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 Party of Five–Season 3
Sony
created by Christopher Keyser and Amy Lippman
starring Scott Wolf, Neve Campbell, Matthew Fox, Lacey Chabert, Scott Grimes
Several years after its cancellation, Party of Five is remembered as a series in which several good, young actors got their start, notably Lost’s Matthew Fox and The Ghost Whisperer’s Jennifer Love Hewitt. The ensemble cast of this good-natured, sharply-written drama about a quintet of orphaned siblings growing up alone and together also includes winning performers like Lacey Chabert, Scott Wolf, and Neve Campbell. All 25 episodes of the third season are included here, and it looks like Sony will release the remaining three seasons on DVD. (There were questions about this, since a couple years elapsed between the release of seasons two and three.)
 The Rabbit Is Me
First Run
directed by Kurt Maetzig
starring Alfred Mueller, Angelika Waller, Wolfgang Winkler, Ilse Voigt
In 1965, Kurt Maetzig’s drama about a young woman having an affair with an older man -- the judge who jailed her brother for subversive activity -- was banned by East German authorities. Its probe of Communist society’s hypocrisies still startles four decades later, but Maetzig’s intelligent, subversive humor and freewheeling visual style keeps the movie from being merely a historical snapshot of its era. This is one of the best entries in First Run’s ongoing, estimable series of German films from the DEFA film library. EXTRAS: Interviews with the director and the East German minister of culture; newsreels; essay.
 The Second Track
First Run
directed by Joachim Kunert
starring Annekathrin Buerger, Walter Richter-Reinick, Albert Hetterle, Horst Jonischkan
This gripping film noir directed by Joachim Kunert and released in 1962, has been called East Germany’s answer to the complex classic The Third Man. But aside from the zither music in the score, it’s not all that similar. What’s here is a tidy, dramatic story of how people can’t run away from their Nazi-era past, and how even their children can be affected by unearthed secrets. The moody B&W cinematography is by the great Rolf Sohre. EXTRAS: Featurette about Sohre; essay and newsreels.
 Who Is Henry Jaglom?
First Run
directed by Henry Alex Rubin and Jeremy Workman
A maverick director if there ever was one, Henry Jaglom parlayed his friendship with Orson Welles into a career, even if most of his films are amateurish, self-indulgent messes pretending to be insightful studies of the gulf between men and women. This 1997 documentary by Henry-Alex Rubin and Jeremy Workman offers a jaundiced but mostly sympathetic view of Jaglom through the eyes of friends and collaborators (Candice Bergen, Karen Black, Martha Plimpton), with wacky brother Emil, a few film critics, and a rabidly feminist sociologist on hand for balance. EXTRAS: A new, 30-minute interview with the cantankerous Jaglom.
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