On DVD Last Tuesday...and the Tuesday before that... (January 16th and 23rd)

Tuesday, January 16th...

• The Criterion Collection released Border Radio (1987, Alison Anders, Dean Lent, Kurt Voss) and Robert Bresson's Mouchette (1967).
  
  
• From First Run Features came Rotation, [imdb, DEFA] (1949, Wolfgang Staudte) and Der Rat der Gotter [imdb, DEFA] (1950, Kurt Maetzig). Usually, I only link film titles to the internet movies database, in case anyone wants to learn more about the title in question. However, imdb does not have a lot of information on either film's actual content. Fortunately, the University of Massachusetts Amherst is the home of the DEFA Film Library, "...the only archive and study center outside Europe devoted to the study of a broad spectrum of filmmaking by East German filmmakers or related to East Germany from 1946 to the present.... DEFA stands for Deutsche Film Aktiengesellschaft – the state-run East German film studios, where films were made from 1946 to 1990." Hence, the two separate links. Each movie looks fascinating, and we can be grateful to UMass Amherst for preserving the film legacy of East Germany.
  
  
• Click here for a complete list of 1/16/07 releases.

Tuesday, January 23rd...

• The Signature Collection: Robert Mitchum (Warner Home Video)
  Angel Face (1952, Otto Preminger)
  The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969, Burt Kennedy)
  Home from the Hill (1960, Vincente Minnelli)
  Macao (1952, Josef von Sternberg)
  The Sundowners (Fred Zinnemann, 1960)
  The Yakuza (1975, Sydney Pollack)
  
  
• Sony brings us two twofers: Don't Knock the Rock/Rock Around the Clock, both directed by Fred F. Sears in 1956; and Twist Around the Clock/Don't Knock the Twist (1961/1962), both directed by Oscar Rudolph.
  
  
• A 2-disc special edition of Norman Jewison's Fiddler on the Roof (1971, MGM).
  
  
• The Films of Kenneth Anger: Volume 1 (Fantoma)
  Eaux d'artifice (1953)
  Fireworks (1947)
  Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954)
  Puce Moment (1949)
  Rabbit's Moon (1950)
  


• Current Oscar nominee for Best Documentary, Jesus Camp (2006, Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady, Magnolia)
  


• Criterion is reissuing remastered editions of Kurosawa's twin classics Yojimbo (1961) and Tsubaki Sanjuro (1962), available both individually and together.
  
  
• Click here for a complete list of 1/23/07 releases.