Tuesday, January 04, 2005

2004 Top DVD's

Hollywood Reporter ranks the following as the top DVD's in 2004:
Star Wars Trilogy: Special Edition
City of G-d
American Splendor
GoodFellas
The Committments
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
SCTV Network/90: Volume 1
Lost in Translation
Gun Crazy
Sherlock Homes

HONORABLE MENTIONS:
John Cassavetes: Five Films (Criterion) ... The Fog of War: Robert S. McNamara (Columbia TriStar) ... Festival Express (New Line) ... THX 1138 (Warner) ... Fanny and Alexander (Criterion) ... The Chaplin Collection, Vol. 2 (Warner) ... More Treasures From American Film Archives, 1894-1931 (Image) ... Alfred Hitchcock: Signature Collection (Warner) ... The Great Escape (MGM)

AND:
Freaks and Geeks: The Complete Series (Shout!) ... Star Trek: The Original Series (Paramount) ... Street Mobster (Home Vision) ... Saving Private Ryan (Universal) ... La Dolce Vita (Koch Lorber) ... The Rules of the Game (Criterion) ... Aladdin (Disney) ... The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King -- Extended (New Line) ... My Fair Lady (Warner) ... Mickey Mouse in Black and White, Vol. 2 (Disney) ... Slacker (Criterion) ... The Weather Underground (New Video Group)

My recommendations are SCTV and Star Wars. I, of course, have plans to study at Second City but I don't know yet as to whether it will be Chicago or Los Angeles. I have contacts at both.

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