Movies / TV
DVD Releases: Week of September 6th
By R. Flagg
Sep 6, 2005, 17:44

Notable Releases
Crash
Best Price: $14.99 @ Circuit City
The Features:
� Commentary with Paul Haggis, Don Cheadle and Bobby Moresco
� DVD Introduction by Director Paul Haggis
� Behind the Scenes
� Trailers

Toy Story (10th Anniversary Edition)
Best Price: $14.99 @ Circuit City
The Features:
� Remastered picture and sound
� Legacy Of Toy Story
� Filmmakers Reflect: Featuring Academy Award-Winning Creator John Lasseter
� Exclusive Sneak Peek At Pixar's Next Animated Feature Cars
� Game: The Claw!
� The Making of Toy Story
� Introductions By The Filmmakers
� Deleted Scenes
� Behind the Scenes: a six-part feature looking at the aspects of design, story, character, production, sound, & publicty
� Animation Production Progression Demos

The Deer Hunter (Legacy Series Edition)
Best Price: $19.49 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com
The Features:
� Commentary with Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond
� Deleted and Extended Scenes
� Academy Award Best Picture Acceptance Speech
� Anatomy of a Scene
� Production Notes
� Original Theatrical Trailer

The Sting (Legacy Series Edition)
Best Price: $18.78 @ Wal-Mart
The Features:
� The Art of The Sting: A retrospective on the making of The Sting with interviews from the cast and filmmakers
� Making A Masterpiece: Production stories, techniques that influenced the style of the film
� A Perfect Script: Pre-production script development and rehearsals
� The Legacy: Tributes to director George Roy Hill
� Theatrical Trailer

To Kill A Mockingbird (Legacy Series Edition)
Best Price: $18.78 @ Wal-Mart
The Features:
� Commentary with Director Robert Mulligan and Producer Alan Pakula
� Fearful Symmetry: Making of Documentary
� A Conversation with Gregory Peck: Documentary produced by his daughter, Cecilia Peck
� Academy Award Best Actor Acceptance Speech: Gregory Peck's speech after winning an Oscar for his performance as Atticus Finch
� American Film Institute Life Achievement Award: Gregory Peck's speech after receiving the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1989
� Excerpt from Academy Tribute to Gregory Peck: Cecilia Peck's heartwarming speech in honor of her father
� Scout Remember: An interview with Mary Badham about her experience working with Gregory Peck
� Theatrical Trailer

The Garbo Silents (The Temptress/Flesh and the Devil/The Mysterious Lady)
Best Price: $27.97 @ DVDPlanet.com
The Features:
� Commentary on The Temptress by Author Mark A. Vieira
� Commentary on Flesh and the Devil by Author Barry Paris
� Commentary on The Mysterious Lady by Film Historians Tony Maietta and Jeffrey Vance
� Alternate Ending on The Temptress
� Settling the Score: Behind the Scenes of the TCM Young Film Composers Competition and the Scoring of Notable Silent Movies, Including These Garbo Classics

Lost: The Complete First Season
Best Price: $38.88 @ Wal-Mart
The Features:
� 24 episodes on seven discs
� Commentary by executive producers J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof, and Bryan Burk on the pilot
� Commentary by executive producer Jack Bender, co-executive producer David Fury, and actor Terry O'Quinn on Walkabout
� Commentary by executive producers Damon Lindelof and Bryan Burk and actor Dominic Monaghan on The Moth
� Commentary by executive producer Carlton Cuse, supervising producer Javier Grillo-Marxuach, and actors Maggie Grace and Ian Sommerhalder on Hearts and Minds
� 13 deleted scenes
� Bloopers from the set
� The Genesis of Lost: Creators Tell How The Show Was Conceived
� Designing a Disaster: Exciting Insights Into The Look Of Lost
� Before They Were Lost: personal stories and audition tapes
� Welcome to Oahu: The Making of the Pilot
� The Art of Matthew Fox
� Lost@ComiCon
� Lost: On Location
� On Set with Jimmy Kimmel
� Backstage with Driveshaft
� The Lost Flashbacks: Claire at the Airport, Sayid at the Airport
� Salute to Lost at the Museum of Television and Radio's 22nd Annual Paley Festival

