The Ross McElwee Collection An extraordinary collection of the southern documentarian’s personal films, including Sherman’s March, Time Indefinite, Bright Leaves, and others. NR; $99.95.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Collector’s Set All 144 episodes of Joss Whedon’s supernaturally good TV series. NR: $199.98.
Stealth All 121 minutes of Jamie Foxx’s robotically bad action flick. PG-13; $28.95.
Friends: The Complete Tenth Season The final seventeen episodes of the remarkably persistent series. NR; $44.98. The Skeleton Key Kate Hudson’s bayou horror is even more frightening after the hurricane. PG-13; $29.98.
Pickpocket Fresh from its run at the Film Forum, a sharp restoration of Robert Bresson’s classic. NR; $39.95. King Kong Prepare for Peter Jackson’s edition with this crisp, extra-packed two-disc restoration of the 1933 original. NR; $26.99.
Ran Criterion’s new restoration of Akira Kurosawa’s brutal King Lear adaptation—with a disc of extras, including a making-of documentary by Chris Marker. NR; $39.95.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory The year’s creepiest kids’ film—in a good way. PG; $30.97. Madagascar The year’s most disappointing kids’ film—in a, well, bad way. PG; $19.95.
Seinfeld Season 5 and Season 6 Yadda-yadda, et cetera… . NR; $49.95 each.
Our Pick
Harold Lloyd started by ripping off Charlie Chaplin but soon became an icon in his own right, his round-rimmed spectacles anticipating Harry Potter’s signature look. The Harold Lloyd Comedy Collection, a mammoth seven-disc set of fifteen features and thirteen shorts, flaunts the originality of Lloyd’s talent, and then some. (The extras include only-for-the-obsessive home movies.) Obviously, you’ll find Lloyd’s famous dangling-from-a-clock-face scene in Safety Last! (pictured), but his Jazz Age romance Speedy is the real New York landmark. The 1928 film anticipated Chaplin’s Modern Times and was delivered as Lloyd’s mash note to the city, a sweethearted ramble staged on the city’s subways, trolley cars, and streets, documenting the swirl of Coney Island, the seltzer spew of soda counters, and the ugly mug of Babe Ruth. NR; $89.95.