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What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?; Control; The Dirty Harry Ultimate
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
(MGM, $19.98)
In 1966, director Blake Edwards and star James Coburn made “one of the
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most ingeniously constructed American comedies,” said Dave Kehr in The New York Times. The “anti-war farce,” released during Vietnam, deserves a second look for its “brilliantly sustained series of plot reversals, inverted identities, and reconfigured values.”
Control
(Weinstein, $28.95)
While most music biopics make their subjects seem larger than life, Control creates “a life-size version” of post-punk icon Ian Curtis, said Dennis Lim in the Chicago Tribune. In his first feature film, director Anton Corbijn crafts a “spare, laconic portrait” of the Joy Division lead singer, dwelling not on the public legend but on the human tragedy of Curtis’ suicide at age 23.
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The Dirty Harry Ultimate
Collector’s Edition
(Warner, $74.92)
“If you’re feeling lucky and want to make Clint Eastwood’s day,” this box set should do the trick, said the Macon, Ga., Telegraph. The seven-disc set includes all five Dirty Harry films, “starring Eastwood as tough San Francisco police detective Harry Callahan.” Extras include a 40-page book and a feature-length documentary.
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