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New videos include Season Four of 'Mission: Impossible'
"MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE" (SEASON FOUR). (1969-70. NOT RATED. PARAMOUNT. $49.99. SEVEN DISCS.)
What's new on video
"THE PRIVATE LIFE OF A MASTERPIECE." (2003-2006. NOT RATED. BBC WARNER. $99.98. SEVEN DISCS.)
New DVDs: 'Picture Snatcher,' 'Daisy Kenyon,' 'Forbidden Hollywood'
"PICTURE SNATCHER." (1933. NOT RATED. WARNER HOME VIDEO. $19.98.)Previously obscure James Cagney films are coming into release, none more obscure than "Picture Snatcher," a rare 1933 film about a crook who goes straight, but not too straight -- he goes to work as a newspaper photographer.
New DVDs: 'The Apartment,' 'Fortysomething,' 'Smart Money'
"THE APARTMENT: COLLECTOR'S EDITION." (1960. NOT RATED. MGM. $19.98.)This wonderfully nuanced dark comedy about sex in the workplace is the spiritual grandfather to "Mad Men." Both the movie -- which won five Oscars, including Best Picture -- and cable-TV series portray men behaving badly toward female co-workers (as well as their wives).
What's new on video
(LADY KILLER. 1933. NOT RATED. WARNER BROS. HOME VIDEO. $19.98)You might think you know James Cagney, but really, if you've never seen him in his early 1930s incarnation, you haven't seen him. Cagney's energy is extraordinary. He is full of mischief, and, moment by moment, he finds ways to keep things lively onscreen.
What's new on video
(SOME GIRLS. 1988. RATED R. MGM HOME VIDEO. $14.98)This frothy 1988 romantic comedy is finally out on DVD, no doubt to capitalize on the 21st century success of its two stars, Patrick Dempsey ("Grey's Anatomy's" McDreamy) and Oscar winner Jennifer Connelly ("A Beautiful Mind").
