The Great Race [DVD] [Standard]

This legendary film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors of war. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in Belorussia, teenage Flyora (Alexei Kravchenko, in a searing depiction of anguish) eagerly joins the Soviet resistance. Rather than the adventure and glory he envisioned, what he finds is a waking nightmare of unimaginable carnage and cruelty rendered with a feverish, otherworldly intensity by Klimov's subjective camera work and expressionistic sound design. Nearly blocked from being made by Soviet censors, who took seven years to approve it's script, Come and See is perhaps the most visceral, impossible-to-forget antiwar film ever made.

Two-disc set includes Ghostbusters (1984)Fired from their university, parapsychology professors Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd), and Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) become spirit catchers-for-hire, in this supernaturally successful comedy. And when the return of an ancient deity causes the dead to rise from the grave, the boys find all of New York City clamoring for their services. Sigourney Weaver, Rick Moranis, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts co-star. Directed by Ivan Reitman; written by Aykroyd and Ramis. 105 min. C/Rtg PG Ghostbusters II (1989)It's slime time once again in this hit sequel that finds the Ghostbusters strapping on their proton packs for more hauntingly funny hijinks. This time, they must stop a medieval tyrant from using an innocent child and a river of anger-infused slime flowing under Manhattan to come back to life and conquer the world. Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts star. 124 min. C/Rtg PG Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack English Dolby Digital 5.1.

Thoroughly Modern Millie [DVD]