Best of the tracks is on “Duck Soup” with notable critic Leonard Maltin and Marx Brothers historian Robert S.

The collection adds plenty of extras led by a 90-minute documentary on the brothers’ career and an optional commentary track for each movie that use film experts, and even the son of Harpo, Bill Marx. Specifically, viewers get the always-brilliant brothers Groucho, Chico, Harpo and mildly amusing Zeppo starring in the hits “The Cocoanuts,” “Animal Crackers,” “Monkey Business,” “Horse Feathers” and “Duck Soup.”Įach digitally remastered and restored, black-and-white gem features absurdist entertainment at its finest with witty repartee, slapstick, pantomime and even wacky musical numbers. The Marx Brothers Silver Screen Collection (Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Not Rated, $59.98) - Paramount Pictures legendary comedy team from the 1930s debuts on Blu-ray through a five-film collection housed on three discs that is sure to deliver an abundance of side-splitting laughs for the entire family. Schrader.įans can then enjoy three optional commentary tracks (with film studies professor Robert Kolker’s movie deconstruction track really standing out) an additional three hours of documentaries and featurettes and even a way to follow along with the script as the film plays.Īs an affordable gift this year, “Taxi Driver” is easily one of the most important films to add to a movie historian’s Blu-ray collection. The fantastic amount of bonus content is nearly as significant as the film and first includes a new panel discussion at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival with such principals as Mr. Chapman’s work in presenting a dreary and dangerous urban landscape of a 1970s Big Apple. However, the costar clearly outshining all of the actors is Mr. Bickle’s unrequited love Betsy, a 12-year old Jodie Foster as prostitute Iris Steensma and Harvey Keitel as the pimp Sport.

The critically acclaimed, Academy Award-nominated effort featured strong performances by Robert De Niro as the Vietnam war veteran turned taxi driver Travis Bickle, Cybill Shepherd as Mr. Taxi Driver: 40th Anniversary Edition (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Rated R, $19.99) - Director Martin Scorsese and writer Paul Schrader’s exploration of a scorned and alienated New York City cab driver returns to Blu-ray in a two-disc set featuring a 4K restoration that was supervised by the director and cinematographer Michael Chapman.

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