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DVD Releases: Week of January 24th
Posted by R. Flagg on Jan 24, 2006, 18:57
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Notable Releases
Flightplan
Best Price: $14.99 @ Circuit City
The Features:
� Filmmaker Commentary
� The In-Flight Movie: The Making Of Flightplan
� Cabin Pressure: Designing The Aalto E-474
The Virgin Spring (Criterion Collection)
Synopsis:
Set in beautiful 14th century Sweden, it is the somber, powerful fable of peasant parents whose daughter, a young virgin, is brutally raped and murdered by swineherds after her half sister has invoked a pagan curse. By a bizarre twist of fate, the murderers ask for food and shelter from the dead girl's parents, who discovering the truth about their erstwhile lodgers, exact a chilling revenge.
Best Price: $24.97 @ DigitalEyes.net
The Features:
� New, Restored High Definition Digital Transfer
� New and Improved English Subtitle Translation
� Commentary by Inmar Bergman scholar Birgitta Steene
� Introduction by filmmaker Ang Lee
� New video interviews with actress Gunnel Lindblom and Birgitta Pettersson
� An audio recording of a 1975 American Film Institute seminar by Bergman
� 28-page booklet featuring essays by film scholar Peter Cowie and screenwriter Ulla Isaksson
Address Unknown
Synopsis:
Struggling to find their way in the violent aftermath of the Korean War, a wounded girl, a shy boy and an angry abandoned son of an American soldier find their lives intertwined in relationships of love, pain and hope.
Best Price: $15.10 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com
The Features:
� Deleted Scenes
� Making-of Featurette
� Introduction by the Director
� Interview With Director
My Big Fat Independent Movie
Synopsis:
A film that touched the hearts of a generation and one of the most important movies of the decade...sounds really boring! If you want laughs, My Big Fat Independent Movie, takes a comedic hammer to indie film faves like Swingers, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Pulp Fiction, Memento and loads more!
This hilariously smart satire tells the story of Johnny Vince; a swingin' hepcat that meets hitmen Sam and Harvey on a road trip to pull a 'botched robbery� in Las Vegas. Along the way they take a deeply unfulfilled no-so-good-girl hostage (Paget Brewster), encounter the mysterious Mechanic (Clint Howard), get harassed by a fowl-mouthed answering machine (Jason Mewes)...and did we mention the lesbians? The result - hilarity ensures!
Best Price: $12.14 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com
The Features:
� Commentary with Director Philip Zlotorynski and Writer/Producer Chris Gore
� The Making Of My Big Fat Independent Movie
� Theatrical Trailer
� Set of 7 Collectible Postcards
Our Fathers
Synopsis:
One Cardinal's dark secret is finally revealed to the world in this true story about the sexual abuse scandal that has rocked the Catholic Church around the world. Based on the book "Our Fathers: The Secret Life of the Catholic Church in an Age of Scandal" by David France, Our Fathers provides a heartbreaking portrait of the victims whose lives are still haunted by the crimes. Together with the help of attorney played by Ted Danson, they make a stand against the Church in the name of truth and justice.
Best Price: $17.81 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com
The Features:
� Showtime Short: The Heart of the Matter
� Commentary with Author David France
� Commentary with Director/Exec. Producer David Kennedy, Exec. Producer Dan Curtis, and Actors Ted Danson and Brian Dennehy
� Photo Gallery
Sin Destino
Synopsis:
Inspired by Luis Bu�uel�s Los Olvidados, Mexican writer-director Leopoldo Laborde's haunting, engrossing film shows Mexico City at its darkest. Fifteen-year-old Frank (Francisco Rey) sells his body to men to survive, but still can't afford his own drug habit. His best friend and dealer David (David Valdez) helps him out with "loans" and offers advice on how to bed a woman, something the young gay hustler knows nothing about. Frank's obsession with the pretty blonde Angelica (Mariana Gaja) blossoms, but when an older man from Frank's past (Roberto Cobo) turns up again, the young boy becomes even more sexually confused. Shot primarily in startling black and white, Sin Destino offers a shocking, devastating glimpse into the heart and soul of young, impressionable boys who long for a better life.
