DVDs
Don’t Miss
CLOCKWISE, FROM TOP LEFT: EVERETT COLLECTION; 20TH CENTURY FOX/EVERETT COLLECTION; OVERTURE FILMS/EVERETT COLLECTION; UNITED ARTISTS/EVERETT COLLECTION; MAGNOLIA PICTURES/EVERETT COLLECTION
Murnau,
Borzage and
Fox (On sale
now) F. W.
Murnau’s
glorious Sun-
rise (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).
Scene from How to Succeed…
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Musicals by the Pound
YOUR SHELVES WILL GROAN
BUT YOUR HEART WILL SOAR
WI TH 50 TUNEFUL CLASSICS
Henry Poole
Is Here
(January 20)
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.
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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 backbreak-
ing 61-disk, 50-movie set:
Yentl
(February 3)
Is it possible
that Barbra
Streisand’s
lush adapta-
tion 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.
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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.
