This Week’s DVD Releases

The weekend’s over, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still catch up on the latest DVD releases, care of our good friends at Scarecrow Video. The biggest release last week was Robin Hood, the latest Russell Crowe-Ridley Scott joint. For something a little more Oscar-worthy, check out The Secret in Their Eyes, the Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Film last year. Repo Man director Alex Cox has another culture-skewering film in Searchers 2.0. And then there was Ondine, the Colin Farrell mermaid movie that played at SIFF earlier this year.

In terms of documentaries, there’s Directors: Life Behind the Camera, which gathered together such cinematic luminaries as Altman, Lynch, Gilliam, and Scorsese to talk about their craft. In Todd P Goes to Austin, DIY indie rock promoter Todd Patrick takes some of the bands he reps (Matt & Kim, Dan Deacon) from Brooklyn all the way to Texas, and When We Were Boys follows childhood friendships over two years at Royal St. George’s, an elite Toronto boys’ school.

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In the arthouse grab bag is the Criterion edition of Audrey Hepburn-Cary Grant classic comedy-thriller Charade, because who doesn’t like two beautiful people being beautiful together in a beautiful locale, all in HD? There’s also My Dog Tulip, the touching animated story of a man (voiced by Christopher Plummer) and his dog, and The Pool, a realistic drama (directed by American Movie‘s Chris Smith) about a poor Indian boy who becomes obsessed with a wealthy family’s swimming pool. If you wanna get real indie, check out (Untitled), an art world romance with Adam Goldberg, or Trash Humpers, the latest from garbage auteur Harmony Korine.

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There’s a lot of TV on DVD out just in time for the new fall lineup, so you can plow through the first seasons of Community, Modern Family, Bored to Death, and Spartacus: Blood and Sand, as well as the fourth season of 30 Rock. There’s also the creepy computer animation of the direct-to-Disney DVD Tinkerbell prequel that they’ve been running nonstop ads for. But the most important release of the week? Definitely The Wonderful World of Kittens. I could watch that shit all day.