February 9, 2010

NTSC/Region 1 DVD Release/Watch List: 02-09-10


Released


*• Lorna's Silence (Jeanne-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)

*• Amreeka (Cherien Dabis)

*• A l'Aventure (Jean-Claude Brisseau)

*• The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)

*• You the Living (Roy Andersson)

*• Departures (Yojiro Takita)

*• Che (Steven Soderbergh)

*• Chantal Akerman in the Seventies: Le Chambre/Je tu il elle/News from Home/Hotel Monterey/ Les Rendez-vous d'Anna (Chantal Akerman)

*• Frontier of Dawn (Philippe Garrel)

*• Import Export (Ulrich Seidl)

*• Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)

*• Pontypool (Bruce McDonald)

*• Roberto Rossellini's War Trilogy: Rome Open City/Paisan/Germany Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini)



February 9

The Song Of Sparrows (Majid Majidi)

36 (Olivier Marechal)

Pleasure of Being Robbed (Joshua Safdie)



February 16

Hunger (Steve McQueen)

Lola Montes (Max Ophuls)

Revanche (Gotz Spielmann)



February 23

Salto (Tadeusz Konwicki)



March 2

Ponyo (Hayao Miyazaki)



March 23

Five From Barska Street (Aleksander Ford)

Taxidermia (Gyorgy Palfi)

*• The Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)

*• Bigger Than Life [Blu-ray] (Nicholas Ray)

*• Son of Man (Mark Dornford-May)

*• Seraphine (Martin Provost)



March 30

Afghan Star (Havana Marking)

*• An Education (Lone Scherfig)

*• Letters from Fontainhas: Three Films by Pedro Costa (Pedro Costa)



April 6

Yes Men Fix the World (Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno)



April 20

*• Vivre sa vie [Blu-ray] (Jean-Luc Godard)

*• Summer Hours [Blu-ray] (Olivier Assayas)

*• 35 Shots Of Rum (Claire Denis)



April 27

*• William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe (Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler)



May 4

*• Chelsea on the Rocks (Abel Ferrara)

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Note: The list is not intended to represent all of the upcoming home video releases. Rather, it constitutes the films on my own home video preorder/watch list. All are Region 1 DVD (US), unless otherwise noted.

Posted by acquarello at 11:58 PM

February 2, 2010

PAL and Other Regions DVD Release/Watch List: 02-02-10


Released


Paris Vu Par (Claude Chabrol, Jean Douchet, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Daniel Pollet, Eric Rohmer, Jean Rouch) [R2 (UK)/PAL]

Mid-August Lunch (Gianni di Gregorio) [R2 (UK)/PAL]

Abouna (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun) [R2 (UK)/PAL]

The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow) [R2 (UK)/PAL]

La Vallee (Barbet Schroeder) [R2 (UK)/PAL]

*• Longing (Valeska Grisebach) [R2 (UK)/PAL]

*• Antichrist (Lars von Trier) [R2 (UK)/PAL]

*• The Hide (Marek Losey) [R2 (UK)/PAL]

*• Burma VJ (Anders Østergaard) [R2 (UK)/PAL]

*• Thirst (Park Chan-wook) [R2 (UK)/PAL]

*• Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold) [R2 (UK)/PAL]

*• Mesrine - Parts 1 & 2 (Jean-Francois Richet) [R2 (UK)/PAL]

*• Lubitsch In Berlin (Ernst Lubitsch) [R2 (UK)/PAL]

*• House [Hausu] (Nobuhiko Obayashi) [R2 (UK)/PAL]

*• Birdwatchers (NMarco Bechis) [R2 (UK)/PAL]



February 1

Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodóvar) [R2 (UK)/PAL]



February 8

Un Jeu Brutal/De Bruit Et De Fureur (Jean-Claude Brisseau) [R2 (UK)/PAL]

Tales From The Golden Age (Cristian Mungiu, Ioana Uricaru, Hanno Höfer, Razvan Marculescu, & Constantin Popescu) [R2 (UK)/PAL]

Goodbye Solo (Ramin Bahrani) [R2 (UK)/PAL]



February 15

Johnny Mad Dog (Jean-Stephane Sauvaire) [R2 (UK)/PAL]



February 22

The Agnes Varda Collection Vol. 2: The Beaches of Agnes/Jacquot De Nantes/Vagabond/L'Une Chante/L'Autre Pas (Agnes Varda) [R2 (UK)/PAL]

Private Vices Public Virtues (Miklós Jancsó) [R2 (UK)/PAL]

The Yes Men Fix the World (Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno) [R2 (UK)/PAL]

Katalin Varga (Peter Strickland) [R2 (UK)/PAL]

M (F.W. Murnau) [R2 (UK)/PAL]

City Girl [Blu-ray] (F.W. Murnau) [R2 (UK)/PAL]

There's Always Tomorrow (Douglas Sirk) [R2 (UK)/PAL]

*• The Fall of Berlin - Anonyma (A Woman in Berlin) (Max Farberbock) [R2 (UK)/PAL]

*• Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach / Sicilia / A Trip to the Louvre (Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet) [R2 (UK)/PAL]



March 1

*• Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson) [R2 (UK)/PAL]



March 8

The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke) [R2 (UK)/PAL]

An Education (Lone Scherfig) [R2 (UK)/PAL]

*• Takeshis' (Takeshi Kitano) [R2 (UK)/PAL]

*• Black Snow (Xie Fei) [R2 (UK)/PAL]

*• Afterschool (Antonio Campos) [R2 (UK)/PAL]

*• The Sea Wall (Rithy Panh) [R2 (UK)/PAL]



March 15

*• A Serious Man (Joel and Ethan Coen) [R2 (UK)/PAL]



March 22

*• Valley of the Bees (Frantisek Vlácil) [R2 (UK)/PAL]

*• Sous Le Soleil De Satan (Maurice Pialat) [R2 (UK)/PAL]

*• A Nos Amours (Maurice Pialat) [R2 (UK)/PAL]



March 29

Soi Cowboy (Thomas Clay) [R2 (UK)/PAL]

Home (Ursula Meier) [R2 (UK)/PAL]

*• Seraphine (Martin Provost) [R2 (UK)/PAL]

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Note: DVDs not coded R1 or R0 will not play on standard, unmodified NTSC (North America) DVD and VHS players. Region 0 DVDs are not region-coded, but may still require video conversion (such as PAL to NTSC). Links are provided where available. All DVDs listed include English subtitles unless otherwise noted.

Posted by acquarello at 10:25 AM