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DVD REVIEW: 2046
Sol Louis Siegel  |  Apr 03, 2006  | 
Sony
Movie •••½ Picture/Sound •••• Extras ••½
In director Wong Kar-Wai's sumptuous and melancholy f
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DVDs: Joker's Wild
Marc Horowitz  |  Apr 03, 2006  | 

"A guy walks into a talent agent's office.... " From that humble beginning spring 100 or so different riffs on perhaps the most vile, grotesque joke ever told. And the tellers here include everyone from Don Rickles, George Carlin, and Martin Mull to Whoopi Goldberg, Gilbert Gottfried, and Jon Stewart.

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DVD REVIEW: Memoirs of a Geisha
Rad Bennett  |  Apr 04, 2006  | 
20th Century Fox
Movie ••½ Picture/Sound ••••½ Extras •••½
The second disc of this two-disc
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DVD REVIEW: Separate Lies
Ken Korman  |  Apr 06, 2006  | 
20th Century Fox
Movie ••• Picture/Sound •••• Extras •••
The initial setup may suggest a classic British whodunit in the Agat
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DVDs: Reference Disc
Al Griffin  |  May 09, 2006  | 

David Lean's 1970 epic Ryan's Daughter (Warner; Movie •••½, Picture/Sound ••••, Extras ••••) gets the grand treatment in this two-disc special edition. Sourced from restored 65mm picture elements, the 2.2:1 transfer is consistently crisp, revealing every crag in stone houses.

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DVD REVIEW: Traffic
Brandon Grafius  |  May 09, 2006  | 
The Criterion Collection
Movie •••½ Picture/Sound •••• Extras ••••
Steven Soderbergh's magnum opus - a taut, u
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DVD REVIEWS: Walk the Line ...and more country
Josef Krebs  |  May 09, 2006  | 
Walk the Line: single-disc edition 20th Century Fox
Movie •••• Picture/Sound •••• Extras •••
Johnny Cash was
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DVD REVIEWS: Old News is Good News
Ken Korman  |  May 09, 2006  | 
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DVD REVIEW: The Squid and the Whale
Ken Korman  |  May 09, 2006  | 
Capote Sony
Movie •••• Picture/Sound ••• Extras •••
Sony
Movie •••• Picture/Sound ••• Extras •••
Painfully sad but sometimes laugh-out-loud hilarious, The Squid and the Whal
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DVDs: Blood Brothers
Ken Korman  |  May 09, 2006  | 

The most surprising Oscar winner for Best Picture in decades, Crash (Lionsgate; Movie •••½, Picture/Sound •••½, Extras ••½) has a couple of secret weapons that quietly recommended it to members of the Academy. First, it captures the true look and feel of Los Angeles, where the majority of Oscar voters live.

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DVDs: Tapped Out
Mel Neuhaus  |  May 09, 2006  | 

The greatest kaleidoscopic experience without the benefit of hallucinogens, the terrific six-disc Busby Berkeley Collection (Warner; Movies ••••½, Picture/Sound ••••½, Extras ••••) has five of the choreography genius's best-known works: Gold Diggers of 1933, Footlight Parade (1933), Dames (1934), Gold Diggers of 1935

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DVDs: Law & Disorder
Mike Mettler  |  May 09, 2006  | 
  1. THE SOPRANOS (HBO, above - left). Jersey mafia don Tony Soprano: bigger than your average bear, and ten times as deadly. These movie-quality transfers set the standard, with excellent contrast, rich colors, and crisp, atmospherically lit images.
  2. THE SHIELD (Fox). Det.
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DVD REVIEW: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Rad Bennett  |  May 09, 2006  | 
Warner
Movie •••½ Picture/Sound •••• Extras •••½
One of the many extras on this two-disc set provides a
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DVD REVIEW: Lady and the Tramp
Rad Bennett  |  May 09, 2006  | 
Platinum Edition Disney
Movie •••½ Picture/Sound ••••½ Extras ••••
Walt Disney's c
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DVD REVIEW: Young Mr. Lincoln
Sol Louis Siegel  |  May 09, 2006  | 
The Criterion Collection
Movie •••• Picture/Sound •••• Extras •••
John Ford's fanciful tale of Abraham Lincoln as a young
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