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Top 5 New DVD Releases - January 24, 2006

By Jurgen Fauth & Marcy Dermansky, About.com

This week's top DVD recommendations include an indie satire ("Thumbsucker"), a cult classic ("Repo Man"), and a dose of Ingmar Bergman ("The Virgin Spring.")

1. Thumbsucker

There's the Keanu Reeves you know in "The Matrix" and there is the Keanu Reeves from "Thumbsucker." I'd bet good money on it: he is the best hippie dentist you are going to see in a contemporary independent film. Mike Mills social satire has plenty of other selling points, including winning performances by newcomer Lou Taylor Pucci, Tilda Swinton, and Vince Vaugn as a lecherous but good natured debate team coach.
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2. The Virgin Spring

Winner of the 1961 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, Ingmar Bergman’s "Virgin Spring" is a harrowing tale of faith, revenge, and savagery in medieval Sweden. Starring Max von Sydow, the film is both beautiful and cruel in its depiction of a world teetering between the sacred and the profane and one father’s longing to avenge the murder of a child.
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3. The Aristocrats

We're getting a reputation for hating comedy. Three for three, our reviews have been less than kind to Sarah Silverman, Albert Brooks, and the very film we are about to recommend. Because you'd be hard pressed to find a movie with more curse words than "The Aristrocrats."

4. Repo Man: Collector's Edition

It's always a good thing when a cult classic gets the DVD collector's edition treatment. The subdued and always cool Harry Dean Stanton and not quite forgotten brat packer Emilio Estevez star as burned out car repossesors. Special features include a party atmosphere commentary track by writer/director Alex Cox and others, the 24-minute featurette "The Missing Scenes" and an interview with Stanton.
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5. My Date With Drew

Celebrity worship takes all forms. This low budget ($1,100 to be exact) documentary follows Hollywood hopeful Brian Herzlinger's attempts to get a date with Drew Barrymore, who he worshipped since childhood.
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