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Top 5 New DVD Releases - September 6, 2005
This week's recommended top DVDs include Thai filmmaker Ki-duk Kim's mesmerizing "3-Iron" and the release of the essential box set "Garbo: The Signature Collection."
Top 5 New DVD Releases - August 30, 2005
This week's top DVD releases feature spellbinding dramas from all over the world: Palestinian director Elia Suleiman's "Divine Intervention," plus films from Hungary, Germany, Israel and Thailand.
Top 4 New DVD Releases - August 16, 2005
The most notable DVD releases of the week arrive with a history of controversy: Vincent Gallo's sophomore film "The Brown Bunny" for its infamous sex scene and Robert Rodriguez' stylized adaptation of "Sin City" for its gleeful violence.
Top 5 New DVD Releases - August 9, 2005
This week's top picks include the second terrific collaboration between Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri: "Look At Me." Also check out Campbell Scott's moving drama "Off The Map," and two mad cap comedies:
"Kung-Fu Hustle" and "Three Men and a Cradle."
Top 5 New DVD Releases - August 2
Oliver Hirschbiegel's chilling drama "Downfall" is out on DVD, with a bravura performance by Bruno Ganz as Adolf Hitler in his final days. Also new: two films by Claude Chabrol, an early work by indie auteur Greg Araki, and Aishwarya Rai and Salman Khan in a Bollywood classic.
Top 5 New DVD Releases - June 21
Overlooked at the box office, John Maybury's bone-chilling thriller "The Jacket" is out on DVD. Also, Ross McElwee's personal look at the tobacco industry "Bright Leaves," and Jessica Yu's documentary about artist Henry Darger, "In The Realms of the Unreal."
Top 5 New DVD Releases - June 15
The best film about a donkey you will ever see is out on DVD: Robert Bresson's sublime tale "Au Hasard Balthazar" arrives on Criterion, while master of bad taste John Waters gets his own boxed set.
Top 5 New DVD Releases - June 1
This week's DVD releases include "The Complete James Dean Collection," Gillian Armstrong's classic coming-of-age story "My Brilliant Career" and the acclaimed Iranian film "Under The Moonlight."
Top 5 New DVD Releases - April 26
This week's top releases include Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda's "War Trilogy," Vittorio De Sica's comic romp "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow," and Sean Penn in "The Assassination of Richard Nixon."
Top 5 New DVD Releases - April 5
In case you missed it in theaters, here's your chance to find out why Miles hates Merlot: last year's biggest indie hit, Alexander Payne's "Sideways," is out on DVD. Also: the hard-hitting documentary "The Corporation," the French thriller "Who Killed Bambi?", Barbet Schroeder's debut "More," and James L. Brooks' "Spanglish."
Top 5 New DVD Releases - March 29
If you missed the Oscar-nominated films of 2004, they are fast making their way to the DVD retailer's shelf. This week's top releases include Mike Leigh's abortionist drama "Vera Drake" and the all-star infidelity fest "Closer."
Top 5 New DVD Releases - March 22
It's a good week for underrated women's roles: Annette Bening didn't win the Oscar for Istvan Szabo's "Being Julia," and Audrey Tautou sings and dances her way through Alain Resnais' overlooked musical comedy "Not on the Lips." Also new on DVD this week: "Finding Neverland" with Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet, the Turkish drama "Distant," and the erotic drama "Open My Heart."
Top 5 New DVD Releases - March 7
This week's top DVD releases include two visually mesmerizing offerings from Japan: Takeshi Kitano's "Dolls" and Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Bright Future."
Top 5 New DVD Releases - February 15
Don't miss Walter Salles' inspirational film about young Che Guevara in this week's top DVD release "The Motorcycle Diaries." Also new: Richard Kelly's cult hit "Donnie Darko: The Directors Cut" and Juliette Binoche's film debut in "Rendez-vous."
Top 5 New DVD Releases - February 8
This week's top DVD releases include Alison Maclean's "Crush" and Martin Scorcese's "Raging Bull."
Top 5 New DVD Releases - January 25
This week's top releases include Julie Bertuccelli's moving first film "Since Otar Left" and an alluring Neve Campbell in a risky performance in Jame Toback's edgy indie drama "When Will I Be Loved."
Top 5 New DVD Releases - January 11
If you thought Natalie Portman gave a provocative performance in "Closer," you might want to check her out as Mathilda, a fourteen year old singing, dancing nymphet assassin in the tenth anniversary edition of Luc Besson's "Leon: The Professional." Luc Besson's stylish film is out in a two-disc special edition release this week, plus two new thrillers: John Sayle's "Silver City," and Thai filmmaker Pen-Ek Ratanaruang's "6ixtynin9."
Top 5 New DVD Releases - December 21
Now out on DVD: the cult sleeper "Napoleon Dynamite," British slackers taking on zombies in the hilarious "Shaun of the Dead" and a moving portrait of a Palestinian woman's struggle to choose her own spouse in "Rana's Wedding."
Top 5 New DVD Releases - December 14
This So Called Disaster, The Door In The Floor, We Don't Live Here Anymore, Time of the Wolf, Kitchen Stories
Top 5 New DVD Releases - December 7
This week's new DVD releases: the outstanding drug mule drama "Maria Full of Grace," Andy Lau in the Hong Kong crime thriller "Infernal Affairs," Fritz Lang's classic "M," and Mathilde Seigner in "The Girl From Paris."
Top 5 New DVD Releases - November 28
Just in time for his next martial arts epic "House of Flying Daggers," Miramax releases Zhang Yimou's "Hero," starring Jet Li, on DVD. Also new this week: André Téchiné's wartime drama "Strayed" starring Emmanuelle Beart and Mohsen Makhmalbaf's "The Cyclist."
Top 5 New DVD Releases - November 16
Fanny And Alexander, Short Cuts, The Saddest Music in the World, Hebrew Hammer, and more.
Top 5 New DVD Releases - November 2
Stanley Kubrick's black comedy "Dr. Strangelove" gets a 40th anniversay double-disc release, and the instant rock classic "Festival Express" is released with plenty of bonus material of the Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin. Also: Abbas Abbas Kiarostami, "Animal Farm" and "A Home At The End Of The World."
Top 6 New DVD Releases - October 26
Join Sarah Polley and a pack of zombies in "Dawn of the Dead: The Unrated Director's Cut," peek behind the curtains of Al-Jazeera with Jehane Noujaim's eye-opening documentary "Control Room" and visit Russian family drama with Alexander Sokurov's "Father and Son."
Top 9 New DVD Releases - October 19
Johnny Depp plays the legendary schlock director in Tim Burton's "Ed Wood," Colin Farrell shows his ugly side in the ensemble drama "Intermission," and thriller fans are excited about the release of "Eyes Without a Face," "The Return," and "I'm Not Scared."