This week The DVD Savant has reviews of Rita - an hour long career bio of Rita Hayworth, a screen siren with the disappointing love life, with an old Hayworth western on a second disc, The Tarzan Collection - six mighty Jungle spectacles roar from the screen, recycling footage and regaling us with gory violence, fake animal battles and sexy romance, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Maggie Smith got her Oscar with this highly original character study involving schoolgirls, irresponsible teaching and fascist overtones and The Manchurian Candidate - John Frankenheimer's knockout paranoid conspiracy film is both more credible and more enjoyable today than the year it opened. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

While everyone was away enjoying the Independence Day holiday weekend, the studios were busy announcing a number of fantastic upcoming DVDs, including: The Shawshank Redemption: Special Edition on 10/5 - Warner Bros. gives one of the most critically acclaimed modern films a special edition treatment including commentary by Frank Darabont, Making of Docs and more. Another critical darling Mean Girls gets its release on 9/21 featuring: commentary By Director Mark Waters, Screenwriter & Actress Tina Fey and Producer Lorne Michaels as well as a Blooper Reel and Deleted Scenes. Fans of TV on DVD have reason to celebrate with the announcement of HBO's phenomenal series The Wire - Season 1 on 10/12 - it's not to be missed. HBO digs deep into their vaults for the release of Dream On: Seasons 1 & 2 on 10/12 - their first innovative comedy series which won them their very first Emmy. Other notable TV on DVD announcements include Comedy Central's Crank Yankers: Season One - Uncensored on 9/28, SpongeBob SquarePants: The Complete Second Season on 10/5. Read our complete list of Upcoming DVDs.

This week Warner Bros. dominates the notable DVDs with the release of the Film Noir Collection: Vol 1 including such noir classics as The Set-Up [Review] - with commentary from Robert Wise and Martin Scorsese, Out of the Past [Review] - with Robert Mitchum and Kirk Douglas, John Houston's The Asphalt Jungle [Review] - including an introduction by the Director, Raymond Chandler's Murder, My Sweet [Review] and Gun Crazy [Review] - featuring an audio commentary from our very own DVD Savant. Other notable DVDs this week include: Butterfly Effect [Review - Interview], Big Top Pee-Wee [Review], Charlie Chan Chanthology [Review], The Name of the Rose and Six Feet Under Season 2 [Review]. Read our Complete List of Upcoming DVDs for more great DVDs out this week, and visit our DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews.

Michael Moore has been creating controversy and blowing away box office records with his documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, so this week we're happy to bring you a giveaway for The Awful Truth - The Complete DVD Set (Seasons 1 & 2). This four disk box set features: all episodes from the 2 seasons of The Awful Truth, audio commentary by Michael Moore on four of his favorite episodes, Moore "Awful Truths", and more. Enter now for your chance to win one of 5 copies of The Awful Truth - The Complete DVD Set (Seasons 1 & 2) we're giving away this week.

It's the chosen few DVDs released each year which receive DVD Talk's Highest Rating: DVD Talk Collector Series. Recent DVDs to get this extremely high rating include: Cold Mountain: Collector's Edition - a lovely, thoughtful, and rich film with an outstanding transfer on a loaded DVD, Spider-Man - The '67 Collection - with 52 episodes of childish joy and exceptional video quality this set deserves to be on every comic book or cartoon fan's DVD shelf, The Dead Zone - Season 2 - a great show which holds up to repeat viewing on a DVD with the kind of bonus material that every television show release should strive to match and Infernal Affairs - a smart and suspenseful thriller that asks questions about the nature of good and evil and the moral dilemmas created by the collision of two conflicting worlds. Finally, it's extremely rare we give our highest rating to adult DVDs which makes Tera Tera Tera and Misty Beethoven: The Musical 2 extremely notable exceptions. See the complete list of all DVDs given DVD Talk's Highest Rating.

Writing and Directing team Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber impressed audiences with their full throttle intensity in the highly successful Final Destination 2. Now they're back and they've upped the stakes with The Butterfly Effect - a time bending thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat till the very end. DVD Talk writer Danielle Henbest had the opportunity to sit down and talk with Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber about the DVD release for The Butterfly Effect. Bress and Gruber talk about selecting Ashton Kutcher for the lead role, violence in movies and what they're working on next. Read our Complete Interview with Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber.

Tempted to buy your fave episode of American Chopper? As Paul Sr. would bark: "Come here and turn around so I can hit you in the back of the head!" Wait for the Season One box set instead as Mikey's Bike is just one of a DOZEN rapid-fire reviews featured in the latest Lightning Round. (So much schlock, so little time!) Plus, responses to reader emails and the ever-vigilant CineSchlock-O-Rama's Most Wanted.
 

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