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Top 2 New DVD Releases -July 11 2006

By Jurgen Fauth & Marcy Dermansky, About.com

Last year, Michael Winterbottom disturbed audiences with 9 Songs, the most romantic hardcore sex movie ever made, featuring real intercourse and live rock and roll. Right now, he is providing a vital public service with The Road to Guantanamo, a dramatization of three British Muslims' horrifying experience in America's illegal prison camps. In between, Winterbottom adapted Tristram Shandy, a famously unfilmable 18th-century novel--and it's hilarious.

1. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story

A meta-movie about an unfilmable novel: Steve Coogan plays the title character, who spends most of the film waiting to be born, as well as "Steve Coogan," the vain and insecure actor. With his trademark protean inventiveness, Michael Winterbottom adapts Laurence Sterne's groundbreaking 18th century book, and it's a riot.
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2. Yi Yi

Everything and nothing happens in Edward Yang's 172 minute drama Yi Yi (2000) about a family in modern day Taiwan. Yang paints with a very large canvas, beginning with a wedding, ending with a funeral, and placing a birth about halfway through the movie. The 2 Disc Criterion release includes a new, restored high-definition digital transfer and commentary by writer-director Edward Yang and noted Asian-cinema critic Tony Rayns.
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