The Week's Top-10 Blu Ray - January 26 2010

Michael Jackson: This Is It ~ M.J. (2010)

Rehearsals and some fairly remarkable backstage footage of the Gloved One as he prepped for a series of sold-outs in London.

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WWII in HD (2010)

Cut from three thousand hours of color footage evidently no one knew existed. As you can imagine, it's not going to be easy viewing.

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Paris, Texas [Criterion Collection] ~ Nastassja Kinski, Harry Dean Stanton, Dean Stockwell, and Sam Berry (2010)

"Achingly empty American spaces stick longer in the memory than the dialogue. Winner of the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival." --Robert Horton
One of our favorites.

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Pride & Prejudice ~ Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Rosamund Pike, and Jena Malone (2010)

This being the big screen feature film, not the mini-series blu-ray released last April.

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Whip It ~ Sarah Habel, Marcia Gay Harden, Juliette Lewis, Drew Barrymore (2010)

Drew Barrymore directs this comedy-drama while on roller skates. The helmet's not army issue, by the way. Better than you might expect.

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Atonement ~ Keira Knightley, James Mcavoy, Saoirse Ronan, Brenda Blethyn (2010)

More Keira in HD. Things could be worse. Guys, tell 'em you bought it for her.

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Bridget Jones's Diary ~Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth (2010)

The R-rated trials & tribulations of one Ms. B. Jones.
Mark Darcy: "Natasha, this is Bridget Jones. Bridget works in a publishing house and used to play around naked in my paddling pool."

Surrogates ~ Bruce Willis, James Cromwell, Ving Rhames, and Radha Mitchell (2010)
"Honey, I don't know what you are. I mean, for all I know, you could be some big fat dude..." Dare we ask, "What'chu talkin' 'bout Willis?"

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Saw VI ~ Shawnee Smith, et al. (2010)

Those expecting an instructional video dedicated to the woodworking handyman, you've been warned.

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Lou Reed's Berlin (2010)

Reed performs his legendary 1973 album, 'Berlin', live for the first time. 3 film fest awards for good reason. Undeniable soul, but check your happy face before pressing 'play'. Need more Lou? Here you go.

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Soul Power ~ Everybody (2010)

James Brown (aka the human fire alarm), B.B. King, Bill Withers, Celia Cruz, and Muhammad Ali bring you the cure for being totally bummed by Lou Reed.
Muhammad Ali??

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Element - Music Experience in 7.1 3-D Sound Reality (2010)

* Many of you were interested in this last week, but the release was delayed until Jan 27th. 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio.

Tons of classical & opera this week, & Pavarotti's not even on deck:

Wagner: Das Rheingold

Andre Rieu - At Schonbrunn, Vienna

Gluck: Oprheus and Eurydike

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Schumann: Genoveva

SACD of the week

Come Away with Me ~ Nora Jones - Hybrid SACD - DSD

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