Fraggle Rock: Complete First Season
Best Price: $27.00 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com
The Features:
� 24 episodes on five discs
� Replica of Jim Henson's "Fraggle Rock" notepad
� Behind the scenes documentary narrated by Jim Henson
� New interviews with "Fraggle Rock" cast and creators
� Deluxe embossed collector's box

The Girl In The Cafe
Synopsis:
Mild-mannered Lawrence (Bill Nighy) is a dedicated civil servant who doesn't have much going on in his life except his job. However, that changes when he meets Gina, a mysterious, attractive woman whom he impulsively invites to the G8 conference in Iceland, a very important event for the world and Lawrence�s career. As the conference on world poverty progresses, Gina makes her displeasures with the G8 conference leaders well known, much to Lawrence's chagrin. Together, this unlikely couple might just change history, or at least his employment status.
Best Price: $19.80 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com
The Features:
� Commentary with Writer Richard Curtis and Director David Yates
� Deleted Scenes
� Behind-the-Scenes Featurette

The Last Chapter
Synopsis:
For the Triple Sixers, Canada's largest motorcycle gang, the sound of breaking bones is as familiar as the deafening roar of their choppers. Bob Durelle (Michael Ironside) is ready to cement their influence with a bold scheme that will give the Sixers a lock on the country�s illegal drug trade and make him untouchable. Even so, Durelle's enemies, and some of his closes friends, have other ideas. A bare-knuckle turf war is about to explode under Durelle, his fellow gang members and his family, threatening to choke them in a black haze of money, betrayal and blood.
Best Price: $26.92 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com
The Features:
� Series One Alternate Ending
� Deleted Scenes
� The Making of The Last Chapter
� Behind the Scenes Footage
� Trailers

Lipstick & Dynamite: The First Ladies Of Wrestling
Synopsis:
Lipstick & Dynamite shines a spotlight on the forgotten first ladies of the ring. Gladys 'Killem' Gillem wrestled women, men, alligators, and bears. At 18, Ida May Martinez took to the road to flash the only thing she knew - how to kick, punch, and defend herself. Narrowly escaping a date rape at 16, Penny Banner trained for survival. Still kicking butt at 80, The Fabulous Moolah and Mae Young live together with midget wrestler sidekick Diamond 'Lil, and continue to take bumps with World Wrestling Entertainment.

Each woman reflects on her own remarkable life with fond and bitter memories, reconciling a wild, flamboyant youth with the reality of getting older and fading away. Lipstick & Dynamite follows Moolah, Mae Young and the girls 60 years, many bumps and falls later as they discuss the money, the old days and what it's like to be a 'lady' in today's favorite guilty pleasure.
Best Price: $13.24 @ DVDPacific.com
The Features:
� Commentary by Director Ruth Leitman
� Tribeca Film Festival Q&A with The Fabulous Moolah, The Great Mae Young, Ida May Martinez, Gladys "Killem" Gillem, & Director Ruth Leitman
� Atlanta Film Festival Q&A with Ida May Martinez & Ella Waldek & Director Ruth Leitman
� Behind-the-Scenes footage in a limo with Moolah & Mae on the way to the Leno Show
� Outtake scenes from wrestling reunions in Las Vegas and Mobile Alabama
� IFC "At the Angelika" segment

Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Synopsis:
After a wild farewell party for the troops, Trudy Kockenlocker, a small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers, wakes up to find that she married someone and can�t remember his name. Even worse, he�s disappeared and she learns she�s pregnant!
Best Price: $9.36 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com
The Features:
� Preston Sturges and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
� Censorship: Morgan's Creek vs. the Production Code

