DVD Gift Ideas: Three Titles for the Film Elite AKA Geeks in Your Life

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CHICAGO – Film elites are a particularly hard category of movie buffs to satisfy come gift giving time. When they drop terms like auteur and film movements and directors you’ve never heard of, what’s the best DVDs to give them? Here are three notables that have been released in the last couple of years.

The “Early Short Films of the French New Wave,” (Icarus Films), “Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands” (Film Movement) and “Blonde: The Marilyn Stories, Marilyn Monroe” (Film Chest Media Group) can satisfy any film geek.

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’French New Wave’ Shorts, ‘Dona Flor’ & ‘Blonde: The Marilyn Stories’
Photo credit: Icarus Films/Film Movement/Film Chest Media Group

Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com overview of DVD gifts for the Film Elite …

”Early Short Films of the French New Wave,” “Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands” and “Blonde: The Marilyn Stories, Marilyn Monroe” are available wherever DVDs are sold.

HollywoodChicago.com senior staff writer Patrick McDonald

By PATRICK McDONALD
Editor and Film Critic/Writer
HollywoodChicago.com
pat@hollywoodchicago.com

© 2023 Patrick McDonald, HollywoodChicago.com

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