As it dawned on me that the season premiere of Lost was tonight an hour too late, I decided to avoid the social networking sites and put together a DVD Release Update; speaking of Lost, the final season (as well as a series box set) will become available on DVD and Blu-ray on 24 August.
For the first time in 2010, there are a bunch of exciting Blu-rays lined up, which includes some of the best (The Maltese Falcon, Happy Together, Battleship Potemkin) and worst (Armageddon, Lost in Space) films of all time. Warner provided something of a blueprint (I'm resisting that stupid pun) for their 2010 High-Def releases. The DVDs are in descending order of release and the ones in italics are for date changes.
- Harlem Aria, 1999, d. William Jennings, Magnolia, 6 April- Comrades in Dreams, 2006, d. Uli Gaulke, Pathfinder, 13 April
- Defendor, 2009, d. Peter Stebbings, Sony Pictures, 13 April, w. Woody Harrelson, Kat Dennings, Elias Koteas, Sandra Oh
- 35 Shots of Rum [35 rhums], 2008, d. Claire Denis, Cinema Guild, 20 April
- Cloud 9 [Wolke Neun], 2008, d. Andreas Dresen, Music Box Films, 20 April
- K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces, 2008, d. Shimako Sato, Viz Media, 20 April, w. Takeshi Kaneshiro
- The Young Victoria, 2009, d. Jean-Marc Vallée, also on Blu-ray, Sony Pictures, 20 April
- Dinah East, 1970, d. Gene Nash, VCI, 27 April
- District 13 Ultimatum [Banlieue 13: Ultimatum], 2009, d. Patrick Alessandrin, also on Blu-ray, Magnet Releasing/Magnolia, 27 April
- Homecoming, 2009, d. Morgan J. Freeman, Paramount, 27 April, w. Mischa Barton
- Return of the One-Armed Swordsman, 1969, d. Chang Cheh, Dragon Dynasty, 4 May
- The Blind Menace, 1960, d. Kazuo Mori, AnimEigo, 11 May
- Tell-Tale, 2009, d. Michael Cuesta, Weinstein Company, 18 May, w. Josh Lucas, Lena Headey, Brian Cox, Dallas Roberts, Ulrich Thomsen, Pablo Schreiber, Jamie Harrold, Michael K. Williams
- Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis, 2006, d. Mary Jordan, New Video, 25 May
- Joy, 1983, d. Sergio Bergonzelli, Severin, 25 May
- Joy & Joan, 1985, d. Jacques Saurel, Severin, 25 May, w. Brigitte Lahaie
- The Messenger, 2009, d. Oren Moverman, Oscilloscope, 25 May
- Obscene, 2007, d. Daniel O'Connor, Neil Ortenberg, Arthouse Films, 25 May
- Owl and the Sparrow, 2007, d. Stephane Gauger, Image, 25 May
- Submission of a Woman [Al calar della sera], 1992, d. Alessandro Lucidi, MYA Communications, 25 May
- Mary and Max, 2009, d. Adam Elliot, IFC Films, 15 June
- Starcrash [Scontri stellari oltre la terza dimensione], 1979, d. Luigi Cozzi, Shout! Factory, 10 August
Blu-ray
- The Protector, 2005, d. Prachya Pinkaew, Dragon Dynasty, 5 April- Battleship Potemkin, 1925, d. Sergei Eisenstein, Kino, 20 April
- Tombstone, 1993, d. George P. Cosmatos, Buena Vista, 27 April
- Armageddon, 1998, d. Michael Bay, Buena Vista, 4 May
- Happy Together, 1997, d. Wong Kar-wai, Kino, 4 May
- Seven Swords, 2005, d. Tsui Hark, Dragon Dynasty, 4 May
- 9 Songs, 2004, d. Michael Winterbottom, Palisades Tartan, 18 May
- Outlander, 2008, d. Howard McCain, Weinstein Company, 18 May
- City of the Living Dead [Paura nella città dei morti viventi], 1980, d. Lucio Fulci, Blue Underground, 25 May
- Django, 1966, d. Sergio Corbucci, Blue Underground, 25 May
- Deep Blue Sea, 1999, d. Renny Harlin, Warner, 3 August
- National Lampoon's Vacation, 1985, d. Amy Heckerling, Warner, 10 August
- Forbidden Planet, 1956, d. Fred M. Wilcox, Warner, 7 September
- Lost in Space, 1998, d. Stephen Hopkins, New Line/Warner, 7 September
- Mars Attacks!, 1996, d. Tim Burton, Warner, 7 September
- THX 1138, 1971, d. George Lucas, Warner, 7 September
- The Maltese Falcon, 1941, d. John Huston, Warner, 5 October
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1948, d. John Huston, Warner, 5 October
- Three Kings, 1999, d. David O. Russell, Warner, 12 October
- The Goonies, 1985, d. Richard Donner, Warner, 2 November
- Ben-Hur, 1959, d. William Wyler, Warner, 16 November
