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Noteworthy DVDs released 10/26/10
PICK OF THE WEEK“Alien Anthology” (Fox): Boasting two bona fide classics (the first two installments, of course) and two flawed-but-worthy oddball auteur films (by David Fincher and Jean-Pierre Jeunet), the icky- space-monster saga hits Blu-ray for the first time with a reported 60 hours (!) of bonus features. OTHER TOP PICKS
“Back to the Future” (Universal): Another famous franchise — this one a bit less consistent than “Alien,” but more nostalgia-tickling — arrives on Blu-ray after years of pleas from fans. “Paths of Glory” (Criterion): Kubrick goes to WWI in this tale of an impossible mission and the court-martial that follows it. “You Don’t Know Jack” (HBO): Al Pacino offers an uncharacteristically (these days, anyway) subtle performance in this involving Jack Kervorkian biopic. “House” (1977) (Criterion): The recently cult-rediscovered Japanese horror flick gets the Criterion treatment. FRESH FROM THE MULTIPLEX
“Sex and the City 2” (Warner Bros.); “Winter’s Bone” (Lions Gate) NEW ON BLU-RAY
“Grand Canyon Adventure” (Image); “How the Earth Was Made” Season 1 (A&E); “Poirot: Murder on the Orient Express,” “Slings and Arrows” Complete Collection (Acorn Media); “Santa Claus: The Movie” (Lions Gate) ARTHOUSE/FOREIGN
“The Girl Who Played With Fire” (Music Box); “He Who Hits First, Hits Twice,” “We Are Going To America” (Facets); “The Infidel” (New Video); “Kisses” (Oscilloscope); “Make-Out With Violence” (Factory 25); “Passenger Side” (Strand); “Searchers 2.0” (Microcinema); “Sleepwalking Land,” “What a Wonderful World” (The Global Initiative); “Wah Do Dem” (Factory 25); “Wild Grass” (Sony) FROM THE VAULTS
“Hush” (MPI); “Summer and Smoke,” “Tropic of Cancer” (Olive Films) DOCUMENTARIES
“21 Below” (Indiepix); “The Art of Ballet,” “Dancing Across Borders,” “A Mother’s Courage: Talking Back to Autism” (First Run Pictures); “Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie” (Icarus); “Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae” (Lightyear); “Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo” (Carnivalesque); “Tatsumi Hijikata: Summer Storm” (Microcinema); “Who is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin’ About Him)?” (Kino); “The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia” (New Video) TV-ON-DVD
“4 Decades of the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” (Respond 2 Entertainment); “C.S.I.: NY” Season 6 (Paramount); “Freaknik: The Musical,” “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” Season 2(Warner Bros.); “Funky Phantom,” “Goober and the Ghost- Chasers” (Exclusively at WBshop.com); “Have a Laugh” Vols. 1 & 2 (Walt Disney); “Law & Order: UK” Season 1 (Universal); “Scholastic Sign Language,” “Scholastic Treasury of 100 Storybook Classics #2” (Scholastic); “The Search for Sherlock Holmes” (BFS) CULT CORNER
“Radley Metzger’s Score” (CAV); “All My Friends Are Funeral Singers” (Indiepix); “Cannibal Girls” (Shout! Factory); “Maniac” (Blue Underground) STRAIGHT(ISH) TO VIDEO
Martin Landau in “Harrison Montgomery” (Indiepix); Rutger Hauer in “Mentor” (Vanguard); “Mutants,” Ed Burns’s “Nice Guy Johnny” (MPI); Tilda Swinton in “Teknolust” (Microcinema) REISSUE/REPACKAGE
“Dark Star” (VCI); “Elf” (New Line); “Sex and the City” Complete Collection (HBO)
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