This week, DVD’s go to the cats and dogs. In addition to Best Picture Oscar winner “Slumdog Millionaire” and box office hit “Marley and Me,” Lucio Fulci’s little-seen “Cat In The Brain” also hits the format. ‘Brain,’ a long-lost and censored title, comes to the format in a two disc set that includes trailers, interviews and galleries. Boring people will enjoy selecting between “Bedtime Stories” and “Seven Pounds,” while contemporary film fans can prepare for English language remakes by seeing the original (and probably superior) versions of both “Timecrimes” and “Tell No One.”
Meanwhile, Andrzej Wajda’s French Revolution drama “Danton” gets the Criterion treatment, with a lengthy documentary flanking new essays and interviews, and special editions of both “Fallen Angels” and “Happy Together” greet the Wong Kar-Wai completist. Finally, look out for Euroarts, who are putting out a three film Alexander Sokurov set, including “Oriental Elegy,” “Dolce” and “Humble Life,” and Fireshoe Productions, who are putting out, we shit you not, “GPS: The Movie.”
On Blu-Ray, a couple of classics and near-classics hit the format, with “Gigi” and “South Pacific” joined by Gene Kelly’s peerless “An American In Paris.” Meanwhile, there’s a tenth-anniversary edition of “The Matrix” along with it’s cheaper, low rent cousin “Equilibrium.” Fringe horror also sees its day in the sun as Blu-Ray greets both Takashi Miike’s upsetting “Ichi The Killer” and the George Romero/Dario Argento collaboration “Two Evil Eyes.”
