RT on DVD: Waltz with a Shopaholic Pink Panther in Wonderland
Get Bruckheimer's chick flick, Steve Martin's slapstick sequel, an animated Oscar nominee and more!
There's something for everyone this week on DVD, starting with an Oscar-nominated animated documentary (Waltz with Bashir), a Jerry Bruckheimer-produced chick flick (Confessions of a Shopaholic), and a disappointing adaptation of a bestselling family fantasy (Inkheart, starring Brendan Fraser). Foreign film fanatics have a well-received import to watch (Alice's House, from Brazil), while an international cast can't save Steve Martin's latest slapstick (The Pink Panther 2). Criterion releases a French New Wave classic conundrum (Last Year at Marienbad on Blu-ray), Elle Fanning gets a star vehicle (Phoebe in Wonderland), we get twice the Crispin Glover than usual (Simon Says, in which he plays twin psychos), and Antonio Banderas and Morgan Freeman team up to show that "direct-to-DVD" doesn't always equal terrible (The Code, directed by Mimi Leder).
This celebrated animated documentary earned award season raves -- and, notably, an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Film -- for its dreamlike depiction of one man's struggle to remember his involvement in controversial events during the 1982 Lebanon War. Director Ari Folman illuminates his own hazy recollections as a young Israeli soldier with striking, gorgeous animation as his on-screen alter ego revisits old colleagues and a psychologist in order to understand why he has only fleeting memories of the war. An English language version is available on DVD and Blu-ray, along with a making-of featurette, director commentary, and more behind the scenes features.
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tomwaitsjrHAPPYICONOCLAST on 06-22-2009 06:23 PM
I'll get the code. I've been in love with Radha Mitchell ever since "High Art."
I love Last Year at Marienbaad. . . so I'll buy the blue-ray when I finally succumb and buy a blue-ray player. That day will make Best Buy happy. . .