DVD New Releases - Tuesday, May 15

ARMY OF SHADOWS: THE CRITERION COLLECTION

Special Features:

• Audio commentary by film historian Ginette Vincendeau

• New interviews with Lhomme and editor Francoise Bonnot

• Archival video excerpts, including on-set footage and interviews with Melville, cast members, writer Joseph Kessel, and real-life Resistance fighters

• Jean-Pierre Melville et “L’Armee des ombres (2005), a short program on the director and his film

• Le journal de la Resistance (1944), a rare short documentary shot on the front lines of the final days of German-occupied
  France

• PLUS: a booklet featuring critic Amy Taubin, historian Robert O. Paxton, and excerpts from Rui Nogueira’s Melville On Melville

THE FOUNTAIN - WIDESCREEN

Special Features:

• Inside The Fountain: Death And Rebirth - Gallery of 6 Featurettes Exploring the Movie’s Various Periods and Settings

• The Interview

• VFX Step by Step

• Inside the Director’s Mind: Scene to Storyboard Comparison

• Peter Parks Bonus - Macro Photography Loop

• Theatrical Trailer

PAN’S LABYRINTH: 2-DISC PLATINUM SERIES

Special Features:

• Video Prologue by Director Guillermo Del Toro
• Feature Audio Commentary by Director Guillermo del Toro
• Marketing Campaign
• The Power Of Myth featurette: A discourse on the use of fairy tale mythology in Pan’s Labyrinth
• Pan and The Fairies (El Fauno y Las Hadas) featurette: A comprehensive look at the prosthetic and visual effects crafted for the film
• The Color and the Shape featurette: Del Toro unravels the intricate color and texture coding present in all his work
• The Charlie Rose Show featuring filmmakers Del Toro, Alfonso Cuaron and Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu
• DVD Comics: Animated plates present prequel stories for The Giant Toad, The Fairies, Pan and The Pale Man
• Director’s Notebook:
  ·Interactive menu pages access video pods that feature exclusive interviews with Del Toro
  ·Lost Character: El Hombre de
  Madera
  ·Torture of The Maquis
  ·The Phases of the Moon
  ·Iconography: Echo… Echo..
  ·The Underground Kingdom: Miniature Construction
  ·The Mill: Set Design
• Multi-Angle Storyboard / Thumbnail Compares
• VFX Plate Compare: Guillermo Del Toro and The Green Fairy
• Galleries: Production Design, DDT Creature Design & Production Scrapbook

STOMP THE YARD - WIDESCREEN

Special Features:

• Battles, Rivals, Brothers - The Story of Stomp The Yard

• Filmmaker Commentary

• Extended Dance Sequences: Get Buck & Opening Battle

• Deleted Scene: The Clean Up

• Gag Reel