Bitter Dregs

Welcome to another December, DVD hounds. I haven't gotten any flack about linking movies to Netflix, so I'll continue to do that for the time being. By the way, for those of you who are interested, there is a tentative release timeframe for Twin Peaks Season 2 (never been on DVD in North America): April 2007. There is a lot of stuff coming out these days so let's see what we have on deck this week (at least the stuff I feel like writing about):

1900: Two-Disc Collector's Edition The Bertolucci epic gets its first DVD release with the full 315 minute running time (gulp!).

24 - Season Five

Animaniacs - Volume 2

Anna Boleyn (1920) The early Lubitsch film arrives on DVD.

The Beales of Grey Gardens (1976)

Beerfest

Black Christmas (1975) "yuletide cheer into fear" From the director of A Christmas Story!

Charlie Chan: Volume Two Another round of Chan films: Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936), Charlie Chan at the Race Track (1936), Charlie Chan at the Circus (1936), and Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937). Wow, they really cranked them out...

The Conformist: Extended Edition (1970 Another new-to-DVD Bertolucci film.

The Dukes of Hazzard: Season 7

Dungeons & Dragons - The Complete Animated Series (1983) I attack the darkness!!!!

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton Film Collection The fiery couple get their own box set...Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: 2-Disc Special Edition (1966, this is a new version with bonuses and is the only title in this box available separately), The V.I.P.s (1963), The Sandpiper (1965), and The Comedians (1967)

Holiday (1938) This Grant/Hepburn classic is coming to DVD for first time, if memory serves.

Idlewild

Miami Vice (2006)

Mission: Impossible - The Complete First Season The 1960s series comes to DVD and I'm amazed it took them this long to tie this show into the movie francise.

Pinky and the Brain: Vol. 2

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest The big hit of the year comes out this week as a 2 DVD set. At first I thought it was odd that DIsney wasn't shoving multiple versions of this title, but then again when the third film comes out, there's sure to be a mega set that follows.

Pulse (2006)

Rocky Anthology Yes, another round of Rocky reissues...this box has the whole series. You know, the original film is OK (gee, do you think some people will disagree with me?!), but was awfully formulaic, even in the 1970s. And the less said about the 1980s films, the better.

Saturday Night Live - The Complete First Season Yes, the whole thing for the first time, not "best of" shows. I think it would be interesting to see how the show got going over the course of its first season since so many of the cast members and skits became TV history.

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One (1968)

TCM Archives - Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Volume 1 Warners digs into the old film catalog for a box set focusing on three pre-production code films from the early 1930s (before tighter controls were placed on sex/violence); these should be interesting to check out and have never been on DVD before: Waterloo Bridge (1931, twas James Whale's breakthrough film before doing Frankenstein), Red Headed Woman (1932), and Baby Face (1933). Let's hope they do more of these.