Best Price: $15.10 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com
The Features:
� Director's Commentary
� Deleted & Extended Scenes with Commentary
� Making-of Featurette: Five Years Later
� Original Trailer
Streets Of Legend
Synopsis:
Take the wheel of an illegal street racer and hit the Los Angeles freeways in this groundbreaking saga of love, loss and the pursuit of the ultimate ride. Filmed illegally on the streets where bragging rights are won and lost, and starring the real racers who risk it all for glory, this story of two teens and their resolve to escape the crash-and-burn world puts the pedal to the metal and cruises straight into legend.
Best Price: $16.72 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com
The Features:
� Commentary with the Director
� Minidocumentary: Racing Extra
� The Crash
� Street Fights
� The Blow Out At 140 MPH
� Trailers
Thumbsucker
Synopsis:
Meet Justin Cobb (Lou Pucci), a teenager who still sucks his thumb. Realizing it's totally disrupting his home, love and school life, he allows his orthodontist (Keanu Reeves) to break him of the habit through hypnosis. Justin begins to experiment with prescription drugs, pot and sex as alternate means to overcome his anxieties and become "normal," never realizing normal is just a state of mind.
Best Price: $19.16 @ Amazon.com
The Features:
� Commentary with Writer/Director Mike Mills
� Conversation with Director Mike Mills and Novelist Walter Kirn
� Behind-the-scenes documentary
� Director's Blog
You Shoot, I Shoot (Collector's Edition)
Synopsis:
In this debut feature by director Edmond Pang Ho Cheung, dot-com casualty Bart (Eric Kot) reluctantly becomes a hitman who specializes in killing wealthy socialites. When his latest client demands that he also videotape the job, Bart recruits drug addict Chuen (Cheung Tat Ming) to be his assistant. As the hitman/photographer team gains notoriety and business, they're hired by the mob to carry out a hit. But when the videotape was accidentally erased, Bart and Chuen must hire players and extras to restage and reshoot the murder before the mob finds out! Already a cult classic, You Shoot, I Shoot is a brilliant satire of Asia's economic woes and our obsession with the mob and the media.
Best Price: $13.16 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com
The Features:
� Commentary By Director Pang Ho-Cheung & Producer Vincent Kok
� Commentary By the cast Erik Kok & Cheung Tat-ming
� Director's Statement
� Deleted Scenes, complete with director's commentary
� Making of You Shoot, I Shoot
� Music Video for the original theme
� Theatrical Trailer
� The Killing Footage
� Bloopers
� Photo Gallery
� The Original First Draft Script
� Awards and Film Festival Entries
Other Releases
The '60s Rock Experience Live
Abigail Leslie Is Back In Town
Allo, 'Allo!: Complete Series Four
The Aristocrats
National Lampoon's Barely Legal
Bar Hopping Hotties
BBC Classic Comedy Collection (Black Adder/Chef/Fawlty Towers/Keeping Up Appearances/The Vicar of Dibley)
BBC Cosmic Comedy Collection (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/Red Dwarf)
BBC Cutting Edge Comedy Collection (Knowing Me, Knowing You...With Alan Partridge: The Complete Series/Little Britain: The Complete First Series/The Office Special/The Office: The Complete First Series/The Office: The Complete Second Series/ The Young Ones: Every Stoopid Episode)
BBC Drama Collection (The Barchester Chronicles/Daniel Deronda/Jane Eyre/The Lost Prince/Middlemarch/A Room with a View/Wives and Daughters)
Beautiful Homes And Estates: Season 1
Benjamin Franklin
The Boss's Bedroom
Buzzcocks: Live at Shepherds Bush Empire 2003
Can: DVD
Chan Is Missing
Cisco Pike
