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Posted: December 25, 2009 at 12:10 a.m.
LITTLE ROCK — Recent DVD releases:
It Might Get Loud (PG-13, 98 minutes) Director Davis Guggenheim’s excellent if superficial documentary is an act of religious devotion. He arranged for a summit of three electric guitar virtuosos of different generations and approaches to the instrument: Jimmy Page, the blues-ginning motor of the Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin; U2’s atmospheric accretionist the Edge, and Jack White, the chief creative force behind The White Stripes. He follows them as they visit old haunts, rummage through vinyl records and memories, and try to explain feelings and instincts that cannot be reduced to words. While these guys have interesting things to say, they’re more articulate when they play. The Blu-ray disc includes deleted scenes and commentary with Guggenheim, producer Lesley Chilcott and producer Thomas Tull.
Grade: 88
Night and Day (not rated, 144 minutes) This stylish battle-of-the-sexes saga from Korean director Hong Sang-soo follows a 40-year-old artist who flees a drug bust in Korea, leaving his wife behind, to hide out in a rundown Paris hotel populated with other Korean expatriates who tend to indulge in various forms of temptation. The film, which screened at the New York and Berlin film festivals, is available on IFC On Demand (available on Comcast, Cox, Time Warner, Cablevision and Bright House cable systems) for two or three months. In Korean and French with English subtitles.
Grade: 82
MovieStyle, Pages 33 on 12/25/2009
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