Have a straight-to-DVD holiday
There’s always someone on your Yuletide shopping list who’s notoriously hard to buy for. Luckily, you can always bust out a special-feature-crammed DVD gift set that’ll make you a stocking? stuffer hero. Here are some of our faves, with bonus suggestions.
National Lampoon’s Animal House (30th anniversary edition)
PRICE | $34.98 DVD
GIVE TO | Wiseguy uncle
ALSO RECOMMENDED | Monty Python Holy Trinity; Mystery Science Theater 3000 (20th anniversary edition)
So it’s come to this: the film that launched a thousand frat-tard gross-out films turns 30. This hefty boxed set includes a Faber College yearbook and two DVDs stuffed with special features. A perfect match for the Bluto-quotin’ screwball in your life.
David Lynch: The Lime Green Set
PRICE | $179.99 DVD
GIVE TO | Sensitive art-school-dropout cousin
ALSO RECOMMENDED | Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens; This American Life: Season One
Someone’s going to make a completist Lynch fan very happy with this mother lode of surreal cinema, which features four classics (Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, The Elephant Man), the DVD debut of Industrial Symphony No. 1, and a “Mystery Disc” of exclusive tidbits.
Heathers (Limited-Edition Box Set)
PRICE | $89.97 DVD
GIVE TO | Sister-in-law who remembers the ’80s fondly
ALSO RECOMMENDED | Chaplin (15th Anniversary Edition); Sex and the City: The Movie (Special Edition)
Celebrating its 20th high-school reunion, this angsty Winona Ryder/Christian Slater dark comedy hits shelves with the greatest, gimmickiest DVD packaging we’ve seen all year: an actual metal locker stuffed with Big Fun swag and a yearbook.
Casablanca (Ultimate Collector’s Edition)
PRICE | $59.98 DVD; $64.98 Blu-Ray
GIVE TO | Classy great-aunt with a cinephile streak
ALSO RECOMMENDED | Alfred Hitchcock Premiere Collection; Columbia Best Pictures Collection
Sam plays it again, with a jaw-droppingly handsome collection bursting at the seams with memorabilia (check out the 48?page photo booklet) and three DVDs’ worth of special-edition material, including the documentary Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul — all just waiting to fall into the arms of some hopeless romantic.
The Dark Knight (Special Edition; out on December 9)
PRICE | $34.98 DVD; $35.99 Blu-Ray; $64.98 Limited Edition with Batpod
GIVE TO | Squirrelly kid brother; action-movie-lovin’ dad
ALSO RECOMMENDED | I Am Legend (Special Edition); Casino Royale (Collector’s Edition)
Packing a slew of behind-the-scenes featurettes and six episodes of fake news show Gotham Tonight, these releases should keep Batmaniacs enthralled. If you feel like splurging, get the two? disc Blu-Ray set that comes with a mini Batpod (Batman’s wall-scaling motorcycle) that doubles as a display case.
