Spike Lee weighs with a dissertation on the Hollywood campus musical. School Daze (1/30/01) has some pretty funny viewer hazing. Columbia is releasing the 1988 film anamorphic widescreen in a special edition including commentary lesson by Lee.

Cary Grant and Doris Day make a pretty good team in That Touch of Mink (1/23/01), the 1962 film being released by Artisan.

Anything from dynamic Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura must be worth a look. Goya in Bordeaux (1/30/01) takes a look at the incendiary Spanish artist in old age. Coming from Columbia in anamorphic widescreen 16 x 9 enhanced with English subtitles.

Deep in the Amazon forests of Brazil  time stands still until it collides with the present. The Emerald Forest (2/6/01) is beautifully filmed by director John Boorman and stars his son Charley Boorman as a young man who must return to his roots. MGM gives the 1985 film the 16 x 9 enhanced anamorphic treatment.

Charles Bronson spawned a franchise of revenge with his starring role in Death Wish (1/16/01). The controversial 1974 is being released by Paramount anamorphic widescreen 16 x 9 enhanced.

Driving toward the end zone. Paramount scores a touchdown with the release of the 1979 pigskin flick North Dallas Forty (1/13/01). Nick Nolte glides under the ball with perfect cynicism under Ted Kotcheff's direction.

Burt Reynolds is the ex-professional football star forced to run The Longest Yard (1/30/01) in this 1974 prison drama from no nonsense director Robert Aldrich. Paramount delivers the DVD is anamorphic widescreen 16 x 9 enhanced.

Maybe we'll get to hear if director William Friedkin really believes in the devil in the audio commentary for the new special edition of his 1973 horror classic The Exorcist (12/26/00). This is the version you've never seen.

If you missed the 1997 City of Industry (2/6/01) in the theaters or on laserdisc, you get another chance to enjoy this neo noir on DVD from MGM in a no-frills widescreen edition. Harvey Keitel gives another gritty performance and Famke Janssen is the lovely lady he must protect.

Jessica Lange exercises her acting chops in Blue Sky (2/6/01) from director Tony Richardson. The 1992 film is being released anamorphic widescreen 16 x 9 enhanced by MGM.

Paramount is polishing up the machine guns for a new anamorphic widescreen 16 x 9 enhanced edition of The Untouchables (1/16/01). Kevin Costner does Elliot Ness and Sean Connery is a tough Chicago cop. Director Brian De Palma doin' what comes naturally.

Oliver Stone provides audio commentary over the action of JFK(2/6/01) in this special edition DVD from Warner. The 1991 film is being released anamorphic widescreen 16 x 9 enhanced.

Take a trip to the California vineyards of post World War II with Alfonso Arau's dreamy A Walk in the Clouds (1/09/01). Fox is delivering the DVD anamorphic widescreen 1.85.

Director Ed Zwick provides the commentary in Fox's special edition DVD release of Courage Under Fire (12/26/00). Meg Ryan stars as a combat officers given Rashoman like scrutiny by Denzel Washington

Several Fox DVDs,  The Siege(12/26/00), Last of the Mohicans(1/23/01), and Predator(12/26/00) are being re-released with anamorphic 16 x 9 enhancement .

Kevin Smith takes irreverence to the heavens with Dogma(1/16/01). The special edition from Columbia Tristar will divulge everything you wanted to know about Dogma and more......

A favorite of PBS television mystery fans,  the 1975  BBC series Lord Peter Wimsey: Five Red Herrings (2/6/01) is being released by Acorn Media

French director Bertrand Tavernier's 'Round Midnight (1/30/01), a moody ode to Jazz, is being released by Warner with audio commentary by Tavernier. Both a director and a film scholar, Tavernier's observations on the 1986 film should prove  illuminating.

Forest Whitaker stars in Clint Eastwood's biopic of Jazz legend Charlie Parker. Bird (1/30/01) made in 1988 is a dark film covering material obviously admired by the director.

The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (1/23/01) failed to take off at the theatrical box office. Will home video prove a better venue for the tongue in cheek broad humor? Universal is releasing the DVD anamorphic widescreen 16 x 9 enhanced.

Take a look at some of the talent involved with Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2/20/01): Ian Holm, Leslie Caron, June Whitfield, Judi Dench under the direction of Gilles MacKinnon. The 2000 British Film was distributed by HBO in the States and is being released by HBO on DVD.

An art house favorite of the sixties. La Guerre Est Finie (1/30/01)is being released Full Frame on DVD by Image Entertainment. Starring Yves Montand, the French film explores the emotional ramifications of war.

Finally getting the Platinum treatment from New Line, David Fincher's Seven(12/19/00) is being released in chock full special edition. Audio commentaries, deleted scenes and a lesson in the Seven Deadly Sins. How can you resist?

The cheerleaders take center stage as girl groups vie for a national championship. No, it's not yet another Rockyesque ode to the underdog. Bring it On (1/23/01) finds all the comic possibilities between the acrobatic hurrahs in this special edition from Universal. Peyton Reid directs a bevy of pretty birds led in formation by Kirsten Dunst.

Selections from the feature archive include articles on Akira Kurosawa,  Frank Darabont, Blonde Bimbos, Hollywood Street Gangs, or Vietnam: The Hollywood Pariah, and many more....

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He's part of the dynamic duo that restored Lawrence of Arabia, Spartacus, My Fair Lady and Vertigo. Harris rides a white horse into the for the cause of preserving our film legacy. Click on the image to read more.

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