This week Silent DVD has a look at three Swedish silent movies from the influential director Mauritz Stiller: Sir Arne's Treasure (1919), Erotikon (1920), and The Saga of Gosta Berling (1924). This last movie was the film that made Greta Garbo into a star and also earned Stiller a contract with MGM. All three of the movies have been lovingly restored by the Swedish Film Institute and look wonderful. There also news on the third Treasures from American Film Archives collection as well as newly announced silent movies and the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Be sure to catch any previous installments that you may have missed, including the 2005 SF Silent Film Festival and the Harold Lloyd Comedy Collection.

A big week for theatrical films with the long awaited release of The Dav Vinci Code - Dan Brown's controversial thriller adapted to the screen with Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou. Also out this week is the delightful animated film Over The Hedge and the less than delightful See No Evil. Be sure to catch reviews of other recent Theatrical Films: Just My Luck, An American Haunting Mission: Impossible III, Poseidon and Drawing Restraint 9. As always, we invite you to share your thoughts on films in theaters in our Movie Talk Forum Area.

This week the DVD Savant has a number of new reviews including: Baby Doll - Elia Kazan and Tennessee Williams team up for this wild and still racy drama of arrested development and Sicilian revenge in the New South; Lovers of the Arctic Circle - a creative, bizarre and beautifully realized Spanish love story about wild coincidences and strange intercrossed fates; Lemonade Joe - bizarro Czech musical western takeoff contains 1001 clever visual gags, but the transfer on view is inadequate; Earthquake - Charlton Heston toplines a cast of Angelenos reacting to a massive temblor; Modern Romance - Albert Brooks is both funny and frustrating as a terminally neurotic and infantile Hollywood film editor; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Both Liz Taylor and Paul Newman earned solid career boosts in this slick adaptation of yet another Pulitzer Prize-winning Tennessee Williams play. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

While best known for his four Phantasm films, Don Coscarelli's film career, which has been going strong since the seventies, has not been confined to a single genre. That being said, he is best known for his work in horror films and so he seemed a logical choice to contribute to Showtime's Masters Of Horror series [Read Reviews of the series DVDs here]. Don took the time out of his schedule to talk to DVD Talk's Ian Jane about projects past, present, and maybe even future (including a possible follow up to Bubba Hotep), as well as to shed some light on a few career highlights for us. Read our complete interview with Don Coscarelli.

This week we have a very special giveaway from HBO Home Video for one of the best shows to air on television: Deadwood: The Complete Second Season . Deadwood - The Complete Second Season features: all 12 episodes of the second season, audio commentary with almost every key member of the cast including Ian McShane, John Hawkes, Timothy Olyphant and Molly Parker, The Real Deadwood 1877: historical featurette, Making of season 2 finale and Deadwood Daguerreotypes. Enter now for your chance to one of 5 copies of Deadwood - The Complete Second Season.

Everything old is new again in this week's notable DVDs with a rash of re-releases and reissues including: Crimson Tide Unrated [Review] - an enjoyable film with new footage, new transfer and a handful of new features worthy of an upgrade; Napoleon Dynamite: Like, the Best Special Edition Ever! [Review] - like totally better than the first one... as if; The Producers [Review] - a feature musical inspired by a Broadway musical, inspired by a classic film, all from the mind of Mel Brooks; Con Air: Unrated [Review] - a completely barebones re-release with a few minutes added back in... are extras that hard to produce? Other notable DVDs out this week include: Doogal [Review], Home Movies: S4 [Review], Mystery Science Theater 3K 9 [Review], The Ringer [Review], That Girl: S1 [Review] and Winter Passing [Review]. 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's clip of the week comes from the classic TV series That Girl: Season One. That Girl ran five seasons on ABC from 1966-1971. Marlo Thomas' character Ann was groundbreaking as an independent female forging her own way; forever changing the manner in which women were portrayed on TV and influencing the development of the other female-lead shows that followed, from The Mary Tyler Moore Show to Kate & Allie and more. That Girl: Season One is out this week in a 5-DVD box set from Shout! Factory featuring all 30 half-hour episodes from Season One including this bit from episode #9. (get more info on the That Girl DVD here. Be sure to catch past week's clips at DVD Talk TV.

Now with over 15,700 DVD reviews in the DVD Talk Review Database, it's easy to overlook some of the great reviews. Recent DVD Reviews include: Kingdom of Heaven: The Director's Cut - a masterful film that ranks among Scott's best and a cinch for DVD Talk Collectors Series status; Dead Broke - a hidden gem that surprises you, grabs you and makes you smile the whole way through because it's just so freaking cool; When a Stranger Calls - This updated version is definitely different than the original, but it's not necessarily better; Compulsion - classic filmmaking at its best with stand out performances from Dean Stockwell and Orson Welles; Harlan County, USA: Criterion - a fascinating film that's been given an impressive treatment on DVD; The 400 Blows: Criterion - must-have for fans of Truffaut and foreign films in general; New Police Story - Jackie Chan more or less back in his element: a high-concept Hong Kong movie. 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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