Out Today on DVD 4/8

Well, obviously the instant pick of the day is P.T. Anderson’s masterpiece, “There Will Be Blood.” It really should go without saying that you should have this in your collection, side-by-side with every other P.T. Anderson movie. If you don’t have every other P.T. Anderson movie either you’re poor or stupid. Either way, you should scrape your pennies together to get them.

Here’s a good review of the film.

The second disc has about 50 minutes of material, including 2 deleted scenes that should be interesting to see. From what I’m reading, though, this 2 disc isn’t as packed as other P.T. Anderson releases, which has me a little worried. We’ll see how it is once I get my hands on it.

Next on the list is a 20th anniversary 2 disc collection of Terry Gilliam’s fun-as-hell Adventures of Baron Munchausen. It sports a feature-length commentary by Gilliam and a 3 part documentary, making it a required disc for any fan of Gilliam’s work.

I’ve watched this film recently and it’s certainly a pre-cursor of the wondrous things to come from Gilliam. Now if he could only finish “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.”

Just in time for the 100th anniversary of the birth of Bette Davis is a two disc set of “All About Eve.” I’ve never seen this film but it’s one of those perennial classics that everyone talks about and you probably should have seen.

Last on the list? The sixth season of the 80’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Need I say more?

(And yes, I knew about the straight to DVD remake of Day of the Dead… But seriously… Does anyone care? Didn’t think so.)