Austin360 blogs > Austin Movie Blog > Archives > 2009 > July > 27 > Entry
Noteworthy DVDs released 7/28/09
PICK OF THE WEEK
“Repulsion” (Criterion): Roman Polanski made his English-language debut with this classic thriller, set in Swinging London and starring a young Catherine Deneuve. Gorgeous in black-and-white, it’s available on both DVD and Blu-ray.
OTHER TOP PICKS
“Bad Lieutenant” (Lions Gate): Before Werner Herzog’s unlikely “Bad Lieutenant” movie gets to theaters, Lions Gate offers an overdue special edition of the original.
“Harvard Beats Yale 29-29” (Kino): Who’d guess that a tied college football game would make for one of last year’s most praised documentaries?
Offbeat animation: Led off by Bill Plympton’s new film “Dog Days” (Microcinema) is a quartet of new art-animation titles including “The Astonishing Work of Tezuka Osamu,” “Extreme Animation: Films By Phil Mulloy” (Kino), and “The Animation of Alexeieff” (Facets).
NEW ON BLU-RAY
“Bad Boy Bubby” (Blue Underground); “Inglorious Bastards” (Severin); “A River Runs Through It” (Sony); “This is Spinal Tap” (MGM)
FRESH FROM THE MULTIPLEX
“Dragonball Evolution,” “Miss March” (Fox)
BEST OF TV
“Agatha Christie: Poirot & Marple” (A&E); “Battlestar Galactica” Season 4.5 and Complete Series sets (Universal); “Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead” (BBC); “Dollhouse” Season One (Fox); Kyle Chandler in “Early Edition” Season 2, “Krod Mandoon And The Flaming Sword Of Fire” (Paramount); the original “Life On Mars” Series One (Acorn Media): “The Middleman” Complete Series (Shout! Factory); “The Red Hand Gang” Complete Series (Virgil Films); “The Spectacular Spider-Man” Season 1 (Sony); “The Terry Jones Collection,” “Great Artists 2 with Tim Marlow” (Microcinema)
ARTHOUSE/FOREIGN
“The 10th Victim” (Blue Underground) ; “Just Love Me” (Facets)
FROM THE VAULTS “Becoming Charley Chase,” “The Green Hornet,” “The Green Hornet Strikes Again” (VCI)
REISSUE/REPACKAGE
“The Fast & The Furious” (Universal); “Richard Pryor: Live & Smokin’” (Weinstein Co.)
CULT CORNER
“Animalada” (Synapse); “Big Man Japan” (Magnolia); “Torso” (Blue Underground)
DOCUMENTARIES
“Claude Levi-Strauss: In His Own Words” (Facets)
STRAIGHT(ISH) TO VIDEO
“An American Affair” (Universal); “Angel of Death,” “The Fifth Commandment” (Sony); “Green Lantern: First Flight” (Warner Bros.); “The Land That Time Forgot” (2009) (Asylum); “Streets of Blood” (Anchor Bay)
Permalink | Comments (0) | Post your comment Categories: DVDs
Comments
Click here to report comment abuse.