Entertainment > Movies / TV DVD Releases: Week of January 31st Posted by R. Flagg on Jan 31, 2006, 22:10

Notable Releases

In Her Shoes

Best Price: $16.99 @ Best Buy

The Features:

� Alternate Opening Title Sequence

� The Casting of Honey Bun

� Making of In Her Shoes

� A Community For Acting Seniors

� Inside Look: John Tucker & Just My Luck

The Legend of Zorro (Special Edition)

Best Price: $14.99 @ Circuit City

The Features:

� Director and Cinematographer Commentary

� Deleted Scenes with Optional Director's Commentary

� Four Behind The Scenes featurettes: Stunts, Visual Effects, Armand's Party, and Playing with Trains

� Two multi-angle scene deconstructions

Four Weddings and a Funeral (Deluxe Edition)

Best Price: $13.91 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com

The Features:

� Commentary With Filmmakers

� Deleted Scenes

� The Wedding Planners Documentary

� Four Weddings And A Funeral: In The Making

� Two Actors And A Director

� And More!

Hill Street Blues: The Complete First Season

Best Price: $27.89 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com

The Features:

� Commentary On Selected Episodes

� Roll Call: Looking Back At Hill Street Blues

MI-5: Volume 3

Best Price: $55.97 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com

The Features:

� Cast and crew commentaries

� Deleted Scenes

� Interviews with cast and crew

� Image Gallery

� Exclusive featurettes and more

The Pink Panther Classic Cartoon Collection

Best Price: $45.76 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com

The Features:

� Behind the Feline: The Cartoon Phenomenon

� Pink Patter With Art Leonardi: The Story Behind the Animation

� Remembering Friz: A Tribute to Friz Freleng

� Think Pink: How to Draw the Pink Panther

� Page to Screen: The Making of Two Cartoons

� Animated Main Title Sequences From Five of the Feature Films

� Life In A Pink Panther Factory From American Cinematographer

All-American Girl: The Complete Series

Synopsis:

Based around the stand-up routines of comedienne Margaret Cho, this series looked at the culture clashes that occurred between a traditional Korean mother and her fully Americanized daughter. Mom just wants Margaret to marry 'respectable' men: doctors, lawyers, scientists (and always Korean), while her daughter is more interested in Caucasian bikers, musicians, and any other type that her mother is bound to hate. Through all of this, Dad knows better than to interfere, and just keeps out of the fray.

Best Price: $23.93 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com

The Features:

� Commentaries by Margaret Cho and Amy Hill on Selected Episodes

� All-American Girl: A Look Back: Reflections with Margaret Cho And Amy Hill featuring New Interviews

Bubble

Synopsis:

In this unique cinematic experiment from acclaimed director Steven Soderbergh, an unlikely love triangle is born at a doll factory in a small Midwestern town fallen on hard times. Lonely and isolated, long time employees Martha and Kyle have become friends by default in spite of their drastic age difference, but their dynamic is upset by the arrival of a new worker: young, attractive single mother Rose. As Martha grows increasingly wary about Rose�s dubious character, she discovers Kyle and Rose developing a relationship of their own.

One morning, Rose is found dead, strangled in her own home. An investigation begins, one that will call into question our established assumptions about these characters and life in their small town. Featuring a cast of non-professional actors from the Ohio location, Soderbergh brings this tragic story of characters striving to establish and maintain meaningful connections to life with startling realism.

Best Price: $19.99 @ Wal-Mart

The Features:

� Commentary with Director Steven Soderbergh

� Interviews with Director, cast & crew

� Deleted Scenes

� Making-Of Documentary "Bursting The Bubble"

The Desert Of The Tartars

Synopsis:

As his first assignment, lieutenant Drogo is sent to an isolated fortress on the borders of a desert and of a range of high mountains. The mission of the garrison is to prevent a possible incursion by the fearsome Tartars, coming from beyond the desert. Some fellow officers are eagerly awaiting an attack; some no longer want to believe in it; others take advantage of the vague threat to further their career. All of them are sacrificing everything for a distant military ideal: leading the defense against the onslaught of the enemy. But in the vast emptiness surrounding the fortress, nobody has ever sighted the Tartars.