Codename: Icarus
Crusade of Vengeance
Culturama 666, Vol. 2
Curry & Pepper
Dallas: The Complete Fourth Season
Deicide: When London Burns
Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart
Dolores Gray: Bell Telephone Hour Appearances 1959-1965
Dumber Than Dirt
Eddie Leeway's Haunted Harcore, Vol. 1: Leeway's Last Laugh
Educating Emily
Educating Rita
Exposed: The Making of a Legend
Funny Valentine
Gaelic Storm: Live In Chicago
Glenn Tilbrook: One For The Road
God Save The Queen: Punk Rock Anthology
Gordon Haskell: Road To Harry's Bar
Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks
Hannibal V. Rome
Hooked
John And Abigail Adams
Kasabian: Live at Brixton Academy
The Kingfisher
Krisiun: Live Armageddon
Live From The Laugh Factory, Vol. 1
Loyalty & Respect
Ludacris: Southern Smoke
Marital Games
Max Allan Collins - The Black Box Collection: Shades of Neo-Noir
Missing: Season 2
Muddy Waters: Classic Concerts
My Little Pony: Two Great Pony Tales
NFL Ultimate 2 Pack: Dallas Cowboys
NFL Ultimate 2 Pack: Green Bay Packers
NFL Ultimate 2 Pack: Oakland Raiders
NFL Ultimate 2 Pack: Pittsburgh Steelers
The N Word: Divided We Stand
Oliver Twist (2005)
Once And Future Queen
Pain: Live Is Overrated
P�o Leiva: Live in Amsterdam
Poison Dust
Procol Harum: Live At The Union Chapel (2 Pack)
The River King
Roy Ayers: In Concert
Saturday Night Live: The Best Of Alec Baldwin
Saturday Night Live: The Best of David Spade
Sergeant Cribb Set: Horizontal Witness
Shadows: Live in Liverpool
She Can't Say No
The Small Faces: Under Review
Small Steps, Big Strides
Soap Girl
Soba
South Beach Raw
Starz: Back In Action Live 2003
The Story Of The London Underground
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
They Shoot Movies, Don't They? ...The Making Of Mirage
Threat
Thunderbolt
The Tomorrow Show: Punk & New Wave
TQ: Street Muzik
Treasures of Black Cinema (The Devil's Daughter/Gang War/The Bronze Buckaroo/Up in the Air)
Ultimate Bullriding: America's Original Extreme Sport
The Velvet Underground: Velvet Redux - Live MCMXCIII
Viktor & Rolf: Because We're Worth It!
Virgin Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors
We Love...Homelands
The Wooden Gun
Notable Horror & Sci-Fi Releases
The Fog (Unrated)
Best Price: $14.99 @ Circuit City
The Features:
� Commentary with Director Rupert Wainwright
� Deleted Scenes with Optional Director's Commentary
� Whiteout Conditions: Remaking a Horror Classic
� Seeing Through The Fog: The Making-of The Fog
� Feeling the Effects of the Fog: Special Effects Featurette
Repo Man (Collector's Edition)
Best Price: $14.23 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com
The Features:
� Commentary by director/writer Alex Cox, executive producer Michael Nesmith, casting director Victoria Thomas, and actors Sy Richardson, Zander Schloss and Del Zamora
� The Missing Scenes: Sam Cohen, the actual inventor of the neutron bomb (played in the film by Fox Harris), and Alex Cox analyze the missing scenes
� Repossessed: Producers Jonathan Wacks and Peter McCarthy and director/writer Alex Cox revisit the scenes of their repo crimes. Actors Dick Rude, Del Zamora and Sy Richardson appear among the wreckage
� Up Close With Harry Dean Stanton: A rare interview with iconoclastic actor Harry Dean Stanton as he discusses his craft, his career and his concept of life
The Time Tunnel: Volume One (1966-67)
Synopsis:
When a senator threatens to cut off funding for his top-secret time machine project, Professor Tony Newman jumps into the time tunnel and finds himself aboard the Titanic just hours before it would sink. His colleague, Professor Douglas Phillips follows in an attempt to rescue Newman, but both end up trapped in time.
