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PR To Rome with Love on Blu-ray & DVD Jan 15

Four independent vignettes about four characters whose adventures change their lives forever: an average Roman wakes up one day to find himself a well-known celebrity; an American architect revisits the streets on which he used to live as a student; a young couple on their honeymoon are pulled into separate romantic encounters; and an American opera director tries to turn a singing mortician into a star.

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

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Posted by: News Editor - November 27, 2012, 8:41 am - PR
Keywords: comedy

PR Cut to the Chase: The Charley Chase Comedy Collection on DVD Nov 6

Years in the making, this amazing Charley Chase collection features more than five hours of comic masterpieces from the height of Chase's career. The Uneasy Three (from a 35mm print at the Museum of Modern Art) and Charley My Boy (from a 16mm print from the John Hampton Collection, courtesy of the Stanford Theater Foundation) are exclusive to this release.

Milestone Film & Video

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Posted by: News Editor - October 25, 2012, 7:29 am - PR
Keywords: comedy

PR The Salt of Life on DVD & Digital Sep 18

Director Gianni Di Gregorio has created another sparkling comic ode to the ladies in his life--but this time he plays middle-aged retiree Gianni, who has become invisible to all the women of Rome, regardless of age or relation.

Zeitgeist Films

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Posted by: News Editor - September 3, 2012, 9:24 am - PR
Keywords: comedy

News The Woody Allen-Mia Farrow scandal 20 years later

Yahoo.com

Posted by: News Editor - August 23, 2012, 1:35 am - News
Keywords: movie, woody allen, mia farrow, andre previn, soon-yi previn

News Marvin Hamlisch Dead: Streisand, Minnelli, Menzel React (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post

Posted by: News Editor - August 8, 2012, 9:33 am - News
Keywords: music, marvin hamlisch, composer, james bond, woody allen, a chorus line

News Allen's "To Rome with Love" launches LA film fest

Chicago Tribune

Posted by: News Editor - June 15, 2012, 11:33 am - News
Keywords: movie, woody allen, to rome with love, ensemble comedy, los angeles film festival, sony pictrues, steven soderbergh

News Woody's 'To Rome with Love' shows the sweet life

- Yahoo! News

Posted by: News Editor - April 13, 2012, 11:02 am - News
Keywords: movie, woody allen, to rome with love, penelope cruz, alec baldwin, italian comic actor/director roberto benigni.

PR On The Bowery on DVD & Blu-ray Feb 21

When the film opened it 1956, it exploded on the screen, burning away years of Hollywood artifice, jump-starting the post-war American independent film movement and earning an Oscar nomination. Now gloriously restored by the Cineteca di Bologna, On the Bowery is both an incredible document of a bygone era and a vivid and devastating portrait of addiction that resonates today just as it did when it was made.

Milestone Film & Video

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Posted by: News Editor - January 26, 2012, 8:40 am - PR
Keywords: drama, restoration

News Factbox: Ten films to look out for at Cannes

Reuters

Posted by: News Editor - May 6, 2011, 9:28 am - News
Keywords: movie, film festival, 'the tree of life, ' 'pirates of the caribbean: on stranger tides, ' johnny depp, penelope cruz, 'midnight in paris, ' woody allen

PR The Best of the Dean Martin Show DVD, double DVD, and 6-DVD Collector's Edition May 24

The Best of the Dean Martin Variety Show sets capture material never before released from some of the shows greatest episodes during its nine-year run on television from 1965 to 1974. Hosted by Dean Martin, the acclaimed variety and comedy show was one of the highest-rated in television history, garnering 12 Emmy nominations and a Golden Globe award (Dean Martin "Best Actor in a Comedy Television Series" 1967), frequented by hundreds of guests from across the world of entertainment including legendary actors and actresses from the stage and screen, pop and jazz singers, dancers and comedians.

Time Life

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Posted by: News Editor - April 11, 2011, 12:16 pm - PR
Keywords: telelvision, comedy

DVD Review WHATEVER WORKS

I'll take curmudgeonly late-middle-age New York comedians for $800, please, Alex.

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Posted by: Jon Danziger - November 9, 2009, 8:07 am - DVD Review
Keywords: comedy, new york, woody allen, larry david

PR Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics, Vol. 1 Box Set Nov 3

Collection Includes: The Big Heat and Available on DVD for the First Time: The Sniper, 5 Against the House, Murder by Contract, The Lineup. Bonus Features Include Special Introductions by Martin Scorsese, Michael Mann and Christopher Nolan and Commentary by James Ellroy and Eddie Muller

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

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Posted by: News Editor - October 4, 2009, 3:36 pm - PR
Keywords: classic, drama

DVD Review WHAT'S UP, TIGER LILY?

Woody Allen's comedic redubbing of a couple of Japanese crime films is still full of laughs, but what's really funny is how similar this "new" DVD is to the one released in 2003. So funny I forgot to laugh.

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Posted by: Joel Cunningham - July 5, 2009, 7:30 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: woody allen, mst3k, spartan dog

DVD Review THE SEVENTH SEAL

A surreal and spooky masterpiece, delivered in high definition from Criterion.

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Posted by: Matt Serafini - July 30, 2009, 11:53 am - DVD Review
Keywords: the seventh seal, criterion, blu-ray, review

DVD Review THE SEVENTH SEAL

"I've been to Atlantic City a hundred times, I've never seen Death walking on the beach."—Steve Guttenberg in Diner

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Posted by: Jon Danziger - June 22, 2009, 7:12 am - DVD Review
Keywords: ingmar bergman, max von sydow, foreign, swedish, death, existentialism

Article Isn't It Trippy About the Munster Christmas?

The Munsters want to have a little Christmas fun. They make a tree with all the decorations, but one problem is that Eddie feels down in the dumps because he misses Transylvania. He also does not believe in Santa Claus. Herman, Lily, Grandpa, and Marilyn try to find ways to make Eddie feel better, by inviting friends and relatives to a monster "Munster" party. Grandpa even conjures up the real Santa. The Munsters deal with many issues in this holiday film that the whole family will enjoy.

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Posted by: Jesse Shanks - January 31, 2009, 2:36 pm - Article
Keywords: munsters, monsters