Best Price: $19.39 @ DVDPacific.com

The Features:

� CD Soundtrack by Ennio Morricone

� Digitally Remastered from the original vault 35mm negative

� Introduction by Director of Photography Luciano Tovoli

� Ghosts of the Desert: Interview with Director of Photography Luciano Tovoli

� The Most Important Role of My Life: Rare vintage interview with Star Giuliano Gemma

� Memories from the Fortress: Interview with Giuliano Gemma

� Original Italian Theatrical Trailer

� Poster and Still Gallery

Massacre In Rome (Special Edition)

Synopsis:

March 1944. With the fortunes of war turning against the Third Reich, Nazi-occupied Rome is a hotbed of dissent and reaction from the growing resistance movement. When the Roman underground ambushes a column of SS military police, killing 33, the German High Command orders the execution of 10 Roman citizens for each of its fallen soldiers.

Massacre In Rome unites two of the greatest cinema icons of the 1960s. Marcello Mastroianni stars as Roman priest Pietro Antonelli, ordered by the Pope to collaborate with Nazi Lt. Colonel Herbert Kappler (Richard Burton), charged by Hitler with the duty of rounding up 330 civilians for execution. Dedicated to pacifism, Antonelli must choose whether to defy the Pope�s orders and aid the resistance or remain true to his vows and watch his countrymen slaughtered by the SS.

Best Price: $19.39 @ DVDPacific.com

The Features:

� Introduction by Director of Photography Marcello Gatti

� Original Italian Theatrical Trailer

� Original English Theatrical Trailer

� Poster and Still Gallery

� Easter Egg: Marcello Mastroianni talking about acting, history, politics in general

� Interview with Director George P. Cosmatos

� Lensing a Massacre: Interview with Director of Photography Marcello Gatti

� Amarcord Marcello: Interview with Star Marcello Mastroianni

� The True Story Behind the Massacre: Interview with real-life Partisan Mario Fiorentini

� Fight for Freedom: Interview with real-life Partisan Rosario Bentivegna

� The Facts, the Lies, the Victims: Interview with historian Sandro Portelli

Other Releases

A-Team: Season 3

Afro Promo: Black Cinema Trailers 1946-76

Alison Moyet: One Blue Voice

Amos Gitai: Territories Boxed Set (Field Diary/Arena of Murder/House/A House in Jerusalem/Wadi/Wadi, Ten Years Later/Wadi, Grand Canyon 2001)

A Piece of the Action/Uptown Saturday Night

Archie Bunker's Place: The Complete First Season

Artaud 2-disc set (Artaud/My Life and Times with Artaud/The True Story of Artaud the Momo)

A Shot in the Dark

Benny Hill Complete and Unadulterated: The Hill's Angels Years (1978-1981)

Bikers Running Wild Triple Feature (Hell's Angels '69/Run Angel Run/Hell's Bloody Devils)

Black Society Trilogy (Shinjuku Triad Society/Rainy Dog/Ley Lines)

Blonde

Blood Alley/The Sea Chase

Booty Poppin Vol. 3: Atlanta Girls Uncut

Captains Courageous

The Champ

Cimarron

Clarence Darrow

Coldplay: Love, Actually

Da Vinci And The Code He Lived By

Departure

Diff'rent Strokes: The Complete Second Season

Drive-In Car Crash Classics Two-Fer: Cannonball/Fast Company

The End Of August At The Hotel Ozone

Essential Atom Egoyan Box Set

The Fight Against Pain: Examining The Impact Of Pain On Our Daily Life

Final Approach

Finding Home

Flipper/Flipper's New Adventure

Gastineau Girls: The Complete First Season

Goldstein

Gone With The Wind (Two-Disc Special Edition)

The Good Earth

Guns Of The Wehrmacht 1933-1945

Here Comes the Grump

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates: The Complete Third Series

