Movies / TV
DVD Releases: Week of November 8th
By R. Flagg
Nov 8, 2005, 16:15

Notable Releases
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition)
Best Price: $18.76 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com
The Features:
� Becoming Oompa-Loompa: See how they turned one man into hundreds of Oopma-Loompas!
� Attack Of The Squirrels: A Look at the trained Nut-Sorting Squirrels
� Oompa-Loompa Dance: Learn to dance like an Oompa-Loompa
� The Inventing Machine: See What Happens to an Oompa-Loompa when you create your own candy concoctions.
� Search For The Golden Ticket: Can You Find The Golden Ticket?
� Five making-of featurettes
� The Fantastic Mr. Dahl: A look into the Life of Roald Rahl
� Pack of 5 limited-edition trading cards

Edward Scissorhands (Collectible Tin Anniversary Edition)
Best Price: $9.98 @ Target
The Features:
� Commentaries by Tim Burton & Danny Elfman
� Making of
� Interview clips: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Weist, Tim Burton, Caroline Thompson, Alan Arkin, Vincent Price, & Danny Elfman
� Concept artwork
� Original theatrical trailer and TV spots
� Collectible tin and six photos from the original movie set

Jumanji (Deluxe Edition)
Best Price: $12.99 @ Best Buy
The Features:
� Secrets & Riddles: The Jumanji Survival Game
� The Extreme Book Of Nature
� Ancient Diversions
� Special Effects Crew Commentary
� Making Of
� Production Design
� Storyboards
� Special Effects Featurette
� Photo Galleries
� Production Stills

Beavis & Butt Head: The Mike Judge Collection - Vol 1
Best Price: $24.99 @ Circuit City
The Features:
� 40 episodes including 14 never-before-released on DVD, and 23 containing previously censored material
� 11 music videos with running commentary from Beavis and Butt-Head. Music Videos include Pantera, Wilco, Grim Reaper and more
� Beavis and Butt-Head VMA appearances, promos and more
� Thanksgiving Special with Kurt Loder
� Taint of Greatness: The Journey of Beavis and Butt-Head, Part 1

Blue Collar TV: Season 1, Vol. 1
Best Price: $16.99 @ Best Buy
The Features:
� 13 episodes on two discs
� Boyz in the Wood: a behind-the-scenes look at season 1
� Live Comedy No Second Chances featurette
� Hatfield-McCoy redneck dictionary
� $5 mail-in rebate when you buy Season 1, vol. 1 and Season 1, vol. 2 (coming in 2006)

A Different World: Season 1
Best Price: $22.99 @ Best Buy
The Features:
� 22 episodes on four discs including The lost episode: "Homie, Don't Ya Know Me?" featuring Tupac Shakur and Jada Pinkett-Smith
� E! Entertainment and Uncle Film + Television presents a retrospective look: "I Was a Network Star!"
� Bloopers

Remington Steele: Season 2
Best Price: $27.99 @ Best Buy
The Features:
� Steele Eligible commentary with Michael Gleason and Sheldon Larry
� Steele Sweet on You commentary with Susan Baskin and Michael
� Hounded Steele commentary with Jeff Melvoin
� "Steele Action" Featurette
� "Steele Mildred" Featurette
� "Steele Together" Featurette

The White Shadow: Season 1
Best Price: $27.99 @ Best Buy
The Features:
� Pilot Commentary with Jackie Cooper and Mark Tinker
� The Great White Dope Commentary by Ken Howard and Tim Van Patten
� More Than Basketball

