Bob Dylan, manipulative writers, and girl's basketball: it's another week of eclectic DVD picks. Don't miss the special features filled rerelease of D.A. Pennebaker's groundbreaking Don't Look Back, Marc Forster's Stranger Than Fiction, and Ward Serrill's unexpectedly moving documentary The Heart of the Game.
1. Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back - 65 Tour Deluxe Edition
D.A. Pennebaker's groundbreaking documentary about Bob Dylan remains a classic of cinema verité. This new deluxe edition features the all-new Bob Dylan 65 Revisted, created by director Pennebaker from over 20 hours of unused footage from the 1965 shoot in his personal archive and shaped into a look back on the artist forty years later. This special edition release includes 168-page companion book including a complete transcription of the film, over 200 photos, and a new forword by D.A. Pennebaker.
2. Stranger Than Fiction
We haven't gotten used to the fact that Maggie Gyllenhaal sometimes makes appearances in films that aren't independent. She's a lovely presence in Marc Forster's marvelous movie about a lonely IRS agent with a dull existence who starts to hear the voice of a manipulative writer in his head. Will Ferrell is the film's bona fide star. Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman, and Queen Latifah round out the delicious cast.3. The Heart of the Game
Ward Serrill's surprisingly moving documentary The Heart of the Game follows a girl's high school basketball team's trials and tribulations over six years. Over the course of the shooting, the story narrows focus to coach Bill Resler and the team's temperamental star from the inner city, Darnellia Russell. Ludacris narrates.