DVD & Blu-ray out this week
The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus DVD & Blu-ray, Lionsgate It’s Heath Ledger’s final film. There, that’s got that out of the way.
August 8, 2013
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The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus DVD & Blu-ray, Lionsgate It’s Heath Ledger’s final film. There, that’s got that out of the way.
The case: courtroom movies are a crime against cinema. The accused?
This sees Peter Greenaway in his element, examining Rembrandt’s The Night Watch in loving detail Some of Peter Greenaway’s films leave me cold, but this sees the writer-director in his element, examining Rembrandt’s The Night Watch in loving detail, spinning a murder mystery around it and providing fantastic compositions of his own. It is also notable for the surprise casting of Martin Freeman …
District 9 DVD & Blu-ray, Sony With a price tag roughly one 10th that of Avatar’s, Neill Blomkamp’s debut is a film only a director with a love of the science-fiction genre. Like Star Wars or Terminator, it sucks up myriad influences and builds on them rather than simply rehashing. So you get flashes of Robocop, Alien Nation, The Fly, Quatermass, etc, but all given a smart updating and a South …
Artificial Eye, cert 18, rental and retail Lars von Trier’s latest shocker is extremely beautiful in places. Its black and white opening, shot with digital cameras at 1,000 frames per second, indelibly records the death of the young son of Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg, falling out of the window in the snow while his parents are having sex. The rest of the film is in three sections …
Studio’s plan to bring forward UK DVD release date for the Pixar film blocked by British cinema owners Kids in Britain won’t be getting Pixar’s Up in their Christmas stockings this year following a clash between Disney and UK cinema owners. Last month, Disney decided to bring forward the DVD release of Up from 15 February to December
Inglourious Basterds DVD & Blu-ray, Universal It’s taken a decade for this to arrive (no time wasted on spellcheck, though), and Quentin Tarantino’s epic second world war romp is the best thing he’s done in ages. It’s deceptively Tarantino-esque; just because it’s a period piece doesn’t mean he skimps on his trademark pop-culture references. It’s just that here he geeks out not on Les Big Macs …
The DVD/Blu-ray box set of the year has to be the Alien Collection (20th Century Fox), due in no small part to the fact that it’ll probably take you a year to get through all the incredible extras and alternate edits.
Artificial Eye, rental and retail Andrea Arnold’s uncompromising Âsecond feature film, which has more in common with her Oscar-winning short film Wasp (included with the DVD) than her feature debut, Red Road. Debutant Katie Jarvis is in virtually every scene as the elder daughter of a feckless mother in an Essex tower block.
A Serious Man DVD & Blu-ray, Universal Refreshing to see the Coen brothers are still in love with making movies enough to ditch their big star casts and large budgets every now and then – you couldn’t imagine someone like Martin Scorsese pulling a similar move. This isn’t a film with what you’d call massive commercial potential, but then great films seldom are. It starts with a non-sequitur, a …