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DVD Releases: Week of August 2nd
Posted by R. Flagg on Aug 2, 2005, 17:10
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Notable Releases
Alexander: Director's Cut (2-Disc Special Edition)
Best Price: $14.99 @ Circuit City
The Features:
� Commentary by director Oliver Stone
� Resurrecting Alexander: explores the filming of Alexander
� Perfect Is the Enemy of God: provides an in-depth look at the details that go into the filming of an epic
� The Death of Alexander: Interviews with the cast on how they prepared for their roles
� "Vangelis Scores Alexander" featurette
� Theatrical trailers
Guess Who
Best Price: $14.99 @ Circuit City
The Features:
� Commentary by director Kevin Rodney Sullivan
� 7 Deleted Scenes with Optional Director Commentary
� Gag Reel
� Love is the Melody: The Making of Guess Who
The Dukes Of Hazzard: The Complete 4th Season
Best Price: $27.99 @ Amazon.com
The Features:
� 27 episodes on nine discs
� Commentary
� Documentary
� Featurette
� Interviews
The High and the Mighty (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Synopsis:
When a commercial airliner develops engine problems on a trans-Pacific flight and the pilot loses his nerve, it is up to the washed-up co-pilot Dan Roman to bring the plane in safely.
Best Price: $12.99 @ Circuit City
The Features:
� Commentary by Leonard Maltin, William Wellman, Jr., Karen Sharpe, Pedro Gonzales-Gonzales and aviation expert Vincent Longo
� Introduction by Leonard Maltin
� The Batjac Story
� Stories from the Set
� On Director William A. Wellman
� The Music and World of Dimitri Tiomkin
� Restoring a Classic
� A Place in Film History
� Ernest K. Gann: Adventurer, Author, and Artist
� Flying in the Fifties
� Batjac Montage
� The High and the Mighty Premiere Footage
� Trailers
� Photo Gallery
Island In The Sky (Collector's Edition)
Synopsis:
A transport plane crash-lands in the frozen wastes of Labrador, and the plane's pilot, Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while waiting for rescue.
Best Price: $7.99 @ Circuit City
The Features:
� Commentary by Leonard Maltin, Darryl Hickman, James Lydon, William Wellman, Jr. and aviation expert Vincent Longo
� Introduction by Leonard Maltin
� Dooley's Down
� The Making of Island in the Sky
� Flight School - The Art of Aerial Photography
� Ernest K. Gann: Adventurer, Author, and Artist
� Flying for Uncle Sam
� The John Wayne Stock Company: Harry Carey, Jr.
� Introduction to "Gunsmoke" TV promo
� Batjac Montage
� Newsreel Footage of Premiere
� Theatrical Trailer
� Photo Gallery
This Old Cub
Synopsis:
This Old Cub is an acclaimed documentary about former nine-time all-star third baseman, broadcaster, and Chicago Cubs legend Ron Santo and his lifelong battle with diabetes. Santo was the first and only major league position player to play professional baseball with Type One diabetes. He played most of his career without revealing his disease for fear that he would be forced to retire from baseball. At a time when much less was known about how to regulate insulin levels, Santo rarely missed a game�taking injections and eating chocolate bars based on how he felt from moment to moment. This Old Cub captures the spirit of a man and his will to achieve. Santo is the ultimate optimist and therefore the ultimate Cub.
Best Price: $17.96 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com
The Features:
� Filmmaker's Commentary
� Behind-the-scenes
� Bonus footage
� Added interviews
Other Releases
Alexander: Theatrical Cut (2-Disc Special Edition)
Avant-Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and '30s
Betty
The Boatniks
Candid Camera: 5 Decades of Smiles
Castles Of Scotland
Chicago Bears: The Complete History
China & The Forbidden City
Ciudad Del Sol (Sun City)
The Color Of Lies
Cop Au Vin
The Cosby Show: Season 1
Downfall
Elvis Has Left The Building
Eternal Gaze
Evel Knievel
The First World War: The Complete Series
Give 'Em The Boot
The Greatest American Hero: Season Three
Hearts Afire: Season #1
Hoover Street Revival
Hot Version International: JDM Racers
The Industry
Inspecteur Lavardin
Johnny Tremain
L'Enfer
Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days
Momentum
Naked Fame
NFL Hall of Fame: The Complete History
Over There: Pilot Episode
Pittsburgh Steelers: The Complete History
Prisoners Among Us
The Rider Named Death
Ryan (Special Edition)
Saturday Morning With Sid & Marty Krofft
Swords of Vengeance (Fall of Ako Castle)
The Complete Thin Man Collection (The Thin Man/After the Thin Man/Another Thin Man/Shadow of the Thin Man/The Thin Man Goes Home/Song of the Thin Man)
Toby Tyler
Tut: The Boy King
When Billie Beat Bobby
World's Greatest Athlete
Notable Horror & Sci-Fi Releases
The X-Files Mythology, Vol. 2 - Black Oil
Best Price: $27.99 @ Amazon.com
The Features:
� 15 episodes from seasons 3-5: Nisei, 731, Piper Maru, Apocrypha, Talitha Cumi, Herrenvolk, Tunguska, Terma, Memento Mori, Tempus Fugit, Max, Zero-Sum, Gethsemane, Redux, Redux II
� Commentary by director R.W. Goodwin on Talitha Cumi
� Commentary by director Rob Bowman on Memento Mori
� Commentary by director Kim Manners on Max
� Chris Carter's all-new "Threads of Mythology" documentary
� Mythology timeline
Other Horror & Sci-Fi Releases
After Image
Dr. Chopper
The Glass Trap
Hide and Go Shriek
Throttle
Cypher
Anime Releases
Chrono Crusade: Hellfire - Volume 7
DearS: First Contact - Volume 1 (Collector's Box)
Best Buy Weekly Deals
3 for $25 OR 6 for $40:
10 Things I Hate About You
25th Hour
40 Days and 40 Nights
Cocktail
crazy/beautiful
Crimson Tide
Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
The Grifters
Grosse Pointe Blank
He Got Game
High Fidelity
The Hot Chick
Iron Monkey
Mr. Holland's Opus
Mystery, Alaska
Out Cold
The Recruit
Reign of Fire
The Rock
Scream
Serendipity
Sorority Boys
Swingers
The Waterboy
Circuit City Weekly Deals
$7.49:
12 Monkeys (Special Edition)
Fargo (Special Edition)
Liar Liar (Collector's Edition)
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (2-Disc Special Edition)
The Perfect Storm (Special Edition)
Rain Man (Special Edition)
S.W.A.T. (Special Edition)
Alexander the Great
Coming to America
From Dusk Till Dawn
I Got The Hook-Up
Love & Basketball
Love Jones
Over the Top
The Players Club
National Lampoon's Van Wilder (Unrated)
Raging Bull
Y Tu Mam� Tambi�n
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