9 best warner bros 20s

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Roaring Twenties, The (DVD)

Academy Award winners Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney star in thisstory of three friends who return from World War I to the United Statesin the era of jazz, speakeasies and bootleggers--The Roaring Twenties!George Hally (Bogart), Eddie Bartlett (Cagney) and Lloyd Hart (JeffeyLynn) become rich and powerful working both sides of the law in thedecade after the War. But the stock market crash and a woman, JeanSherman (Priscilla Lane), loved by both Hally and Hart, spell a violentend to their lives of crime.Based on the story "The World Moves On" by columnist Mark Hellinger.

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The twenties were a wild time when gangsters ruled the streets and gambling was their favorite pastime. This fast-moving drama captures the feel and flare of these "roaring '20s." Starring David Janssen ("Run for Your Life," TV's "The Fugitive") and screen legend Mickey Rooney ("National Velvet").

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Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 40th Anniversary Edition (DVD)

Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of a musical fantasy for the young, and the young at heart. The mysterious candy maker extraordinaire Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder) hides a Golden Ticket inside five of his famous candy bars. The kids who find them are invited on a grand tour of the wondrous, wacky Wonka factory, and a chance for an even grander prize -- if they can resist temptation. The delightful musical score includes the hit song "The Candyman." From Roald Dahl's classic novel, produced by David Wolper ("Roots," "The Thorn Birds") and nominated for an Academy Award.

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It's the spring of 1922 in New York City, a decadent playground of shifting morals, glittering jazz, bootleg empires and skyrocketing stocks. Chasing the American Dream, would-be writer Nick Carraway (Golden Globe nominee Tobey Maguire) arrives from the Midwest only to land next door to Jay Gatsby (three-time Oscar nominee Leonardo DiCaprio), a mysterious millionaire whose estate overflows with endless parties. As Nick's beautiful cousin Daisy (Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan) and her blue-blooded husband Tom Buchanan (Joel Edgerton) fall into Gatsby's orbit, Nick bears witness to a tragedy of impossible love and incorruptible dreams. Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's timeless epic, The Great Gatsby mirrors the struggles of modern times in a dazzling visual journey from the mind of Baz Luhrmann, director of the Oscar-winning Moulin Rouge.



Special Features:

The Greatness of Gatsby

"Within and Without" with Tobey Maguire

The Swinging Sounds of Gatsby

The Jazz Age

Razzle Dazzle: The Fashion of the '20s

Fitzgerald's Visual Poetry

Gatsby Revealed

Deleted Scenes

1926 The Great Gatsby Trailer



Format: Color, Dolby, NTSC, Special Edition, Multiple Formats, Subtitled, Widescreen

Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1)

Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)

Number of discs: 1

Rated: PG-13

Run Time: 142 minutes

F. Scott Fitzgerald, meet Baz Luhrmann: One of the finest novels of American literature gets the lavish treatment we expect from the director of Moulin Rouge! and Romeo + Juliet. Were it not for those party scenes at the millionaire's mansion, The Great Gatsby would seem to be far down the list of possible projects for the hyper Luhrmann, but hey--that Gatsby fellow did know how to throw a shindig. And indeed, the party scenes brim with flappers and champagne and fireworks, all stuff that Luhrmann knows how to pump up to maximum volume. He's shrewdly arranged his movie around the golden-hued presence of Leonardo DiCaprio, who occupies his Jazz Age suits as though he'd waited to wear them all his life. Yet in some essential way, and despite what appears to be a sincere reverence for the book (in many ways the movie's extremely faithful to the plot), Luhrmann is completely off-key in his delivery of this sad-edged saga: The quick cutting, the glossy digital backdrops, the heavy emphasis on Fitzgerald's subtle imagery, all combine to throttle the material rather than animate it. Some of the people on screen fare nicely, as Joel Edgerton gets the brutishness of upper-class Tom Buchanan, Elizabeth Debicki is a sly Jordan Baker, and Tobey Maguire makes sense as the observant narrator Nick Carraway. As Gatsby's romantic ideal, the unattainable Daisy, Carey Mulligan appears misplaced, but one can hardly blame the actress for getting lost amidst the glitz. There's just one person to blame for this gaudy extravaganza, and it's not F. Scott Fitzgerald. --Robert Horton