New Releases – DVD, Blu-ray, and Netflix Instant: August 17, 2010
What’s new to the Blu-ray and DVD Release Schedule This Week?
Me and Orson Welles (Target Exclusive – DVD & Blu-ray)
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How would you rank it amongst the best period films of all time?
Flickchart Ranking: #6842 Times Ranked: 269 Win Percentage: 73% How Many Top-20’s: 0 Users
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Orson Welles was The Man, pure and simple. He’s one of those guys along with Cary Grant, Clint Eastwood, Errol Flynn, Rudy Ray Moore, and Charlton Heston that the movies will never see anybody like ever again.
The Good, The Bad, The Weird (DVD & Blu-ray)
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How would you rank it amongst the best action movies of all time?
Flickchart Ranking: #5964 Times Ranked: 543 Win Percentage: 74% How Many Top-20’s: 1 Users |
Crazed Korean retelling of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – and really, how could you ever not want to see a movie described as such? This is already shipping to me from Netflix.
The Last Song (DVD & Blu-ray)
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How would you rank it amongst the best romance movies of all time?
Flickchart Ranking: #12627 Times Ranked: 407 Win Percentage: 23% How Many Top-20’s: 0 Users |
Cemetery Junction (DVD & Blu-ray)
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How would you rank it amongst the best dramas of all time?
Flickchart Ranking: #10336 Times Ranked: 298 Win Percentage: 72% How Many Top-20’s: 2 Users |
A coming-of-age drama from Ricky Gervais.
Furry Vengeance (DVD & Blu-ray)
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How would you rank it amongst the best family films of all time?
Flickchart Ranking: #12598 Times Ranked: 159 Win Percentage: 7% How Many Top-20’s: 0 Users |
The City of Your Final Destination (DVD & Blu-ray)
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How would you rank it amongst the best dramas of all time?
Flickchart Ranking: #13292 Times Ranked: 11 Win Percentage: 73% How Many Top-20’s: 0 Users |
The Assassin Next Door (DVD & Blu-ray)
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How would you rank it amongst the best action movies of all time?
Flickchart Ranking: – Times Ranked: – Win Percentage: – How Many Top-20’s: – |
Temple Grandin (DVD & Blu-ray)
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How would you rank it amongst the best biopics of all time?
Flickchart Ranking: #8086 Times Ranked: 342 Win Percentage: 53% How Many Top-20’s: 2 Users (With 1 considering it to be Best movie of all time) |
DVD/Blu-ray Re-releases and Classics:
Black Orpheus (Criterion DVD & Blu-ray)
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How would you rank it amongst the best romantic movies of all time?
Flickchart Ranking: #6900 Times Ranked: 360 Win Percentage: 61% How Many Top-20’s: 0 Users |
As beautiful a movie as could ever possibly be made. Just perfect.
L’enfance Nue (Criterion DVD)
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How would you rank it amongst the best movies of all time?
Flickchart Ranking: – Times Ranked: – Win Percentage: – How Many Top-20’s: – |
Hamlet (1996) (Blu-ray)
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How would you rank it amongst the best dramas of all time?
Flickchart Ranking: #1519 Times Ranked: 9570 Win Percentage: 61% How Many Top-20’s: 22 Users |
New to Netflix:
Studio-enforced 28 day rental moratorium opens for:
Cop Out – Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan, Kevin Smith (dir.)
The Losers – Idris Elba, Zoe Saladana, Chris Evans
New to Netflix Instant Streaming this week:
Pick of the Week:
Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1974 (2009), Red Riding: in the Year of Our Lord 1980 (2009), Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1983 (2009) – Available on Netflix on Tuesday August 17th (two weeks before their Blu and DVD release), this three-part British crime film series looks amazing. Think Zodiac but even more obsessively brilliant. Each segment follows the same crime investigation as it drags on through the years and jumps from investigator to investigator.
Thursday August 19th:
Friday August 20th:
- The Loveless (1982) – Kathryn Bigelow (dir.), Willem Dafoe
- Two Evil Eyes (1990) – George Romero (dir.), Dario Argento (dir.), Harvey Keitel
- The Bonfires of the Vanities (1990) – Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis
- Give ’em Hell Malone (2009) – Thomas Jane, Ving Rhames
- The Crazies (1973) – George Romero (dir.)
- The Shape of Things to Come (1979) – Jack Palance
- The New York Ripper (1982) – Lucio Fulci (dir.)
- The Prowler (1981) – Lawrence Tierney, Farley Granger
- Did you Hear About the Morgans? (2009) – Hugh Grant, Sarah Jessica Parker
- Django (1966) – Sergio Corbucci (dir.)
- The Stendhal Syndrome (1995) – Dario Argento (dir.)
Sorry guys, I have to be picky – The Good The Bad & The Weird is Korean, not Japanese.
Paul – updated… thanks!