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Two-disc set includes Madame Sousatzka (1988)From within an old London boardinghouse, eccentric and intractable piano teacher Irina Sousatzka (Shirley MacLaine) offers her services only to those with promise-and she finds a disciple in a gifted Indian teenager (Navin Chowdhry). Can she win the war of wills with her charge-as well as his family and handlers-when he insists he's ready for the concert stage? Offbeat drama co-stars Peggy Ashcroft, Twiggy, Leigh Lawson, Shabana Azmi; John Schlesinger directs. 121 min. C/Rtg PG-13 Shout (1991)West Texas, 1955 A musician (John Travolta) on the run from the law decides to lay low by taking a teaching job at a school for wayward boys. Pitching the classical curriculum, he reaches the troubled teens through rock 'n' roll, but his shaking of the apple cart might have serious consequences. Finger-popping rouser co-stars James Walters, Richard Jordan, Heather Graham, Linda Fiorentino, and, in her screen debut, Gwyneth Paltrow. 89 min. C/Rtg PG-13 The Man Who Cried (2000)In '30s Paris, Russian-born refugee Fegele Abramovich (Christina Ricci)-renamed InchSuzieInch-finds work as a chorus girl and befriends fellow dancer Lola (Cate Blanchett). Suzie's dream of traveling to America to find her long-lost father is put to the test by her growing romance with a handsome Gypsy (Johnny Depp) and the increasing threat of war in this rich, moody drama from director Sally Potter (InchOrlandoInch). John Turturro, Harry Dean Stanton also star. 100 min. C/Rtg R The Caveman's Valentine (2001)Directed by Kasi Lemmons (InchEve's BayouInch), this intriguing thriller stars Samuel L. Jackson as Romulus Ledbetter, a schizophrenic recluse who lives in a cave in a New York City park. When a homeless, drug-addicted young model dies mysteriously, Ledbetter thinks he was murdered, and his investigation takes him from his cave and into the New York art w