Thunderstruck
Synopsis:
After a near death experience at a 1991 AC/DC concert, teenage best friends Sonny, Ben, Lloyd, Sam and Ronnie swear a solemn pact: If one of them should die before the age of forty, the remaining four will bury him next to the grave of Aussie rock legend Bon Scott. Twelve years later, when Ronnie is killed inia freak accident, his friends must reunite, steal his remains from his pop star wife, and cross Australia on a road trip that takes some very strange turns. However, even if they can dodge the media, escape the police and break every law along the way, will these bickering former friends break their final promise?
Best Price: $11.99 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com
The Features:
� Commentary with Director Darren Ashton and Producer Jodi Matterson
� Deleted Scenes
� Making of
� Theatrical Trailer

Other Releases
21 Jump Street: The Complete Third Season
3 Iron
Ace in the Hole
Action Spectacular
Almost You
Anna Christie
Anna Karenina
Average White Band: Live At Montreux
Battlefield Diaries : Extended Cut
Best Motoring: Enduro Challenge
Best Of Fractured Fairy Tales Vol 1
Bill Wyman: Digital Dreams
Bleak House
Blue River
Brazilian Brawl/Vatos
Brother Sam: A Tribute To Sam Kinison
Bruce Springsteen: Vh-1 Storytellers
Buffalo Bill: The Complete First And Second Seasons
The Bullwinkle Show: Complete Season 3
Calamari Wrestler
Camille
Career Girls
Casanova's Big Night
Certain Justice
The Charles Dickens Collection (Oliver Twist/Martin Chuzzlewit/Bleak House/Hard Times/Great Expectations/Our Mutual Friend)
Charlie Hunter: Solo Inventions
The Chase
Chronicle of a Disappearance
Cirque Du Soleil: Midnight Sun
Coast Guard
The Cutting Edge: The Magic Of Movie Editing
Declining By Degrees
Degrassi Junior High: Season 3
Doogie Howser MD: Season Two
Doris Day: It's Magic
Dressed To Kill
Epitaph Live Tour
Fat Albert's Halloween Special
Fear and Trembling
Fighting Caravans
Fight Night
Flash Gordon Collection
Flight From Death: The Quest For Immortality
Fraggle Rock - Vol 4: Doin Things That Doozers Do
Garbo: The Signature Collection (Anna Christie/Mata Hari/Grand Hotel/Queen Christina/Anna Karenina/Camille/Ninotchka/Garbo Silents)
Great Expectations
A Guide For The Married Man
Gunslinger's Revenge
Hardcore Homecoming: Extreme Reunion
Hard Times
Harry And Tonto
Haven
Herbie Hancock Trio in Concert
Hercules
The Holy Girl
Holy Pilgrims
Hong Kong Karate Hatchet Men/Chang Gang
Hour of the Star
The House On 92nd Street
Icon
Karate Frightmare/Karate Death Squad
Ladysmith Black Mamba: Live At Montreux
The Last Frontier
Laugh Pack (Abbot & Costello: Africa Screams/Laurel & Hardy: The Flying Deuces/The Three Stooges: Simply Hilarious)
Lawless Street
Legends: Live At Montreux
Legends of Modern Music - Vol 4 : Count Basie / Duke Ellington / Oscar Peterson
The Lina Wertmuller Collection (Summer Night/The Nymph/Swept Away/Seven Beauties/Ferdinando and Carolina)
The Longest Drive
Lorna Doone
Macgyver: The Complete Third Season
A Man Called Peter
Man in the Saddle
Marksman
Martial Arts Box Set (Hong Kong Hatchet Men/The Chang Gang/Karate Frightmare/Karate Death Squad/The Tong Father/Revenge of the Lady Warrior)
Martin Chuzzlewitt
Mata Hari
Motel Cactus
Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation
Nero
Nevada
Ninotchka
Nunsense 3: Jamboree
Oliver Twist
Our Mutual Friend
Parallel Sons
Paris Is Burning
Pro Wrestling's Ultimate Insiders Vol 1
Public Enemy
Punk: Attitude
Queen Christina
Red Garters
Red Lion
Rockin The Corps
Sally Marshall Is Not an Alien
Santa Fe
Satisfaction
Smile
SNL: First 5 Years
SNL: Best Of Dan Aykroyd
SNL: Best of Gilda Radner
SNL: Best of John Belushi
Snowfall
Soccer Days
Somewhere in the Night
Special Forces
The Stranger Wore A Gun
Sub Zero
Ten Wanted Men
Teri Hatcher Collector's Set
The Tong Father/Revenge Of The Lady Warriors
Tracey Ullman: Live and Exposed
The Tyler Perry Collection (I Can Do Bad All By Myself/Madea's Class Reunion/Meet The Browns/Madea's Family Reunion)
U.S. Marine Corps
Wagon Wheels
West Of The Pecos
Whirlpool
World's Greatest Fair
Written in Blood
Young Gods