Holocaust: Concentration Camps Dachau & Sachsenhausen

Inked: The Best of Season 1

Inspector Clouseau

JFK in Ireland

Johnny Belinda

Kelly Peters: Make It Happen - A Hip Hop Dance Video

King Tutankhamun: The Mystery Unsealed

Kitty Foyle

Knight Rider: Season Three

La Bataille Du Rail

Landmarks of Western Art Boxed Set

Landmarks Of Western Art: From Rococo To Revolution

Landmarks Of Western Art: Impressionism And Post Impressionism

Landmarks of Western Art: Romanticism

Landmarks of Western Art: The Baroque

Landmarks of Western Art: The Late Medieval World

Landmarks of Western Art: The Renaissance

The Last Blues

The Life And Times Of John F. Kennedy

Lincoln and Lee at Antietam: The Cost of Freedom

A Little Princess/The Secret Garden

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon/National Lampoon's Senior Trip

Lost Treasures Of The Ancient World: Boxed Set

Lost Treasures Of The Ancient World: Ancient China

Lost Treasures Of The Ancient World: Ancient India

Lost Treasures Of The Ancient World: Dark Age England

Lost Treasures Of The Ancient World: Empires In The Americas

Lost Treasures Of The Ancient World: The Celts

Lost Treasures Of The Ancient World: Samurai Japan

Love, Ludlow

Lust for Life

Magnum, P.I.: The Complete Third Season

Marjoe/Thoth

Martin(Hache)

Meeting F. Scott Fitzgerald

Midnight Blue Vol. 2: Porn Stars Of The 70's

Midnight Blue Vol. 3: Celebrities

Mobsters' Confessions

Mountain: Live in Texas 2005

Mr. Nanny/Suburban Commando

Muppets Movie Collection (Muppets Take Manhattan/Muppets From Space/Kermit Swamp Years)

Murder In The Hamptons

Murder Show

My Blue Heaven/The Man with Two Brains

The NeverEnding Story/The NeverEnding Story II

On Location With Frank Gorshin

On Location With Pat Cooper

On Location With Phyllis Diller

On Location With Totie Fields

On the Scene: Drift Battle

Panther: The Panzer V

Poison: Seven Days Live

Purlie Victorious

The Quack

Ragus: A Unique Irish Experience

Rat Patrol: The Complete First Season

Sexual Intelligence

The Stud

Sugartime

Supercross

Tarzan, The Ape Man/10

Teamster Boss

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Ways Of The Warrior #3.6 - Turtles Against H.A.T.E

Terrorism: A World In Shadows

TNA Wrestling: Bound For Glory 2005

The Train Robbers/Tall In The Saddle

The Twilight Singers: Twilight Live

Two's Company: Complete Series 4

Ultimate Fighting Championship, Vol. 1: The Beginning

Ultimate Fighting Championship, Vol. 2

The Ultimate Lesbian Short Film Festival

Undercover Angel

Unwanted Woman

The Virginia Hill Story

The War Within

Zatoichi, Vol. 2

Notable Horror & Sci-Fi Releases

Tim Burton's Corpse Bride

Best Price: $14.99 @ Circuit City

The Features:

� Behind-the-Scenes Documentary: Find out how an animator approaches his character's motivation and why individual animators possess unique skills

� Dark vs. Light: Explore what inspired Burton to bring the Corpse Bride to life

� Making Puppets Tick: Step inside and tour the puppet workshop

� Voices from the Underworld: Meet the actors behind the voices, and see how they craft their unique character

� The Voices Behind the Voice

� Danny Elfman Interprets The Two Worlds

� Inside the Two Worlds: Includes interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, and production drawings

� Photo Gallery: The Corpse Bride Pre-Production Galleries

� Theatrical trailer

� Music-only track

Dune (Extended Edition)

Best Price: $19.99 @ Best Buy

The Features:

� Features both the David Lynch theatrical cut and the extended Alan Smithee version

� Deleted Dune: Deleted scenes with an introduction by Raffaella De Laurentiis.

