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  5* Videos and DVD's from this year

    Eyes Wide Shut     The Blair Witch Project
   

Warner Home Video, 18, 152 mins, 1999; video, £14.99
It may have taken years to make, led to the bizarre sackings of Harvey Keitel and Jennifer Jason Leigh, but Stanley Kubrick's last film is a pretty good way to sign off...

    Fox Pathé, 15, 77 mins, 1999; video £14.99
Now the battle's lost (too much hype) and won (most profitable film ever made), it's good to sit back in the discomfort of your own home and take another look at the Project...
         
    Breathless (A Bout de Souffle)     Magnolia
    Optimum Releasing, 15, 90 mins, 1959; video £16.99
Jean-Luc Godard's first film caused a sensation and remains one of his very few uncontested classics, a movie that ranks in every list of the century's best...
    Entertainment, 18, 186 mins, 1999; DVD, £16.99
Paul Thomas Anderson's follow-up to his LA porno epic, Boogie Nights, is an outstanding piece of work, another large-scale look at Californian life...
         
    The Insider     The Filth and the Fury
    Touchstone Video, 15, 151 mins, 1999; DVD £19.99
Michael Mann's engrossing, suspenseful and articulate drama about a sacked biologist's painful decision to expose the lies of the tobacco industry...
   

FilmFour, 15, 103 mins, 2000; DVD £18.99
Julien Temple's engrossing and loving history of the Sex Pistols says more about the splendour and futility of the rock'n'roll dream than any film since Woodstock...

         
    American Beauty     Angela's Ashes
    Universal, 18, 116 mins, 1999; video £15.99
A midsummer treat with the release of Sam Mendes's debut film, which swept the boards at the Oscars and looks better after all the hype has died...
    Universal, 15, 105 mins, 1999; DVD £14.99
Frank McCourt's bestselling, Pulitzer prize-winning memoir of a life of grim poverty in 1930s and 1940s Limerick is a natural for the screen...
         
     Fight Club    
    Fox Home Entertainment, 134 mins, 18, 1999; video £14.99
In terms of excitement, energy and intellectual force, David Fincher's controversial movie really stands out from the Hollywood crowd...