The Week of November 23rd, 2010

GROUP EDITED by: TROY ANDERSON

DVD/BR
SECTION by: Troy Anderson

AMERICA LOST AND FOUND: THE BBS STORY – CRITERION COLLECTION

Directors: Bob Rafelson, Jack Nicholson, Henry Jaglom, Dennis Hopper and Peter Bogdanovich
Criterion

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Special Features

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  • New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and uncompressed monaural soundtracks
  • Audio commentary featuring Monkees Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, and Peter Tork
  • New video interview with director Bob Rafelson
  • New documentary about BBS, featuring critic David Thomson and historian Douglas Brinkley

    Easy Rider

  • New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack
  • Audio commentary featuring director Dennis Hopper
  • Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage, a 1999 documentary featuring behind-the-scenes footage
  • Footage of Hopper and star Peter Fonda at Cannes in 1969
  • New video interview with BBS’s Steve Blauner

    Five Easy Pieces

  • New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
  • Audio commentary featuring director Bob Rafelson and interior designer Toby Rafelson
  • Soul Searching in Five Easy Pieces, a 2009 video piece in which Rafelson discusses the film
  • BBStory, a 2009 documentary
  • Excerpts from an audio recording of Rafelson at the American Film Institute in 1976

    Drive, He Said

  • New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
  • A Cautionary Tale of Campus Revolution and Sexual Freedom, a 2009 video piece in which director Jack Nicholson discusses the experience of making this film
  • Theatrical trailer

    A Safe Place

  • New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
  • Audio commentary featuring director Henry Jaglom
  • Henry Jaglom Finds A Safe Place, a 2009 video piece in which the director discusses the film
  • Notes on the New York Film Festival, a 1971 video piece featuring an
    interview conducted by critic Molly Haskell with directors Peter
    Bogdanovich and Jaglom about their films The Last Picture Show and A Safe Place
  • Deleted scene and screen tests
  • Theatrical trailer

    The Last Picture Show

  • New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
  • Two audio commentaries, one featuring director Peter Bogdanovich and
    the other featuring Bogdanovich and actors Cybill Shepherd, Randy Quaid,
    Cloris Leachman, and Frank Marshall
  • Picture This, a 1990 documentary by George Hickenlooper
  • The Last Picture Show: A Look Back, an hour-long 1999 documentary
  • 2009 interview with Bogdanovich
  • Screen tests and location footage
  • Theatrical trailers and more!

    The King of Marvin Gardens

  • New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
  • Selected-scene audio commentary featuring director Bob Rafelson
  • Reflections of a Philosopher King, a 2009 documentary about the making of the film
  • Afterthoughts, a short 2002 documentary about the film, produced by Rafelson
  • Theatrical trailer



    • America Lost and Found: The BBS Story covers that period in American cinema history where the hippies got mad and tried to conquer Hollywood. They drug The Monkees into the mix, as they spent six years thumbing around and making cynical dramas about how much life sucks. That’s when they weren’t popping pills, shooting up and exploring the merits of LSD laced stamp collecting. Five Easy Pieces is my favorite film in the set, as it’s more indicative of this period in American cinema than anything else. A gifted pianist gives up his upper crust life, so that he can work in the oil fields with his waitress girlfriend in tow. When the pianist has to deal with a sudden return to his family, he’s super critical and lambasts them for not discovering a better way of life. Nothing says pissy Me Generation than watching Jack Nicholson abandon the love of his life after not getting his way. Baby boomers are the scum of the world.

    THE COMPLETE METROPOLIS
    Director: Fritz Lang

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    Special Features

    Documentary
    Restoration Featurette
    and more!

    The Complete Metropolis is a snobby geek’s dream come true. Thrill to the uncut sights of the Weimar Republic’s greatest cinematic offering that wasn’t directed by Leni Riefenstahl. You can listen to your snobby friends wax poetic about a film that they discovered in a Junior College Film Appreciation class, while you just try to watch Star Wars. They’ll describe Maria as the perfect version of a robot in film, while you’re just trying to watch Buck Rogers. By the time, the film is finished…you’ll want to kick Kino in the balls for having released it. For the cheapskates out there, this flick is also available on Netflix Instant View RIGHT NOW!!!

    THE EXPENDABLES
    director: Sylvester Stallone