On September 6, one of the biggest TV-on-DVD releases of the year hits shelves with Lost - The Complete First Season. In preparation for the release, Buena Vista Home Entertainment threw a jungle extravaganza like no other on Oahu's North Shore, and DVD Talk Reviewer das Monkey was on site to capture every moment. Check out various shooting locations from the island, see the stars on the red carpet, and listen to over 90 minutes of insight and analysis from the entire cast (plus creator Damon Lindelof) in his comprehensive report and photo gallery. Just don't ask Terry O'Quinn, "What's in the hatch?". Also be sure to read our complete Review of the Lost: Season One DVD

On this episode of DVD Talk Radio we sit down and talk with Writer/Director Dana Brown to talk about his film Dust to Glory which follows the antics and actions of the Baja 1000 race. Dana Brown is very well know for his surfing films (including Step into Liquid) and is the son of famed film maker Bruce Brown (Endless Summer). We talk to Dana about surfing, The Baja 1000 and his approach to documentary film making. Listen to our interview with Dana Brown using our Online DVD Talk Radio Player or Download the complete interview with Dana Brown (13 min 9MB). Also be sure to listen to our recent interviews on DVD Talk Radio with Chan-Wook Park, Frank Miller, Errol Morris, John Waters and Ivan Reitman.

This month Silent DVD has an in depth look at the SlapHappy series as well as the latest news on some upcoming releases. SlapHappy gives an excellent overview of silent comedies and comedians. Not only do they cover the big names from the era, Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd, but they also feature a large number of talented comics who are now all but forgotten. Lupino Lane, Larry Semon, Max Linder, Lloyd Hamilton and Snub Pollard are only some of the comics that are covered in the show. There is an overview of the entire series with links to full reviews of all ten volumes, and an interview with Larry Stefan, the producer, writer, and pretty much the driving force behind the series. Speaking of slapstick comedy, The Harold Lloyd Comedy Collection is scheduled to be released in time for Christmas. We have cover art as well as a list of films that are going to be included in this long awaited set. We also have some news on the second wave in Kino's Slapstick Symposium series and information on a pair of Maurice Tourneur films. Read about all this and more in this month's Silent DVD.

This week the DVD Savant has a number of new reviews including: Major Dundee - The Extended Version - Savant doesn't review his favorite film, he writes a book. Those readers not already absolute Peckinpah fanatics can check out the details on Sony's disc extras, but the joy of this obsession is really getting into the mystery; The Silent Star - First Run Features comes up with a subtitled disc of the original East German-Polish version we saw here as First Spaceship on Venus; Curly Top - Shirley Temple burst off the screen to lighten the hearts of the unemployed Americans of 1935; The Complete Thin Man Collection - Taken as a bunch, the films are like a miniseries that took 13 years to play out, but Myrna Loy we can watch forever; The Barkleys of Broadway - The final Astaire & Rogers film is an MGM Technicolor show made ten years down the line, and not quite the same experience as the earlier pictures. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

What started as a web site has now grown into a phenomenon. This past year The Suicide Girls took the show on the road for a cross country tour that featured their unique style and performance. Now Suicide Girls: The First Tour DVD documents this first tour with footage from many of their performances, interviews with the Suicide Girls and much much more. Enter now for your chance to win one of 5 copies of Suicide Girls: The First Tour DVD we're giving away this week.

If there's one movie that you should not miss this year it's Chan-wook Park's staggeringly brilliant Oldboy. This week we have several clips from Oldboy including: the trailer, a clip of the famous hammer fight scene and a very cool scene on the rooftop. Take a peek at Oldboy and you'll start to understand why it's one of the most buzz worthy films of 2005, and this week's Clip of The Week. Also this week we have clips from Layer Cake [Review]: The Layer Cake Metaphor, Sienna Miller as Tammy, Director Matthew Vaughn, Deleted Scene 1 - Fishing and Deleted Scene 2 - We Got a Buyer. Be sure to catch past week's clips at DVD Talk TV.

On this episode of DVD Talk Radio we sit down and talk with Director Peter Weir about the DVD re-release of his films: Witness with Harrison Ford and The Truman Show with Jim Carrey. We talk to Peter Weir about his career, the experience of revisiting these films, and get the scoop on his work with on William Gibson's amazing Pattern Recognition. Listen to our interview with Peter Weir using our Online DVD Talk Radio Player or Download the complete interview with Peter Weir (15 min 11MB). Also be sure to listen to our recent interviews on DVD Talk Radio with Chan-Wook Park, Frank Miller, Errol Morris, John Waters and Ivan Reitman.

A number of great notable DVDs this week including: Oldboy [Review] [Interview] - simply one of the best films to come out of Korea - ever; Layer Cake [Review] - an impossibly slick film with a fantastic twist ending; Witness: SE [Review] and The Truman Show: SE [Review] - Paramount reissues two of Peter Weir's finest films and they're both worth picking up; Harakiri: Criterion Collection [Review] - an absolute masterpiece of a film gets the kind of treatment that it completely and utterly deserves. Other notable DVDs out this week include: Beauty Shop; Dust To Glory [Review], Futurama - Monster Robot Maniac [Review], Lackawanna Blues [Review], New Jack City: SE [Review] and Six Feet Under: S4. Read our List of Top Upcoming DVDs for more great DVDs out this week, visit our DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews including an entire section devoted to reviews of DVDs out this week.

This week we have an interview with emerging cinema-master Chan-wook Park, who talks to us about his landmark film Oldboy [Review]. The interview was recorded in person at the 2005 Sundance Film Fest. Chan-Wook Park gives some real insights into the film including: the inspiration for the hammer fight scene, how he's changed as a director from JSA to Oldboy and where he finds inspiration for his films. Listen to our interview with Chan-wook Park using our Online DVD Talk Radio Player or Download the complete interview with Chan-wook Park (14 min 10MB). Also be sure to listen to our recent interviews on DVD Talk Radio with Frank Miller, Errol Morris, John Waters, Ivan Reitman and Lloyd Kaufman.

Now with over 12,800 DVD reviews in the DVD Talk Review Database, it's easy to overlook some of the great reviews. Recent DVD Reviews include: Ong-Bak - The Thai Warrior - Tony Jaa ups the anti for every action film made from here on out with jaw dropping stunts... Jackie who? Atomik Circus (R3) - in the tradition of classic trash-cinema (anyone remember Bad Taste and Street Trash?) it delivers the goods down to the smallest detail; Clueless - Whatever! Edition - Paramount fixes serious issues with the previous release and finally gives this guilty pleasure the SE treatment it deserves; Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge: The Complete Series - fans of ironic and satirical British humor will have a field day with this fantastic show. Visit the DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews including an entire section devoted to reviews of DVDs out this week.

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