Under the Radar: New DVDs

Sun, 03/25/2007 - 4:04pm by amy

While you're waiting for that latest blockbuster to come in, try one of the following four titles we recently purchased: 5 Films About Christo & Jean-Claude, a 3-disc set that includes Christo's Valley Curtain, about the construction of a 500-foot-high orange veil stretched across Rifle Gap, Colo.; and Running Fence, (photo, top), about his 24-mile long fence of white fabric stretched across the hills of Sonoma and Marin Counties in California; Tony Palmer's Film About the Salzburg Festival, a 4-star tribute to this international festival and a must-see for music lovers; Secret of the Wild Child, a NOVA production about "Genie," a teenage girl whose parents kept her imprisoned in near-total isolation from infancy; and currently on order is Kozintsev's 1971 Russian production of King Lear, one of the truly great Soviet-era films that will "stand as one of the unshakable edifices of Shakespearean imagination...." (New Yorker)