This week the DVD Savant has a number of new reviews and articles including: The Most Impressive Discs of 2009 - Savant chooses his subjective favorite DVDs and Blu-Rays, coming up with a list to baffle video lovers stand the test of time and good taste. With an essay about the state of home video discs; The Battle of Chile - The document of modern South American history ... filmed in 1972 and 1973, before and during the Coup D'Etat against President Salvador Allende's government in Chile. A four-disc set that includes director Patricio Guzmán's 1997 follow-up feature, Chile, Obstinate Memory; and The Animation of Alexeïeff - Facets Video collects most of the animation work of Alexandre Alexeïeff and Claire Parker, inventors of the amazing animation pinscreen. With good documentaries on the pinscreen and other innovations, and a newer pinscreen masterpiece made with the pioneers' equipment. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.