| Beautiful Day - 12:01am
As a visual companion piece to their upcoming Best of 1990 -
2000 CD due on November 5, rock legends U2 will release
the Best of 1990-2000 DVD on 12/5. Featuring videos for
all the tracks on the CD, extras include audio commentary by the
directors on all the tracks (including such luminaries as Wim
Wenders, Kevin Godley, Stephane Sednaoui, Anton Corbijn and Jonas
Akerlund), six bonus music videos, alternate cuts of select clips,
and the mini documentary "The Road To Sarajevo," filmed
in the Bosnian capital in the run up to U2's historic 1997 concert.
Retail is $24.95.
In other music video news, EMI has issued a late announcement
for an extensive batch of new music titles, all due on 10/8. A
mix of old, new, modern and classical, titles includeTina Turner:
Simply The Best: The Video Collection, Pat Benatar: Best Shots:
The Videos, Red Hot Chili Peppers: What Hits?, N.W.A.: Only Home
Video, Queensryche: Building Empires, Wow Hits 2003: 18 Of The
Year's Top Christian Artists, Crowded House: Dreaming - The Videos,
Bryan Ferry And Roxy Music: The Video Collection, Let Freedom
Ring and God Bless America: With Bill And Gloria Gaither
And Their Homecoming Friends, Keith Richards And The X-Pensive
Winos: Live At The Hollywood Palladium, Peter Tosh: Captured
Live, and the DVD single Real Life from ZOEgirl.
Retail is $19.95 each, except the ZOEgirl single, which retails
for $6.95.
The Little Tramp comes to DVD - 12:01am
Warner Home Video, in association with French production group
MK2, has unveiled the more details onThe Charlie Chaplin Collection,
a series of 18 of the filmmaker's silent and sound classics, all
digitally remastered and restored. The first three releases in
the collection are due in June of 2003, and include The Great
Dictator, City Lights and The Circus. Each release
will be a two-disc set and include exclusive new audio commentaries,
documentaries, outtakes, alternate footage, still galleries, more
rare material, and original silent and reedited re-release versions
whenever possible. Other titles planned to be included in the
collection include The Chaplin Revue, The Gold Rush, The Idle
Class, The Kid, Limelight, Modern Times, Sunnyside, and more
to be announced. Each title will be released in a two-disc
"Digipak" edition for $26.95, and a $34.95 limited edition
set with a collectible booklet and film frame. For more information,
visit The Official
Charlie Chaplin Website.
An adult fairy tale - 12:01am
Fresh off of a successful if limited theatrical run and plenty
of festival accolades, the adult thriller Wendigo makes
its DVD debut on 12/5 from Artisan Home Entertainment. Presented
in 1.78;1 anamorphic widescreen and English 5.1 Dolby Digital,
extras include an audio commentary with director Larry Fessenden,
a making-of featurette, and the trailer. Retail is $24.95.
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