� Designing Dune: See how Dune's visual design was developed by director David Lynch and production designer Anthony Masters

� Dune FX: From explosive pyrotechnics to the mechanics of the fighting robot to flying the Baron, join Kit West and other special-effects artists as they give you a thrilling inside look at the process of one of the most ambitious special effects productions of its time.

� Dune Models: Model unit supervisor Brian Smithies explains the unique challenges of bringing the models to life on Dune

� Dune Wardrobe: Costume Designer Bob Ringwood and others explain how nearly 4,000 costumes were designed to create the looks of such memorable characters as the Reverend Mothers, the Emperor, the military and the Baron.

� Photo Gallery: Behind -the-scenes photos and original artwork available for the first time.

� Production Notes

Crash Test

Synopsis:

Introducing Crash Test, a surreal automotive nightmare. A struggling writer is kidnapped and surgically transformed into human crash test dummy 171096. Captive to Motorkore,  a corporation seeking car nirvana, 171096 must learn the tricks of survival in an industry where any day could be your last.

But there's one thing Motorkore hasn't counted on. With the guidance of his cellmate, a veteran dummy, 171096 prepares to beat the system by mastering the perfect crash. For the first time in Motorkore history, one employee will not die quietly.

Best Price: $14.99 @ Best Buy

The Features:

� Crash Test: The short film on which the feature was based

� How Was Your Day?: A short film by Mark Cange, starring Emily Haack and Jason Christ

� Trailers

� And More!

Let Me Die A Woman (Transgendered Edition)

Synopsis:

From Doris �Queen of Exploitation� Wishman comes Let Me Die A Woman, one of the most jaw-dropping and unclassifiable films ever to ooze forth from the Seventies grindhouse. A stunning sexpos� on the medical condition known as gender dysphoria, this doco-style sleaze-fest includes unabridged interviews with post-ops, bull dykes and drag queens, probing anatomical examinations, and real medical stock footage from an actual sex change operation! It's enough to make you want to put on an iron jock strap! This first-ever DVD release of Wishman's trannie tour de force is remastered from the original 35mm negative and restored to its full-color, uncut splendor (including the infamous �chisel� sequence deleted from American play prints!). Also included are original theatrical trailers as well as surprising extras from Doris Wishman's own estate, plus extensive liner notes on the film's peculiar history written by Wishman biographer Michael Bowen.

Best Price: $15.91 @ DVDPacific.com

The Features:

� Includes the Infamous �Chisel� Sequence, Originally Deleted from the US Version

� Commentary from Doris Wishman Archivist Michael Bowen and star, Leslie!

� Rare Alternate Opening Credits Sequence

� Original Theatrical Trailers and Promotional Spots

� Radio Spot

Live Freaky Die Freaky (DVD/CD combo)

Synopsis:

It is the year 3069 and the Earth has been robbed of all its natural resources, destroyed by war and ozone depletion, and is now only a barren desert. The humans who inhabit this empty vessel search not only for food but also for a god to save them. Their search will soon be over when Charles Manson returns to save them.

Best Price: $18.71 @ DVDPacific.com

The Features:

� Commentary with John Roecker and Billie Joe Armstrong

� Deleted Scene

� Making Puppets Speak

� Soundtrack Rehearsals and Recordings

� Desert Footage

� Storyboards

� Trailer

� Bonus Soundtrack CD with performances by Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong and the Go-Go's Jane Wiedlin. Music by Tim Armstrong and Roddy Bottom

Virgins From Hell (Special Edition)

Synopsis:

The film opens with a gang of Asian biker babes in leather hot pants attacking a casino. Two girls, Enny and Yenny, who appear to have a score to settle with the casino�s sleazy owner, lead the gang. Unfortunately the girls are defeated and end up in a women�s prison camp where they fall victim to the camp�s vicious lesbian wardress.

We discover that the notorious Mr. Tiger controls both camp and casino. Via a flashback we discover that Mr. Tiger killed Enny and Yenny�s parents and stole their land to build both the prison and a secret laboratory where he plans to manufacture a new aphrodosiac drug that will turn all women into helpless sex slaves.

