Forget "Lays" on DVD

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One of the films showing in "Film Comment Selects," a series discussed in this N.Y. Times article by critic Manohla Dargis, is Frank Perry's Play It As It Lays. I've written a coupel of times over the last couple of years about this depths-of-despair Hollywood drama, hoping that Univeral Home Video might eventually be moved to put it out on DVD. Anyway, it's playing at Lincoln Center this month, it was playing on the Sundance Channel during the Sundance Film Festival, and it's had a couple of showings L.A.'s American Cinematheque theatres (the Egyptian and the Aero). I called Universal Home Video publicity today to ask if it will be released any time this year. "It's not on the charts for '07," a guy told me. Oh.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on February 14, 2007 at 5:53 PM

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"Play it as it Lays" is a slog to sit through.
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