New on DVD: Revolutionaries, characters, cops and more

L'amour fou against the barricades, fiction coming to life and TV's funniest gay cop are among the highlights of this week's new DVDs.

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One of the sleeper hits of the 2008 gay film festival circuit (and not 2007, despite what the DVD cover says) was Ma Saison Super 8 (My Super 8 Season), a rare film that puts the tumultuous events of Paris in May 1968 into a queer context.

A brash and openly gay young student fights to have his issues included in the leftist upheaval while he carries on a passionate but doomed romance with a conflicted factory worker. It's a movie that reminds us of all the gay men who were silenced during history's great moments of progressive thought. (Still waiting for the Bayard Rustin biopic.)

Lovely by Surprise matches its fictional-characters-come-to-life plot with a cast of terrific character actors, including gay thespians Austin Pendleton (Oz, What's Up, Doc?) and Dallas Roberts (The L Word, A Home at the End of the World), as well as Carrie Preston (Ready? OK!, Doubt), Kate Burton and Richard Masur.

Our favorite short-shorts–wearing gay cop, Lt. Dangle (Thomas Lennon) returns in Reno: 911!: The Complete Sixth Season, chronicling the further hilarious adventures of the worst police force ever to be followed by a camera crew.

Two treats for TV fanatics: Peanuts: 1960s Collection features the immortal A Charlie Brown Christmas and It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown alongside such long-unseen gems as He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown and It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown. Definite comfort-food viewing for Gen X-ers and other fans of Charles Schulz's legendarily neurotic children.

And for me, there's nothing better than curling up to another box set of bad movies and snarky back-talkers; the new Mystery Science Theater 3000: XV collection features Joel Hodgson, Mike Nelson and their robot pals giving the business to stinkers like Zombie Nightmare, Racket Girls, The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy and The Girl in Lovers' Lane. (Special gay bonus: See the wedding of Tom Servo and Crow!)