Get swept away by Marco Tullio Giordana's remarkably moving "The Best of Youth," out this week on DVD. Don't let the six hour run time dissuade you. That's what the pause button is for. Also, special re-releases of two classic films: "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "Breakfast at Tiffanys."
1. The Best of Youth
It's easy to get scared away when you learn that "The Best of Youth" is six hours and forty minutes long. Don't. Marco Tullio Giordana's family epic is a remarkably moving film to be savored. At the center of the story, which stretches from the early 1960s into the new millennium, are brothers Nicola (Luigi Lo Cascio) and Matteo (Alessio Boni), characters so real and wonderful that it's impossible not to care deeply about their fates, and of those they touch.
2. The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Two-Disc Special Edition
Daniel Day Lewis was impossibly seductive as womanizing surgeon/window washer in Philip Kaufman's adaptation of the wonderful Milan Kundera novel "The Unbearable Lightness of Being." Young Juliette Binoche hides behind the lens of her camera and Lena Olin casts a spell with a black top hat. Almost twenty years after its 1988 theatrical release, the film is more compelling than ever.




