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Noteworthy DVDs released 6/22/10
PICK OF THE WEEK “Red Desert” (Criterion) - Antonioni fans can stop throwing their eBay dollars away on the lousy, out-of-print edition of this 1964 classic of artsy alienation, now that Criterion has restored it to its proper dimensions on both DVD and Blu-ray.
OTHER TOP PICKS “A Star is Born” (1954) (Warner Bros.): Old-school showbiz melodrama with an iconic part for Judy Garland gets the Blu-ray treatment from Warners.
FRESH FROM THE MULTIPLEX “Green Zone” (Universal); “Remember Me” (Summit); “She’s Out Of My League” (Paramount)
NEW ON BLU-RAY “Afro Samurai: The Complete Murder Sessions” (FUNimation); “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” (3-D, Blu-ray/DVD combo from Sony); and a slew of scenery-based Blu-rays from Questar.
FROM THE VAULTS Carol Reed’s “Night Train to Munich” (Criterion)
ARTHOUSE/FOREIGN Catherine Breillat’s “Bluebeard” (2010) (Strand); “Close-Up” (Criterion); “Communism Was No Party,” “Invisible Adversaries,” “Krik? Krak! Tales of a Nightmare,” “Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave,” “Reich,” “Stall On Salvador” (Facets); “Le Combat Dans L’ile” (Zeitgeist); “The Maid” (Oscilloscope); “The Last Station” (Sony)
DOCUMENTARIES “Children’s War,” “Fuel” (Cinema Libre); “Stones in Exile” (Eagle Vision)
TV-ON-DVD
“Ah My Goddess” Season 2, Complete sets of “Guyver,”
“Heroic Age,” and “Suzuka” (FUNimation); “Avatar: The Last Airbender”
(Nickelodeon); “Checkmate” Complete Series (Timeless); “Entourage”
Season 6, “Hung” Season 1 (HBO); “Riverworld” (Vivendi); “Small
Wonder” Season 2, “Swamp Thing”
Season 3 (Shout! Factory, both online exclusives); “Stephen Fry in
America” (BFS)
REISSUE/REPACKAGE “Death Race 2000” (DVD and Blu-ray), “Roger Corman Cult Double Feature: Warlords of the 21st Century / Deathsport” (Shout! Factory)
STRAIGHT(ISH) TO VIDEO “The Good Guy” (Lions Gate); “Hard Four” (Virgil Films)
KIDS’ STUFF Chevy Chase, Christopher Lloyd and others in “Jack And The Beanstalk” (Screen Media Films); “Tom and Jerry: Deluxe Anniversary Collection” (Warner Bros.)
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