Musicals by
the Pound
YOUR SHELVES WILL GROAN BUT
YOUR HEART WILL SOAR WI TH
THESE 50 TUNEFUL CLASSICS
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 Musi-
cals Collection. Among the gems:
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 (“Thumbelina,” “Anywhere I
Wander”) is wonderfully performed
by Danny Kaye. —Bill Newcott
Don’t Miss
Murnau,
Borzage and
Fox (On sale
now) F. W.
Murnau’s glori-
ous Sunrise
(1927), the
story of a
young couple’s love, is the crown jewel
of this monumental 12-movie set hon-
oring the work of Murnau and director
Frank Borzage (Liliom).
Henry Poole
Is Here
(January 20)
Sadly over-
looked 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.
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CLOCKWISE, FROM TOP LEFT: EVERETT COLLECTION; 20TH CENTURY FOX/EVERETT COLLECTION; OVERTURE FILMS/EVERETT COLLECTION; UNITED ARTISTS/EVERETT COLLECTION; MAGNOLIA PICTURES/EVERETT COLLECTION
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Yentl
(February 3) Is
it possible that
Barbra Stei-sand’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.
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.
