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Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Stefan Ruzowitzky's The Counterfeiters tells the true story of a Nazi plot to flood the US and UK with forged currency, using concentration camp prisoners to do the dirty deeds. Christopher Campbell thought it was "not quite a great film," while Kim Voynar wrote: "At its core, this is a film about courage and morality." Critical consensus overall was 94% positive, according to Rotten Tomatoes. The DVD includes an audio commentary by the director, deleted scenes, a "making of," interviews, and more. The film is also available on Blu-ray.

Set some two decades after the events in The Counterfeiters, the much lighter, sentimental My Brother is an Only Child "follows two brothers through years of Italian history," wrote James Rocchi. Though comparisons to the more ambitious and effective period family drama The Best of Youth might be inevitable, James said My Brother is still "a handsomely made, brightly charming pleasure in its own right." The DVD appears to be a bare-bones edition without any extras.

First broadcast on network television in November 1982, The Executioner's Song left a very strong impression on me. Career criminal Gary Gilmore (Tommy Lee Jones in a powerful performance) tries to go straight, taking up with young Nicole Baker (Rosanna Arquette in a startling, sexy, star-making role) before returning to crime and eventually killing two people in brutal fashion. Sentenced to die, Gilmore insisted on paying the ultimate penalty as speedily as possible.

Italian director Daniele Luchetti has made a dozen films since 1985. He won a David di Donatello Award as Best New Director for Domani accadrà in 1988, and his most recent film My Brother is an Only Child, has already won a Donatello Award for Best Script. My Brother opened to good box office returns in Italy in April, and shortly thereafter screened at Cannes as part of the Un Certain Regard section. In advance of its screening at the Toronto Film Festival, indieWIRE reports that THINKFilm has acquired North American rights to the film and plans to distribute it theatrically in March 2008.

Our own James Rocchi saw it at Cannes. He described My Brother as a "light-but-sentimental story of family in 1960's Italy" that reminded him of the "soaring, sweeping, astonishing" The Best of Youth. Like that six-hour epic, My Brother "follows two brothers through years of Italian history, with their personal and political travails echoing down the years, but My Brother is an Only Child is both briefer and breezier." James concluded: "Comparing it to The Best of Youth is like comparing a drawing of a toy car to a Formula One racer, but My Brother is an Only Child is still a handsomely-made, brightly charming pleasure in it's own right."

THINKFilm has a mixture of English-language features and documentaries on their upcoming slate. Earlier this year, they released Avenue Montaigne, a feather-light comedy/drama, in February, and the film ended up making more than two million dollars, so perhaps they're hoping to repeat that success with My Brother is an Only Child.