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YOUR SHELVES WILL GROAN BU T YOUR HEART WILL SOAR WI TH 50 TUNEFUL CLASSICS
DVDs
Musicals by the Pound
T YPE CAST hese How to Succeed… secretaries are all tapped out.
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Don’t Miss
Murnau, Borzage and Fox
(On sale now) F. W. Murnau’s glorious
Sunrise (1927), the story of a young
couple’s love, is the crown jewel of
this monumental 12-movie set
honoring the work of Murnau and
director Frank Borzage (Liliom).
Yentl (February 3) Is it possible that
Barbra Streisand’s lush adaptation of
“Yentl the Yeshiva Boy” has never
been on DVD? Babs stars in and directs the story of a girl who wants to
study the Talmud—and falls in love
with charming Mandy Patinkin.
YOU ADMIT
you really
love movie musicals? Here’s a
chance to put your
money (and your DVD shelf ) where
your passion is: MGM and Fox have
teamed up to release a backbreaking
61-disk, 50-movie set: The Hollywood
Musicals Collection. Among the
irresistible gems included:
The Fantasticks (1995) Michael
Ritchie directed this delightful screen
version of the longest-running and
loveliest stage musical ever.
How to Succeed in Business Without
Really Trying (1967) The corporate
satire (see photo at left) is a tad dated,
but Robert Morse is ageless as the
ambitious young J. Pierpont Finch.
Hans Christian Andersen (1952)
An all-but-forgotten Frank Loesser
score (including “Thumbelina” and
“Anywhere I Wander”) is wonderfully
performed by Danny Kaye.
March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934)
Laurel and Hardy play toy makers
in a sweet adaptation of Victor
Herbert’s operetta. (Ollie: “You’re
upset, aren’t you…?” Stan: “Upset?
I’m housebroken!”) —Bill Newcott
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Henry Poole Is Here (January 20)
Sadly overlooked last year, this gentle
comedy stars Luke Wilson as a guy
who just wants to be left alone. But a
miraculous image on his stucco
house draws curious neighbors, then
crowds, shattering his solitude.
Let the Right One In (March 10)
Forget those mopey teen vampires of
Twilight; this Swedish film about a
12-year-old vampiress and the boy
who loves her lulls you with its innocence…then fills your veins with its
relentless sense of dread. —B.N.
