THE SEA INSIDE (PG)
Javier Bardem’s paralysis victim seeks a dignified death in the winner of this year’s Oscar for Best Foreign Film (rental/retail DVD and video).
MILLION DOLLAR BABY (15)
Hilary Swank’s boxer floats like a butterfly and sinks like a stone in another Academy Award-winner. The director, Clint Eastwood, and co-star, Morgan Freeman, are interviewed in the extras (rental/retail DVD and video).
THE MUSIC OF BUDDY HOLLY AND THE CRICKETS (E)
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Archive clips, concert footage and new interviews commemorate the 50-year anniversary of the speccy melody-maker’s debut (retail DVD).
MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO (18)
Gus Van Sant’s dreamy riff on Shakespeare’s Henry IV, with Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix as Midwestern rentboys. Van Sant, his fellow director Todd Haynes, and Phoenix’s sister, Rain, chinwag on the extras (rental/retail DVD).
THE GOLDEN GIRLS (PG)
The acid-tongued crinklies make their digital debut with the DVD release of the first series of the 1980s sitcom (retail DVD).
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OZU VOLUME TWO (PG)
Two more films from the brilliant, contemplative Yasujiro Ozu: Flavour of Green Tea Over Rice and Record of a Tenement Gentleman, which features a commentary by the critic Derek Malcolm (retail DVD).