Ultimate DVD #22: Special Features • Reviews
Star Wars: Episode I - The
Phantom Menace
• On one hot, very exciting weekend in August, Ultimate DVD was allowed to
borrow an advance copy of the most eagerly awaited DVD so far…
A full review appears in
this issue: hear of the many, many deleted scenes, the
documentaries, the commentary...
 PLUS: We
do a little daydreaming and, with the knowledge of what does exist in the
Star Wars archives, wonder what might be on the DVDs of the original
trilogy when they finally arrive
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Meet the Simpsons
• Homer, Monty Burns, Bart, Lisa… we attempt to analyze those
unforgettable inhabitants of Springfield. PLUS: An extensive overview of the
Season One DVD Box Set
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| Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs
• As Disney bring their first-ever animated feature to DVD in style, we
look back to the making of a film that critics once dubbed a 'folly'
Pussycat, Pussycat...
• Josie and the Pussycats, the live-action take on the animated
1970s TV series, is now on Region 1 DVD, and we talk to star Rosario Dawson
about her role as the gorgeous, gregarious Val
Batman Forever!
• Holy digital transfers! The original 1960s Batman film is
remastered for DVD, with a wealth of extra features. Star Adam West tells us
what it's like to be back - and what DVD means for Catwoman's cleavage
The Stanley Kubrick
Collection
• As the great film-maker's works are released in a Box Set, we talk to
his long time collaborators Jan Harlan and Leon Vitali, who have now made the
documentary Stanley Kubrick - A Life in Pictures
Michelle Pfeiffer
• One of Hollywood's greatest leading ladies reveals why she hates getting
wet, but conquered her phobia to make Robert Zemeckis' crowd-pleasing chiller
What Lies Beneath
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| A huge range of reviews - read them here first!
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| Region 1 Movie
Reviews |
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Region 2 Movie, TV, Music
Reviews |
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18 new reviews including...
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Dozens of new reviews including:
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- Star Wars: Episode 1
- An American Werewolf in
London
- Basic Instinct: Special
Edition
- Batman: Special Edition
- Enemy at the Gates
- Josie and the Pussycats
- Meet Joe Black: Ultimate
Edition
- Memento
- The Mummy Returns
- Notting Hill: Ultimate
Edition
- Ordinary People
- Star Trek Volumes 29 and
30
- Total Recall: Special
Edition
- Wallace and Gromit
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Manhunter
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Gandhi
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Captain Scarlet
- Battlefield Earth
- Beautiful Creatures
- Best of Morecambe and Wise
- Best of The Two Ronnies
- Born Romantic
- Dead Man Walking
- Armageddon Double Disc
- Jaws 2,3,4
- Kramer vs Kramer
- Almost Famous
- Nurse Betty
- Platoon: Special
Edition
- Proof of Life
- Shallow Grave
- Sliding Doors
- Stanley Kubrick: The
Collection
- Superman I and II
- What Lies Beneath
- The Wonder Boys
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• More
TV (Region 2):
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Middlemarch,
Our Mutual Friend, Wives and Daughters...
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• Plus music from
The Who, Earth Wind and Fire and The Old Grey Whistle
Test
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| Note: Region 1 discs are intended for North America |
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Note: Region 2 discs are intended for Europe, Middle East, South
Africa, and Japan |
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Hardware
• We fly off to Berlin for the massive IFA electronics exhibition, and
meet with Samsung to discuss their latest must-have home entertainment
hardware
The Ultimate DVD
Guide
• Listings for hundreds of titles currently available on Region 2, in
conjunction with our friends at HMV. Includes Top 10 recommendations by
genre
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PLUS!
Commentary
• Our regular look at the changing DVD scene including more Matrix,
Shrek stomps onto DVD, Angel gets a crop and Pearl Harbor
gets a release in three waves
• Your
Letters. Why not drop us a
disc-related line now?
• Also there's
your chance to Ask the Anorak about those
nagging DVD queries
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| Pictures taken from this issue are
copyright:
Universal, 20th Century Fox, Lucasfilm, Visual Imagination
All other contents ©
Visual Imagination Ltd 2001. Not for reproduction
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