Speaking on a commentary track for his film Knowing (Summit Entertainment, $27 DVD, $35 Blu-ray), director Alex Proyas (Dark City; I, Robot) says his favorite commentary track is one featuring a conversation between Martin Scorsese and the late Michael Powell. (The DVD, which he never names, is Criterion Collection's Black Narcissus.)
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Like people at a class reunion everyone actually wants to attend, the cast and crew members Spike Lee interviews on the half-hour ''20 Years Later'' feature included in the Do the Right Thing 20th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray (Universal, $30; DVD, $20) seem really proud of the film and happy to reminisce about their work.
These are some of this week's releases: Waltz with Bashir: Based on actual events, this groundbreaking animated film won a Golden Globe and was up for an Oscar as best foreign-language film in 2008. Filmmaker Ari Folman, an Israeli veteran of the first Lebanon War, encounters an old friend suffering from nightmares of the conflict. Wondering why his own memories are full of gaps, he reconnects with old friends and confronts the horrors of war. Director: Ari Folman. 2008, R, 87 minutes, Sony. DVD...
Max Von Sydow's chess game with Death is one of the most iconic scenes in all of cinema, and rarely has it looked better than the way it appears on the Criterion Collection's Blu-ray release of The Seventh Seal ($40, also on DVD).
Imagine reliving the Woodstock festival by popping the Oscar-winning documentary of the same name into your Blu-ray DVD player, then syncing it with those of other nostalgia-seekers around the world and chatting online while Janis, Jimi and Country Joe take the stage.
Like extended family gatherings you look forward to attending, each of the 13 episodes on the four-disc The Shield Season 7: The Final Act (Sony, $60) comes with a commentary track by the cast and crew. The tracks not only give you an excuse to revisit the series' memorable final year, but illustrate just how harmonious a unit the show's creators had become.
EAT: With its water views, airy interior and wood accents, Il Forno is the kind of place you go after a graduation or for some other special occasion. But sometimes you just want to savor good, home-cooked (mostly) Northern Italian food on your own plates, with your own utensils.
New DVD releases due in stores on Tuesday: Revolutionary Road: On the audio commentary track accompanying his film, director Sam Mendes states that his first cut was much more ''reverential'' to Richard Yates' 1961 novel but that he eventually reedited the movie -- and took a few liberties with the structure -- to help give it identity and feel.
New DVD releases due in stores on Tuesday: The Devil's Tomb (2009): When the scientist (Ron Perlman) in charge of a top-secret Middle East archaeological site suddenly goes missing in this action-packed, apocalyptic thriller, a super-elite military unit led by Captain Mack (Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr.) is drafted to launch a search-and-rescue effort. But Mack and his men don't get far into the cradle of civilization before they are confronted by an ancient, perhaps otherworldly evil lying beneath...
Every reboot of a longstanding movie franchise brings a home video component,and Star Trek is no exception. With the new film currently drawing huge theater crowds, Paramount Pictures has dusted off the first six Trek films and given them their hi-def debut on Blu-ray.
DVDs 24: Season 7 Billy Jack The Friends of Eddie Coyle El Dorado Fanboys Friday Night Lights: Third Season The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
David Fincher granted precious few interviews to promote the release of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in December, but he makes up for his silence on the two-disc Special Edition release of the film (Criterion Collection, $39.99 DVD and Blu-ray; single-disc edition $30).
DVD The Dana Carvey Show: The Complete Series The Grudge 3 Kingdom Passengers S. Darko Taken Two and a Half Men -- Season 5 BLU-RAY
Bride Wars (2009): Predictable and lazy, this joyless movie also possesses a deep nasty streak, making it loathsome when it might have been merely annoying. Kate Hudson is high-powered lawyer Liv who, with childhood friend Emma (Anne Hathaway), has always dreamed of getting married at New York's Plaza Hotel in June. When the chums get engaged around the same time, they book back-to-back Saturdays, only to discover . . . oh, what's the point? The sexist, mean-spirited film seems to have been manufactured...
Frost/Nixon (2008): This is a delicious contest of wits, brilliant acting and a surprisingly gripping narrative -- no less dramatic even though the results are foregone. British journalist David Frost was deemed a lightweight and bet his future career on a blockbuster television special. Former President Richard Nixon wanted rehabilitation and gambled that Frost would lob him softballs. As Nixon, Frank Langella is perfection. The character is generated from the inside out, not predicated on surface...
Bled (2008): A supposedly hip young artist living in a downtown warehouse is seduced into trying an ancient drug by an enigmatic, handsome man. The potion will make her the prey of a vampire from -- of course -- a dark dimension. With Sarah Farooqui, Jennifer Lee Wiggins, Jonathan Oldham and Michele Morrow. Lionsgate. $26.98.
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008): Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, Jaden Smith, John Cleese. Extras: Deleted scenes, featurettes, commentary by writer David Scarpa, still galleries, concept art, storyboards, production photos, digital copy for portable media players, copy of 1951 classic. Fox. $29.99 two-disc, $34.90 three-disc special edition, $39.99 three-disc Blu-ray.
The Bielski Brothers (2009): During the darkest hours of World War II, three Russian brothers transformed persecution and violence into an incredible tale of affirmation and survival. A&E. $9.95.
The vampire-human love story that has launched a million swoons is coming this weekend to a DVD player near you.
Exactly four months after opening in theaters, the wildly popular big-screen adaptation of Twilight -- it grossed more than $191 million in the United States alone -- is being released Saturday on DVD (Summit Entertainment, two-disc DVD, $32.99; Blu-ray disc due out May 5).
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