Best Price: $16.50 @ DVDPacific.com

The Features:

� Brand new 2.35:1 16.9 transfer from original vault materials

� Trailer

� Extensive background notes

� History of women in prison films

� Destination Jakarta: 70 minutes of trailers from Rapi films, the studio behind Virgins From hell

� Indonesian exploitation: a special documentary on the history of Indonesian action, sex and horror movies. Includes clips from a wide variety of locally produced feature films.

� Mondo Macabro show reel: the much discussed forthcoming and already available attractions from Mondo Macabro DVD

Other Horror & Sci-Fi Releases

The Comeback (AKA The Day The Screaming Stopped)

Dark Shadows Collection 22

Exorcism: Possession of Gail Bowers

The Lawnmower Man/Lawnmower Man 2

Snakes & Sinners Two-Fer (God Told Me To/Venom)

When a Stranger Calls

X-Files: The Complete First Season (Collector's Edition)

X Files: The Complete Second Season (Collector's Edition)

X Files: The Complete Third Season (Collector's Edition)

Anime Releases

Ah! My Goddess: With Or Without You - Volume 3

Avatar The Last Airbender: Book 1 - Volume 1

Garuda

Hakugei, The Legend Of Moby Dick: Across The Galaxy - Volume 2

Salaryman Kintaro 4

Shrine Of Morning Mist: Complete Collection

Shura No Toki: Age Of Chaos Premium Collection

Taro The Dragon Boy

Best Buy Weekly Deals

2 For $20:

Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (Unrated)

Edward Scissorhands (Anniversary Edition)

The Transporter (Special Delivery Edition)

Alien vs. Predator

The Day After Tomorrow

Fight Club

Garfield: The Movie

I, Robot

Man on Fire

$5.99:

Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil (Special Edition)

Black Sheep

CLUE

Dark City

Detroit Rock City

Don Juan DeMarco

Mars Attacks!

Martin Lawrence: You So Crazy

Private Parts

The Saint (1997)

Tom & Jerry: Whiskers Away!

Tom & Jerry: Greatest Chases

Vanilla Sky

What's Eating Gilbert Grape?

Young Guns II

$7.49:

The Devil's Advocate (Special Edition)

Dirty Dancing (Ultimate Edition)

Mean Girls (Collector's Edition)

American History X

Cellular

Gotti

Ocean's Eleven

Poolhall Junkies

The Punisher (2004)

Saturday Night Live: Best of Dan Aykroyd

Sleepers

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

Swordfish

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie

We Were Soldiers

Circuit City Weekly Deals

2 for $15:

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Special Edition)

Field of Dreams (2-Disc Anniversary Edition)

Forrest Gump (Collector's Edition)

The Italian Job (Collector's Edition)

Jurassic Park (Collector's Edition)

Liar Liar (Collector's Edition)

Mean Girls (Collector's Edition)

Pitch Black (Director's Cut Special Edition)

2 Fast 2 Furious

Amistad

Bringing Down the House

Bruce Almighty

Coming to America

Dead Presidents

Face/Off

From Dusk Til Dawn

The Girl Next Door (Unrated)

Gothika

Hocus Pocus

The Incredible Mr. Limpet

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Life

Monster's Ball

The Rock

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Rundown

The Sandlot 2

Seven

Shaolin Soccer

Swordfish

$6.99:

Angel Heart (Special Edition)

Basic Instinct (Unrated Special Edition)

Daredevil (Director's Cut)

First Blood (Ultimate Edition)

Made (Special Edition)

Natural Born Killers (Director's Cut)

Red Heat (Special Edition)

Reservoir Dogs (Special Edition)

Suicide Kings (Special Edition)

Total Recall (Special Edition)

U.S. Marshals (Special Edition)

Black Mask

The Boondock Saints

Double Jeopardy

Drumline

Enemy at the Gates

Godsend

Harlem Nights

Johnson Family Vacation

The Last of the Mohicans

A Murder of Crows

The Negotiator

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Will Ferrell