THE SCENESTER: Taking Shots, Brothers-in-arms and Clooney takes flight

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THE SCENESTER: Taking Shots, Brothers-in-arms and Clooney takes flight

POSTED: Friday, December 4, 2009, 10:27 PM

Filed Under: Movies Scenester

Admit it, you want more from this week's Movies section.

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It's the most wonderful time of the year, or some such. A time when you're expected to drop large amounts of cash on your loved ones, whether you actually love them or not. Sam Adams rounds up some of the best DVD purchases for the cinephile on your shopping list, from the Wizard of Oz's Blu-Ray treatment to the newest Criterion catches. I've been drooling over this Kurosawa box set myself:

If there's one megabox that makes the grade, it's Criterion's AK 100, a centennial celebration of Akira Kurosawa that collects 25 of the master's films, including new, variable-quality transfers of his first four films: The Most Beautiful, The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail and both parts of Sanshiro Sugata. Due to rights issues, Criterion's now out-of-print Ran is not included, nor are the company's trademark profusion of extras, but considering the set would cost a cool thousand at Criterion's usual rates, the fact that it's available for roughly a quarter of that makes it a steal.

So ' if anyone out there wants to get me a present ' cough, cough.

35 Shots of Rum (35 rhums) ' A-

Armored

Brothers ' C-

Dare ' C

Everybody's Fine ' C

Transylmania

Up in the Air ' B+

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