Jay And Silent Bob Do Degrassi (Uncensored)
Synopsis:
One major perk to being a director is that you can live out your fantasies. Kevin Smith's fantasy? To be featured in a three-episode arc of Degrassi: The Next Generation! Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes head north to film their next movie in which their alter egos are forced to go back to high school, called "Jay and Silent Bob Go Canadian, Eh?" And what better high school to shoot at that Degrassi Community School? But drama ensues even before the cameras begin to roll!
Best Price: $14.99 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com
The Features:
� Commentary by Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, Stacie Mistysyn, associate producer Jim Jackman and writer Aaron Martin
� Five Minutes of Integrated Footage, Not Seen Anywhere
� Deleted Scenes
� Bloopers
� Kevin Smith Exclusive Interview
� Reel Footage: The Canadian Ninja Scene
� Jay and Silent Bob Photo Album
� Degrassi Photo Album

Pickpocket (Criterion Collection)
Synopsis:
Robert Bresson�s masterful investigation of crime and redemption tells the story of the young, arrogant Michel (Martin LaSalle), who spends his days learning the art of picking pockets in the streets, subway cars, and train stations of Paris. As Michel grows bolder and more adept, so too grows his fear that his luck is about to run out. But despite the pleadings of his sick mother and the lovely Jeanne to return to the world of the honorable, he is consumed by his compulsion to steal. Tautly choreographed and stylistically rigorous, Pickpocket reveals Bresson at his enigmatic, virtuosic best.
Best Price: $25.97 @ DVDPlanet.com
The Features:
� New, restored high-definition digital transfer
� New and improved English subtitle translation
� Commentary by film scholar James Quandt
� New Video Introduction by writer-director Paul Schrader
� The Models of Pickpocket: 2003 documentary by filmmaker Babette Mangolte, featuring actors from the film
� A 1960 interview with Bresson, from the French tele�vision program Cin�panorama
� Q&A on Pickpocket, with actress Marika Green and filmmakers Paul Vecchiali and Jean-Pierre Am�ris fielding questions at a 2000 screening of the film
� Footage of sleight-of-hand artist and Pickpocket consultant Kassagi, from a 1962 episode of the French television show La piste aux �toiles
� Original Theatrical Trailer
� New essay by novelist and culture critic Gary Indiana

Ugetsu (Criterion Collection)
Synopsis:
The great Japanese director Kenji Mizoguchi draws on sources from both East and West for this, his crowning achievement. Focusing on an ambitious potter haunted by a beautiful ghost and a farmer who dreams of becoming a samurai, Ugetsu offer a commentary on the delusions of lust and power and the folly of war. Renowned cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa helps Mizoguchi seamlessly interweave the supernatural with reality, creating one of the most beautiful films of all time.
Best Price: $25.97 @ DVDPlanet.com
The Features:
� New, restored high-definition digital transfer
� New and improved English subtitle translation
� Commentary by filmmaker, critic, and festival programmer Tony Rayns
� Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (1972), a comprehensive, 150-minute documentary by filmmaker Kaneto Shindo, with new and improved subtitles
� Two Worlds Intertwined, an appreciation of Ugetsu by director Masahiro Shinoda
� Process and Production, a new video interview with Tokuzo Tanaka, first assistant director on Ugetsu, about the making of the film
� Video interview with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa
� Theatrical trailers
� Booklet featuring the original short stories on which the film is based: Akinari Ueda�s The House in the Thicket and Lust of the Serpent and Guy de Maupassant�s How He Got the Legion of Honor and a new essay by critic Phillip Lopate.

