'Funny Face' reissued on DVD

Published: Thursday, Oct. 4 2007 12:30 a.m. MDT

Audrey Hepburn descends a staircase inside Paris' Louvre in the film "Funny Face."

Paramount Home Entertainment

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A better-than-usual mix of movies has come to DVD this week, led by the reissue of a Fred Astaire-Audrey Hepburn classic, as well as two of the best film adaptations of Stephen King's scary stories.

DVD reissues

"Funny Face: 50th Anniversary Edition" (Paramount, 1957, $14.99). If you wondered where they got that clip of Audrey Hepburn dancing for those Gap ads, wonder no more. This is that delightful film, a sprightly musical with fabulous Gershwin songs, which casts Hepburn as a bookstore clerk whom fashion photographer Fred Astaire turns into a top model, as they turn Paris on its ear. Glamorous, colorful, tuneful.

Extras: Widescreen, featurettes, photo gallery, trailer

"The Jungle Book: Platinum Edition" (Disney, 1967, G, two discs, $29.99). The last animated feature personally supervised by Walt Disney, this fanciful musical-comedy adaptation of Kipling's tale has the boy Mowgli being raised by wolves in the Indian jungle, then encountering a variety of animal friends — chiefly the scene-stealing bear Baloo (energetically voiced by Phil Harris). Nice bonus features, including a deleted character.

Extras: Widescreen, deleted music, deleted character, featurettes, music video, interactive games, trailers

"Misery: Collector's Edition" (MGM, 1990; R for violence, language; $19.98). Directed by Rob Reiner ("The Princess Bride," "A Few Good Men") and scripted by William Goldman ("The Princess Bride," "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"), this King story stars Kathy Bates (who won a well-deserved Oscar) as the looney No. 1 fan of a writer (James Caan), who rescues him from a car crash and then holds him hostage. Alternately hilarious and terrifying.

Extras: Widescreen, audio commentaries (one by Reiner, another by Goldman, featurettes; six-page booklet

"Bram Stoker's Dracula: Collector's Edition" (Columbia, 1992; R for violence, sex, nudity, language; two discs, $24.96). Despite the title, this is very much Francis Ford Coppola's "Dracula," which, despite being faithful to the book, is an over-the-top camp revision that becomes too wild-eyed and gratuitously sexual. Gary Oldman, Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder and Anthony Hopkins star. Includes more than 30 minutes of deleted scenes.

Extras: Widescreen, deleted scenes, new introduction and audio commentary by Coppola, featurettes, trailers

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