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DVD Tips
Laura Dern; Maria Full of Grace; Collateral/The Door in the Floor; Mary
Poppins
Ray Pride
Laura Dern
As awards season gets frantic, two reissues highlight Laura Dern,
whose fierce, fearless performance as a disaffected housewife and mother
in John Curran's filming of stories by Andre Dubus, "We Don't Live Here
Anymore," will surely be short-listed. (Curran's film is out this week
as well.) From 1986, Joyce Chopra's "Smooth Talk" showcases a gawky,
mercurial teen Dern in a coming-of-age story; David Lynch's gruesome
"Wild at Heart" (1990) puts her out on a different limb.Maria Full of Grace
Joshua Marston's too-little-seen Spanish-language "Maria Full of
Grace," which was developed by the Sundance Institute and debuted there
in 2004, is due this week as well, and its central performance by
Catalina Sandino Moreno as a young Colombia woman tempted into the drug
trade, is deeply affecting, and will likely be lauded. Collateral/The Door in the Floor
Michael Mann's "Collateral," one of the more visually inventive
big-budget pictures of the year should be equally striking on DVD; the
quiet graces of Tod Williams' "The Door in the Floor" seem forgotten
in the months since its release, but its many virtues include a ripe
performance by Jeff Bridges as an artist who--gosh!--is a self-knowing,
self-mocking sonofabitch. Mary Poppins
And for a nostalgic bite of supercalifragilisticexpialidocious eye
candy, Disney's reissuing an eye-poppingly restored "Mary Poppins"
(1964) just in time for the holidays, with all manner of extras
featuring the aged principals of the production. All titles are released Tuesday.
(2004-12-07)
Also by Ray Pride
Tip of the Week
Laconic documentarian Ross McElwee could be considered the avuncular
papa of the contemporary self-referential documentary
(2004-11-30)
Ordinary people
Backstage with Mike Nichols' glossy yet stormy, savage adaptation of
Patrick Marber's 1997 world-weary worldwide hit play
(2004-11-30)
Short takes
The 2004 edition of the RESFEST Digital Film Festival is packed with
delirious eye-candy from visual creators around the world
(2004-11-30)
Off Camera
His latest, "Moolaade," is a rich portrait of daily life and cultural
strife
(2004-11-30)
DVD Tips
(2004-11-30)
Home alone
(2004-11-22)
DVD Tips
(2004-11-22)
The gift of reality
(2004-11-22)
Tip of the Week
(2004-11-17)
The human face
(2004-11-10)
Tip of the Week
(2004-11-09)
Tip of the Week
(2004-11-03)
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