There are some great library titles coming out this week, not all of which are related to Halloween, not to mention a few more “complete series” packages of TV releases.

First, the DVD releases:

• 2001: A Space Odyssey: The first of several new Kubrick special editions due this week, and one of the best.
• The Adventures of Aquaman – The Complete Collection
• The Adventures of Young

  Indiana Jones – Volume One

• American Gangster – The Complete First Season
• Barry Lyndon: A reprint of the previous release of Kubrick’s worst movie (not that he ever directed a bad one.)
• Basilisk – Box Set
• Battleship Potemkin (The

  Ultimate Edition): A new Kino release of the 1925 Sergei Eisenstein movie that

  redefined editing. Film history buffs take note.

• Black Sabbath
• Black Sunday
• Breathless – Criterion

  Collection

• Burt Lancaster – The

  Signature Collection: Includes “The Flame and the Arrow,” “Jim Thorpe All-

  American,” “His Majesty O’Keefe,” “South Sea Woman” and “Executive Action.”

• A Christmas Carol (Ultimate Collector’s Edition): This is the Alastair Sim version.
• A Clockwork Orange: A new special edition
• The Company
• Cutting Class
• Days of Heaven – Criterion

  Collection

• Eyes Wide Shut: A new special edition
• Fantastic Planet
• Film Noir, Vol. 3: No word on which titles are included.
• For Your Consideration: An assortment of unrevealed Academy Award nominees
• Hamish MacBeth: Season

  Three

• Hell Girl – Vol. 1
• Hellraiser: 20th Anniversary Edition
• Home of the Brave
• Hostel (Director’s Cut)
• Hostel – Part II
• I Love Lucy: The Complete

  Series

• Inuyasha Complete Delux

  Movies Box Set (Limited Edition)

• Irwin Allen TV Giftset:

  Every released collection of “The Time Tunnel,” “Land of the Giants,” “Lost In Space”

  and “Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea”

• The Junior Defenders
• The L Word – The Complete

  Fourth Season

• Lolita: A new pressing of the existing release of this Kubrick film. The first few minutes comprise my favourite Peter Sellers sequence ever.
• Meet the Robinsons
• Mind of Mencia: Uncensored

  Season 3

• Monarch of the Glen: The

  Complete Collection

• Mr. Brooks
• NCIS – The Fourth Season
• O Lucky Man!
• Saw III – The Director’s Cut
• The Saw Trilogy: The

  first three “Saw” movies.

• The Shining: A new special edition of Kubrick’s Stephen King adaptation.
• The Sopranos – Season 6, Part

  2

• Stanley Kubrick: A Life In Pictures: I still haven’t picked this up. (I bought the first Kubrick box set they released, which didn’t include this or “Eyes Wide Shut.”)
• Stanley Kubrick – Warner Home

  Video Directors Series: Includes the new, fancy editions of “2001: A Space

  Odyssey,” “A Clockwork Orange,” “The Shining,” “Eyes Wide Shut,” “Full Metal Jacket”

  and “A Life In Pictures.” Unlike the previous sets, it does not include “Barry

  Lyndon,” “Lolita,” or “Dr. Strangelove,” all of which are also worth picking up

  (though I’d put “Barry Lyndon” at the bottom of the priority list.) The deluxe, non

  -documentary titles are available individually in high definition, but not in the box

  set.

• The Strange Case of Howard Phillips Lovecraft
• The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians
• Tales From The Crypt – The

  Complete Seventh Season

• The Tripper
• Under the Volcano – Criterion

  Collection

• United Artists Cinema Greats

  Collection, Set 1: Includes “The Pink Panther” (which didn’t impress me all that

  much), “Dr. No” (an early and decent James Bond flick), “A Fistful of Dollars” (a

  decent westernization’s of Kurosawa’s “Yojimbo”) and “The Magnificent Seven” (a

  westernization of Kurosawa’s spectacular “The Seven Samurai.”)

• United Artists Cinema Greats

  Collection, Set 2: Includes “The Great Escape,” “Rocky,” “West Side Story” and

  the original version of “The Thomas Crown Affair.”

• United Artists Cinema Greats

  Collection, Set 3: Includes “12 Angry Men” and “Paths of Glory,” both of which

  are fantastic (the latter directed by Stanley Kubrick), as well as “A Bridge Too Far”

  and “Judgment At Nuremberg,” neither of which I’ve seen and can’t comment on.

• Veronica Mars – The Complete

  Third Season

• Veronica Mars – The Complete

  Series: It’s billed as “The Complete First Three Seasons,” but it was titled

  before they decided to cancel the show without a fourth season.

• Voyage to the Bottom of the

  Season – Season Three, Volume Two

Now, the Blu-Ray releases:

• 2001 – A Space Odyssey
• A Clockwork Orange
• The Company
• Eyes Wide Shut
• Full Metal Jacket
• The Hills Have Eyes 2:

  Unrated

• Home of the Brave
• Hostel – The Director’s Cut
• Hostel – Part II
• King of New York
• Meet The Robinsons
• Mr. Brooks
• Scary Movie: The scariest thing about this awful flick is that it made enough money to spawn sequels which also made money.
• The Shining
• The Sopranos – Season 6, Part

  2

The HD DVD releases are as follows:

• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Carlito’s Way
• Carlito’s Way: Rise To Power
• A Clockwork Orange
• Eyes Wide Shut
• Full Metal Jacket
• Inside Man
• Seed of Chucky
• The Shining
• The Sopranos – Season 6, Part

  2

Finally, the pick of the week. As a huge Kubrick fan, I’m going to have to go with one of his titles. This would normally be a hard decision, but given the season, I’m going with “The Shining” in the format of your choice.