Michelangelo Antonioni's Swinging Sixties classic "Blow-Up" moves into the digital age this week, along with Bob Dylan's "Masked and Anonymous," a film that's much better than most critics would have you believe. Also new this week on DVD: Herni-Georges Clouzot's "Le Corbeau (The Raven)," the Spanish Midsummer-night sex comedy "Km. 0," and the literary detective story "Stone Reader."
1. Masked And Anonymous
The indefatigable Bob Dylan writes, acts, and rocks out in this late-career vanity vehicle, together with an all-star cast headed by John Goodman, Jessica Lange, and Jeff Bridges. It's a ramshackle production with terrific music that'll be great midnight movie fodder for decades to come. The DVD release offers commentary by director Larry Charles, 5 deleted scenes, the documentary featurette "The Making of Masked and Anonymous," and bonus trailers.
2. Blow-Up
Vanessa Redgrave and David Hemmings star in Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 English language debut about a swinging, free living fashion photographer who may have snapped a murder during a candid shoot in the park. The classic film influenced Francis Ford Coppola's "The Conversation" and Brian De Palma's "Blow-Out."
3. Stone Reader (Special Edition)
Mark Moskowitz tracks down a shell of man, writer Dow Mossman, who retreated to his family home and delivered newspapers after the publication of his first book "The Stones of Summer." The 2 disc set includes the featurette "What Happened Next," deleted scenes, additional interviews with Betty Kelly, A.S. Byatt, Toni Morrison, Leslie Fiedler, Janet Maslin with Mark Moskowitz, and footage from a screening at Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival.4. Le Corbeau (The Raven)
A mysterious writer of poison pen letters, known only as Le Corbeau (the Raven), plagues a French provincial town, unwittingly exposing the collective suspicion and rancor seething beneath the community’s calm surface. Made during the Nazi occupation of France, Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Le Corbeau was attacked by the right-wing Vichy regime, the left-wing Resistance press, and the Catholic Church, and was banned after the Liberation.