This week’s Blu-ray releases
Digital Home’s top pick on Blu-ray this week is “Monsoon Wedding”, a 2001 comedy film directed by Mira Nair and written by Sabrina Dhawan, which depicts romantic entanglements during a traditional Punjabi wedding in Delhi.
The film was warmly received by critics and won numerous the British Independent Film Award for Best Foreign Language Film; the audience award at the Canberra International Film Festival; the Golden Lion a the Venice Film Festival.
The film’s central story concerns a father, Lalit Verma (Naseeruddin Shah), who is trying to organize an enormous, chaotic, and expensive wedding for his daughter, for whom he has arranged a marriage with a man she has known for only a few weeks (Parvin Dabas as Hemant Rai). Events unfold during the four days prior to the wedding as the whole extended family comes together from all corners of the globe including India, Australia and America.
Other notable releases this week include: “Easy Rider”, the classic 1969 American road movie directed by Dennis Hopper and starring Peter Fonda, Hopper and Jack Nicholson; and ting 2009 Canadian drama film directed by Atom Egoyan and “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”, the sequel to 2007 Transformers movie which despite being panned by critics grossed over $800 million at the box-office worldwide.
The following is a list of Blu-ray titles set for release this week. (Canadian readers should note that not all titles may be available in this country)
- 100 Feet
- Blood: The Last Vampire
- The Crew
- Easy Rider
- Eminem: Live from New York City
- Freedomland
- Iron Man: Armored Adventures
- Leonard Cohen: Live from the Isle of Wight
- Monsoon Wedding
- Toto: Falling In Between Live
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
- UFC 100: Making History
- Waterworld
- Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead
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