A New Leaf
(Olive Films, $25)
Elaine May is “a master of the comedy of discomfort,” said the A.V. Club. In this “big-hearted black comedy” from 1971, the director plays a daffy heiress wooed by a cynic who’s plotting to marry and murder her, and she and Walter Matthau “prove a perfect pairing of opposites.”
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