Out on DVD: Movies à la mode, music and Coupland's Canada

Jean-Paul Gaultier

Frocks on film, singing and dancing, "Boston marriage" and the Great White North, all on this week's new DVDs.

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Jean-Paul Gaultier and Jennifer Beals are just two of the fabulous faces featured on Fashion in Film, a new documentary that explores where the worlds of cinema and couture have so glamorously overlapped. Originally produced for Starz, the film takes us through the history of costume and high-fashion on the silver screen.

No stranger to outlandish costumes himself, Elton John lets you relive the over-the-top grandeur of his Las Vegas show in the comfort of your own living room with The Red Piano, now available on DVD. Featuring many of Sir Elton's biggest hits, performed on a stage designed by David LaChappelle, The Red Piano will no doubt thrill the singer's many fans who weren't able to make it to Nevada and bring fond memories to those who did.

Sir Elton's not much of a dancer himself, but he'd no doubt love both the musical and terpsichorial talent on display in two new box sets from Turner Classic Movies' Greatest Classic Films Collection. American Musicals offers a quartet of the best original screen musicals (Singin' in the Rain, The Band Wagon, Meet Me in St. Louis and Easter Parade) while the Broadway Musicals box features three top-notch stage-to-screen adaptations, alongside one screen-to-stage (Show Boat, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Annie Get Your Gun and Kiss Me, Kate).

Gay author Douglas Coupland has written two witty and lovingly sardonic books about his home country, and those tomes have become the basis for the documentary Souvenir of Canada. From hockey to the loony to Kraft Dinner, Coupland revisits the artifacts of his youth and takes us on a nostalgic journey through the essence of Canada.

One of the many things Canada has going for it is same-sex marriage, of course, but so does Massachusetts, which brings us to the grand finale featured on Boston Legal: Season Five, in which the heterosexual attorneys played by James Spader and William Shatner tie the knot for insurance reasons. But given their closeness throughout the series, it doesn't seem entirely like a sham marriage, either. They're just making it ... well, Boston-legal, I guess.