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Notable New Releases

True Blood: The Complete Second Season

I really dug the first season and can't wait to revisit the citizens of Bon Temps.

Extras include:

• Enhanced Viewing Experience
• Commentaries
• Character Perspectives - in-character shorts
• Fellowship of the Sun: Reflections of Light
• The Vampire Report: Special Edition

The Road
Australian director John Hillcoat (who made the badass western The Proposition) adapts Cormac McCarthy! I must see this.

Extras include:

• Commentary
• Deleted Scenes
• The Making of The Road

Mystery Team
Online sketch comedy group Derrick Comedy make their film debut with this hilarious Sundance hit. Check them out, you won't regret it. Unfortunately no blu-ray.

Extras include:

• Commentary
• Deleted Scenes
• Who Is Wally Cummings? Short Film
• The Making of Mystery Team
• Test Scene
• Sword Club

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Notable New Releases

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
A visual masterpiece and one of Terry Gilliam's better films. It's got some great performances, especially Tom Waits as the devil!

Extras include:

• Terry Gilliam Film Introduction
• Commentary
• Behind the Mirror
• The Imaginarium of Terry Gilliam
• Building the Monastery
• The Drunk' Multi-Angle Progression Sequence
• Heath Ledger and Friends
• Heath Ledger Wardrobe Test with optional video commentary from director Terry Gilliam
• Interview With Heath Ledger
• Doctor Parnassus Around the World
• Cast & Crew Presentation On Stage
• The Artwork of Doctor Parnassus
• Deleted Scene with optional Terry Gilliam commentary

Ride with the Devil (Criterion Collection)
I haven't seen Ang Lee's civil war drama but I look forward to checking out this disc, which features his director's cut.

Extras include:

• Two audio commentaries, one featuring Lee and producer-screenwriter James Schamus, and one featuring DP Frederick Elmes, sound designer Drew Kunin, and production designer Mark Friedberg
• New video interview with star Jeffrey Wright
• PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by critic Godfrey Cheshire and Edward E. Leslie, author of The Devil Knows How to Ride: The True Story of William Clarke Quantrill and His Confederate Raiders

District 13: Ultimatum
Sequel to the awesome 2004 parkour (free-running) movie.

Extras include:

• Making Of
• Production Diary segments
• Music video
• Deleted/Extended Scenes

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Criterion Collection Announces May Titles

On May 11, the illustrious studio will release Fritz Lang's psychological thriller M on Blu-ray. A week later, Nicolas Roeg's Walkabout will hit shelves on DVD/Blu-ray. Finally, on May 25, Criterion will release John Ford's classic western Stagecoach and By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volumes One and Two on DVD/Blu-ray.

M Blu-ray
Peter Lorre stars as serial killer Hans Beckert in Fritz Lang’s harrowing masterwork M, a suspenseful panorama of private madness and public hysteria that to this day remains the blueprint for the psychological thriller.

Extras include:

• Audio commentary by German film scholars Anton Kaes and Eric Rentschler
• The long-lost English-language version of M
• Documentary on the physical history of M, from production to distribution to digital restoration
• Conversation with Fritz Lang, a fifty-minute film by William Friedkin
• Claude Chabrol's short film M le maudit, plus a video interview with Chabrol
• Classroom audiotapes of editor Paul Falkenberg discussing M and its history, set to clips from the film
• Video interview with Harold Nebenzal, son of M producer Seymour Nebenzal
• Stills gallery, with behind-the-scenes photos and production sketches
• A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Stanley Kauffmann, a 1963 interview with director Fritz Lang, the script for a missing scene, and contemporaneous newspaper articles

Walkabout
A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to exist in the natural world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece from Nicolas Roeg.

Extras include:

• Audio commentary featuring director Nicolas Roeg and actress Jenny Agutter
• Video interviews with Agutter and actor Luc Roeg
• Gulpilil-One Red Blood (2002), an hour-long documentary on the life and career of actor David Gulpilil
• Theatrical trailer
• A booklet featuring an essay by author Paul Ryan

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