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It's A Wonderful Life (Colourised) [DVD] [1946] (Brand:Universal Pictures UK)

Now perhaps the most beloved American film, It's a Wonderful Life was
largely forgotten for years, due to a copyright quirk. Only in the
late 1970s did it find its audience through repeated TV showings.
Frank Capra's masterwork deserves its status as a feel-good communal
event, but it is also one of the most fascinating films in the
American cinema, a multilayered work of Dickensian density. George
Bailey (played superbly by James Stewart) grows up in the small town
of Bedford Falls, dreaming dreams of adventure and travel, but
circumstances conspire to keep him enslaved to his home turf.
Frustrated by his life, and haunted by an impending scandal, George
prepares to commit suicide on Christmas Eve. A heavenly messenger
(Henry Travers) arrives to show him a vision: what the world would
have been like if George had never been born. The sequence is a vivid
depiction of the American Dream gone bad, and probably the wildest
thing Capra ever shot (the director's optimistic vision may have
darkened during his experiences making military films in World War
II). Capra's triumph is to acknowledge the difficulties and
disappointments of life, while affirming--in the teary-eyed final
reel--his cherished values of friendship and individual achievement.
It's a Wonderful Life was not a big hit on its initial release, and it
won no Oscars (Capra and Stewart were nominated); but it continues to
weave a special magic. --Robert Horton...

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Laurel & Hardy - The Collection (21-disc Box Set) [DVD] (Brand:Universal Pictures UK)

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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (2 Disc Platinum Edition) [DVD] [1937] (Brand:Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm)

If you dig back into the dim and distant past, Disney as a company was
slow to appreciate the potential of the DVD format. And while it very
much got its act together in the end, the very early Disney DVDs were
distinctly underwhelming. The company has made no such mistake with
Blu-ray, embracing the format astoundingly well, as perfectly
demonstrated by its release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. As
part of the firm’s Diamond Collection, Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs is crammed to the rafters with terrific and engaging extra
features, which somehow find more things to say about a film that’s
seven decades old. But it’s the attention that the main feature
itself has been given that puts pretty much everyone else to shame.
You could be forgiven for thinking Disney might have been hamstrung by
the age of the material here, but there’s little evidence of that
with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The transfer here is stunningly
good, with the film looking more as if it was made in the last few
years rather than back in the 1930s. Consider the number of Blu-ray
catalogue titles of just ten years ago that look quite shaky, and
it’s all the more impressive an achievement. The audio, too, has
been treated to a spruce up, and the whole disc feels like no detail
was too much trouble. It’s a superb Blu-ray of a genuine classic
film, and further proof as to why Disney is so highly regarded for its
high definition discs. --Simon Brew...

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The Jungle Book : 40th Anniversary 2 Disc Platinum Edition [1967] [DVD] [1968] (Brand:Buena Vista Home Entertainment)

Disney's 1967 animated feature The Jungle Book seems even more
entertaining now than it did upon first release, with a hall-of-fame
vocal performance by Phil Harris as Baloo, the genial bear friend of
feral child Mowgli. Loosely based on Rudyard Kipling's original, the
film goes its own way as Disney animation will, but the strong
characters and smart casting (George Sanders as the villainous tiger,
Shere Khan) make it one of the studio's stronger feature-length
cartoons. Songs include "The Bare Necessities" and "Trust in Me".
--Tom Keogh...

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Mary Poppins [DVD] [1964] (Brand:Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm)

There is only one word that comes close to accurately describing the
enchanting Mary Poppins, and that term was coined by the movie itself:
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Even at 2 hours and 20 minutes,
Disney's pioneering mixture of live action and animation (based on the
books by P.L. Travers) still holds kids spellbound. Julie Andrews won
an Oscar as the world's most magically idealized nanny ("practically
perfect in every way," and complete with lighter-than-air umbrella),
and Dick Van Dyke is her clownishly charming beau, Bert the chimney
sweep. The songs are also terrific, ranging from bright and cheery ("A
Spoonful of Sugar") to dark and cheery (the Oscar-winning "Chim-Chim
Cheree") to touchingly melancholy ("Feed the Birds"). Many consider
Mary Poppins to be the crowning achievement of Walt Disney's
career--and it was the only one of his features to be nominated for a
best picture Academy Award until Beauty and the Beast in 1991. --Jim
Emerson...

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Pinocchio (2 Disc Platinum Edition) [DVD] [1940] (Brand:Walt Disney Pictures)

This legendary animated feature is surely beyond criticism by now and,
furthermore, it's unlikely that we'll see such forceful narrative in a
kids' cartoon ever again. Disney's treatment of Collodi's story of the
little wooden puppet who wants nothing more than to be a real boy is
always guaranteed to have audiences entranced. While some of the
movie's success is derived from its liberal use of the kind of imagery
no children's film-maker would even attempt to get past the storyboard
stage today--a mysterious island where children smoke cigars, get
drunk and turn into donkeys, a monstrous, malicious sea-creature which
is devoid of any trace of cuddliness and a pair of villains who
routinely abduct children, to give just a few examples--the characters
are depicted with the finest attention to detail, most of the songs
have become classics in their own right ("When You Wish Upon a Star"
being only one of many) and the graceful, stylised animation
positively glows with fine detail. Essential family viewing. --Roger
Thomas...