Notable Horror & Sci-Fi Releases
Millennium: The Complete Third Season
Best Price: $39.99 @ Best Buy
The Features:
� Commentary on select episodes
� X-Files "Millennium" episode from Season 7

Dead and Breakfast (Unrated Edition)
Synopsis:
Six friends on their way to a wedding in Galveston, TX stop for the night at a quaint bed and breakfast in the sleepy town of Lovelock. However, after a night that ends with both the inn�s owner and his chef dead, the gang finds themselves under suspicion by the local sheriff. The mystery quickly unravels when the already bizarre residents of the town become possessed by an evil spirit and pin the friends down at the b&b. Armed with a rusty chainsaw, a can of gasoline and a half box of shotgun shells, they must barricade the house and fight for their lives.
Best Price: $11.99 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com
The Features:
� Commentary with writer/director Matthew Leutwyler, Special Effects Supervisor Michael Mosher and Actors Erik Palladino and Zach Selwyn
� Commentary with writer/director Matthew Leutwyler and actors Ever Carradine, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Erik Palladino and Oz Perkins
� Bloopers
� Deleted & Extended Scenes
� Additional Music
� Trailers
� Posters / Still Gallery

Doctor Who: Horror Of Fang Rock (Episode 92)
Synopsis:
A mysterious light in the sky, an unnatural glow in the ocean and a thick fog bring terror to the lighthouse keepers of Fang Rock. When the Doctor and Leela arrive, the first death has already cast doubt on the safety of the lighthouse. However, the Doctor discovers something more terrifying and evil than even he could have imagined.
Best Price: $18.73 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com
The Features:
� Commentary by actors Louise Jameson and John Abbott and writer Terrance Dicks
� Terrance Dicks Fact & Fiction: a look at the writer's six-decade career in books and television
� Paddy Russell: A Life in Television: specially shot retrospective interview on the director's career
� The Antique Doctor Who Show: 1993 short film on Doctor Who collectibles
� Photo gallery
� Production note option

Doctor Who: The Mind Robber (Episode 45)
Synopsis:
The TARDIS is in the path of molten lava on the planet Dulkis, and the doctor is forced to activate the emergency unit to move it out of harm's way. Unfortunately, the craft is also taken out of normal time and space and out of reality itself! When the time travelers land nowhere, they stumble into a world peopled by fictional characters, Gulliver and Rapunzel, D'Artagnan and Sir Lancelot, but also by creatures from mankind's worst imaginings!
Best Price: $18.73 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com
The Features:
� Commentary by actors Wendy Padbury, Frazer Hines, and Hamish Wilson and director David Maloney
� The Fact of Fiction: a 35-minute retrospective of the story's production
� Highlander: a 22-minute look at Frazer Hines's career
� Basil Brush: a 10-minute sketch featuring the Yeti
� Photo gallery
� Production note option

Save The Green Planet
Synopsis:
A sensitive, blue-collar sad sack hopped up on conspiracy theories and sci-fi is convinced that aliens have infiltrated human society and are planning to destroy the planet at the next lunar eclipse. He sets out to kidnap his boss to torture him until he confesses to his alien identity and stops the invasion. Of course, it�s hard to confess to something that�s just a delusion in a sick man�s mind. Or is it?
Best Price: $18.80 @ DVDPacific.com
The Features:
� Deleted Scenes
� Interview with the director
� Making Of
� Behind-The-Scenes Featurette
� Conversation between director & actors
� Theme Song Music
� Original Korean Trailer
� US Theatrical Trailer

