THE SCREENING ROOM

OUT ON DVD: Extremely Loud, Jitters, Ungodly Love In The Seminarian, And More!

The secret lives of boys are the theme in this week’s home video releases: In Stephen Daldry’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, a gifted lad follows a mystery that might bring him closer to his father, who died in the Twin Towers. In The Seminarian, a closeted American student negotiates his desires, while Jitters follows a gay Icelandic teen doing the same. And the documentary El Bulli: Cooking in Progress brings us into the kitchen of a wildly popular futuristic restaurant in Spain.

 


Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
($19.99 DVD, $29.99 Blu-ray, Warner Bros)

Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel comes to the screen as 9-year-old Oskar (Thomas Horn) grapples with both the death of his father in the 9/11 attacks and a nagging family mystery. The Oscar-nominated film is a sweet journey but the canvas which bisexual director Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliott) is attempting to paint is a little to big for one film. The DVD extras are fairly meager, but the Blu-ray  includes a short doc on Von Sydow, a featurette about Horn, and a look at one 9/11 victim.

 

http://youtu.be/H6f08wxxLb0

The Seminarian
($24.99 DVD, Breaking Glass Pictures)

When Ryan, a barely closeted gay seminary student, falls for a guy he meets on the Internet, he risks losing friends and family to follow his heart—and maybe even God, too.  Writer/director Joshua Lim takes an earnest approach in his feature. Includes a commentary and interview with lead actor Mark Cirillo. Could someone please send a copy to Jason Russell or Marcus Bachmann for us?

http://youtu.be/0BOt_nDBzSw

Jitters
($19.99 DVD, TLA Releasing)

Icelandic teens Gabriel and Markus (who looks a bit like a young River Phoenix) are on an exchange program to Manchester when, one night, while drunk, the two kiss—opening a Pandora’s Box of homo in Gabriel. This solid coming-of-age drama is filled with eye candy and a load of familiar adolescent pitfalls. The DVD release includes a behind-the-scenes featurette.

http://youtu.be/fM9ZYyAlhSc

El Bulli: Cooking in Progress
($29.95 DVD, Alive Mind)

Ferran Adrià’s downright avant-garde molecular restaurant, El Bulli, was the world’s  toughest table to nab since 1961, with more than a million requests a year. It closed in 2011, to many foodies’ dismay, but documentarian Geroen Wetzel was lucky enough to capture a season in the Spanish restaurant’s life, as the chefs worked science-fiction magic in the kitchen. If you’re a Top Chef fan your head will probably explode.

 

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Betty White: Champion For Animals

A Dangerous Method

I, Claudius

Lady and the Tramp

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