astronauts into space to seek a new home for humans. They pick on a planet at the edge of the Andromeda galaxy, which strangely turns out to be the original home of a group of aliens who fled their own dying situation for Earth several decades before. The last remaining Andromedan on Earth, played by a very believably alien Brad Dourif (Lord of the Rings) has decided to tell their story. The “wild blue” of the title refers to the brilliant cerulean colour of the watery world that he called home. Now, he tells the story of his own people’s search for a refuge from a doomed planet and their encounter with the already-dying Earth. Meanwhile, the NASA team’s search for a new world takes an ominous turn which eventually becomes positively eerie when they return to Earth only to discover an empty and unpopulated world. Mankind has destroyed itself and all that's left is the land, the sea, and what lies beyond the “wild blue yonder”.

What to Look For: On the one hand, this is a cautionary tale culminating in the director’s personal plea to save our planet; on another it is a look at humanity’s place in the cosmos and the significance/insignificance of that. But we found that both these options are completely overshadowed by a visual “tone poem” that goes to the heart of what “alien” really means. This is definitely a strange film that may seem disjointed and confusing to those viewers who prefer a plot-driven experience, but if you can let go and drift on the formidable imagination of a great filmmaker, you will have a unique and memorable experience of the vastness of the “wild blue yonder”.

Why It Matters: The director’s extraordinary mix of original material and documentary footage. The alien planet is represented by musican Henry Kieser’s magnificent images from beneath the ice of the Antarctic Ocean. This is combined with rare NASA footage of the 1989 Galileo space crew performing mundane tasks in zero gravity. Then, interviews with respected astrophysicists from American universities discussing far-out theories of space and time get woven into the fictional skein. The entire effect is enhanced by the unearthly music of avant-garde cellist Ernst Reijsiger so that the line between fantasy and reality blurs and the viewer enters into a “wild blue yonder”.

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Classics

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UN COEUR EN HIVER (A Heart in Winter), 1992, 105 min., Subtitles, Color

Genre: Drama
Release Data: November, 2006
Director(s): Claude Sautet

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The story of a warm, passionate woman and a man whose heart is cold, like winter. Camille (the lovely Emmanuelle Béart, who actually learned how to play the violin for the role), is a violin virtuoso who adores the music of Ravel. Her husband’s acquaintance, Stéphane, is a talented builder and repairer of violins. He works alongside his boss, Maxim, with whom he has been friends for many years. Musicians come to their studio in Paris from all over the world, and one day Camille appears looking for advice about her own instrument. Maxim, a worldly man, with the sophisticated social skills that Stéphane lacks, begins to date her – but it is Stéphane, with his acute musical sensibility, who has won her heart. Camille explains the situation to Maxim and embarks on a relationship with Stéphane. He is flattered and turned on by her attention, but somehow this is not the sort of love he needs. For him, the intricacies of his craft are more fulfilling than the risks of intimacy. Camille finds his lack of response to her open-hearted passion unfathomable and irritating. This is the story of two people who have great admiration for each other but are not meant to be in love; the film is basically an exploration of how they deal with this discovery. The result is all the more heart-breaking for being such a grown-up love-story that unfolds with great dignity.

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OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR, 1969, 144 min., Color

Genre: Documentary
Release Data: November, 2006
Director(s): Richard Attenborough (Ghandi, A Bridge Too Far, Young Winston)

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A big, elaborate, decidedly over-the-top musical that might strike us today as an overdone precursor to Russian Ark – both are highly stylized theatrical presentations of a nation’s history. Oh What A Lovely War! opens in the ballroom of an imaginary palace where Europe's crowned heads and their chief advisers have gathered on the eve of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. Their conversation is laced with statements of their peaceful intentions even as they prepare for the "ever popular war games” which the film’s master-of-ceremonies tells us consist of “songs, battles and a few jokes." When war breaks out, the camera delivers us to a realistic Brighton Pier where the British nation waits in a long queue to receive their tickets to World War 1 – which is spelled out in traditional movie marquee light bulbs over the entrance. Using popular songs of the time, the film proceeds to tell the story of the war as it cuts back and forth between these two symbolic settings. The palace turns into a fantasy environment where the upper class world of officers, lords, government and recruiting stations run the war, while the Pier morphs into the very real locations of battlefields and field hospitals where the salt-of-the-earth “Tommies” get slaughtered in their thousands to win the war. This is still a strong anti-war movie, and even if you miss some of the innuendoes that were more obvious to the original audience, you’ll enjoy the songs

Notes: A star-studded cast includes Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, John Mills, Maggie Smith, Ralph Richardson, Dirk Bogarde, Susannah York, Michael and Vanessa Redgrave and Joe Melia as the Photographer/Master-of-Ceremonies.

