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October 16, 2002
Our Week: Star Wars II DVD, The Ring, Grave of The Fireflies and No Go ET
This week in Our Week in DVD we spend an entire day watching Star Wars Episode II and enjoy it from beginning to end, we make sure we Keep The River on Your Right, bawl our eyes out at Grave of The Fireflies and twiddle our thumbs through Sum of All Fears. Next we're jumping out of our chairs at a screening of The Ring and are left scratching our heads as Universal Studios Home Video tells us NO go for an ET DVD Review and casts doubt over any future online support. All this and more in this week's Our Week in DVD & Movies
Roger Rabbit fans rejoice! Buena Vista Home Video has announced the DVD release Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Special Edition. Set for release on March 25th, 2003 Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Special Edition will be presented in both widescreen and full screen with both Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1 audio and feature: Audio Commentary with The Filmmakers, Deleted Scene, "Behind The Ears: The True Story Of Roger Rabbit", Toontown Confidential: Pop-Up-Style Trivia, Roger Rabbit Shorts: Tummy Trouble, Rollercoaster Rabbit and Trail Mix-Up, Split-Screen Comparison, "Who Made Roger Rabbit" Featurette and more! Pre-Order Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Special Edition now.
This week The DVD Savant takes a look at Casino Royale graced with a director interview that provides some very welcome explanations of how this crazy mess got this way. Miramax's Italian for Beginners, an old-fashioned love soap told from within the Dogme 95 discipline.
Mysterious Island Ray Harryhausen's imitation of a Bert Gordon film - big bugs, big crabs, big birds! Image's Germany Year Zero a hard-hitting, socially conscious story of a hapless boy living in the ruins of a Berlin just beginning to rebuild from the bombings of WW2. And two from Warner Bros The Thin Man and The Shop around the Corner . Read all this an more in this week's DVD Savant.
It's finally here! We've got an extremely in depth review of the highly anticipated Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones DVD. Closely following the form and format of the Episode I DVD, Episode II DVD innovates with a transfer direct from the digital source, and presents 3 main documentaries rather than 1 big one. It's a DVD packed with extras and we explored every inch of this fantastic DVD. Read our complete review of Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones.
Buena Vista Home Video has officially announced the release of this summer's thrilling spookfest Signs. Set for release on January 7th, Signs will be released as a 'Vista Series' DVD presented in Widescreen (enhanced for 16x9 TVs) and Dolby Digital 5.1 audio and feature: Audio Commentary by Director M. Night Shyamalan, a segment on the Storyboard Process, Visual Effects Feature, A DVD diary about the writing of the script, a talk with composer James Newton Howard on the music of SIGNS, Deleted Scenes, 2 Multi-Angle scenes, M. Night's first childhood alien movie, and more! Pre-Order Signs and read our Theatrical Review of this AMAZING movie!
October 14, 2002
Insomnia Giveaway
This week we've got a very special Insomnia DVD Giveaway from the folks at Warner Bros. Home Video. Enter for your chance to win one of 5 copies of the Insomnia DVD featuring: Commentary by director Christopher Nolan with an amazing recut of the movie shown in order of shooting sequence, Commentary by actor Hilary Swank, production designer Nathan Crowley, editor Dody Dorn, cinematograher Wally Pfister, and screenwriter Hillary Seitz, deleted scene and much much more! Enter Now for your chance to win INSOMNIA!
A number of notable DVDs this week including the John Woo wartime flick Windtalkers [Review], A DVD release showcasing this summer's TV hit
American Idol [Review], Angela Jolie goes platinum blonde in Life or Something Like It [Review], a summer hit panned by many Scooby Doo [Review] finds its place on DVD as a Kids movie, the completely dumb but guilty pleasure comedy Sorority Boys [Review], Christopher Nolan's remake of the thriller Insomnia [Review]
and finally Universal's release of Law & Order which they refused to send to any online press for review. Read Reviews of these and other DVDs getting released this week.
October 13, 2002
DVD Talk Interview - Christopher Nolan
DVDTalk writer Phillip Duncan had a few short minutes to spend with Insomnia filmmaker and director Christopher Nolan, who followed the surprising success of Memento with a remake of the 1997 Norwegian thriller Insomnia. DVDTalk had a chance to ask this eloquent and meticulous director a few questions about the DVD release. Read our interview and find out Nolan's thoughts on the inventive commentary track on the film and whether or not a Special Edition of Insomnia will one day make it to the shelves.
Hail to The King,
baby! Brian O'Hara's fiendishly irreverent, gloriously gruesome Rock 'n' Roll
Frankenstein is easily among the year's top genre releases!!!
Vigilant CineSchlockers net the space-alien omelet epic Puppet
Masters. Stuart Gordon returns to H.P. Lovecraft with Dagon.
A homicidal turkey runs amok in Blood
Freak. Fan-friendly extras sweeten Ernest Goes to
Africa and Ernest in the
Army. Plus, responses to reader
emails and Under the Rainbow joins CineSchlock-O-Rama'
s Most Wanted.
No one film can
encapsulate all of New York, so filmmakers are left to
tell the story through the tiny details. Stefan
Nadelman's extraordinary Terminal
Bar centers on one long-shuttered Manhattan
watering hole and ten years worth of photographs.
Taking his father's portraits as his starting point
Stefan has crafted a unique, eye-popping visual
experience unlikely to be equalled by any other film
this year.Cinema
Gotham caught up with Nadelman to learn more about
this fascinating film.
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