The MirrorARCHIVES: May 4-10.2006 Vol. 21 No. 45  
Vidiot's Box

Tennessee Williams was a playwright exceptionally well-served by the movie adaptations of his works, and the Tennessee Williams Film Collection is a new box set that compiles six of his works from the Warner vaults.

This includes a new two-disc special edition of A Streetcar Named Desire, with intriguing extras like Marlon Brando’s screen test, a full-length doc about director Elia Kazan and commentary by the great Karl Malden. The set also includes Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, with commentary by Williams biographer Donald Spoto, Sweet Bird of Youth with bonus Rip Torn and Geraldine Page screen tests, The Night of the Iguana, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone and Baby Doll. There’s also an additional DVD featuring the 1974 documentary Tennessee Williams’ South.

François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows was originally put out on DVD in 1999 by the distinguished Criterion Collection, but it soon went out of print (becoming a collector’s item), and later was only available as part of their lovely but pricey Antoine Doinel box set. If you can’t splurge for that, they’re finally re-releasing the film in its single disc format this month. —Mark Slutsky

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