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Noteworthy DVDs released 7/14/09
OTHER TOP PICKS
“For All Mankind” (Criterion): This documentary drawing on original footage of NASA’s lunar missions gets a welcome upgrade to Blu-ray, the better to convey the inky grandeur of its astronaut interviewees’ experiences.
“Mad Men” Season 2 (Lions Gate): Adman Don Draper smokes and boozes his way through a second season of this critically beloved AMC series.
“Grey Gardens” (2009) (HBO): Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange put their spin on the ineffably strange Beale women in the recent fictionalized adaptation of 1975’s cult-beloved documentary.
“The Human Condition” (Criterion): Stacking up at nearly ten hours, Masaki Kobayashi’s 1959 Japanese epic (adapted from a six-volume novel) follows one idealistic man’s melodramatic travails through WWII.
NEW ON BLU-RAY
Martial Arts 3-fer including “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” “House of Flying Daggers,” & “Curse of the Golden Flower”; “I Still Know What You Did Last Summer” (Sony); “This is Spinal Tap” (MGM); “The Towering Inferno” (Fox)
ARTHOUSE/FOREIGN
“12” (Sony); Marco Ferreri’s “Bye Bye Monkey” & “Don’t Touch the White Woman,” “Menage” (Koch); “The Edge of Love” (Image); “Eldorado” (Film Movement); “Roselyne and the Lions” (Cinema Libre); “Sorry, You Can’t Get Through!” (Dolce)
FRESH FROM THE MULTIPLEX
“The Haunting in Connecticut” (Lions Gate)
TV ON DVD:
“Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations” Season 4, “Shark Week: Great Bites” (Image); “Bewitched” Season 8 (Sony); “ER” Season 11 (Warner Bros.); “G.I. Joe” Season “1.1” (Shout! Factory); “Leverage” Season 1 (Paramount); “Peyton Place” Part 2 (Shout! Factory); “Red Skelton: America’s Clown Prince” (Timeless); “Tracey Takes On…” Seasons 3 & 4 (Eagle Vision); “Wild Pacific” (BBC)
KIDS’ STUFF
“The Wiggles Go Bananas” (Warner); “Bob the Builder: Built For Fun,” “Thomas & Friends: Percy and the Bandstand” (Lions Gate)
DOCUMENTARIES
“The Beatles Rare And Unseen” (MVD); “A River of Waste: The Hazardous Truth About Factory Farms” (Cinema Libre); “The Unwinking Gaze” (Indiepix)
CULT CORNER
“[Rec]” (Sony); “Night Train” (National Entertainment Media); “Sleepy Eyes of Death” (AnimEigo)
STRAIGHT(ISH) TO VIDEO
A recent appearance by David Carradine in “Break” (Cinema Epoch); “Mad Men“‘s Elisabeth Moss in “El Camino” (Lifesize); the Dennis Quaid thriller “Horsemen” (Lions Gate); “National Lampoon’s Van Wilder: Freshman Year” (Paramount)
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