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18G I FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 11 2009 MOVIES MiamiHeraldcom I THE MIAMI HERALD DVD SCANS Great extras intensify best work New DYI)s and Mu-rays due in stores on Tuesdav accounted for but the dialogue is less jarring and artificial than in his other pictures There are a couple of late-inning plot twists but unlike the rest of films this story does not hinge on such trickery Most important Homi- BY RENE RODRIGUEZ rrodriguez a MiamiHeraldcom Although Homicide (The Criterion Collection $40) was only David third outing as a writer-director the film remains his best and most satisfying The staccato unnatural Mamet-speak is jo 5 13 SI I ill I i I Zatoichi Camille Casablanca Child's Play Crash: The Complete First Season Deep Impact Easy Virtue Grace Grey's Anatomy: The Com- plete Fifth Season The Hannibal Lecter Anthology Hero Iron Monkey Misery My Name is Earl: Season Four Punch-Drunk Love Valentino Van Helsing Varsity Blues Wrong Turn Wrong Turn 2: Dead End X-Men Origins: Wolverine Subscribe Now to the 2010 Series! January 22 23 BRAHMS SYMPHONY NO 2 Franz Welser-Most conductor Leila josefowicz violin cide cuts deeper than most other Mamet movies because its theme a cop (Joe Mantegna) forced to confront his neglected Jewish heritage while investigating the murder of an elderly woman transcends genre and inflammatory subtexts of racism Instead it becomes a memorable meditation on identity and the price we pay when we subvert our essence in order to blend in with others The movie is a taut compelling thriller but an even better character study of a complicated man who at a great cost realizes he is nothing like i the person he thinks he is and the world around him has been in on his lie from the beginning Everyone was just patronizing him all along How devastating I is that? Previously unavailable on DVD Homicide gets the deluxe Criterion treatment on a disc that accompanies the movie (which looks 1 fine but not stellar) with a suite of terrific extras including a documentary 1 featuring interviews with many of stock i players about the pleasures of wrangling with his iambic-pentameter dialogue The best extra is a com-1 mentary track by Mamet and actor William Macy who plays Mante-i partner Clearly enthused by the opportu-! nity to revisit the movie Mamet talks about the state of independent film- making and his approach (he re-reads Joseph Campbell when he starts a new screenplay) He elaborates on the themes of i prejudice by observing that when a minor- DVDs Crash: The Complete First Season CSI Miami: Complete Seventh Season Easy Virtue Grace Anatomy: The Complete Fifth Season Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Season Four My Name is Earl: Season Four Rumba Sanctuary: The Complete First Season Valentino X-Men Origins: Wolverine BLU-RAY An American Werewolf in London Army of Darkness The Blind Swordsman: 03 JKANNK DUll MAN but it is also strangely mesmerizing never been so intrigued by watching people slurp soup and as three days unfold and cracks appear within rigorously structured routine an unnerving sense of doom begins to build January 29 30 BEETHOVEN Franz Ceber-Most conductor Joela Jones piano -1 3-CONCERT PACKAGES FROM $120 PURCHASE ONLINE arshtcenterorg PURCHASE BY PHONE 305949 6722 FOR MORE INFORMATION ClevelandOrchestraMiami com F1 PMAN (AIJ 0 E3 89 7 ity has racial Mamet also reveals the similarity between cops and dramatists: know everyone is A mammoth (3 Vi hours!) epic about housework the 1975 experimental classic Jeanne Dielman 23 Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles (Criterion Collection $40) is the rare sort of film that can permanently change the way you think about movies provided you can sit through it The title refers to the address of the heroine (the great Delphine Seyrig) a widow with an adolescent son who cleans house prepares supper knits and late every afternoon entertains a steady clientele of johns who pay her for sex That last business is treated as dryly and straightforwardly as the rest of routine Directed by then 25-year-old Chantal Akerman the movie consists of exasper-atingly long takes in which we watch Jeanne do the dishes brew coffee peel potatoes and prepare a meat loaf It sounds boring March 26 27 ROMEO AND JULIET Vladimir Ashkenazy conductor Ingrid Fliter piano The two-disc set includes an excellent assortment of extras including an hour-long documentary shot on the set in which Seyrig forces her recalcitrant director to explain her motivations There is also much discussion about the meaning as a tract Another supplement is a 25-minute interview with Akerman shot earlier this year in which the director accidentally I suspect reveals a critical off-camera event that explains the events of the third day more clearly Jeanne Dielman is not for all tastes But for those with the necessary patience it is a game-changing masterpiece errs start it 8 on FrnUvs ur NjumJjvi tn rie Adrienne rsftt i inter i xtue or rhe-arc jinn jndjimeil Kmurtti omerrHall Adrienne Arsht Certer Pwwntrd hy the Musud 4i Ksmuatum at Vfumi 4iui tke AJrvmt Ann I rmrr far ikt prrftyrmtnf 3rt of Miaim-Uatie (ouney HjittdH F-nuvianoo Off Jd Foundation im.