Oscar Season has officially approached, and with it new Blu-ray releases of at least four of the 84 Best Picture winners (thus far).
Tom Hooper’s hit film Les Misérables, starring Academy Award nominees Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway, will be released March 19 on Blu-ray, DVD and digitally, according to Blu-ray.com.
This month’s column looks at the Blu-ray release of the Trevor Nunn-Susan Stroman Oklahoma! starring Hugh Jackman; the first season of the TV series “Smash”; rarities from Mel Brooks; and Alfred Hitchcock’s 1934 classic, “The Man Who Knew Too Much.”
The first season of the Emmy Award-winning musical drama series “Smash” created by Broadway’s Theresa Rebeck, with songs by Tony Award winners Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman is released on DVD Jan. 8, in anticipation of the Feb
“Rashomon,” “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” “Brazil,” a collection of Frank Capra films and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Trilogy of Life” are screened in this month’s column, offering some last-minute holiday gift ideas.
The first season of the Emmy Award-winning musical drama series “Smash” created by Broadway’s Theresa Rebeck, with songs by Tony Award winners Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman will be released on DVD Jan. 8, 2013, in anticipation of the Feb. 5 launch of Season Two on NBC.
Coming in between was the 1955 television version, which makes interesting and — thanks mostly to Cook — enjoyable watching. The live TV format necessitated severe cutting, taking the show down from what must have been in the 2:45 range to 76 minutes.
This month, we screen Marcel Carné’s backstage masterpiece “Children of Paradise”; Groucho Marx in The Mikado and Alfred Drake & Barbara Cook in Yeomen of the Guard; plus the fifth season of “Mad Men.”
Imagine, though, what could happen in the hands of a mighty actor who is heading for a severe breakdown; and whose reason, offstage, is clouded by raging jealousy?