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Must-Have-DVDs of 2004
An article about the 2004-must-have-DVDs - and Buffy's 7th Season is one of them! |
 • THE STAR WARS TRILOGY
This box set collects the original trilogy — A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi — and offers a fourth disc that's packed with extras. It boasts more than four hours of footage and featurettes, the centrepiece of which is Empire of Dreams, a two-hour documentary that tracks the saga's origins (Lucas wanted to pay homage to the 1930s adventure serials he had grown up with as a kid) to its iconic status as modern-day mythology. It'll make you remember why you loved it in the first place.
• THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING SPECIAL EDITION
Oscar winner Peter Jackson has married film and DVD like no one before him — cutting the theatrical versions of his movies to a box-office-friendly length, while knowing full well the excised scenes would end up on the DVD. On one hand, I'm offended that the three-hour movie I paid $14 to sit through was incomplete. On the other hand, how can you deny the geek majesty of this masterfully-produced DVD and its prequels?
• THE WALT DISNEY TREASURES SERIES
This trio of DVDs collects priceless — and timeless — material dating back more than 70 years. The first DVD is devoted to Mickey Mouse, the second to his dog Pluto and the third to episodes of The Mickey Mouse Club TV series from the 1950s. Rarely is there truth in advertising — and rarer still in a title. But in calling these three DVDs treasures, Disney couldn't have selected a truer or more worthy name.
• MARTIN SCORSESE COLLECTION
This five-disc set collects some of the director's most challenging work — After Hours, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Goodfellas, Mean Streets and Who's That Knocking At My Door? Scorsese contributes a commentary for each film.
• THE ROCKY ANTHOLOGY
This DVD set collects all five Rockys and parallels Stallone's own career — from unknown to glitzy 1980s superstar, to Ronald Reagan-era Commie basher to, at last, a once-proud fighter too damaged by fame and time to ever recapture his former glory. Of course, the only great film of the bunch is the first Oscar-winning classic.
• CITY OF GOD
This sprawling crime epic about the slums of Rio is vibrant and grim, electric and sombre. The DVD includes a startling TV documentary about the real place.
• BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER: SEASON SEVEN
The final season of this cult classic expertly nails — or should I say "stakes" — the deft balance between comedy and horror that exemplifies its best episodes. Various creative folks contribute commentary tracks.
• MARY POPPINS 40TH ANNIVERSARY
This lavish two-disc edition of the classic Julie Andrews family fantasy includes a new 50-minute documentary, commentary by actors Andrews, Dick Van Dyke and archival recordings from others including Walt Disney, a new animated short called The Cat That Looked Like A King, Van Dyke's makeup test and I Love to Laugh Set Top Trivia Game.
• STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES
It's illogical that a show with such a rabid fan base would go so long without being beamed up properly on DVD. Nevertheless, 2004 finally saw Kirk and Spock arrive in style.
• AMERICAN SPLENDOR
Fittingly for a movie that blends fact and fiction so memorably, the DVD of this excellent biopic about underground cartoonist Harvey Pekar includes a featurette that follows the real Pekar and his family to the premieres in Hollywood, Sundance and Cannes.
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