Discland
edited by Jonathan Doyle
Mafioso (The Criterion Collection, 3.18.2008) Nino Badalamenti is a supervisor in a car manufacturing plant who hasn't taken a vacation in over two years. On his way out the door to visit his beloved childhood hometown of Sicily -- with his blonde wife and daughters -- Nino is handed a package by his boss and asked to deliver it to a powerful and influential Sicilian gangster named Don Vincenzo. Once in Sicily, Nino has a hoot seeing friends and family, but his wife has trouble fitting in and is unfairly dismissed as a snob by Nino's family. Even more worrisome, Nino finds himself entangled in an intricate web of secret mafioso dealings and is eventually sent on an unexpectedly... elaborate errand. (continued)

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Seven and a half years...whoa...after

Seven and a half years...whoa...after the opening of Titanic in late '97, writer-director James Cameron has finally gotten down to assembling material for a special-edition DVD. Actually, two Titanic packages will hit the market next October -- a two-disc special edition and a four-disc collector’Äôs edition. Among the bonuses with be all those deleted scenes fans have been talking about for years. (Roughly an hour's worth, including the longer build-up to Kate Winslet's attempted suicide and the Leo "payback" scene when he wallops David Warner.) The "arduous" process of making Titanic was so hard on Cameron's psyche, he says in the press release, that "until recently, I wasn’Äôt really ready to dive back into it all." In fact, Cameron hasn't been ready to dive into directing a movie since. He's supposed to be working on a 3D adaptation of a Japanese graphic novel called "Battle Angel"...but he's been so slow or reluctant to pull the trigger on various other "maybe" projects, I'll believe the "Battle Angel" stories when I hear the film has begun principal photography.
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