La Dolce Vita (Deluxe Collector's Edition)
Synopsis:
Director Federico Fellini`s portrait of a hedonistic 20th century Rome centers on a handsome journalist (Marcello Mastroianni) in constant pursuit of the extravagant, the sensational, and the absurd, who works for a scandal sheet and becomes intimately involved with the decadent high-society individuals his publication so often maligns. The immoral lifestyles he witnesses nearly paralyze him with shock and outrage, yet he struggles with his complicity.
Best Price: $46.39 @ Playcentric.com
The Features:
� Introduction by acclaimed director Alexander Payne
� Commentary by noted critic & film historian Richard Schickel
� Fellini TV: Collection of Never-Before-Seen Fellini shorts
� Remembering the Sweet Life: Interviews with Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg
� Cinecitta: The House of Fellini - Musical montage of Fellini�s beloved studio
� Fellini, Roma and Cinecitta: Interview with Fellini
� Extensive Photo Gallery
� Restoration Demo
� Nino Rota Documentary
� Interview with Anita Ekberg (2004)
� Interview with Federico Fellini from France TV (1960)
� Marcello Mastroianni speaking about La Dolce Vita on France TV (1960)
� Discussion with Fellini�s closest friend and colleague, Rinaldo Gelend, on La Dolce Vita themes
� Footage with the last surviving La Dolce Vita screenwriter, Tullio Pinelli
� 40 Page collector's booklet with essay by Italian cinema and Fellini expert, Peter Bondanella. Includes rare behind-the-scenes photos from the filming of La Dolce Vita
� Five 5'' x 7'' Collectible Photographs
� 11'' x 7'' Collectible Poster

Lady Sings the Blues (Special Edition)
Synopsis:
The essence of Billie Holiday, one of America's most loved and memorable blues singers, is captured brilliantly in a tour-de-force debut performance by singer Diana Ross. Filled with the greatest songs of the incomparable "Lady Day," this stunning film biography received five Academy Award Nominations, including Diana Ross for Best Actress.
Best Price: $9.36 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com
The Features:
� Commentary by Berry Gordy, Director Sidney Furie and Shelly Berger
� Behind The Blues: Lady Sings The Blues
� Deleted Scenes

Cronicas
Synopsis:
John Leguizamo stars as Manolo Bonilla, a tabloid TV reporter who traveled from Miami with his news crew on the trail of a story about a serial killer striking a small town in Ecuador. Convinced this story could be the �big one� that makes him a network star, he is willing to bend the rules to get the facts. But the closer he gets to uncovering the truth, the more he finds his carefully planned story spinning dangerously out of control. Soon, Bonilla and his crew find themselves at the center of a frightening situation where even the best intentions can backfire.
The Features:
� Director commentary track
� Shocking alternate ending
� Making of
� Deleted scenes
� Still photo gallery
� "Soledad" recording session
� US Theatrical Trailer

Reefer Madness: The Musical
Synopsis:
Inspired by the legendary 1936 film of the same name, Reefer Madness is a tongue-in-cheek raucous musical comedy about clean-cut kids who fall into a twisted, hilarious downward spiral of reefer, sex ad mayhem! A straight-laced high school lecturer (Alan Cumming) seeks to impart his wisdom to frightened parents about the "demon weed" by telling them the frightful tale of two innocent teens. Mary Lane (Kristen Bell) and Jimmy Harper (Christian Campbell), who fall under the spell of the public�s enemy #1 and quickly find themselves in a world of evil jazz music, dance and madness. Filled with outrageously funny and musical performances by Neve Campbell, Christian Campbell, Kristen Bell and Steven Weber, Reefer Madness is the feel good event of the year that should not be missed!
Best Price: $17.81 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com
The Features:
� Cast Commentary
� Grass Roots: Behind the Scenes
� Original Black & White Film From 1936
� And More!

