This month we watch three unconventional and unlikely movies, each of which creates a world of its own: Wes Anderson’s “The Royal Tenenbaums,” Whit Stillman’s “Metropolitan” and a wacky 1932 comedy called “Million Dollar Legs.”
If the prospect of viewing a two-hour, black & white French-language prisoner-of-war movie leaves you less than enthusiastic, you may safely banish all qualms.
Watching Paul Newman and Robert Redford in “The Sting,” Jean Dujardin in Michel Hazanavicius’ “The Artist,” and Charles Chaplin’s “The Gold Rush,” gloriously transferred to Blu-ray.
The 1996 film adaptation of Evita , as well as the original films of “Newsies” and “Sister Act” are released June 19 on Blu-ray for the first time.
Dan Goggin’s Nunset Boulevard: The Nunsense Hollywood Bowl Show, which was filmed in Manhattan in July 2011, arrives on DVD May 29 from Kultur Film and Video.
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera sequel, Love Never Dies, which continues the love story between soprano Christine Daae and her masked tutor, is released on Blu-Ray and DVD May 29 by Universal Studios Home Entertainment.
This month we watch John Malkovich in “Being John Malkovich,” Julie Andrews and Robert Preston in “Victor Victoria,” a TV version of Rodgers & Hart’s “Dearest Enemy,” and David Craig’s master classes.
This month we watch a new set of films from Noel Coward and David Lean, including “Brief Encounter”; the Titanic tale, “A Night to Remember”; Louis Malle’s “Vanya on 42nd Street”; Fred Astaire in “The Sky’s the Limit”; and more.
This month’s selection of new releases includes Daniel Craig in “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” James Stewart in Otto Preminger’s “Anatomy of a Murder” and Derek Jacobi in the BBC series “I, Claudius.”
Steven Spielberg’s film adaptation of War Horse will arrive on Blu-ray, DVD, Digital and On-Demand April 3.