The titles that will probably get the biggest play this week are Todd Haynes' I'm Not There, the indie auteur's take on Bob Dylan that inspired spirited critical debate, and Alejandro Monteverde's romantic drama Bella, which seemed to come out of nowhere to become an audience favorite, playing in theaters for months. Both hit DVD today; I'm Not There is packed with an audio commentary with Haynes, deleted scenes, featurettes, audition tapes, gag reel and more, while Bella has an audio commentary by the director, two featurettes and a music video.

Jess Weixler stars in Mitchell Lichtenstein's Teeth, which inspired no fewer than three reviews here at Cinematical: Scott Weinberg, Kim Voynar and Nick Schager. If that's not enough to lure you in, it's about vagina dentata! Read the reviews to learn more -- each of our reviewers focused on something different that appealed or repelled. The DVD includes an audio commentary by the director, deleted scenes, outtakes and behind the scenes footage.

As a mother of five, Kim Voynar presented a very personal perspective on Abby Ebstein's doc, The Business of Being Born, featuring Ricki Lake. Kim wrote in part: "Epstein does a thorough job of dissecting the cold, hard facts about the history of modern childbirth." Two featurettes are included on the DVD: one takes the viewer behind the scenes, and the other follows up with what happened to the participants.

I have to precede this review by saying up front that the topic of this film -- the "business" of childbirth, the skyrocketing Cesarean section rates in the United States, and the impact of managed births and unnecessary childbirth interventions on mothers and babies -- is a topic near and dear to my heart. When I heard a while back that Ricki Lake was involved in producing a documentary about homebirth and midwifery, I was immediately intrigued. I recalled hearing through the natural childbirth circle in Seattle that Lake had had a homebirth with her second child, after a first birth in a hospital with all of what many women have come to accept as the "usual" childbirth interventions, and I was interested that she was now using her ability to reach women through her talk show to advocate natural childbirth.

So to be fair about my perspective going into this documentary: I am a mother of five, and I have had babies in just about every way you can have them: an induced hospital birth that resulted in a forceps delivery, a caesarean section, and then three natural births with midwives, two at home and the last in a hospital after six weeks in the hospital on bedrest for preterm labor. I think it's safe to say I've had a lot of experience with childbirth in its various iterations, but those experiences are, of course, my personal experiences. Nonetheless, the impact of my natural births in particular has necessarily shaded the view I'm likely to have of any movie that concerns the topic of natural birth -- but I also think that anyone watching a film like this is going to come to it with their particular biases in place. Now you know mine.

Now a few years free from the 6-year run of her own talk show, talking to piles upon piles of strange and usually hot-headed people, Ricki Lake has involved herself in something a bit more serious. After having a negative experience during the birth of her first child, she tapped filmmaker Abby Epstein to make a documentary on the birthing business, for Lake to executive produce. The film, The Business of Being Born, was screened at Tribeca this year, and now indieWIRE has reported that Red Envelope and New Line Entertainment have picked up the North American rights to the doc.

As the story goes, Epstein explored maternity care in America, focusing on the Big Apple, and the doc shows the distrust in hospitals, and how a number of couples take matters into their own hands. The film gets more personal once Epstein finds out that she is pregnant as well, and that "the life of her child [is] on the line." It's a bit revealing as well for Lake -- during an interview with The Huffington Post, she discusses how the doc includes footage of the home birth of her second son: "I am naked at 195 pounds giving birth in my own bathtub." According to the press release: "should most births be viewed as a natural life process, or should every delivery be treated as a potential medical emergency?" If this is up your alley, or have a tyke on the way, the doc will get a limited release in "key US cities" this October, then a Netflix launch before the DVD is released in early 2008.