This week offers multiple opportunities for DVD collectors to re-buy movies and TV shows they've bought before. Want to check out the cheekily packaged "13th Anniversary Edition" of Trey Parker's horror-musical Cannibal? Or the third season of the remastered, retooled Star Trek? Or a box set of those more-entertaining-than-you-might-think Victor Borge specials that are always being advertised on TV? Better yet: the umpteenth repackaging of Monty Python's Flying Circus (this one containing every episode on fourteen discs, plus two discs of live performances, two discs of retrospective documentaries, and three discs of "best-of" material… watch them all and you'll see the parrot sketch roughly a dozen times).
Better yet, how about catching up with some of the most-acclaimed films of 2008 in preparation for year-end best-of season? On the documentary side, Werner Herzog's Antarctic meditation Encounters At The End Of The World and Alex Gibney's Gonzo: The Life And Work Of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson are now available, while fans of romantic French froth can pop in Priceless, starring Audrey Tatou as a gold-digger who shows a desperate hotel employee the ropes. And then there's a modest little cartoon called Wall-E–arguably the best movie of '08.
The release of the week though may well be Kino's long-awaited second boxset of films by D.W. Griffith, including Griffith's only two sound features and the acclaimed Kevin Brownlow/David Gill documentary Father Of Film. From Cannibal to Griffith… this week covers the waterfront.
Arizona Sky (Wolfe, $22.95)
Black Belt (Media Blasters, $19.99)
Bones: Season Three (Fox/MGM, $59.98)
Burke's Law: Season One, Volume Two (VCI, $29.99)
Cannibal! The Musical: 13th Anniversary Edition (Troma, $24.95)
The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith (Industrial, $29.95)
Charmed: The Complete Series (Paramount, $249.98)
The Clique (Warner, $27.98)
The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus: Collector's Edition (A&E;, $159.95)
Daniel Boone: Season Six (Liberation, $49.95)
Death Note Box Set 1 (Viz, $69.98)
The Devil's Playground (Industrial, $29.95)
Doctor Who: The Complete Fourth Series (BBC Warner, $99.98)
Doctor Who: The Infinite Quest (BBC Warner, $9.98)
Dog Tags (TLA, $19.99)
Encounters At The End Of The World (Image, $27.98; Blu-Ray, $35.98)
Executive Koala (Synapse, $24.95)
Exposé (Televista, $24.95)
Fanfan La Tulipe (Criterion, $29.95)
Garden Party (Lionsgate, $27.98)
Gene Simmons Family Jewels: The Complete Season Three (A&E;, $24.95)
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Bandai, $29.98)
Gonzo: The Life And Work Of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (Magnolia, $26.98)
The Gospel At Colonus (New Video, $26.95)
Griffith Masterworks 2: Way Down East / D.W. Griffith: Father of Film / The Avenging Conscience / Abraham Lincoln / The Struggle / Sally of the Sawdust (Kino, $89.95)
Hannah Montana: The Complete First Season (Walt Disney, $39.99)
Hawaii Five-O: The Fifth Season (Paramount, $49.99)
Jeff Dunham's Very Special Christmas Special (Image, $14.98; Blu-Ray, $29.98)
Kiss Me Deadly (2008) (Liberation, $24.95)
Kiss The Bride (Liberation, $24.95)
Letting Go Of God (Indefatigable, $19.95)
McHale's Navy: Season Four (Shout! Factory, $39.99)
Mister Lonely (IFC, $24.95)
Mizti Gaynor: Razzle Dazzle! The Special Years (City Lights, $24.98)
The Odd Couple: The Final Season (Paramount, $39.98)
Priceless (First Look, $28.98; Blu-Ray, $34.98)
The Rug Cop (Synapse, $24.95)
The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants 2 (Warner, $28.98)
Star Trek: The Original Series – Series 3 Remastered (Paramount, $84.98)
The Texan (Timeless, $69.98)
3-Day Weekend (TLA, $19.99)
Tropic Thunder (Dreamworks, $29.98/$34.98; Blu-Ray, $39.99)
The Universe: The Complete Season One (A&E; Blu-Ray, $79.95)
Up The Yangtze (Zeitgeist, $29.99)
Victor Borge Classic Collection (Questar, $39.99)
Wall-E (Walt Disney, $29.99/$39.99; Blu-Ray, $35.99/$40.99)
The Wedding Director (New Yorker, $29.95)
The Who At Kilburn: 1977 (Image, $24.98; Blu-Ray, $29.98)
Wild Combination: A Portrait Of Arthur Russell (Plexifilm, $24.99)
The World Sinks Except Japan (Synapse, $24.95)
The Zombie Diaries (Dimension Extreme, $19.98)