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Brazil

By Chris Sikich · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

This 1985 Terry Gilliam masterpiece stands as one of the great examples of studio-prevented censorship. Universal originally wanted to chop more than 30 minutes out of the film and give the film a happy ending. But critics came to the rescue after a special screening of Gilliam's original cut.

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Turn it up

By Yahya Chami and Yayha Chami · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

I have been to a lot of parties at IU that would have been phenomenal if the music played had come from a bigger selection. Picture this scene with me. Lots of people are there, and the music is loud. Most of the people are trying to dance and have a good time, but the only CD the host owns is a bootlegged copy of Nelly's Country Grammar album. You can only grind to the same song a set number of times in one night.

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Death of the VCR

By Jen Wagner · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

Colin Kearns took the leap in high school. He wanted more movies, better quality and the best technology on the market. His only option was to go digital. "I switched over to DVD a few years ago because I knew that eventually it was going to take over the video world, which it is slowly doing already," says Kearns, now a freshman in college. "I have had a deep interest in film for a couple years now, so I wanted to have access to the special features on DVD, like documentaries, deleted scenes and director's commentaries."

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Terminator 2: The Utimate Edition

By -Alec Toombs · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

Fans of the Schwarzenegger/ Cameron sci-fi masterpiece will undoubtedly flip over this boss new cut of the flick. There are two versions of the film on the double-sided disc, both the original theatrical version and a director's cut.

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Leon: The Professional

By -Alec Toombs · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

This is the moniker under which director Luc Besson's brilliant hitman-relationship flick "The Professional" was recently released on DVD. The film now contains 24 minutes of footage previously unseen by U.S. audiences, which really lift the film from an above-par action flick to a deep meditation on life and love with a high squib count.

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'Almost' perfect

By Jim Poeppelman and Jim Poppelman · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

1973 is infamous as the year America lost its morality, and Cameron Crowe's "Almost Famous" knows this. Of course it captures the immediate highs of the period, but it never loses sight of the long-term.

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Absurd comedy comes to City Lights series

By Chris Sikich · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

This Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant film is not only the pinnacle of Howard Hawks's directing career (which includes "His Girl Friday" and "The Big Sleep") but also the finest piece of screwball comedy, and maybe even comedy overall, ever produced in film. Grant and Hepburn are in top form, as a paleontologist and an heiress respectively, who never seem to be able to stop bumping into one another.

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Terminator 2: The Utimate Edition

By -Alec Toombs · Wednesday, Sept. 27,2000 10:37 p.m.

Fans of the Schwarzenegger/ Cameron sci-fi masterpiece will undoubtedly flip over this boss new cut of the flick. There are two versions of the film on the double-sided disc, both the original theatrical version and a director's cut.

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Leon: The Professional

By -Alec Toombs · Wednesday, Sept. 27,2000 10:36 p.m.

This is the moniker under which director Luc Besson's brilliant hitman-relationship flick "The Professional" was recently released on DVD. The film now contains 24 minutes of footage previously unseen by U.S. audiences, which really lift the film from an above-par action flick to a deep meditation on life and love with a high squib count.

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Boogie Nights

By -Alec Toombs · Wednesday, Sept. 27,2000 10:29 p.m.

\"Boogie Nights," easily one of the most incendiary films of the '90s, hits the DVD format for the second time in a pristine anamorphic transfer, chock full of supplemental materials.

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Brazil

By Chris Sikich · Wednesday, Sept. 27,2000 10:27 p.m.

This 1985 Terry Gilliam masterpiece stands as one of the great examples of studio-prevented censorship. Universal originally wanted to chop more than 30 minutes out of the film and give the film a happy ending. But critics came to the rescue after a special screening of Gilliam's original cut.

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The Dark Crystal

By Chris Sikich · Wednesday, Sept. 27,2000 10:26 p.m.

Jim Henson will forever be remembered for Kermit the Frog, but it is his 1982 work "The Dark Crystal" that might very well be the defining moment of his career.

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The Sweet Hereafter

By Chris Sikich · Wednesday, Sept. 27,2000 10:25 p.m.

This 1997 Atom Egoyan masterpiece on the slow destruction of the workings of a small town stands as one of the great films of the 1990s. New Line fully recognized this and gave it the best DVD treatment it could.

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Rating DVD quality

By Chris Sikich · Wednesday, Sept. 27,2000 10:16 p.m.

Movie studios have yet to fully figure out the possibilities of DVD, but they are getting there.

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Technology envy 101

By Jen Wagner · Wednesday, Sept. 27,2000 10:14 p.m.

Make a little more room in the U-Haul, mom. Along with their sheets, clothes and funky wall decorations, students are now moving decadent home entertainment centers, souped-up computers and expensive video game systems into their dorm rooms, apartments and houses.

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