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Worth a Mention

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BLACK BOOKS: THE COMPLETE SECOND SERIES, 2001, 180 min., Color

Genre: TV mini-series
Release Data: November, 2006
Director(s): Martin Dennis

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What It's About: It's not often that we want to brazenly promote TV shows, but this is one we think you won't want to miss: a British, BBC sitcom set in a moth-ridden bookshop. Bernard Black, the owner, is a slovenly alcoholic chain-smoker who doesn't like bibliophiles and is averse to customers. The series follows his adventures in the book trade as he interacts with his best - and probably only - friend, Fran, a neurotic, man-obsessed single woman, who runs the Nifty Gifty gift shop next door, and his new accountant, Manny, a former corporate office stress victim who appeared in a great rush one morning seeking "The Little Book of Calm." (He later manages to swallow the book by accident and develops godlike soothing powers, which allow him to stop dogs barking and turn off car alarms.)

What to Look For: It doesn't. Not everything has to. Sometimes we recommend tings just for pure enjoyment. British comedy at is best!

Why It Matters: How Mr. Black cooks his books, deals with taxes, and relates to hangovers, book signings, hangovers, other mishaps…and more hangovers. How Manny relates to the same list plus his employer's basic, all-pervading filth and incompetency, and how Fran manages between the two. The uniquely British mix of irreverent humour and occasional slapstick dotted with witty one-liners, that will have you consistently rolling on the floor holding your tummy.How Mr. Black cooks his books, deals with taxes, and relates to hangovers, book signings, hangovers, other mishaps…and more hangovers. How Manny relates to the same list plus his employer's basic, all-pervading filth and incompetency, and how Fran manages between the two. The uniquely British mix of irreverent humour and occasional slapstick dotted with witty one-liners, that will have you consistently rolling on the floor holding your tummy.

Notes: Look for Black Books: The Complee First Series which is also out on DVD across North America.

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CHURCHILL'S BODYGUARD, 2006, 611 min., Color

Genre: TV mini-series
Release Data: November, 2006

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The fascinating story of Walter H. Thompson, a Scotland Yard detective from a working-class background, who spent eighteen years as the aristocratic Winston Churchill’s personal bodyguard. Threatened by the British government with the loss of his pension if he published his memoirs, Thompson kept his 350,000-word uncensored manuscript to himself until his death. However, it was recently found by his great-niece and became the basis for this documentary series. Anchored by Thompson's words, we learn of the difficulties of keeping the great man from harm, cheering him up when he was depressed, and acting as a solid background presence during times of personal tragedy. Thompson often had cause to worry that he “would never get this man back home alive". Amazing stories of Irish terrorists, Indian assassins, the Luftwaffe and hit-men sent by Hitler, doubts about Britain’s crucial allies Roosevelt and Stalin, and remarkable encounters with Lawrence of Arabia and Dwight D. Eisenhower rub shoulders here. From Yalta to Cairo, a familiar story becomes new and fascinating through the production’s emphasis on Thompson’s point of view. The memoir is supported by massive amounts of archival footage – both rare and familiar – and historically precise re-enactments. Thompson’s situation as both a witness and a participant to a crucial time in history make this a historical thriller you don’t want to miss.

Notes: 13 parts on 4 discs

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HOCKEY: A PEOPLE'S HISTORY, 2006 (Canada Only), 301 min., Color

Genre: TV mini-series
Release Data: November, 2006
Director(s): Peter John Ingles

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Canada's official sport may be lacrosse, but in the hearts and minds of every Canadian, hockey is the true national pass-time. This history series provides an opportunity to trace hockey's evolution from a simple game to the end-all-be-all of Canadian existence. From the simple block of wood that served as a puck at the first organized game of ice hockey, played in Montreal in 1875, through the fascinating story of the pioneering women’s professional league that sold out arenas during the World War I, to the gold-medal glory of the 2002 Olympic Games, this film is a social history of a nation. Featuring re-enactments, rarely-seen archival footage, and interviews with personalities, empire builders and pioneers, it will bring the game, and the way it has woven itself into the Canadian cultural fabric, alive. So settle back with a six-pack and a scoreboard and enjoy.

Notes: DVD available in both French and English versions.
For more information and episode details go to: www.cbc.ca/hockeyhistory/

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WORDPLAY, 2006, 94 min., Color

Genre: Documentary
Release Data: November, 2006
Director(s): Patrick Creadon and Christine O’Malley

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In the mould of Spellbound, the documentary about child-contestants at the US national spelling bee, comes Wordplay, the story of adult fascination with crossword puzzles. Focusing on the gold standard puzzles of the New York Times, the film cuts back and forth between a group of contestants preparing for and playing in the 28th American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, in Stamford, Connecticut, and the lives and words of notable puzzle fanciers, all presided over by puzzle doyen, Will Shortz, editor of the New York Times Crossword. You’ll enter the world of puzzle creator, Merl Reagle and get interested in the compulsive puzzle addiction of the likes of comedian Jon Stewart, New York Yankees pitcher Mike Mussina, filmmaker Ken Burns, the Indigo Girls, Bob Dole, and the ever-charismatic Bill Clinton. And, in the moment, you really want the next champion to be college student, Tyler Hinman, the youngest ever – even his closest competitors are routing for him. Nonetheless, at the end, if you are not a puzzle fanatic, you aren’t left with much.

