Musicals by the Pound
YOUR SHELVES WILL GROAN
BUT YOUR HEART WILL SOAR
WI TH 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 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. —Bill Newcott
Don’t Miss
Murnau,
Borzage and
Fox (On sale
no w) 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).
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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
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.
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.
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.
