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Soon on DVD: ‘No Country,’ ‘Atonement,’ ‘Blood, ‘Juno’
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In a month’s time, all the latest Oscar best picture contenders will be available on DVD.
Academy Award winner “No Country for Old Men” debuts on DVD Tuesday with limited extras (sorry, but there’s no commentary track that might help explain the film’s elusive conclusion). Other top category nominees follow with “Atonement” due March 18, “There Will Be Blood” due April 8 and “Juno” arriving April 15. The fifth nominee, “Michael Clayton,” was released on DVD last month.
The three extras on “No Country” are mini-documentaries that focus heavily on the film’s violence and the Coen Brothers’ filmmaking ethic. They say their film is basically about the good guy (that would be Tommy Lee Jones’ sheriff), the bad guy (Oscar winner Javier Bardem) and the guy in between (Josh Brolin).
Actress Kelly Macdonald rightly says that the Coens are “their own genre.”
The extras give you a sense of the detail the Coens put into their films (smoke needs to rise from a fired shotgun; the opening murder of a law officer by a handcuffed Bardem needs to be shockingly violent, bloody and grotesque).
Here are the major DVD releases from now through early May:
Tuesday — “No Country for Old Men;” “August Rush” (featuring co-star Jamia Nash of Gwinnett County).
March 18 — “Atonement;” “Enchanted;” “I Am Legend.”
March 25 — “Jimmy Carter Man From Plains.”
April 1 — “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.”
April 8 — “There Will Be Blood.”
April 15 — “Juno;” “Lars and the Real Girl.”
April 29 — “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly;” “The Golden Compass.”
May 6 — “2007 Academy Award Nominated Short Films.”
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