Other Releases
50 Cent: Refuse 2 Die (Unrated And Unauthorized)
The Adventures Of Swiss Family Robinson: The Complete Series
Agony: Life and Death of Rasputin
Airmania
Albert Schweitzer (Restored and Uncut)
America Brown
Bang Rajan
Big Black Comedy: Vol 4
Big Fish (Special Edition With Book)
The Bill Jeff Larry & Ron Box Set
Blackout
Blizzard
Ute Lemper: Blood & Feathers - Live From The Cafe Carlyle
A Boyfriend For Christmas
Boys Town
British Invasion: The Second Wave
Burn!
Bush Christmas
California Rock: 1960s & 1970s
A Carol Christmas
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
The Charlie Daniels Band: Live
Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers: Volume One Collection
A Christmas Carol
Christmas in Connecticut
Christmas With The Kranks
The Christmas Wife
A Dry White Season
Ducktales: Volume One Collection
Endless Way
Fag Hag
Faith
Five Children And It/The Return Of It
Five Mile Creek: The Complete First Season
Flights of Fantasy Collection
The Fugitive Kind
Game: Chronicles of the Street
Good To See You Again, Alice Cooper: Live 1973 Billon Dollar Babies Tour
Hit Man File
Honor & Courage: Tough Guys Of The NHL
Jeopardy: An Inside Look At America's Favorite Game Show
John Luther Adams: Strange and Sacred Noise For Percussion Ensemble
Jorge Drexler: Eco2
The Kumars At No. 42
Lady Snowblood (Collector's Boxed Set)
Las Vegas: Unconventional History
The Lenny Bruce Performance Film
Lil Homies of Krump
Live 8
Lone Wolf and Cub Collection
Margaret Cho: Assassin
Miracle's Boys
The Missouri Breaks
Mom At Sixteen/Too Young To Be A Dad
Moscow Heat
My Classic Car: Chevy Muscle Cars
My Classic Car: Cool Cars Of The 50's
My Classic Car: Ford Muscle Cars
My Classic Car: Jay Leno Certified Car Nut
My Classic Car: Mopar Muscle Cars
My Classic Car: Legendary Muscle Cars
My Classic Car: Olds Pontiac Buick Muscle Cars
National Geographic: The Best Of Lisa Ling
Nat King Cole Collection
NBA Hardwood Classics: Courtside Comedy
NBA Hardwood Classics: Michael Jordan - Come Fly with Me
NBA Hardwood Classics: NBA Showmen - The Spectacular Guards
NBA Hardwood: Michael Jordan's Playground
NBA's Top 10 Greatest Collection
New York Knicks: The Complete History
NFL Super Bowl Collection: Dallas Cowboys
NFL Super Bowl Collection: Green Bay Packers
NFL Super Bowl Collection: Oakland Raiders
NFL Super Bowl Collection: Pittsburgh Steelers
NFL Super Bowl Collection: San Francisco 49ers
NFL Super Bowl Collection: Washington Redskins
The Partridge Family: The Complete Second Season
Pioneers of Primetime
Popstar
Pro Wrestling Ultimate Insiders Vol 4
Rapoon: Alien Glyph Morphology
Ray Charles: 50 Years In Music
Rock a Doodle
Saddam Hussein: Weapon of Mass Destruction
Sepultura: Live In Sao Paulo
Shostakovich Against Stalin: The War Symphonies
Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus
S.O.S. Iceberg
Sound Stage Presents: Lindsey Buckingham With Special Guest Stevie Nicks
Storm Over Mont Blanc
Tales From Avonlea: The Complete First Season
The Tom Green Show: Inside and Outside the Box
The Trilogy By Lucas Belvaux (One The Run/An Amazing Couple/After Life)
Ultimate Poker Challenge: Season 1
Warm Spring
Warner Bros. Classic Holiday Collection (Boys Town/A Christmas Carol 1938/Christmas In Connecticut)
What's New Scooby-Doo? #7: Ghosts On The Go
What's New Scooby-Doo? #7: Ghosts On The Go (w/ Stuffed Toy)
White Hell Of Pitz Palu
The Who: Tommy and Quadrophenia Live
Words Earth & Aloha: The Source of Hawaiian Music
WWE No Mercy 2005
Yes
Yuletide Fireplace

Notable Horror & Sci-Fi Releases
The Devil's Rejects (Unrated 2-Disc)
Best Price: $13.99 @ Circuit City
The Features:
� Commentary with Director Rob Zombie
� Commentary with Actors Sid Haig, Bill Moseley and Sheri Moon Zombie
� Deleted Scenes
� Blooper Reel
� 30 Days In Hell: The Making Of The Devil's Rejects
� The Morris Green Show: Rugggsville's #1 Talk Show
� Mary the Monkey Girl Commercial
� Spaulding Christmas Commercial
� Cheerleader Missing: The Otis Home Movie
� Satan's Got To Get Along Without Me: Buck Owens Video
� Make-Up Tests
� Matthew McGrory Tribute
� Still Gallery
� Theatrical Trailer and TV Spots

