The Artist
(Sony, $31)
“One of the most entertaining films in many a moon,” this French hit won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, said the Chicago Sun-Times. Jean Dujardin took home Best Actor honors for his role as a silent-movie star whose career dims with the advent of talking pictures.
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The Gold Rush
(Criterion, $30)
Charlie Chaplin heads to the Klondike in search of gold in this silent classic, said The New York Times. Chaplin recut the 1925 release in 1942 and added narration, but watch the original first. It’s deeper, and appears here in a digitally restored edition “that puts all previous editions to shame.”
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
(Cinema Guild, $30)
Not your standard cop drama, this recent masterwork from Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan instead plays like “an episode of CSI scripted by Anton Chekhov,” said Salon.com. As a group of men search by night for a body, “moments of elusive, unexpected revelation” quietly accrue.
