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Noteworthy DVDs released 5/19/09
PICK OF THE WEEK
“The Friends of Eddie Coyle” (Criterion): Crime novelist George V.
Higgins got to see Robert Mitchum bring his title character to life in this low-key gangster picture directed by Peter Yates (“Bullitt”), a film Mitchum fans have long ached to see on DVD.
OTHER TOP PICKS
“Friday Night Lights” Season 3 (Universal): Thanks to some creative deal-making involving an exclusive DirecTV window, Austin’s critically beloved series survived another year. Now anyone confused by the unconventional scheduling can watch it all from start to finish on disc.
“A Bug’s Life” (Walt Disney): The ‘toon Pixar made between the two “Toy Story” films hits stores in a new Blu-ray edition, just in time to promote “Up.”
“Valkyrie” (MGM): Not as pulse-pounding as it should have been, this Tom Cruise vehicle about a plot to kill Hitler was still far better than the early buzz suggested.
“Man Hunt” (1941) (Fox): Fritz Lang (“M”) directs a cast of English actors for a thriller set in the Nazi-era Germany he himself had escaped years earlier.
“Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes: 3 Films by Shohei Imamura” (Criterion): Three early-’60s films crusing through the lower rungs of the Japanese social order.
“Fanboys” (Weinstein Co.): Good-natured road film in which “Star Wars”
fanatics try to break into Skywalker Ranch.
NEW ON BLU-RAY
“Batman” (1989) (Warner Bros.); “Changing Lanes,” “The Machinist,” “Three Days of the Condor” (Paramount); “Circle of Iron,” “Fast Company” (Blue Underground); “Lions for Lambs” (MGM); “Spy Game” (Universal); “Terminator 2” (Lions Gate)
FRESH FROM THE MULTIPLEX
“Paul Blart: Mall Cop” (Sony)
FROM THE VAULTS
“Catlow” (Warner Bros.)
DOCUMENTARIES
“Black Hollywood: Blaxploitation and Advancing Independent Black Cinema,” “Llik Your Idols” (MVD); “Crips and Bloods: Made In America” (Docurama); “Kobe Doin’ Work” (New Line); “Lavender Limelight: Lesbians On Film,” “The Top Secret Trial of the Third Reich” (First Run Pictures); “We Feed the World” (Kino)
BEST OF TV
“24” Season 7 (Fox); “Russell Brand: In New York City” (Paramount); “True Blood” Season 1 (HBO)
REISSUE/REPACKAGE
“Army of Darkness” Screwhead Edition (Universal); “Arnold Schwarzenegger DVD Collection” (Lions Gate) “Billy Jack” (Warner Bros.); “El Dorado,” “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”
Centennial Collection (Paramount)
CULT CORNER
“Muscle Madness” (Infinity); “My Bloody Valentine 3- D” (Lions Gate); “Nightmare Castle” (Severin); “Eden Log” (Magnolia); and a barrel full of Japanese genre pictures including “3 Seconds Before Explosion,” “Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards!,”
“Debauched Desires (Four Erotic Masterpieces by Masaru Konuma) (Kino), “Wandering Ginza Butterfly,” and “Wandering Ginza Butterfly 2: She-Cat Gambler” (Synapse)
STRAIGHT(ISH) TO VIDEO
“Dr. Dolittle: Million Dollar Mutts,” “Driven to Kill” (Fox)
KIDS’ STUFF
“Thomas & Friends: Team Up With Thomas” (Lions Gate); “Treasury of 25 Storybook Classics: Dinosaurs, Trucks, Monsters,” “Treasury of 25 Storybook Classics: Fairytales, Magic and More” (Scholastic)
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