To correspond with Earth Day—and not, as would be just as appropriate, 4/20 Day—the features-free Blu-ray edition of Avatar is coming out on Thursday, not today. So while you wait for what is reportedly a super-extra-high-definition home video version of the biggest moneymaker of all time, why not spend some of your Tuesday Blu-ray budget on one of the original cinematic spectacles, Battleship Potemkin? Or, alternately, you could reenact the consumer patterns of moviegoers earlier this year, and skip the misbegotten awards-bait The Lovely Bones in favor of the highly enjoyable sleeper hit Crazy Heart. (Although The Lovely Bones Blu-ray is worth taking a look at anyway, for reasons outlined here.) Or you could give the gate to all of the above and settle into two finely shaded, artful French films from last year: Claire Denis’ 35 Shots Of Rum and Olivier Assayas’ Summer Hours. Be warned though: there are no CGI aliens in either.
The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela
E1, $19.98
American Experience: Earth Days
PBS, $24.99
Avatar
20th Century Fox, $29.98; Blu-ray, $39.99
The Basketball Diaries
Palm Pictures Blu-ray, $24.99
Battleship Potemkin
Kino Blu-ray, $34.95
The Blue Tooth Virgin
E1, $24.98
Cheech & Chong’s Hey Watch This
Vivendi, $19.93; Blu-ray, $24.99
Crazy Heart
20th Century Fox, $29.98; Blu-ray, $39.99
Crimes Of Fashion
Image, $19.98
Deadly Impact
MGM, $22.98
The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie
Comedy Central, $24.99
Falcon Crest: The Complete First Season
Warner, $39.98
Fish Out Of Water
First Run, $24.95
Fist Of Legend
Dragon Dynasty Blu-ray, $19.97
44 Inch Chest
Image, $27.98; Blu-ray, $35.98
Frank Zappa: The Freak Out List
Sexy Intellectual, $19.95
Fraternity Massacre At Hell Island
Ariztical, $29.95
Frontier Circus: The Complete TV Series
Timeless, $49.98
Hercules, The Legendary Journeys: Season One
Universal, $26.98
Homecoming
Paramount, $22.98
The Horse Boy
Zeitgeist, $29.99
Knife Edge
E1, $24.98
Lord Save Us From Your Followers
Virgil, $24.99
The Lovely Bones
Paramount, $29.99; Blu-ray, $48.99
Mammoth
MPI, $24.98
Merlin: The Complete First Season
BBC Warner, $49.98
Minority Report
Dreamworks Blu-ray. $29.99
My Fake Fiance
Goodtimes, $14.98
Naked Ambition: A R Rated Look At An X Rated Industry
Phase 4, $29.99
Neowolf
Lionsgate, $26.98
Peacock
Lionsgate, $26.98
Perry Mason: Season Five, Vol. 1
Paramount, $49.99
Pressure Cooker
First Run, $24.95
Solar Anus Cinema
Holy Mountain, $19.95
Summer Hours
Criterion, $39.95; Blu-ray, $39.95
Tales From The Script
First Run, $24.95
35 Shots Of Rum
Cinema Guild, $29.95
The Tiger Next Door
First Run, $24.95
Uncertainty
MPI, $24.98
Vivre Sa Vie
Criterion, $39.95; Blu-ray, $39.95
Wake
E1, $24.98
Whispering Smith: The Complete TV Series
Timeless, $24.98
The Young Victoria
Sony, $27.96; Blu-ray, $34.95