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Astonishing X-Men: Dangerous
(2012) Original Marvel animated comic book feature. The tragic death of a student at the Xavier Institute reveals that a powerful enemy is working from inside the mansion to destroy the X-Men. Formats: DVD. (Shout! Factory).
Car 54, Where Are You? The Complete Second Season
(1962-63) Four-disc set with 30 episodes, $39.98. Formats: DVD. (Shanachie Entertainment).
The Conquest
(2011 -- France) Denis Podalydes, Florence Pernel, Bernard Le Coq. A dramatized look at French president Nicolas Sarkozy's rise to power. Examines the private life behind the public headlines, as it follows the thrilling journey of an ambitious political leader who discovers what happens when you get everything you ever wanted. On the day Nicolas Sarkozy won the greatest feat of his political career, he realized he lost the woman who cultivated his pursuit, for another man. Gives viewers a first-hand look inside the political arena through the scandals, headlines, power struggles, and controversy all the while under the watchful eyes of the press. Formats: DVD. Extras: "The Making of The Conquest." (Music Box Films).
Conversation Piece BLU-RAY DEBUT
(1974 -- Italy) Dir.: Luchino Visconti; Burt Lancaster, Helmut Berger, Silvana Mangano, Claudia Marsani, Stefano Patrizi. Visconti's award-winning classic examines the solitary life of a retired American professor (Burt Lancaster) who lives alone in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. When he is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her companions -- her lover, her daughter and daughter's boyfriend -- he is forced to rent them an apartment on the upper floor of his palazzo. Before long his quiet routine is turned upside down and the introverted professor becomes entangled in his tenants' machinations. Visconti's penultimate film. Extras: Original trailer, interview with film critic and screenwriter Alessandro Bencivenni, fully illustrated booklet by Mark Reynolds. (RaroVideo).
The Darkest Hour
(2011) Emile Hirsch, Max Minghella, Olivia Thirlby, Rachael Taylor. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc, 3D Blu-ray. Extras: "The Darkest Hour: Survivors" short film follows the rebel resistance, picking up after the film ends; deleted and extended scenes; "The Darkest Hour: Visualizing an Invasion"; commentary by director Chris Gorak. (Summit Entertainment).
Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters Special Edition
Two-disc set. Freed from his exile on Earth, the third Doctor (Jon Pertwee) takes Jo (Katy Manning) on a test flight in the TARDIS, landing aboard SS Bernice, a cargo ship that appears to be crossing the Indian Ocean in 1926. As events take a dangerous and unexpected twist, it seems that their fate lies in the hands of a traveling showman named Vorg and his assistant Shirna, who have just arrived on the distant planet of Inter Minor with an amazing intergalactic peepshow called the Miniscope. Digitally remastered. Formats: DVD. Extras: Commentary, making-of featurette, more. (BBC Home Entertainment).
Doctor Who: The Daemons
Two-disc set. In the peaceful village of Devil's End something very strange is happening. A professor is preparing to open a nearby burial mound, and a local white witch foresees death and disaster. Meanwhile, the new vicar looks suspiciously like the Master, and he is using black magic to conjure up an ancient Demon. Can the third Doctor (Jon Pertwee), Jo (Katy Manning) and UNIT stop their old enemy before he succeeds? Digitally remastered. Formats: DVD. Extras: Commentary with actors Katy Manning, Richard Franklin, Damaris Hayman and director Christopher Barry, more. (BBC Home Entertainment).
Don Juan DeMarco BLU-RAY DEBUT
(1994) Johnny Depp, Marlon Brando, Faye Dunaway. (Warner).
Goodnight for Justice: Measure of a Man
(2012) Luke Perry, Cameron Bright, Teach Grant. In the sequel to "Goodnight for Justice," the highest rated original production on the Hallmark Movie Channel, Luke Perry returns to the lawless frontier to once again star as honorable Circuit Judge John Goodnight. Two-discs set, $19.98. Formats: DVD. (Entertainment One).
The Hidden
(2011 -- Italy) Sean Clement, Simonetta Solder, Jordan Hayes, Jason Blicker. When Brian Karter's mother dies, he's surprised to learn that he has inherited "The Sanctuary," home to her controversial experimental addiction treatment center. But during a tour of the decrepit building, he soon realizes that something sinister lies beneath the surface; something so evil it is better left concealed. Formats: DVD. (Entertainment One).
A Hollis Frampton Odyssey
(1966-1979) Icon of the American avant-garde Hollis Frampton made rigorous, audacious, brainy, and downright thrilling films, leaving behind a body of work that remains unparalleled. In the 1960s, having started out as a poet and photographer, Frampton became fascinated with the possibilities of 16mm filmmaking. In such radically playful, visually and sonically arresting works as "Surface Tension," "Zorns Lemma," "(nostalgia)," "Critical Mass," and the enormous, unfinished Magellan cycle (cut short by his death at age 48), Frampton repurposes cinema itself, making it into something by turns literary, mathematical, sculptural, and simply beautiful -- and always captivating. This collection of works by the essential artist -- the first home video release of its kind -- includes 24 films, dating from 1966 to 1979. New high-definition digital restorations of all 24 films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks on the Blu-ray edition. Extras: Audio commentary and remarks by filmmaker Hollis Frampton on selected works; excerpted interview with Frampton from 1978; "A Lecture," a performance piece by Frampton, recorded in 1968 with the voice of artist Michael Snow; gallery of works from Frampton's xerographic series "By Any Other Name"; booklet with an introduction by film critic Ed Halter and essays and capsules on the films by Frampton scholars Ken Eisenstein, Bruce Jenkins and Michael Zryd. (The Criterion Collection).