Riget (The Kingdom): Series One
The Features:
� Commentary by Lars Von Trier
� Behind the Scenes Footage
� TV Spots directed by Lars Von Trier
� Trailer

The Devil's Plaything
Synopsis:
Nestled in the mountains of Germany, a grim and secluded castle stands - the haunted legacy of the beautiful medieval vampire Baroness Daniella Varga. Put to death for her ravenous hunger for female blood, the Baroness uttered a curse that she would one day return to forever satisfy her unnatural lust...and that day has finally come! Four women have gathered at the castle unaware that its darkly seductive housekeeper is a satanic high priestess presiding over a coven of delectable servants who each night perform sensual rituals and profane acts to keep the Baroness' spirit alive. As the women are drawn deeper into the ultra erotic nightmare, it will be the most uninhibited among them who shall serve as the vessel into which the Baroness passes...to continue her unholy reign of terror.
Best Price: $8.57 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com
The Features:
� Joe Sarno: A Touch of Horror
� Liner Notes by film historian/Joe Sarno biographer Michael Bowen
� Trailers to other Retro-Shock-O-Rama releases

Doctor Who: The Claws Of Axos (Episode 57)
Synopsis:
A mysterious object approaches Earth, alerting the Doctor and UNIT that they face another possible threat from outer space. Are the gold-skinned aliens who claim to bring great gifts to humanity as peaceful and benevolent as they first appear? If so, why is the Doctor�s archenemy, the Master, onboard their spacecraft?
Best Price: $17.49 @ Target
The Features:
� Commentary with actors Katy Manning and Richard Franklin and producer Barry Letts
� Behind The Scenes: A 25 min. selection of studio material form the making of this story, including footage that was cut from the finished program
� Now and Then: A look back at the Dungeness locations used for this story, contrasting them with how they appear today
� The Axon Legacy: A 10 min. documentary which looks at the restoration of this story for DVD
� Directing Who: Michael Ferguson talks about his work on the The Claws of Axos
� Photo Gallery
� Production Note Option

Doctor Who: City Of Death (Episode 105)
Synopsis:
The Doctor and Romana's plan for a peaceful holiday in Paris soon goes wrong. Cracks are beginning to appear in the fabric of time, indicating that dangerous time experiments are under way. Even the well-beaten path to the Louvre lead the Doctor deeper into mystery, much of which revolved around Count Scarlioni (Julian Glover), a sinister figure who has six Mona Lisa paintings stashed in his cellar and they�re all originals!
Best Price: $24.99 @ Best Buy
The Features:
� Commentary by actors Julian Glover and Tom Chadbon and director Michael Hayes
� Springtime In Paris: Behind the Scenes Featurette done in a comedic Douglas Adamsesque style
� Paris W12: Ultra-rare recently discovered behind-the-scenes footage from the making of the story
� Prehistoric Landscapes: Montage of unused landscape and spacecraft model shots from the story
� Chicken Wrangler: Comedic montage of the trials and tribulations of trying to film the chicken sequence
� Eye On Blatchford: Documentary on the life of one of Blatchford's more unusual residents...Sardoth, the second-to-last of the Jagaroth!
� 1980 Doctor Who Annual: PDF format version of the complete annual
� Production Notes
� Photo Gallery
� Note Option
� Easter Eggs

My Baby Is Black/Checkerboard
Synopsis:
My Baby Is Black
While hanging out with her beatnik friends in Paris, an attractive young white woman, is introduced to Daniel, a handsome black medical student. Sparks fly and despite Daniel's concerns the two have an affair that results in Francis becoming pregnant. Though her strict parents demand that she have an abortion, Frances is determined not only to have Daniel's child, but to shout to the world, "My Baby Is Black!�. A French production shown at U.S. grind houses back in the day when interracial love was a hot-button topic, My Baby Is Black treads that oh-so-fine line between Art and Exploitation.

