November 23, 2008

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Features: The DVD Shelf

THE DVD SHELF: "Mister Roberts," "One Touch of Venus" and a New Hitchcock Collection
03 Nov 2008
This month, we view a made-for-TV staging of "Mister Roberts," with Kevin Bacon and Charles Durning; the unmusicalized 1948 version of Kurt Weill's One Touch of Venus; and a restored box of eight films by Alfred Hitchcock.

THE DVD SHELF: Restored "Godfather"; TV's "Pushing Daisies"; Disney's "Beauty"
06 Oct 2008
This month we screen the grandly-restored five-DVD "Godfather: The Coppola Restoration"; the expanded new 50th Anniversary DVD of Disney's "Sleeping Beauty"; plus a quirky new TV series.



THE DVD SHELF: "Mad Men" Season One, and Duvall's "Faerie Tale Theatre"
08 Sep 2008 -- A look at DVD releases of the first season of the AMC series "Mad Men" and the seven-disc set of Shelley Duvall's star-studded "Faerie Tale Theatre."

THE DVD SHELF: Joshua Logan's "Fanny," Granada's "Brideshead," Chekhov, "Blues in the Night"
11 Aug 2008 -- This month's column discusses the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Fanny (presented without songs), a box set featuring the legendary miniseries "Brideshead Revisited," a collection on Chekhov works the jazz-themed drama "Blues in the Night."

THE DVD SHELF: Carmen Miranda Collection and Linney and Hoffman as "Savages" (14 Jul 2008)

THE DVD SHELF: Another "Muppet Show" Season, Plus Four Screwball Comedies (14 Jun 2008)

THE DVD SHELF: "Raisin in the Sun," "12 Angry Men," "The Red Balloon" and John Adams (19 May 2008)

THE DVD SHELF: Twenty-one Movies for April (20 Apr 2008)

THE DVD SHELF: "Sweeney Todd," "Life After Tomorrow," Disney's "Enchanted" & "101 Dalmatians" (24 Mar 2008)

THE DVD SHELF: "5,000 Fingers of Dr. T," "Member of the Wedding," Lubitsch Musicals and Hitchcock (25 Feb 2008)

THE DVD SHELF: Lansbury's "Manchurian Candidate," the Complete "Slings & Arrows" (28 Jan 2008)

THE DVD SHELF: "High School Musical 2," "The Simpsons Movie" and 14 Classics in Box Sets (24 Dec 2007)

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