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November 3, 2009

Significant Titles Include:

Say Anything... 20th Anniversary Special Edition: "To know Lloyd Dobler is to love him.  Diane Court is about to know Lloyd Dobler."  20 years after Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack) first stood outside Diane Court's (Ione Skye) window playing Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes," Say Anything has become the stuff of legends.  Spawning a dedicated cult following and launching the career of Cameron Crowe, Say Anything is the quintessential 80's romantic-comedy that is still warming the cockles of our hearts two decades later.  The DVD will feature the standard features - extended and deleted scenes, audio commentary by Cameron, Cusack and Skye, etc. - as well as two featurettes: "A Conversation with Cameron Crowe" and "I Love Say Anything...!"  Blu-ray buyers can expect all this along with two exclusive featurettes: "An Iconic Film Revisited: Say Anything...20 Years Later" and "To Know Say Anything...is to Love It!" trivia track.  Not included: a pen.
Format: DVD and Blu-ray

Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut: If the 3-hour Director's Cut of Watchmen wasn't enough for you, perhaps the 3 and a half-hour Ultimate Cut will satisfy you.  Featuring all the added scenes from the Director's Cut, the Ultimate Cut will also incorporate the 26 minute animated Tales of the Black Freighter into the final running time.  But that's not all.  No, that's not even the beginning of this mammoth release.  Both the 5-disc DVD release and 4-disc Blu-ray release include a glutton's delight of special features with well over 3 hours of featurettes and a digital copy of the film.  Anyone who got sucked in by the illusionary promises of the Maximum Movie Mode on the last Blu-ray release (like myself) will be happy to know that the Ultimate Cut features commentary by both Zack Snyder and Dave Gibbons.  For the complete laundry list of special features, mosey on over to Slash Film.
Format: DVD and Blu-ray

Food, Inc.: Director Robert Kenner gives us an almost too up close and personal look at the corporate food industry, raising questions such as what is really in the food we eat and where did they actually come from. The documentary stars Eric Schlosser, author of the best-selling book Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, and Michael Pollan of last year's related documentary, Food Fight. DVD special features include deleted scenes, ABC News Nightline "You Are What You Eat": Food With Integrity, "The Amazing Food Detective" and "Snacktown Smackdown": Stay Active and Eat Healthy. 
Format: DVD

Rocky: The Undisputed Collection: Get riled up for Rocky one more time with the undisputed Blu-ray collection, including every movie in the 6-series saga as well as a bonus special features disc. Watch as Philadelphia boxer, Rocky Balboa, goes from rags to riches in the most stunning picture quality yet. With the collection comes a generous list of special features, including "Feeling Strong Now!" Trivia Game, "Three Rounds with Legendary Trainer Lou Duva" featurette, "Interview with a Legend - Bret Sugar," "The Opponents," "In the Ring: Three-Part Making-of Documentary" and "Steadicam: Then and Now" with Garrett Brown, who first introduced the Oscar-winning Steadicam camera stabilizer to the original Rocky in 1976.
Format: Blu-ray

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