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Wednesday, August 26,2009

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By Mark Burger
DVD PICK OF THE WEEK BAD LIEUTENANT (LionsGate Home Entertainment): Harvey Keitel gives a fierce, fearless performance in the title role of Abel Ferrara's controversial, awardwinning 1992 character study, newly reissued in a special edition that includes director's commentary.
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Wednesday, August 19,2009

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By Mark Burger
(Sony Pictures Home Entertainment): One of filmmaker John Cassavetes' best works, this 1970 comedy/drama makes its long-awaited DVD debut - and in a longer version than the one released to theaters. Cassavetes is joined by Peter Falk and Ben Gazzara, playing Gus, Archie and Harry, three pals devastated by the sudden death of a fourth friend.
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Wednesday, August 12,2009

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By Mark Burger
(HBO Home Entertainment): The true story of socialite Edith "Big Edie" Bouvier Beale (Jessica Lange) and her daughter "Little Edie" (Drew Barrymore), so vividly captured on film in the acclaimed 1975 documentary Grey Gardens, is dramatized here in this sad, sorrowful saga of wealth gone to waste.
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Wednesday, August 5,2009

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By Mark Burger
(Blue Underground): The battle of the sexes is taken to eye-popping, satirical extremes in this 1965 cult favorite from director Elio Petri, originally titled La Decima Vittima and based on Robert Sheckley's sci-fi story, The Seventh Victim.
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Wednesday, July 29,2009

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By Mark Burger
DVD PICK OF THE WEEK THE GREEN HORNET (VCI Entertainment): With a long-gestating, big-budget Hollywood remake in the offing (reportedly with Seth Rogan), what better time to re-release the original 1940 serial - that's all 13 action-packed chapters, folks!
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Wednesday, July 22,2009

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By Mark Burger
DVD PICK OF THE WEEK CROSSING OVER (The Weinstein Company/Genius Products): Despite a star-studded cast headed by boxoffice heavyweight Harrison Ford, this topical melodrama about the immigration debate spent more than a year on the shelf before a quiet, unsuccessful theatrical release earlier this year.
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Wednesday, July 15,2009

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By Mark Burger
Douglas plays Jack Burns, a latter-day cowhand and roustabout with an unerring knack for trouble. A series of circumstances, many his own doing, sees Burns become a fugitive from the law and making a desperate break for Mexico on horseback.
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Thursday, July 9,2009

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By Mark Burger
Ten years ago, gangster Willie Parker (Terence Stamp) testified against his cohorts and took a hike all the way to a quiet life in Spain. His idyllic repose is interrupted by Braddock (John Hurt) and Myron (Tim Roth, in his screen debut), a mismatched pair of hit-men who have come to Spain to finally carry out the hit on Willie.
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Wednesday, June 24,2009

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By Mark Burger
DVD PICK OF THE WEEK CATLOW (Warner Home Video): Actor Sam Wanamaker directed this amiable 1971 adaptation of Louis LAmours Western novel with Yul Brynner in the title role as a crafty rustler who graduates to grand larceny when he sets his sights on $2 million in Confederate gold.
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Wednesday, June 17,2009

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By Mark Burger
PICK OF THE WEEK FALLING DOWN (Warner Home Video): A deluxe edition, replete with directors commentary, of Joel Schumachers 1993 intense urban satire a film that perfectly captures a time, a place, and an attitude.
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