Checkerboard
The tiny desert town of Cicada is a Checkerboard of poverty and racial tension that explodes when Bob, a 20-year-old white Army veteran, asks the lovely black-skinned Bessie to the Saturday night dance. White bigots attack bob, though a hooker blames the attack on the blacks. Before long, a lynch mob is looking for someone to hang and almost strings up Bob until he throws his fake leg at them. Imagine Southern-style sleaze done as an off-kilter art film by the French and you might have some idea of what to expect from this bizarre mix of sex, racism, and cynical humor.
Best Price: $17.99 @ Circuit City
The Features:
� Paris After Hours
� Mondo Oscenita
� Gallery of Sexloitation Ad Art with Exploitation Audio
� Trailer Gallery
� TV Spots

Other Horror & Sci-Fi Releases
The Children
Crazed (Uncensored)
Dot.Kill
Hollywood Burlesque/Peek A Boo
Lust In Space: The Erotic Witch Project 4
Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection: Volume 8
Slipstream
Space: Above and Beyond - The Complete Series
Time of Fear
Zoetrope

Anime Releases
Ah My Goodness: The Movie
Chobits: Complete 1-7 Thinpak Box Set
Doki Doki School Hours Volume 1: 1st Hour
Doki Doki School Hours Volume 1: 1st Hour (w/ Collector's Artbox)
Eden's Bowy: Complete Collection
E's Otherwise: Volume 4 - Suffer The Children
The Galaxy Railways: Station 3 - The Vastness Within
Initial D: Extra Stage - Vol 14
Inu-Yasha: Season 2 Boxed Set
Mars Daybreak: Vol 2
Mars Daybreak: Vol 2 (Limited Edition)
Original Dirty Pair: Movie Box
Robotech: Protoculture Collection
Shadow Star Narutaru: Vol 4

Best Buy Weekly Deals
2 for $15:
Chicken Run (Special Edition)
Hook (Superbit)
Mean Girls (Collector's Edition)
National Lampoon's Van Wilder (Unrated 2-Disc)
Zoolander (Collector's Edition)
Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
The Great Outdoors
High Fidelity
House Party
Labyrinth
The Little Rascals
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
The Neverending Story
The Secret of NIMH
Serendipity
Swingers
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie
Tin Cup
The Waterboy
The Wedding Singer
You've Got Mail

Circuit City Weekly Deals
$7.49:
The 6th Man (Special Edition)
Boyz 'N the Hood (2-Disc Anniversary Edition)
Dark Crystal (Superbit)
Donnie Brasco (Special Edition)
Identity (Special Edition)
Labyrinth (Superbit)
Legends of the Fall (Special Edition)
Men In Black II (2-Disc Special Edition)
Spider-Man (2-Disc Special Edition)
Underworld (Special Edition)
8MM
The Day After
Get Shorty
Single White Female
Unstoppable
$9.99:
Apollo 13 (2-Disc Anniversary Edition)
Ghostbusters 1 & 2 Gift Set (2-Disc With Book, Collectible Scrapbook)
The High & the Mighty (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
Jackie Brown (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
The Others (2-Disc)
Philadelphia (2-Disc Anniversary Edition)
Saving Private Ryan (2-Disc Anniversary Edition)
Scarface (2-Disc Anniversary Edition)
Troy (2-Disc)
Top Gun (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
The Usual Suspects (Special Edition)
American History X
Around the World in 80 Days
Blow
Braveheart
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Friday Night Lights
Good Will Hunting
The Green Mile
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (Unrated)
Hidalgo
Hotel Rwanda
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Looney Tunes Premiere Collection
Mr. 3000
Old School (Unrated)
Raising Helen
Remember the Titans
Snatch
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory


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