The Janitor
Synopsis:
Movie fans with a penchant for blood and guts should find their macabre tastes wonderfully satiated by this schlock-horror film. Directed by TJ Nordaker and Andy Signore, the film follows the exploits of a demented janitor named Lionel (played by Signore), who goes on a kill-crazy rampage after being hired to work among the buxom residents of a sorority house. Humor and horror meld into a glorious, yucky mess as the film progresses, and Troma fans will be happy to find that Lloyd Kaufman makes a brief appearance as a homeless bum.
Best Price: $10.29 @ DVDPacific.com
The Features:
� Extremely Drunken Commentary
� Blood, Guts & Cleaning Supplies: The Making Of The Janitor
� Deleted Scenes
� Alternate Ending
� The Office Is Closed: The original short that inspired the movie
� Music Video: You�re Gonna Die

Other Horror & Sci-Fi Releases
Back From the Grave Collection (The Flesh and The Fiends/Graveyard of Horror/Raiders of The Living Dead)
Beast Box (Beach Girls and The Monster/Bride OF The Gorilla/Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla)
The Bela Lugosi Collection (Murders In The Rue Morgue/The Black Cat/The Raven/The Invisible Ray/Black Friday)
Blood Thirsty Collection (Horror of The Blood Monsters/The Blood Drinkers/Doctor Dracula)
Johnny Legend's Deadly Doubles Volume 3: The Barn of the Naked Dead/Hollywood In Hell
The Blue Bird
The Boogeyman (1980)/The Return Of The Boogeyman
The Cabinet Of Caligari
Charmed: The Complete Second Season
Dead End Road
The Doctor And The Devils
Goosebumps: Chillogy
Goosebumps: Ghost Next Door
Goosebumps: Scary House
Hammer Horror Series (Brides Of Dracula/Curse Of The Werewolf/Phantom Of The Opera (1962) /Paranoiac/Kiss Of The Vampire/Nightmare/Night Creatures/Evil Of Frankenstein)
Hellraiser: Hellworld
House On Haunted Hill (Colorized)
The Innocents
Killer Tomatoes Eat France
Killer Tomatoes Strike Back
Kingdom Hospital: The Beginning
The Neighbor
Omen IV: Awakening
The Prophecy: Forsaken
Relative Fear
They're Watching Us (Nos Miran)

Anime Releases
Gunslinger Girl: The Silence Of The Stars - Volume 3
Inu-Yasha: The Movie 3 - Swords Of An Honorable Ruler
Kyo Kara Maoh: God Save Our King - Volume 3
Leave It to Piyoko Vol 1
Leave It to Piyoko Vol 2
Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi Vols. 1-3 (Boxed Set)
Tokyo Underground: Assailants - Volume 4
Yugo The Negotiator: Honor - Volume 2

Circuit City Weekly Deals
2 for $20:
Boogeyman (Special Edition)
Collateral (2-Disc)
Meet the Parents (Bonus Edition)
Pulp Fiction (Collector's Edition)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (Collector's Edition)
Spiderman 2 (Special Edition)
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (2-Disc)
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2-Disc)
Taxi (Extended Edition)
After the Sunset
Anchorman (Unrated)
Are We There Yet
Bad Santa (Unrated)
Closer
E.T.
Fat Albert
The Forgotten
Grudge
Hero
Hotel Rwanda
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Old School (Unrated)
The Ring
Saw
Shark Tale
Shrek 2
Sideways
Spanglish
Spongebob Squarepants movie
White Chicks (Unrated)
$6.99:
Contact (Special Edition)
Above the Law
A Perfect Murder (Special Edition)
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
The Adventures of Pluto Nash
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Bullet
The Dirty Dozen
Disclosure
Fame
Just Cause
Lean on Me
The Long Kiss Goodnight
The Lost Boys
The Mack
Memphis Belle
Message in a Bottle
Money Talks
The Postman
Proof of Life
The Replacements
Rush Hour 2
Sleepers
Space Cowboys
Spies Like Us
Superfly
Tequila Sunrise
Three Amigos!


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