RT on DVD: Exclusive Slumdog Millionaire Clip, Seven Pounds, and The Matrix 10th Anniversary Blu-ray
Plus Marley & Me, Tell No One, and 8 new films to die for.
Jai Ho it up with the DVD debut of Danny Boyle's multiple Oscar-winning film, Slumdog Millionaire! It's also your week to catch films you might have missed in theaters, from Jennifer Aniston's tale of puppy love (Marley & Me) to the latest heart-wrencher from Will Smith (Seven Pounds). Those who dare to go foreign will be justly rewarded with two well-reviewed imports (the French thriller Tell No One and the Spanish sci-fi Timecrimes), while art-house devotees have two remastered Wong Kar-Wai films to choose from (Happy Together and Fallen Angels). Horror fans have an octet of new flicks to check out (After Dark Horror Fest 8 Films to Die For)...and did we mention the sweet new Blu-ray that should be on the top of any philosophical cyberpunk's wishlist (The Matrix 10th Anniversary Blu-ray Digibook)?
Jai Ho it up this week with the multiple Oscar-winning feel-good hit, Slumdog Millionaire! Danny Boyle's Dickensian Best Picture-winner, about an Indian working-class hero who competes on the Hindi version of Who Wants to Be A Millionaire, won over audiences and critics last year thanks to energetic filmmaking, a sweetly romantic story, and its exotic, catchy soundtrack. (That end-sequence Bollywood number, set to composer A.R. Rahman's Oscar-winning song, "Jai Ho," didn't hurt either; even Ellen DeGeneres couldn't resist recreating the dance on her daytime talk show.) If you missed the Little Film That Could in theaters (it narrowly avoided the ignominy of a direct-to-video release), you can bring it home today and relive all the feel-goodness of our most recent Oscar season.
Slumdog Millionaire comes to DVD in single-disc and Blu-ray releases. I know, single-disc; these days getting just one disc in a new release seems a bit skimpy, but Fox Home Entertainment has actually packed a decent host of extras here, including a commentary track by Best Director Boyle and star Dev Patel and a second commentary with writer Simon Beaufoy and producer Christian Colson (both of whom won Oscars for their work). The DVD also includes a dozen deleted scenes. On Blu-ray you'll get the above, plus additional behind-the-scenes featurettes, a music video, and a short film by newbie Rahi Anil Bharve (Manjha) which was hand-picked by Boyle.
Want more of the Bollywood-meets-Hollywood genre? Check out Desperate Housewives hottie Jesse Metcalfe in the cross-global romance The Other End of the Line (27%), in which he romances Bollywood star Shriya Saran.
Below, watch an exclusive deleted scene from Slumdog Millionaire.
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jokerboy1991 on 03-30-2009 08:09 PM
I want to rent Timecrimes, I love movies that deal with time paradoxes and ideas. I'll stay way from Marly and Me, and also Seven Pounds which I heard sucked. I'll get Slumdog Millionaire for sure. Not much else for me in a while though.
thejuggernautlives on 03-31-2009 06:10 PM
Don't always believe what you hear jokerboy. Seven Pounds has a 73% from the RT community, which I always trust more than the critics. I personally thought it was a really good film, and Will Smith and Rosario Dawson gave great performances.
Anyway, I'll be picking that up. But most importantly, I will pick up Slumdog Millionaire. I also think I want to rent Timecrimes and Tell No One. I could do with some foreign language thrillers. I need some since I can't watch my Let The Right One In DVD until they re-release it with the proper subtitles. Anyone know when that might happen.