THE SPECIAL EDITION: 03.24.09

Special Features:

• Animated Short
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes
• BD-Java Game
• Art Gallery
• BD-Live

Bolt  is a reminder that America loves dogs more than people. Well, more than people and talking rats that cook food. You’ve seen this film before in various incarnations. But, you never had Rhino the Hamster to love. It’s a minor footnote in the larger Disney collection, but a fun film to spend an evening watching.

TALES OF THE BLACK FREIGHTER / UNDER THE HOOD

Special Features:

• Featurette

Tales of the Black Freighter / Under the Hood is the cherry on top of the Watchmen media blitz. It’s niche entertainment carved out of a tiny market slot in an already over-crowded marketplace. What are you going to do when you see this on a store shelf on Tuesday? Are you going to make the purchase or are you going to wait for the coming double-dip? Do you have willpower? I don’t think you have it. Therefore, when you resell your copy…I’ll pick this film up for a five-spot. God bless the gun-jumping geeks.

THE PERSONAL CRITERION COLLECTION

I had an idea for a subset column for The Special Edition. Many people
want to have Criterions in their collection. Many people pretend to
like half of the films that Criterion releases. But, what about those
people that honestly can’t be bothered to be told what to like. What
about them?

That’s why I want to test the waters and see if
this floats. I want the readers of CHUD and this dear article to head
to the Boards and nominate their Personal Criterion Collection entry. I
want to see explanations and not just mindless listing of entries,
people.

All titles eligible are previously released DVD/BR media that you believe to be essential/necessary to the collection of the Home Entertainment enthusiast.

THE FIRST ENTRIES

1. The Fountain

2. Videodrome

3. Seven Men from Now

4. Stalker

5. The Last Days of Disco

and today’s entry

submitted by CpnSpaulding (board member)

Paris, Texas. (click on box art to try and find a copy of this OOP disc)

I own a copy of the OOP release of this film and
revisit it twice a year. Usually, it is to turn someone else on to this
wonderful movie. Aside from it being my favorite Wim Wenders film, it
combines his great eye with a phenomenal script by Sam Shepard and LM
Kit Carson. Wenders brings a European style to filming the American
Mid-west that makes it look almost alien. And Ry Cooder’s trademark
slide guitar provides most of the haunting score.

But the real reason to see this film is Harry Dean Stanton. Holy shit.
No one else could have played the role of Travis. He carries the
tragedies of the past on his hunched shoulders and his eyes (like
always) droop like he hasn’t slept a day during the four years he was
missing in the desert. But there’s a charming, child-like quality he
brings to the character and the scenes where he bonds with his young,
estranged son are simultaneously charming and sad.


HERE’S THE LINK TO NOMINATE MORE TITLES.

BLU-RAY: THE DISC THAT WALKS LIKE A MAN

Big Stan
Bolt 3-Disc With Digital File And Standard DVD
The Fast And The Furious Trilogy
The 400 Blows (The Criterion Collection)
Fractals: Hunting The Hidden Dimension
Goldfinger
James Bond Blu-ray Collection Three-Pack, Vol. 3
The Kite Runner
The Last Metro (The Criterion Collection)
The Matrix
A Mighty Heart
Moonraker
Moonraker
Never Say Never Again
Quantum Of Solace
Ruslan
Things We Lost In The Fire
The Venture Bros.: Season Three
Watchmen: Tales Of The Black Freighter And Under The Hood
Wild Asia 1: In The Realm Of The Red Ape
The World is Not Enough
The World is Not Enough