Largehearted Boy: This Week's Interesting DVD Releases (May 13th, 2008)

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May 12, 2008

This Week's Interesting DVD Releases (May 13th, 2008)

With the fourth installment of the Indiana Jones series, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, set for a theater release next week, Paramount is releasing a box set featuring the first three films in the series: Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. These editions (also available separately) contain new interviews with the filmmakers as well as artwork from the original storyboards and documentaries.

It's a good week for classic film fans, with the release of two Jean Luc Godard films, La Chinoise and Le Gai Savoir. The Criterion Collection releases two essential Lousi Malle films, The Lovers and The Fire Within.

Among the week's television DVDs, Cartoon Network's Shin Chan: Season 1, Part 1 is the release I am picking up and the third season of Saturday Night Live will appeal to fans of the earlier incarnation of the show.

Music releases skew towards classic rock, with Pink Floyd: Welcome to the Machine and two Led Zeppelin films: Celebration Day: The Inside Story of Led Zeppelin and Led Zeppelin: The Making of a Supergroup.

Can you recommend any of these DVDs? What should I avoid?

This week's interesting DVD releases:

Adventures of The Galaxy Rangers - The Collection, Vol. 1
All You Need Is Love
The Big Trail (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Bon Cop Bad Cop
Botched
Celebration Day: The Inside Story of Led Zeppelin
The Chase: Season One
Classic Sci-Fi Ultimate Collection 1 & 2 (Tarantula/Mole People/Incredible Shrinking Man/Monolith Monsters/Monster on the Campus/Dr. Cyclops/Cult of the Cobra/Land Unknown/Deadly Mantis/Leech Woman)
The Cottage
Cover
Crash & Burn
Crystal River
Demon Pond
DNA
Drawn Together - Uncensored!: Season Three
The Fire Within - Criterion Collection
Frontier(s)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Graduation
The Great Debaters
Honey & Clover
Indiana Jones - The Adventure Collection (Special Editions of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark / Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom / Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Special Edition)
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (Special Edition)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Special Edition)
Kanon, Vol. 4
La Chinoise
Le Gai Savoir
Led Zeppelin: The Making of a Supergroup
Little Devil
Los Straitjackets in Concert
Lost in Beijing
Lovejoy - The Complete Season 3
The Lovers - Criterion Collection
Mad Money
The Magnificent Seven: The Complete Series
The Magnificent Seven Collection
Marvel Heroes Collection (Daredevil, Elektra, X-Men, X2, X-Men 3: The Last Stand, Fantastic Four & Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer)
Marvin Gaye: What's Going On/Greatest Hits Live: Collectors Edition
Mission Impossible - The Fourth TV Season
Motorhead: Overkill (30th Anniversary Edition)
Numb
Pink Floyd: Welcome to the Machine
A Raisin in the Sun
The Rat Patrol: The Complete Series
The Road to War: Iraq
Saturday Night Live The Complete Third Season - Limited Edition Boxed Set
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Shin Chan: Season 1, Part 1
Shinobi No Mono 2: Vengeance
Stargate Infinity: The Complete Series
Steal a Pencil for Me
Stepping
Story of the Year: Our Time Is Now: Two Years in the Life of...
Sunday School
T.S.O.L.: The Early Years
Timber Falls
Tobor the Great
Twelfth Night
Two and a Half Men - The Complete Third Season
Untraceable
Wager
Walk All Over Me
Welcome to the NHK Vol 4: 4th Conspiracy
Youth Without Youth