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ON DVD: “Keep The Lights On,” “The Paperboy,” “For A Good Time, Call”

By Lawrence Ferber January 22, 2013 at 3:38pm
26KEEP1-articleLarge While this year’s crop of must-see indie films are debuting at Sundance, this week you can find some of last year’s film-festival faves on DVD: A filmmaker falls for a drug addict in Ira Sach’s semi-autobiographical Keep The Lights On, while a couple of young women work phone sex lines to pay the rent in Jamie Travis’ semi-autobiographical For A Good Time, Call… Meanwhile, Lee Daniels’ The Paperboy, a controversial pick at Cannes, co-stars Matthew McConaughey as a gay masochist, and gay filmmaker (and film-fest veteran) Todd Verow’s Bad Boy Street chronicles a romance between a middle-aged Frenchman and the young American he picks up.  
Keep The Lights On ($38.00 Blu-ray, $29.99 DVD; Music Box Films) A Danish documentary filmmaker living in New York, Erik, falls for closet-case Paul, whose growing drug problem threatens the stability of their relationship. Drawing from his own decade-long dysfunctional affair with literary agent Bill Clegg, writer/director Ira Sachs delivers a deeply persona work rich with lush cinematography. Extras include a commentary track, making-of features, deleted scenes and cast auditions.  
For a Good Time, Call… ($34.98 Blu-ray, $29.98 DVD; Universal) Ten years after college, polar opposites Lauren and Katie are reunited by their mutual gay pal, Jesse (Justin Long in another queer turn). Despite their differences, the girls move in together, and eventually both start working as phone sex operators. It’s frothy fun with cameos from genre faves Seth Rogen and Kevin Smith. The Blu-ray release includes both theatrical and unrated versions, deleted scenes and a commentary.  
Bad Boy Street ($19.99 DVD; TLA Releasing) When Claude, a middle-aged Parisian, discovers a young stranger unconscious in an alley, he takes him home. When Brad recovers, the pair begin a rather unconventional and sexually charged romance, despite some unanswered questions.  

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