Best Price: $27.95 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com
The Features:
� Unaired Extended Version Of The Pilot Episode
� Irwin Allen's Behind-the-Scenes "Home Movies"
� Visual Effects Camera Test
� 4 Still Galleries (Concept Art, Production, Merchandise, Comic Book)
� Promotional TV and Radio Spots
Vital
Synopsis:
Hiroshi Takagi returns home to begin his new life after having his memory wiped away in an auto accident. Fascinated by a dusty dissection textbook, he enrolls in medical school where he catches the eye of Izumi, a beautiful fellow student who desires his attention. But its another beauty that becomes his obsession the dead woman on the cadaver table. Starting with the tattoo on her arm, patterns of recognition begin to return to Hiroshi and soon he is having visions of a life with this woman. The deeper he cuts into her flesh, the closer he gets to unlocking the dark memories of his forgotten past.
Best Price: $15.77 @ DVDPacific.com
The Features:
� Commentary by Author Tom Mes
� The Making of Vital
� Behind the Scenes: Venice Film Festival World Premiere
� Interview with the Director
� Special Effects Featurette
� Music Video
� Original Theatrical Trailer
Other Horror & Sci-Fi Releases
Lust For Frankenstein/Tender Flesh
Resident Demon
The Soul Guardians
Anime Releases
Avenger: Complete Collection
Bottle Fairy: Autumn And Winter - Volume 2
Dan Doh!! The Super Shot: Volume 2
Daphne In The Brilliant Blue: Memories - Volume 6
Doki Doki School Hours 2: 2nd Hour
E's Otherwise: Sacrament of Calvaria - Volume 5
Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex: 2nd Season, Vol. 3
Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex: 2nd Season, Vol. 3 (Limited Edition)
Gundam Wing: Collection 1
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: Chapter 4
Neo Ranga: Complete Collection
Planetes: Volume 5
Princess Tutu: Erwachen - Volume 3
Scrapped Princess: Pacifica's Destiny - Volume 6
Scrapped Princess: Pacifica's Destiny - Volume 6 (Limited Edition with Figurines)
Circuit City Weekly Deals
2 for $15:
Barbershop 2: Back in Business (Special Edition)
Bulletproof Monk (Special Edition)
National Lampoon's Dorm Daze (Unrated)
National Lampoon's Gold Diggers (Unrated)
The Last Waltz (Special Edition)
National Security (Special Edition)
Out of Time (Special Edition)
The Princess Bride (Special Edition)
This Is Spinal Tap (Special Edition)
To Live And Die In L.A. (Special Edition)
Black Hawk Down
Breakin'
Contract Killer
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
First Knight
Higher Learning
Kingpin
The Mothman Prophecies
Poetic Justice
Raging Bull
Ronin
Show Girls
Stir Crazy
The Terminator
3 for $30:
American Psycho (Uncut Collector's Edition)
Apollo 13 (2-Disc Anniversary Edition)
The Blues Brothers (2-Disc 25th Anniversary Edition)
Carlito's Way (Ultimate Edition)
Jaws (2-Disc 30th Anniversary Edition)
King Arthur (Unrated Director's Cut)
Land of the Dead (Unrated Director's Cut)
The Mask of Zorro (Deluxe Edition)
Office Space (Special Edition)
The Ring Two (Unrated)
Scarface (2-Disc Anniversary Edition)
The Transporter (Special Delivery Edition)
Underworld (2-Disc Unrated Extended Cut)
Unleashed (Unrated)
The Warriors (Ultimate Director's Cut)
Beauty Shop
Braveheart
Finding Neverland
Gladiator
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
The Godfather Part III
Hidalgo
House of Flying Daggers
The Interpreter
Kicking and Screaming
Kill Bill Vol. 1
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
Shall We Dance
Shrek 2
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