{"id":1360,"date":"2006-01-15T18:32:02","date_gmt":"2006-01-15T18:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2006\/01\/dvds_in_papers\/"},"modified":"2006-01-15T18:32:02","modified_gmt":"2006-01-15T18:32:02","slug":"dvds_in_papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/dvds_in_papers\/","title":{"rendered":"DVDs in Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well Rupert Murdoch might be fed up<\/a> with them, but this weekend, free DVDs in newspapers were back with a vengence. Yesterday, The Guardian had the not bad Let Him Have It<\/a> starring Christopher Eccleston, while the Independent and its Sunday sister was on a mission to get its readers to appreciate world cinema by presenting a pair of Best Foreign Film winners that I can honestly say that I’ve never heard of – Closely Observed Trains<\/a> and The Official Story<\/a>. I have yet to watch either. Meanwhile the Daily and Sunday Express had a pair of Cary Grant films. Both are public domain and hence are much cheaper to include. But please, go out and buy the superb Columbia version<\/a> of His Girl Friday<\/a>. It’s worth the extra and is one of my favourite films of all time. This free version is terrible, and I say that without having sent any cash Richard Desmond’s way by actually purchasing a copy. The Sunday film was similarly a public domain title – Penny Serenade<\/a>. I can’t find a DVD version to recommend for this, so buyer beware – lots of companies who specialise in putting out this out of copyright fare have released this title.
\nThe Mirror stable gave away a pile of BBC comedy DVDs this weekend, while the Mail had Inspector Morse on Saturday – the first in a series of TV detective DVDs. This is despite the Mail’s chief executive calling free DVDs in newspapers “madness”<\/a>.
\n[UPDATE] I’ve just noticed that The Observer’s giving away Dune<\/a> next weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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