We highly recommend a Juliette Binoche double feature this week: last year's slow charmer "Jet Lag" and Leos Carax's wild ride "Lovers On the Bridge" are out on DVD. Also, the critically acclaimed documentary "Spellbound" and Francois Ozon's "Sitcom."
1. The Lovers On The Bridge
Leos Carax' delirious 1991 love story about a homelss couple is wildly poetic and always surprising. Juliette Binoche plays a painter who is losing her sight and falls for a fire eater who makes his home on the Pont Neuf in the heart of Paris. At the time, "Les Amants Du Point-Neuf" was the most expensive French film ever made.
2. Jet Lag
Juliette Binoche and Jean Reno exude movie star charisma in this delightful romance about two miserable souls who meet cute in the midst of a Paris airstrike. Daniele Thompson directs from the screenplay she co-wrote with her son.
3. Spellbound
Spellbound follows the lives of eight young Americans who share one goal: to win the National Spelling Bee. Jeffrey Blitz's documentary was a 2002 Oscar nominee for Best Documentary and a surprise art-house hit on its 2003 theatrical run. Special features include "Where Are They Now?", updates on the eight contestants profiled in the film.4. Sitcom
Long before the popular movies "Swimming Pool" and "8 Women," French director Francois Ozon was pushing boundaries with his irreverent filmmaking. His 1998 Sitcom" mocks the the happy nuclear family, offering whacky antics, bondage, sadomasochism, suicide, and for extra kick, a little bit of incest. Special features include the bonus short film "Photo de Famille."5. Cabin Fever
Eli Roth pays tribute to the gory glory days of 1970s American horror cinema in "Cain Fever." The story places five college kids in a rustic backwoods cabin, stirs in a wild-eyed hillbilly, and then sneaks the real horror -- a skin-rotting virus -- under their radar. Jordan Ladd, Rider Strong, James DeBello, Cerina Vincent, Joey Kern star. Special feautres include five commentary tracks and the 30 minute documentary featurette "Beneath the Skin."