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The Wizard Of Oz (includes Sing-Along Version) [DVD] [1939] (Brand:Warner Home Video)

Young Dorothy Gale (played by Judy Garland), her dog, Toto, and her
three companions on the yellow brick road to Oz -- the Tin Man (Jack
Haley), the Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr), and the Scarecrow (Ray Bolger)
-- have become pop-culture icons and central figures in the legacy of
fantasy for children. Actress Margaret Hamilton, the Wicked Witch who
covets Dorothy's enchanted ruby slippers, has had the singular honour
of scaring the wits out of children for more than six decades. The
film's still as fresh, frightening and funny as it was when first
released in 1939. It may take some liberal detours from the original
story by L. Frank Baum, but it's loyal to the Baum legacy while
charting its own course as a spectacular film. Partly shot in glorious
Technicolor, befitting its dynamic production design (Munchkinland
alone is a psychedelic explosion of colour and decor), The Wizard of
Oz may not appeal to every taste as the years go by, but it's
nonetheless required viewing for kids of all ages. --Jeff Shannon...

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Dumbo Special Edition [DVD] [1941] (Brand:Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment)

A Disney "classic" that actually is a classic, Dumbo should be part of
your movie collection whether or not you have children. The
storytelling was never as lean as in Dumbo, the songs rarely as
haunting (or just plain weird), the characters rarely so well defined.
The film pits the "cold, cruel, heartless" world that can't accept
abnormality against a plucky, and mute, hero. Jumbo Jr. (Dumbo is a
mean-spirited nickname) is ostracised from the circus pack shortly
after his delivery by the stork because of his big ears. His mother
sticks up for him and is shackled. He's jeered by children (an
insightful scene has one boy poking fun at Dumbo's ears, even though
the youngster's ears are also ungainly), used by the circus folk, and
demoted to appearing with the clowns. Only the decent Timothy Q. Mouse
looks out for the little guy. Concerns about the un-PC "Jim Crow"
crows, who mock Dumbo with the wonderful "When I See an Elephant Fly",
should be moderated by remembering that the crows are the only social
group in the film who act kindly to the little outcast. If you don't
mist up during the "Baby Mine" scene, you may be legally pronounced
dead. --Keith Simanton...

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The Godfather Trilogy: Remastered Collection [DVD] [1972] (Brand:Paramount Home Entertainment)

Throughout his long, wandering, often distinguished career Francis
Ford Coppola has made many films that are good and fine, many more
that are flawed but undeniably interesting, and a handful of duds that
are worth viewing if only because his personality is so flagrantly
absent. Yet he is and always shall be known as the man who directed
the Godfather films, a series that has dominated and defined their
creator in a way perhaps no other director can understand. Coppola has
never been able to leave them alone, whether returning after 15 years
to make a trilogy of the diptych, or re-editing the first two films
into chronological order for a separate video release as The Godfather
Saga. The films are America's very own Shakespearean cycle: they tell
a tale of a vicious mobster and his extended personal and professional
families (once the stuff of righteous moral comeuppance), and they
dared to present themselves with an epic sweep and an unapologetically
tragic tone. Murder, it turned out, was a serious business. The first
film remains a towering achievement, brilliantly cast and conceived.
The entry of Michael Corleone into the family business, the transition
of power from his father, the ruthless dispatch of his enemies--all
this is told with an assurance that is breathtaking to behold. And it
turned out to be merely prologue; two years later The Godfather, Part
II balanced Michael's ever-greater acquisition of power and influence
during the fall of Cuba with the story of his father's own youthful
rise from immigrant slums. The stakes were higher, the story's
construction more elaborate, and the isolated despair at the end
wholly earned. (Has there ever been a cinematic performance greater
than Al Pacino's Michael, so smart and ambitious, marching through the
years into what he knows is his own doom with eyes open and hungry?)
The Godfather, Part III was mostly written off as an attempted
cash-in, but it is a wholly worthy conclusion, less slow than
autumnally patient and almost merciless in the way it brings Michael's
past sins crashing down around him even as he tries to redeem himself.
--Bruce Reid, Amazon.com...

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My Fair Lady (Special Edition) [DVD] [1964] (Brand:Paramount Home Entertainment)

Hollywood's legendary "woman's director," George Cukor (The Women, The
Philadelphia Story), transformed Audrey Hepburn into
street-urchin-turned-proper-lady Eliza Doolittle in this film version
of the Lerner and Loewe musical. Based on George Bernard Shaw's play
Pygmalion, My Fair Lady stars Rex Harrison as linguist Henry Higgins
(Harrison also played the role, opposite Julie Andrews, on stage), who
draws Eliza into a social experiment that works almost too well. The
letterbox edition of this film on video certainly pays tribute to the
pageantry of Cukor's set, but it also underscores a certain visual
stiffness that can slow viewer enthusiasm just a tad. But it's really
star wattage that keeps this film exciting, that and such great songs
as "On the Street Where You Live" and "I Could Have Danced All Night."
Actor Jeremy Brett, who gained a huge following later in life
portraying Sherlock Holmes, is quite electric as Eliza's determined
suitor. --Tom Keogh...

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