Comics of a Different Color

It’s a great weekend for followers of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, British documentarian Michael Apted and the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky, but that’s about it in terms of movies. However, fans of vintage TV are in for a treat.

“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze” (New Line, $22.95, PG) is the second hit live-action adventure featuring those strange-lookin’ but super-cool street warriors Raphael, Michaelangelo, Donatello and Leonardo--and we’re not talking Renaissance painters here, or Renaissance filmmaking either. At least the Turtles’ many young fans can own the tape by shelling out only 23 bucks--or getting their parents to.

Fox Lorber has two films each from Apted and Tarkovsky ($79.95 per tape).

From Apted: “28 Up” is the latest (1984) of his remarkable documentaries in which several English people are filmed and interviewed every seven years. “The Long Way Home” (1989) looks at talented Soviet musician Boris Grebenshikov.

From Tarkovsky: “My Name Is Ivan” (1962) concerns a boy’s attempt to revenge his parents’ deaths at the hands of the Nazis. “Solaris” (1971) is a lengthy (167 minutes), prize-winning adaptation of a Stanislaw Lem science-fiction novel.