This week’s DVD Release List invites you to take a tour through art-house cinema’s past and present (and future?). Start at the dawn of the ‘60s with Alain Resnais’ beguiling, frustrating existential mystery play Last Year At Marienbad, now available in a sparkling Criterion Blu-ray edition. (Full review coming tomorrow.) Then jump ahead to 1981 for the chatty, casually profound My Dinner With Andre. (Full review available last week.) Then move on to 1988, and Mike Leigh’s Thatcher-era class-war comedy High Hopes, the film that really put him on the map with American audiences. Then end with two interesting indies from this past year: the family drama Phoebe In Wonderland (starring Elle Fanning as a girl who uses her role in a school play to help her overcome an undiagnosed social disorder) and Waltz With Bashir (an animated documentary that uses the filmmaker’s hazy rcollections of a massacre to explore where dreams and memories intersect).
Alice’s House
IndiePix, $24.95
At The Death House Door
Facets, $29.95
Backwoods
Genius Products, $14.95
The Bible Unearthed: The Making Of A Religion
First Run, $29.95
Blood Ties: The Complete Season One
Vivendi, $26.99
Bob Funk
Magnolia, $26.98
Catlow
Warner, $14.98
The Code
First Look, $28.98; Blu-ray, $28.98
Confessions Of A Shopaholic
Touchstone, $29.99/$32.99; Blu-ray, $39.99
Diary Of A Suicide
Facets, $29.95
Dragon Hunters
Peace Arch, $14.99 ; Blu-ray, $22.99
Fema City
Vanguard, $19.95
The Girls Next Door: Season Five
20th Century Fox, $29.98
High Hopes
BFS, $24.98
Home
Monterey, $26.95
Inkheart
New Line, $28.98; Blu-ray, $35.99
Jackie Mason: The Ultimate Jew
Vivendi, $19.99
John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band: Live In Toronto ’69
Shout! Factory, $14.98
Karl May
Facets, $59.95
Last Year At Marienbad
Criterion, $39.95; Blu-ray, $39.95
Legend Of The Bog
Lionsgate, $26.98
Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress And The Tangerine
Zeitgeist, $29.99
The Monster Squad: The Complete Collection
Virgil, $29.95
Mr. Troop Mom
Warner, $27.98; Blu-ray, $35.99
My Dinner With Andre
Criterion, $39.95
My Dinner With Jimi
Micro Werks, $14.98
Our City Dreams
First Run, $24.95
Phoebe In Wonderland
Image, $27.98
Pick Up The Mic
Rhino, $21.98
Pink Panther 2
MGM, $29.98; Blu-ray, $39.99
Reba: The Complete Sixth Season
20th Century Fox, $24.98
Simon Says
Lionsgate, $26.98
Table For Three
Anchor Bay, $26.97
Tom And Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection
Warner, $26.98
Waltz With Bashir
Sony, $28.96; Blu-ray, $39.95