Consider this Bond week for the 007 fans out there- in addition to the middling “Quantum Of Solace,” there are standard and Blu-Ray re-releases of “Goldfinger,” “Moonraker,” “The World Is Not Enough,” “Never Say Never Again” and “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.”
If you’re not a Bond person, fear not, Criterion comes to the rescue- Francois Truffaut’s faultless “The 400 Blows” and “The Last Metro” also street, a major treat for any film lover, while Alfred Hitchcock’s “To Catch A Thief” gets a non-Criterion but still souped-up Centennial Collection release.
“Blows” comes with newsreel and audition footage, two commentaries and more, while “Metro” comes with two commentaries and brand new video interviews in addition to a boatload of other neat features, and “Thief” is a two disc set porting over several featurettes and a commentary but also adding two new docs, including one detailing the innuendos used within the dialogue to confuse censors. Bawdy!
And in specialty collector’s news, the animated “Watchmen” tie-in “Tales of the Black Freighter” hits disc, with a forty minute doc “Under The Hood” providing an enticing supplement for fans of the graphic novel, a peak into the world of retired hero Hollis Mason, as played by Stephen McHattie in the film.