Into the Abyss
(2011) Taking as his starting point an exploration of a triple homicide case in Conroe, Texas, master filmmaker Werner Herzog probes the human psyche to explore why people kill -- and why the state kills in return. Through intimate conversations with those involved, including 28-year-old Death Row inmate Michael Perry (scheduled to die within eight days of appearing on screen), Herzog achieves what he describes as "a gaze into the abyss of the human soul." Herzog's inquiries also extend to the families of the victims and perpetrators as well as a state executioner and pastor who've been with Death Row prisoners as they've taken their final breaths. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc. (IFC).
The Iron Lady
(2011) Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Olivia Colman, Alexandra Roach, Harry Lloyd, Richard E. Grant. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo. Extras: "The Making of The Iron Lady" featurette and four mini-featurettes: "Recreating the Young Margaret Thatcher," "Battle in the House of Commons," "Costume Design: Pearls and Power Suits" and "Denis: The Man Behind the Woman." (The Weinstein Co./Anchor Bay).
Logan's Run: The Complete Series
(1977-78) Three-disc set with 14 episodes. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc, VOD, Digital Download, UltraViolet (cloud). (Warner)
Night Gallery: Season Three
(1972-73) Two-disc set with 17 episodes, $29.98. Formats: DVD. (Universal).
Nuns on the Run
(1990) Eric Idle, Robbie Coltrane, Camille Coduri, Janet Suzman.
Formats: DVD. (Anchor Bay).
One Tree Hill: The Complete Ninth and Final Season
(2012) Four-disc set with 13 episodes, $39.98. Formats: DVD. Extras: Five featurettes, commentary, unaired scenes, gag reel. (Warner).
Secrets of the Titanic Anniversary Collection
(2011) National Georgraphic video pairs a new special "Save the Titanic with Bob Ballard," premiering Monday, April 9, on the National Geographic Channel, with the classic film "Secrets of the Titanic." Formats: DVD. $19.97. Extras: "Last Hours of the Titanic, Behind-the-Scenes," photo gallery, a Titanic route map, a profile of Ballard, trivia quiz. (National Geographic Home Entertainment).
Sleeping Beauty
(2011) Emily Browning, Rachael Blake. A haunting portrait of a young university student drawn into a mysterious hidden world of unspoken desires. Formats: DVD. (IFC).
A Streetcar Named Desire: The Original Restored Version BLU-RAY DEBUT
(1951) Dir.: Elia Kazan; Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden. Restores three minutes of lost footage cut at the request of the Legion of Decency censorship group. Housed in a 40-page Blu-ray book with photos, film history trivia and more. Extras: Five documentaries; commentary by Karl Malden, film historian Rudy Behlmer and Jeff Young; "Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey" documentary; outtakes; Marlon Brando screen test. (Warner).
Surviving Hitler: A Love Story
(2011) Documentary. A shocking true life love story in the midst of humankind's darkest horror, a harrowing tale of war, resistance, and survival. As a teenager in Nazi Germany, Jutta is shocked to discover she is Jewish. She joins the German resistance and meets Helmuth, an injured soldier. The two become sweethearts and soon co-conspirators in the daring final plot to assassinate Hitler. At the center of the documentary is a love story for the ages, with riveting narration by Jutta herself, original 8mm footage (shot by Helmuth) and, miraculously, a happy ending. Formats: DVD, $24.98. (Osiris Entertainment).
The Witches of Oz
(2011) Paulie Rojas, Billy Boyd, Sean Astin, Lance Henriksen, Christopher Lloyd, Jeffrey Combs, Ethan Embry, Mia Sara. TV miniseries is kind of a sequel to "The Wizard of Oz": a modern Dorothy Gale discovers that her best selling novels are actually based on suppressed childhood memories of her time in Oz, and that she may be in danger of experiencing it all over again. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc. (Image Entertainment).
The Iron Lady
A surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male dominated world. Much more than a biographical epic, the film is also the surprisingly intimate journey of a "common" grocer's daughter whose social ambition and steel will -- along with the love of her husband and confidant, Denis (Jim Broadbent) — propelled her to unprecedented power. Combining fact, fiction and poetic flight of imagination -- as well as flashbacks -- director Phyllida Lloyd creates a portrait that reveals the many faces of Thatcher: the hard-nosed conservative; the woman who demolished the barriers of gender and class in a male-dominated world; the spirited wife and mother who longed to change her country for the better. And it doesn't hurt that Streep gives one of the greatest performances of her career.
Vitals: Director: Phyllida Lloyd. Stars: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Olivia Colman, Alexandra Roach, Harry Lloyd, Richard E. Grant.
2011, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 105 min., BioDrama, Box office gross: $17.519 million, The Weinstein Co./Anchor Bay.
The Darkest Hour
Sci-fi actioner about five young people who find themselves stranded in Moscow, fighting to survive in the wake of a devastating alien invasion that saw the invaders attack via our power supplies. The thriller highlights the classic beauty of Moscow alongside mind-blowing special effects.
Vitals: Director: Chris Gorak. Stars: Emile Hirsch, Max Minghella, Olivia Thirlby, Rachael Taylor.
2011, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 89 min., Science Fiction, Box office gross: $21.426 million, Summit Entertainment.
Conversation Piece
(1974 -- Italy)
Don Juan DeMarco
(1994)
A Streetcar Named Desire: The Original Restored Version
(1951)
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