Tips for Tuesday: New to DVD on 7/11
Filed under: New on DVD, Home Entertainment
(Last week was amazingly skimpy, and this one's only marginally more exciting.)Recent Theatricals
Basic Instinct 2 (Sony) -- We used to have only one movie about Sharon Stone's crotch. Now we have two. (director commentary, featurette, ten deleted scenes, alternate ending, "unrated" edition)
Foreign and Arty
Koko: A Talking Gorilla (Criterion) -- One of the finest documentaries you'll ever see about the relationship between man and his "lesser" cousins. (video interview with co-director Barbet Schroeder)
Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story (HBO) -- All I've heard is that they took an "unfilmable" book and turned it into one weird piece of cinema. Looking forward to it. (filmmaker commentary, deleted & extended scenes, interviews, behind-the-scenes featurette)
Yi Yi (Criterion) -- A three-hour family drama from China. And I hear it's pretty freaking fantastic. (audio commentary, interviews, essay booklet)
Catalog Picks
The Black Swan (Fox) -- One of those old pirate flicks from the '40s that I've always wanted to see. This one's got Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara. (audio commentary, restoration comparison)
Grand Prix (Warner) -- Frankenheimer was a guy's guy. And this flick is his 1966 love letter to the sport of car racing. (retrospective documentary, four featurettes)
Direct-to-Video
The Garden (Anchor Bay) -- A low-budget DTV horror movie starring Lance Henriksen. Bizarre, I know. (director commentary, featurette)
Grilled (New Line) -- Ray Romano, Kevin James, Burt Reynolds, Juliette Lewis, Jon Polito, Michael Rapaport, Kim Coates, Sofia Vergara, and Richard Libertini in a comedy about ... meat. (two featurettes, deleted scene)
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Indie Roundup: 'Sweetgrass,' 'Clarkworld,' 'Broken Embraces'
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
7-10-2006 @ 1:31PM
Christopher Campbell said...
You know, if you hadn't written out the title of Grilled, I wouldn't have known that's what it was called from looking at the DVD cover. I thought it looked more like Grifted. And why does Ray Romano look like he should have hoof feet and hang out in Narnia?
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