Notes: For puzzle nerds, this DVD includes over 85 minutes of special features including a Limited Edition puzzle book of the "Five Greatest Puzzles Ever Made" from The New York Times.

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Overlooked Comedy

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THE MOVIE HERO, 2003, 98 min., Color

Genre: Drama
Release Data: November, 2006
Director(s): Brad T. Gottfred

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What It's About: A charming and genuine low-budget first film, which had an initial successful run with the younger crowd on the festival circuit and then disappeared into distribution limbo, to finally surface this week on DVD. It follows the story of Blake Gardner, a young man who is not only obsessed with movies, but thinks his entire life is a movie. Blake also thinks that he has a responsibility to offer his audience all the drama and nuance they deserve to see, without ever being boring or offending. While much of his public thinks he’s crazy, from a movie-goer’s point-of-view, he’s just nice enough to consider the viewer. And his long-suffering family have just learned to accept him as he is – after all, they reason, everyone talks to themselves inside their heads, sometimes they even do it out loud to their reflections in mirrors or to their goldfish; our inner voices keep us grounded. From a movie-goer’s point-of-view, he’s just nice enough to consider the viewer.

What to Look For: While this movie pays a hilarious tribute to the process of filmmaking, it also has a deeper side related to the realization that we are indeed the creators of our own realities and “appear” as the writer, director and producer of our own lives. The more we become aware of the transparency of our situations as human beings, the more we might want to question whether we are indeed the producers of our own movie. And, taking this line of thinking to its logical conclusion, we mig

Why It Matters: Constantly talking to his imaginary audience, Blake begins following a Suspicious Character and advertises in the paper for a Sidekick. Eventually his habit of treating every interaction as a “scene” leads to court-ordered sessions with a pretty psychiatrist whom he decides will be his Love Interest. Meanwhile, he continues his habit of starting the day kneeling in front of his movie-screen altar, praying to the movie gods. Part fantasy and part homage to the magic of movies, how much you like it will depend on how you feel about the premise and how much you can accept first films with all their freshness and rough edges.

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Better Mainstream

Mentioned but not reviewed – these popular titles don’t really need us to publicize them, but we want you to know they’re now available on DVD.

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LEONARD COHEN: I'M YOUR MAN, 2005, 98 min., Color

Genre: Documentary
Release Data: November, 2006
Director(s): Lian Lun

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Our Boxed Set Pick(s)

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GARY COOPER: THE SIGNATURE COLLECTION, 2006, BW

Genre: Drama
Release Data: November, 2006
Director(s): Various

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Notes: 5 discs, featuring:
Sergeant York, The Fountainhead, Dallas, Springfield Rifle, The Wreck of the Mary Deare

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THE JAMES BOND ULTIMATE EDITION, VOL. 1, 2006, Color

Genre: Drama
Release Data: November, 2006
Director(s): Various

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Notes: 10 discs featuring Goldfinger, The World Is Not Enough, Diamonds Are Forever, The Man With The Golden Gun, The Living Daylights, plus lots of special extras.

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THE JAMES BOND ULTIMATE EDITION, VOL. 2, 2006, Color

Genre: Drama
Release Data: November, 2006
Director(s): Various

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Notes: 10 discs featuring: Thunderball, Die Another Day, The Spy Who Loved Me, A View To A Kill, Licence To Kill, plus lots of extras.

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THE MARLON BRANDO COLLECTION, 2006, Color

Genre: Drama
Release Data: November, 2006
Director(s): Various

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Notes: 6 discs featuring: Julius Caesar, Mutiny on the Bounty, Reflections in a Golden Eye, The Teahouse of the August Moon, The Formula

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M*A*S*H* THE MARTINIS AND MEDICINE COLLECTION, 2006, Color

Release Data: November, 2006
Director(s): Robert Altman

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Notes: 36 discs which include all 11 seasons including the record-breaking series finale (still the most-watched episode in TV history), plus the original 1970 film, two all-new bonus discs and a retrospective book created exclusively for this release.

For those of you who have been collecting season-by-season, M*A*S*H: SEASON 11 also becomes available this week as a separate DVD.

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RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN BOX SET COLLECTION, 2006, Color

Genre: Drama
Release Data: November, 2006
Director(s): Various

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Notes: 12 discs featuring South Pacific (2 disc Collector’s Edition) , The King and I and Carousel (2-disc, 50th Anniversary Editon) , The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!, and State Fair (2-disc Anniversary Editions.

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SUPERMAN: THE 1948 & 1950 THEATRICAL SERIALS COLLECTION, 2006, 518 min., Color

Genre: TV mini-series
Release Data: November, 2006
Director(s): Various

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Notes: 4 discs that include the 1948 serials and the 1950 Atom Man vs. Superman serials, plus Saturdays with Superman, a look back at the first live-action Superman

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THE WEST WING: THE COMPLETE SERIES GIFT SET, 2006, Color

Genre: TV mini-series
Release Data: November, 2006
Director(s): Various

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Notes: 45 DVDS featuring all 154 episodes (yes, that really is 112 hours of content!)

This edition also includes the script for the original pilot and an introduction by series creator Aaron Sorkin.

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