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High & Low: Godard Savages Capitalism & Mel Brooks Satirizes Everything

High & Low: Godard Savages Capitalism & Mel Brooks Satirizes Everything

Even Jean-Luc Godard, the bad boy of the French New Wave, loved a good car crash. And Mel Brooks loves sitting down with an erudite interviewer just as much as he loves a good fart joke. Together these auteurs climb the peaks and plumb the depths of this week's High and Low with new DVD releases that belong on the shelf of any film lover who enjoys a good Marxist dialectic leavened with the occasional showtune-singing Nazi. more »

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High and Low: Haigh's Sexy Weekend Stands With Lean's Brief Encounter, The Rescuers Go Blu-Ray

High and Low: Haigh's Sexy Weekend Stands With Lean's Brief Encounter, The Rescuers Go Blu-Ray

This week's DVD releases encompass everything from the sublime — Richard Linklater’s Bernie, one of the best films of the year so far (Millennium Entertainment; $29.99 Blu-Ray, $28.99 DVD) — to the ridiculous — the DVD debut of the 1980s T&A epic Joysticks (Scorpion Releasing; $19.95 DVD). For my tastes, however, the highlights include a subtle but powerful British romance along with some animated Disney faves that are available for the first time on Blu-ray. more »