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Top 5 New DVD Releases for the Week of February 3, 2004

By Jurgen Fauth & Marcy Dermansky, About.com

Sofia Coppola's "Lost In Translation" is a positively dreamy film, and with its release on DVD, you can get lost again and again.

1. Lost In Translation

Sofia Coppola's "Lost in Translation," starring Bill Murray and Scarlett Johannson as an odd couple stranded in a luxurious Tokyo hotel, is a hilariously funny and touching gem of a movie. Coppola recently made Oscar history, becoming the first American woman to be nominated for best director. Special features include the 25 minute behind-the-scenes sketch "Lost on Location" (some of it shot by Coppola's then-husband Spike Jonze), and a ten minute conversation with Oscar-nominated Bill Murray.

2. American Splendor

Audiences and juries from Sundance to Cannes and critics from IndieWire to the New Yorker's Anthony Lane love comic book artist Harvey Pekar and the ambitious, multi-layered Harvey-mentary "American Splendor" starring Paul Giamatti and Hope Davis. Special features include group commentary with directing team Sharon Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini plus the cast and the featurette "The Road to Splendor" which follows the real Harvey across the festival circuit and to the New York premiere.

3. Children of the Century

Our love affair with Juliette Binoche continues with the uncut release of Diane Kurys' dramatization of the tempestuous love affair between the two passionate 19th century romantics. Binoche stars as George Sand. The film, cut twenty minutes for its American release, has been restored for the DVD.
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4. Porn Theatre

"Porn Theater" covers a day in the life of a Parisian pornographic cinema. Jacques Nolot writes, directs, and stars as lonely voyeur who makes the theater his strange, sad world.
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5. The Gods Must Be Crazy/The Gods Must Be Crazy II

Starring a real-life Bushman N!xau, "The God's Must Be Crazy" is one of the most original and thought-provoking comedies ever. A Life goes topsy-turvy when an empty Coke® bottle drops magically from the sky. The two-disc special edition contains the featurette "Journey to Nyae Nyae," a Weblink to the Kalahari People's Fund, and more.
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