Movies on DVD and Blu-ray

Wednesday 1 July 2015

We Were Soldiers (2002)

Directed by Randall Wallace and starring Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Sam Elliott, Greg Kinnear, Chris Klein and Barry Pepper.

DVD bought in 2002

Blu-ray bought in 2010

138mins

DVD

DVD extras -

Audio commentary with director and writer Randall Wallace
Getting It Right: Behind The Scenes Of We Were Soldiers
10 deleted scenes
Theatrical trailers

Friday 26 June 2015

Pearl Harbor (2001)

Directed by Michael Bay and starring Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding Jr, Tom Sizemore, Alec Baldwin, Jennifer Garner, Dan Aykroyd and Jon Voight.

DVD bought in 2001

4-disc Director's Cut DVD bought in 2003

184mins

4-disc DVD

4-disc DVD extras -

Audio Commentary by Michael Bay and Film Historian Jeanine Basinger
Audio Commentary by Jerry Bruckheimer, Ben Affleck, Alec Baldwin and Josh Hartnett
Audio Commentary by Cinematographer John Schwartzman, Production Designer Nigel Phelps, Costume Designer Michael Kaplan and Composer Hans Zimmer
Music Video - Faith Hill "There You'll Be"
Journey to the Screen: The Making of Pearl Harbor (47mins)
Production Diary (62mins)
Boot Camp (22mins)
Super 8 Montage
One Hour Over Tokyo - History Channel documentary (46mins)
Unsung Heroes of Pearl Harbor - History Channel documentary (46mins)
Oral History: The Recollections of a Pearl Harbor Nurse
Interactive Attack Sequence (28mins)
Deconstucting Destruction: A Conversation on Visual Effects with Michael Bay and Eric Brevig (21mins) (plus 28mins of Branching Footage)
When Cultures Collide- Interactive Timeline (68mins)
Production Design, Publicity and Historical Galleries
Storyboards
Theatrical Trailer
24-Page Collector's Booklet
4 Original Lobby Cards

Black Hawk Down (2001)

Directed by Ridley Scott and starring Josh Hartnett, Eric Bana, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore, William Fichtner, Sam Shepard, Jason Isaacs, Orlando Bloom and Tom Hardy.

3-disc Special Edition DVD bought in 2006

Blu-ray bought in 2010

144m 20s

3-disc DVD

3-disc DVD extras -

Audio commentary with Ridley Scott and producer Jerry Bruckheimer
Audio commentary with US Special Forces veterans Matt Eversmann, Tom Matthews, Danny McKnight and Lee Van Arsdale
Audio commentary with writers Mark Bowden and Ken Nolan
The Essence Of Combat: Making Black Hawk Down (151mins)
Designing Mogadishu
Jerry Bruckheimer's Photo Album
Photo Galleries
Production Design Archive
Ridleygrams
Storyboards
Title Design And Exploration
Alternate and deleted scenes
The History Channel Presents: The True Story Of Black Hawk Down (92mins)
PBS Presents: Frontline: Ambush In Mogadishu (55mins)
Target Building Insertion
Q&A Forums - featurettes
Gortoz A Ran: J'Attends - music video by Lisa Gerrard and Denez Prigent
Poster concepts
Theatrical trailer

Behind Enemy Lines (2001)

Directed by John Moore and starring Owen Wilson, Gene Hackman, Joaquim de Almeida,
David Keith and Gabriel Macht.

DVD bought in 2002

101m 25s

Audio commentary with producers John Davis and Wyck Godfrey
Audio commentary with director John Moore and editor Paul Martin Smith
Behind The Scenes (6mins)
7 extended and deleted scenes
Pre-Vis Ejection Sequence

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

Directed by Ron Howard and starring Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany, Josh Lucas and Christopher Plummer.

2-disc Special Edition DVD bought in 2003

129m 50s

Audio Commentary by Director Ron Howard
Audio Commentary by Screenwriter Akiva Goldsman
Inside A Beautiful Mind (23mins)
A Beautiful Partnership: Ron Howard & Brian Grazer
Development of the Screenplay
Meeting John Nash
Accepting The Nobel Prize In Economics
Casting Russell Crowe & Jennifer Connelly
The Process Of Age Progression
Storyboard Comparisons
Deleted Scenes (28mins)
Deleted Scenes Comparisons
Creation Of The Special Effects (11mins)
Scoring The Film
Academy Awards featurettes
Production Notes
Theatrical Trailer