Alfred Hitchcock Masterpiece Collection<\/a>‘, so this should give you a good opportunity to compare his evolution as a filmmaker. <\/p>\nWoody Allen fans jonesing for more neurotic repartee after watching ‘To Rome with Love’ will be excited to collect a couple more of his classics, as MGM rolls out ‘Hannah and Her Sisters<\/strong>‘ and ‘Sleeper<\/strong>‘. <\/p>\nIn 1942, John Ford’s ‘How Green Was My Valley<\/strong>‘ famously beat out ‘Citizen Kane’ for the Best Picture Oscar, primarily because newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst launched a vicious smear campaign against the latter. Over time, Orson Welles’ film grew tremendously in stature, and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest movies of all time. ‘Valley’, meanwhile, has been reduced to a mere trivia note in Oscar history. I’ve never been terribly fond of Ford’s nostalgic family drama about a Welsh mining village. I found it terribly twee and romanticized. On the other hand, I haven’t seen it in years. Maybe I need to give it another shot. If nothing else, its stunning black & white photography should look great in high definition, assuming that Fox has done a good job with it. <\/p>\nFox also capitalizes on last week’s Oscar nominations by releasing Elia Kazan’s Best Picture winner ‘Gentleman’s Agreement<\/strong>‘, starring Gregory Peck as a reporter who goes undercover as a Jew to cover a story on anti-Semitism. <\/p>\nTwilight Time brings a mix of the silly (the James Bond spoof ‘Our Man Flint<\/strong>‘) and the serious (Blake Edwards’ suspense thriller ‘Experiment in Terror<\/strong>‘).<\/p>\nFinally, Warner Bros. tries to bilk Ryan Gosling fans one more time with an Ultimate Collector’s Edition Gift Set<\/em> of the weepie ‘The Notebook<\/strong>‘.<\/p>\nTelevision<\/h5>\n
On the TV front, BBC imports the fourth seasons of ‘Being Human<\/strong>‘ and ‘Merlin<\/strong>‘, plus a box set of the 1990 political thriller ‘House of Cards<\/strong>‘ and its two sequels.<\/p>\n—<\/p>\n
The two Criterions will go on my wish list this week. What are your plans?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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