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new on DVD: ‘The Lives of Others,’ ‘Serenity,’ ‘Perfect Stranger,’ ‘The Ultimate Gift’

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The Lives of Others [buy it]. From my review:

The last line, the last look, the last moment: every movie lover knows that the ending can make or break a film. The Lives of Others -- which just won a very well deserved Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film -- has one of the greatest final lines of dialogue that I’ve ever heard in a movie. It’s so seemingly mundane that if I were to tell you what it is, you’d shrug and go, “Eh. What’s the big deal?” I won’t tell you, even though it wouldn’t spoil the film in any way, because I want you to be as haunted by its unexpected simplicity as I have been since I saw the film a few days ago. I keep coming back to that line -- and to the look on the actor’s face, which encompasses everything strange and beautiful and hopeful and ironic about the film -- and marveling at it.

Serenity: Collector's Edition [buy it]. Mal Reynolds and Co. get another DVD release, now with more pretty.


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Perfect Stranger [buy it]. From my review:

Preposterous, yet stupid. If you admire the simple elegance of the formula that underlies Disturbia, then you’ll love Perfect Stranger, a terrible mystery and a worse thriller, and one that can’t even be bothered to punch 21st-century buttons. This is, among other sorry things, a cautionary tale about the dangers of Internet chat. You know, like everyone was worried about in 1996. Coming for Summer 2008: Don’t Go Near the Telegraph!

The Ultimate Gift [buy it]. People are more important than material things! You heard it here first!


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The Lives Of Others was soul-gripping poignant, but the fact that Ulrich Mühe died a month ago makes it tragic.

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I'm MaryAnn Johanson: writer and ponderer in New York City who drinks too much wine and thinks way too much about such inconsequences as movies, TV, books, and the meaning of life.
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