FAVORITE DVD RELEASES OF 2007 (Region 1)

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*December, 2007

Blade Runner: The Final Cut
(Scott, 1982-'07) Warner Brothers

Ford at Fox: The Collection
(1920-1952) Fox

*November, 2007

Berlin Alexanderplatz
(Fassbinder, 1980) Criterion

Charles Burnett Collection (3 x disc set)
(Killer of Sheep, My Brother's Wedding: Director's Cut, plus three shorts: The Horse, Several Friends, When it Rains) Milestone

Film Noir: Five Classics from the Studio Vaults
(1945-1953) Kino

Innocence
(Hadzihalilovic, 2004) Homevision

I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
(Tsai, 2006) Strand Releasing

John Ford Director's Collection
(1935-1950) Universal

*October, 2007

El Bruto
(Bunuel, 1952) Facets R1

Days of Heaven
(Malick, 1978) Criterion

Director Series: Stanley Kubrick Collection (2 x disc special editions: 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut, 1968-'99) Warner

Hitler: A Film from Germany (3 x disc set)
(Syberberg, 1978) Facets

Why has Bodhi-Darma Left for the East? (Director's Deluxe Edition)
(Yong-kyun Bae, 1989) Milestone

*September, 2007

Away From Her
(Polley, 2007) Lions Gate

*August, 2007

Cria Cuervos
(Saura, 1976) Criterion

Madeinusa
(Claudia Llosa, 2006) Film Movement

The First Films of Samuel Fuller
(The Baron of Arizona, I Shot Jesse James, The Steel Helmet) Eclipse

Luis Bunuel Boxset
(Gran Casino, The Young One) Lions Gate

Private Fears in Public Places
(Resnais, 2006) IFC

*July, 2007

Ace in the Hole
(Wilder, 1951) Criterion

Five
(Kiarostami, 2004) Kino

Ivan's Childhood
(Tarkovsky, 1962) Criterion

Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara (4 x disc set)
(1962-'66) Criterion

Woman in the Window
(Lang, 1944) MGM

*June, 2007

La Jetee/Sans Soleil
(Marker, 1961 and '82) Criterion

Late Ozu (5 x disc set)
(1956-'61) Eclipse

Sweet Movie
(Makavejev, 1974) Criterion

WR: Mysteries of the Organism
(Makavejev, 1971) Criterion

*May, 2007

Army of Shadows
(Melville, 1969) Criterion

Classic Western Round-Up (two volumes)
(Canyon Passage, Tourneur; Texas Rangers, King Vidor; The Lawless Breed, Raoul Walsch; and Boetticher's The Texans, California, The Cimarron Kid, The Man from the Alamo) Universal

Sansho the Bailiff
(Mizoguchi, 1954) Criterion

Spring in a Small Town
(Fei Mu, 1948) Cinema Epoch

*April, 2007

Brute Force
(Dassin, 1947) Criterion

Jean Renoir Collection (3-disc set)
(La Fille de l'eau; Nana; Sur un air de Charleston; La Petite marchande d'allumettes; La Marseillaise; Le Testament du Docteur Cordelier; Le Caporal épinglé, 1925-'62) Lionsgate

*March, 2007

Fernando de Fuentes: The Revolution Trilogy (1930s) Cinemateca

The Burmese Harp
(Ichikawa, 1956) Criterion

Early Bergman (5-disc set)
(Torment; Crisis; Port of Call; Thirst; To Joy; 1946-'50) Criterion

Fires on the Plain
(Ichikawa, 1959) Criterion

Muriel
(Alain Resnais, 1963) Koch Lorber

Naked City
(Dassin, 1948) Criterion

Return of Frank James
(Fritz Lang, 1940) Fox

The Night of Truth
(Fanta Regina Nacro, 2006) First Run

*February, 2007

Lunacy
(Jan Svankmajer, 2006) Facets

Elegy of the Land
(Sokurov, 1977) Facets

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
(Naruse, 1960) Criterion

*January, 2007

Angel Face
(Otto Preminger, 1957) Warner

The Films of Kenneth Anger, Vol. 1
(Fireworks, Puce Moment, Rabbit's Moon, Eaux d'Artifice, Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, 1947-'54) Fantoma

Mouchette
(Bresson, 1967) Criterion