This Week on DVD – May 8, 2007
There are plenty of double dips in stores this week, including new versions of Dirty Dancing, That Thing You Do!, Donnie Brasco and Big. I’m not sure what happened to that Mrs. Doubtfire: Behind The Seams Edition though… it seems to have been pulled. The award for most “uncomfortable” films this week go to Steven Shainberg’s poorly reviewed Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus starring Nicole Kidman, and Amy Berg’s Academy Award-nominated documentary Deliver Us From Evil, about convicted pedophile Father Oliver O’Grady. Anything listed here catch your fancy?
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
Deliver Us From Evil
Dirty Dancing: 20th Anniversary Edition
Donnie Brasco: Extended Cut
That Thing You Do! Director’s Cut
Music and Lyrics
Catch and Release
Because I Said So
Big: Director’s Cut
The Dead Girl
Revenge: Director’s Cut
Breaking & Entering
To Catch A Thief
That ’70s Show – Season Six
Everybody Loves Raymond: The Complete Eighth Season
The Painted Veil
The Guns of Navarone: Collector’s Edition
Catch & Release (Blu-ray)
Dirty Dancing (Blu-ray)
Donnie Brasco (Blu-ray)
Revenge (Blu-ray)
Comments (7)
I would like to see Deliver Us From Evil. I’m not very big on the DVD though… Is it just me or does it seem a little distasteful that it says “WINNER!” twice on the cover?
Posted by Henrik on May 8th, 2007It looks very symmetrical if you ask me.
Posted by Sean on May 8th, 2007“Deliver Us From Evil” was a disturbing documentary. To think this guys actually agreed to go on camera and candidly spoke about what he did. And even when he apologised he was so insincere. It’s well worth watching. After all, you might want to know what the guy looks like…there was talk that he could be hiding in Canada.
Posted by Marina on May 8th, 2007i wouldnt mind checking out Deliver Us From Evil, looks like an interesting yet disturbing movie. and that Fur flick just looks weird, no thanks.
Posted by Chopper Sr. on May 8th, 2007Deliver us from Evil has a 100% fresh rating on rotten tomatoes, only one of a few movies ever to receive such a rating. i dont know why.
it was good, but i think its very overrated. i didnt care much for the pacing, and the style was mostly talking heads which is fine with some directors but here just played like a TV documentary. i’d probably give it a borderline thumbs up, but after everything i’ve heard i walked away quite disappointed.
Posted by manicpanda on May 12th, 2007^thats actually me, Goon, not manicpanda. i forgot she didnt log out.
anyways i was also going to say it was obvious the director set up shots to have the pedophile around children in order for it to be more shocking. people accuse Moore of setting up things to be exciting, but i think many overlook just how rampant it is with other directors, and here the ethics issues go beyond honest filmmaking.
Posted by Goon on May 12th, 2007http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=1705276&issue_id=14759
(article from irish newspaper about how the school where shots were done were told it was a documentary on multiculturalism)
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