The Best of the Rest …

Sure to kick Episode 2 anticipation into overdrive, Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace: Special Edition includes a CD-ROM with advance scenes from the second prequel due this summer (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, $29.98)… Silence is golden: This biggie-size box set, The Art of Buster Keaton, includes 10 of the comedian’s features and 19 of his shorts (Kino Video, $199.99)… Timed appropriately enough for the anniversary of the real thing, the Pearl Harbor 60th Anniversary Commemorative Edition Gift Set (whew!) features a National Geographic doc and NG map of the battle site (Touchstone Home Video, $49.99)… The definitive five-disc set, The Godfather DVD Collection achieves the impossible: Coppola’s trilogy looks, sounds, and just plain is better than ever (Paramount Home Video, $105.98)… The Matrix Gold Collection‘s second disc, The Matrix Revisited, is a feature-length doc on the making of the Wachowski Bros. blockbuster (Warner Home Video, $99.99)… The five-disc box set Marilyn Monroe: The Diamond Collection includes some of the bombshell’s best films, like Bus Stop and The Seven Year Itch, plus 40 minutes of never-before-seen footage from Monroe’s last, never-completed film (CBS/Fox Home Video, $79.98).

This article appears in December 7 • 2001.

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A graduate of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, Kimberley has written about film, books, and pop culture for The Austin Chronicle since 2000. She was named Editor of the Chronicle in 2016; she previously served as the paper’s Managing Editor, Screens Editor, Books Editor, and proofreader. Her work has been awarded by the Association of Alternative Newsmedia for excellence in arts criticism, team reporting, and special section (Best of Austin). The Austin Alliance for Women...