Home Media Magazine - November 2-November 8, 2008 - (Page 26) NEWS JUST ANNOUNCED A Weekly Product Update* TITLE STREET DATE PREBOOK BOX OFFICE (MILLIONS) GENRE PRICE Burn After Reading 12/23 11/18 $58.5 Comedy DVD $29.98, BD $39.98 The Mysterious Mr. Lynch David Lynch reveals the ‘mystery disc’ in his ‘Lime Green Set,’ due Nov. 18 from Ryko. By Billy Gil avid Lynch’s work means many things to many people, whether it’s the industrial TALENT night terror of Eraserhead TALK or Mulholland Dr.’s Hollywood dream projected as a rotting corpse. One thing his work usually isn’t is easy, or direct. The director’s David Lynch Lime Green Set debuts Nov. 18 from Ryko and Absurda at $179.99. The 10-disc set comes loaded with extras Lynch fans now know to expect, after an extensive release of his Inland Empire last year. The Green set includes a remastered version of Eraserhead; the Eraserhead soundtrack; The Short Films of David Lynch; The Elephant Man; the home video debuts of The Elephant Man Extras and Industrial Symphony No. 1; Wild at Heart; Blue Velvet, with a new, Lynch-approved 5.1 sound mix; Dumbland, a collection of animated shorts from his Web site; a booklet featuring imagery from Lynch; and a mystery disc. Universal. 2008. Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton. A Coen brothers film in which gym employees find a disk containing the memoirs of a CIA agent, and they attempt to sell the information to various interested parties. The Women 12/23 11/18 $26.8 Comedy DVD $28.98, BD $35.99 Warner. 2008. Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett Smith. When a prominent New York clothing designer discovers her husband is cheating on her, she and her friends re-evaluate their lives and relationships. Hamlet 2 12/23 11/4 $4.9 Comedy DVD $29.98 Universal. 2008. Steve Coogan, Catherine Keener, David Arquette, Elizabeth Shue, Amy Poehler. A high-school drama teacher writes and stages a politically incorrect sequel to Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Includes deleted scenes, a making-of featurette and more. Brick Lane 1/13/09 12/11 $1.1 Drama DVD $28.96 D the Air” is not on there, nor is “Hotel Room,” but we’re working on those things. It’s always rights issues. I HM: Inland Empire was the first time you allowed chapters on a DVD of your work. Will there be chapters on the discs in this release? Sony Pictures. 2007. Tannishtha Chatterjee, Satish Kausik, Christopher Simpson. Based on the bestselling novel by Monica Ali, a young Bangladeshi woman, trapped in a loveless arranged marriage far from home, faces life’s challenges. Center Stage: Turn It Up 1/20/09 12/18 DTV Drama DVD $24.96 Sony Pictures. 2008. Ethan Stiefel, Peter Gallagher, Sarah Jayne Jensen, Rachele Brooke Smith. In this sequel to Center Stage (2000), a selftaught dancer from Detroit auditions for the American Academy of Ballet in New York City. * In order of box office, then prebook date Lynch: I think there are chapter stops, I’m not positive. I was against them because I wanted the film to be seen in purity. And then I changed because I think most people see it in its purity. But even in the theater, if in the middle of a film, you have to take a leak, during the time you’re leaking, you’re missing that part of the film. Correct? So this is even more assurance that you’re gonna see the whole thing and get back to the point you left. I HM: What are your thoughts on Blu-ray Disc? Lynch: I’m all for the quality of digital. It is getting better and better and better and will continue to get better. So all these formats, I’m totally for it. … But I think it’s gonna all pretty soon end up on the Internet, super high-quality. DVD and hardware things are gonna kinda go. I HM: Do you think high-definition goes too far in cleaning up sound and picture quality? I HM: What’s on the mystery disc? Lynch: It’s got some very important things, in my book. One of the things it has is 32 scenes never seen before from Wild at Heart. Partial scenes, extended scenes and complete scenes from a work print that was found, so it’s funky quality, but all of them have been edited as much as I could edit them with what was available and all of them have been mixed. Also on that disc is, I had a foot locker, and this foot locker hadn’t been opened, well it was opened I guess in ’86, but it hadn’t been open since the ’60s. It has 16mm experiments I did in Philadelphia in the late ’60s. One of the things is a fictitious Anacin commercial. And then it’s got a thing called “Absurd Encounter With Fear.” And then a kind of montage of these 16mm experimental things with a few pieces from [short films] “The Alphabet” and “The Grandmother.” I HM: There are a few things you’ve done that fans have been asking for on disc for a while — 1990s comedy TV series “On the Air,” Web series “Rabbits” and the original “Mullholland Dr.” TV pilot — are there plans to bring any of that material to DVD? Lynch: Eraserhead was cleaned and remastered in digital, and it looks better than it ever did on film, and it sounds great. In film, even though we love the quality of film, no two prints are the same, all kinds of horrible things can go wrong — tearing, dirt, hairs. You can break the film, and they splice it back wrong. It’s a nightmare. Ancient technology. … You can clean digital and perfect it and make it the way you wanted it. It’s very, very good. I HM: Where do you see people watching movies down the line? Do you think they’ll still go to the theaters and buy DVDs? Lynch: Well some people will do that, for sure. There’s a thing I’ve heard, that a lot of people are getting into 3-D movies to activate the theatrical experience. … That could be cool. Like I said, I think Blu-rays could rejuvinate a failing DVD thing, and people would like to have a hard copy of things they love. … It would be great if the screens got bigger and keep up with the quality and sound, get really great sound at home. And then it would be a great thing. I HM: What’s next? Lynch: The original episodes of “Rab- Lynch: I don’t know, Billy. I’m working bits” are on the mystery disc. “On on a painting right now. 26 Home Media Magazine November 2–8, 2008 http://www.distrimaxinc.com http://www.distrimaxinc.com
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